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Salvation and non-Muslims

12 segments in 12 recordings · 2019 to 2025 · 0 verified · 8 checked positions · belief/salvation-and-non-muslims · Feed

Most recent statement · 18 Oct 2025If most people love praise and are punished, how is God the most merciful?Older segments link here so no earlier explanation is read as the last word.

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Latest answer · 18 Oct 2025

18 Oct 2025MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth LatestIf most people love praise and are punished, how is God the most merciful? The guest says most people are mushrikun according to the Quran and that God is merciful in giving them messengers and exits, so those who refuse to reason deserve punishment; guidance follows the attributes God has set, not chance. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechBr Muhammad (MFG, MuhammadFromGod channel)Quran 12:106 (most of them do not believe in Allah without associating others with Him)shirk machine3 min 14 s2:10:46on YouTube

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2023 · 1

22 Feb 2023video Will gay people around us make Muslims gay? Mufti Abu Layth says people being gay does not make others gay and the fear of it is an unnecessary insecurity; like Imam Malik on others' customs, their way of life is theirs. Discussionposition checkedMatt WalshImam MalikMajus (Zoroastrians) [?]Jared Diamond machine3 min 51 s24:50on YouTube

2021 · 5

25 Oct 2021video Will Allah judge someone who follows only the Quran by the Quran alone? Mufti Abu Layth will not speak on who is saved: he finds it arrogant for a human to presume where anyone ends up, since Allah's mercy encompasses everything. We should concern ourselves with our own path. Question from a callerposition checkedQuranist (Quran-only)sunnahSalafiShia machine4 min 30 s2:36on YouTube
13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Can I pray for a non-Muslim who has died? Yes: Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims may pray for a non-Muslim like DMX who touched many lives, since no one has a monopoly on salvation, and that music is not haram. Lessonguest speechDMXreport: the prophet stood for the funeral of a jewish woman and said is it not a soul (as told by the host; unresolved)dua machine5 min 15 s2:18:55on YouTube
9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Are the Prophet's parents in heaven or hell? Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet's parents are unquestionably among the saved. Question from live chatposition checked machine45 s2:14:22on YouTube
12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Is it unfair that some are born Muslim, and is God's throne literal? Mufti Abu Layth says the throne is a literary expression meaning the kingdom is God's, and that salvation in the hereafter is not the exclusive property of Muslims. Question written questionposition checkedQuran 11:7 (His throne was upon the water)Quran 20:5 (the Most Merciful established Himself over the throne) [?] machine1 min 58 s2:52:39on YouTube
5 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Can a Christian really speak with God? Anyone can have a direct line to God whatever they call Him; he says the atheist one-god-further argument is a fallacy. Question from live chatposition checkedRichard Dawkins machine5 min 22 s1:52:12on YouTube

2020 · 4

11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth If blind following in faith is forbidden, why must I accept a school's creed without question? Mufti Abu Layth finds it paradoxical that schools forbid blind following in faith but demand blind acceptance of their creeds; the guest says traditionalists use reason only to reach revelation and then discard it, whereas reason must stay in continuous use. Discussionguest speechDr Javad T. Hashmi (guest)report: i heard the people saying something so i said it (unresolved; the questioning in the grave)taqlid (blind following)Ash'ari machine7 min 03 s24:25on YouTube
19 Aug 2020video Can non-Muslims be saved according to Sunni scholars? Mufti Abu Layth says broad views on salvation for non-Muslims and on hell, while not necessarily right, are all part of the Sunni tradition. Lessonposition checkedal-Baydawi [?]MaturidiAsh'arikafir machine4 min 47 s0:03on YouTube
14 Jul 2020live stream What was al-Ash'ari's argument against the Mu'tazila about God always doing what is best? Mufti Abu Layth tells the debate attributed to al-Ash'ari, in which a disbeliever asks why he was not allowed to die as a child, and says this is where the Mu'tazili view of a God bound to do the best crumbles. Lessonposition checkedAbu al-Hasan al-Ash'ariMu'tazilaAsh'ari machine2 min 34 s49:45on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Is al-kitab the same book given to every prophet? The guest says owning a slave is shirk, that kawthar means abundance rather than a pool, and that al-kitab is the one divine law sent to every prophet, whose goal, peacemaking, is secular while iman is distinct. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip YukselQuran 108:1 (we have given you al-kawthar)kawtharal-kitab machine2 min 37 s2:29:34on YouTube

2019 · 1

1 Aug 2019On Current Events Is it wrong to judge someone who has become an atheist or left Islam? A person's atheism or doubts are their own choice and he does not judge them; what he objects to, he says, is staged exorcisms and charity money taken under false pretences. Lessonposition checkedruqyajinnQuran 2:256 (no compulsion in religion), alluded to machine5 min 43 s10:45on YouTube