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Tawhid and shirk
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22 Feb 2023video
LatestShould scholars publicly condemn a scholar said to have joined in a libation ritual?
Mufti Abu Layth does not think people have to condemn the scholar; to Mufti, pouring some water at a protest, as the scholar says he did without knowing the ritual's history, is not a big deal.
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2021 · 4
2 Mar 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Is the great love Muslims have for the Prophet a kind of prophet worship?
Muslims' love for the Prophet is not prophet worship: people need a human figure to love, and for Muslims it is the Prophet, though praying to him is wrong. He strongly disagrees with the shaykh and calls it an unnecessary battle.
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2 Mar 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Has Islam become a religion about Muhammad rather than the religion he brought?
No: there is a deep human need for a human archetype, not someone to pray to, and for Muslims that is the Prophet. He adds that his own life changed in the Prophet's mosque.
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16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Is following the Sunnah like believing in the Trinity?
No: following the Sunnah is of course not akin to the Trinity.
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26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
The snowman fatwas: building a snowman as an idol, or permitted by the dolls hadith
Mufti Abu Layth plays and mocks two fatwas on snowmen, one calling them idols and one permitting them by a hadith about dolls, saying such reasoning makes Muslims a laughing stock.
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2020 · 8
22 Sep 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Clip: a Dawah Man and Daniel Haqiqatjou interview that calls Omar Suleiman a fasiq
A clip in which Dawah Man and Daniel Haqiqatjou call Omar Suleiman a fasiq, which Mufti Abu Layth introduces as part of the Pagan-gate row.
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22 Sep 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
What is the Pagan-gate row about Omar Suleiman?
Mufti Abu Layth sees Pagan-gate as a power game: imams may seek status, but wrapping it in high religiosity is what invites attacks like this.
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22 Sep 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Clip: Daniel Haqiqatjou's video on the libation ritual
A clip, played by Mufti Abu Layth, in which Daniel Haqiqatjou accuses Omar Suleiman of joining a pagan libation ritual and calls his denial deceptive.
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22 Sep 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Is it haram to take part in another religion's rituals, like eating prasad at a gurdwara?
Mufti Abu Layth would personally avoid ritual-filled protests, but says joining another faith's rituals to experience them is not haram or shirk, as intention decides.
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26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Why did Edip Yuksel write a reformist translation of the Quran?
The guest describes translating the Quran with Rashad Khalifa and says the Sunni religion distorted the message, beginning with adding Muhammad's name to the shahada; he calls Sunni and Shia translations deliberate distortions and says the Quran was betrayed through hadith.
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26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Does the Quran ban slavery, and what does 'what your right hand possesses' mean?
The guest says the Quran abolishes slavery as the greatest crime, since owning a slave is to claim to be a rabb like Pharaoh, and that what the right hand possesses means contractual marriage. Mufti Abu Layth holds that slavery is abrogated through trajectory hermeneutics rather than by an explicit ban.
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26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
If the Quran abolished slavery, why is there no explicit verse saying so?
The guest says rabb is used in the Quran only for God, so that owning a slave is shirk and la ilaha illa Allah is itself the abolition of slavery. Mufti Abu Layth notes that rabb has ordinary linguistic uses and that non-Muslims recorded Muslims as owning slaves.
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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.
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2018 · 1
13 Feb 2018Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions
Is the evil eye real in Islam?
Belief that a look can cause disease or disaster contradicts tawhid; the evil eye is simply envy, whose harm lies in how it is acted upon.
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