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Click a year to jump to itLatest answer · 13 Apr 2021
13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
LatestWill Mufti Abu Layth invite his critics onto MindTrap?
Yes: Mufti Abu Layth says he has invited many of his critics onto MindTrap for respectful dialogue, but not hate preachers or extremists.
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Earlier answers · 38 · newest first
2021 · 14
13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Did Dr Abdul Majid refute Mufti Abu Layth's BukhariGate arguments?
No: Mufti Abu Layth says Dr Abdul Majid accepted Bukhari because other scholars had and did not answer the points on its transmission, though he respects him for having the dialogue.
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22 Feb 2021video
An invitation to MindTrap on aqidah and Bukhari, and an open challenge to Salafi imams
Mufti Abu Layth invites Abdul Rahman Hassan, and any Salafi imam, to discuss aqidah or Bukhari on MindTrap, challenging them to prove the Salafi creed from the Quran and Sunnah alone.
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16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
An open challenge: defend Salafi aqidah from the Quran alone
Mufti Abu Layth repeats his open challenge to Abdul Rahman Hassan and any Salafi imam to defend Salafi aqidah from the Quran alone, on MindTrap.
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14 Feb 2021video
Do Muslims have to believe that Jesus will come back?
Mufti Abu Layth rejects the hadith of Jesus returning as a judge who offers Islam or the sword, saying it came from Christian belief and clashes with the Quran's no compulsion in religion.
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9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Debate invitations to Abdul Rahman Hassan and 'Danny boy'
Mufti Abu Layth invites Abdul Rahman Hassan to defend Salafi creed and 'Danny boy' to define ijma', saying critics pick on Shabir Ally instead.
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9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Why do critics keep attacking Shabir Ally?
Mufti Abu Layth says the critics target Shabir Ally as a soft target who will not hit back, and repeats his offer to debate them.
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2 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Why not invite your critics to give their side of Islamic history?
Mufti Abu Layth says his account was analysis, not a 'side', and renews his standing invitation to the commentator to come on Mind Trap.
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29 Jan 2021MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
What does Shaykh Atabek think of his debate on the Isha time?
The guest says his much-watched exchange on the Isha time was not a real debate, since his opponent never addressed his proofs.
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26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Did the debate with Dr Abdullah Abdul Majid answer the BukhariGate challenge?
Mufti Abu Layth says the discussion did not settle BukhariGate but strengthened it, since doubts about the book's transmission mean reports contradicting reason or the Quran should be set aside.
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26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
How did the BukhariGate discussion go on manuscripts and problematic hadith?
Mufti Abu Layth says the guest did not contest the manuscript evidence, and that defending the problematic reports amounts to claiming the Prophet could err but al-Bukhari could not.
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26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
An invitation to Sunni Defence, bad blood with Farid, and interrupting in debates
Mufti Abu Layth invites a presenter of Sunni Defence to discuss BukhariGate on MindTrap, describes the bad blood with Farid, and defends occasional interruptions in debate.
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19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Will you ever do a Mind Trap with Mohammed Hijab?
Mufti Abu Layth would welcome Mohammed Hijab on Mind Trap but doubts he would risk it, and would be glad to host Shaykh Imran Hosein.
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19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Who is Dr Abdul Majid, your Mind Trap guest?
Mufti Abu Layth will discuss BukhariGate with Dr Abdul Majid on Mind Trap, despite past hostile videos, and hopes it will be positive.
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12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Announcement: a Mind Trap discussion with Dr Abdullah Abdul Majid on BukhariGate
Announcement: a Mind Trap discussion on BukhariGate with Dr Abdullah Abdul Majid is set for next Thursday, and he asks viewers to be respectful.
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2020 · 14
21 Nov 2020video
Is Omar Suleiman trained as a scholar, and will anyone debate Mufti Abu Layth on jinn possession?
Mufti Abu Layth challenges any shaykh to debate jinn possession on his show and says Omar Suleiman, though commendable for his civil rights work, is not trained as a scholar or qualified to give rulings.
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17 Nov 2020video
Would the Mufti debate a Salafi scholar on aqidah?
Yes: he challenges any learned Salafi to prove their aqidah obligatory from the Quran alone. He says he is sure none can do it clearly.
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12 Nov 2020video
Mufti Abu Layth challenges Shadee Elmasry to debate Maliki fiqh
Mufti Abu Layth says his critics do not know Maliki fiqh and challenges them to debate him on any Maliki topic.
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27 Oct 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Why don't scholars like Yasir Qadhi come on Mind Trap with you?
Mufti Abu Layth says critics such as Yasir Qadhi will not join him on Mind Trap, and he feels the real reason is that they are intimidated by him.
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27 Oct 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Would you debate Mohammed Hijab or talk with Richard Dawkins?
Mufti Abu Layth doubts Mohammed Hijab would come on Mind Trap, and says he would love to talk with Richard Dawkins, whom he admires.
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27 Oct 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Would you debate a Salafi scholar?
Mufti Abu Layth challenges any Salafi scholar to debate him and prove a practice they call obligatory from the Quran or sunnah alone.
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20 Oct 2020video
Why do critics refuse to debate the authenticity of Sahih al-Bukhari?
Critics who say Mufti Abu Layth knows nothing about Sahih al-Bukhari decline his invitation to debate it, and Jonathan Brown admitted on Facebook that he lacked the research. Mufti says al-Farabri's reliability can only be asserted from sources centuries later, not from anyone who knew him.
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20 Oct 2020video
Who vouched for al-Farabri, the transmitter of Sahih al-Bukhari?
Sahih al-Bukhari reaches us through al-Farabri alone, and nobody who knew him vouched for him, so Mufti Abu Layth says the whole edifice rests on one man. Critics who only know how to debate the Shia avoid this question.
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22 Sep 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
A Hanbali opinion on women's sexual desire, and Dawah Man quoting Ibn al-Qayyim
Mufti Abu Layth reads a Hanbali view that a woman may use a sexual aid when her desire is unmet, and mocks a claim quoted by Dawah Man from Ibn al-Qayyim.
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24 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
The critic he nicknames Gangu Teli and his Twitter meltdown
Mufti Abu Layth's account of a critic's Twitter attacks on him and of who the critic is.
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24 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
An offer to discuss Sahih al-Bukhari live, and a demand for a moderated debate
Mufti Abu Layth recounts inviting the critic to a live discussion on Sahih al-Bukhari, which the critic declined in favour of a moderated debate.
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24 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
'How I destroyed his career': mocking the critic's response video
Mufti Abu Layth mocks a critic's video claiming to have destroyed his career.
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26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Is seeing the number 19 everywhere a sign or a superstition?
The guest rejects personal and anecdotal sightings of 19 as numerology and chance, distinguishing them from the Quran's structure, and invites Zakir Naik and Nouman Ali Khan to debate him.
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6 Apr 2020video
The letter's attack on Shaykh Akram Nadwi, and a played debate clip: 'one, two, three, kufr'
The letter also demanded that Shaykh Akram Nadwi be called a deviant. Mufti Abu Layth plays a debate clip of one signatory repeatedly counting 'one, two, three' and pronouncing kufr, which he holds up as absurd bullying.
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2019 · 2
21 Aug 2019BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari
Would Mufti Abu Layth debate Shaykh al-Yaqoubi on Sahih al-Bukhari?
Yes: he invites al-Yaqoubi to a civil, respectful discussion because he rejects the claim that Sahih al-Bukhari is impossible to doubt. He expects it will never happen.
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4 Aug 2019From the Mind of a Mufti
Mohammed Hijab's liberalism lecture argues like a sectarian polemic
Mufti Abu Layth turns to a university lecture by Mohammed Hijab on liberalism, which people had sent him and which claimed liberalism is baseless. He says the lecture seemed aimed at a Muslim audience and that, since Mohammed Hijab is intelligent, he is unsure whether he has not grasped the concept or is deliberately arguing to win points, but calls it a very poor job. He explains that the lecture argues against liberalism the way Muslims conduct sectarian debates: finding a figure the opponent supposedly reveres, such as Abu Hanifa, Ibn Taymiyya, Imam Malik or a Shia ayatollah, and quoting him to corner the opponent through compelling authority. He says this tactic makes no sense outside religion, where people do not feel bound by allegiance to such figures.
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2018 · 8
24 Dec 2018From the Mind of a Mufti
Who won the David Wood versus Mohammed Hijab debate on Tawhid and the Trinity?
Mufti Abu Layth calls the Wood versus Hijab debate on Tawhid and the Trinity monumental and worth watching, and says Mohammed Hijab clearly won. He introduces David Wood as an evangelical, anti-Islam preacher who has debated many Muslims.
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24 Dec 2018From the Mind of a Mufti
Did the topic of Tawhid versus the Trinity favour the Muslim side, and how well prepared was Hijab?
Tawhid appeals to reason while the Trinity is held by Christians as a supra-rational truth, so the topic itself favoured Hijab. Even so, Mufti Abu Layth was impressed by Hijab's thorough biblical research and impromptu quotation of the Bible, while Wood seemed unprepared.
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24 Dec 2018From the Mind of a Mufti
What was Hijab's main argument against the Trinity, and did Wood answer it?
Hijab's central argument was that the Trinitarian creed defined at Nicaea in 325 cannot be shown in any earlier Christian source, which Mufti Abu Layth calls precise and well researched and which Wood failed to answer sufficiently. Wood seemed shaky and unprepared, and the debate leaned less on reason than it could have.
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24 Dec 2018From the Mind of a Mufti
What does it mean that Allah performs salah upon the Prophet?
Wood kept asking to whom Allah prays if He 'performs salah' on the Prophet, which Hijab answered well as sending blessings. Mufti Abu Layth says pressing a linguistic point after it was answered, without knowing Arabic, was pathetic.
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24 Dec 2018From the Mind of a Mufti
If Muslims accept miracles that defy reason, can they still object that the Trinity is irrational?
Muslims must hold the Quran to be in line with reason, because accepting miracles that make no sense removes any ground for objecting that three cannot equal one; consistency is all or nothing. Hijab denied that Muslims ever held anthropomorphic beliefs, but some did, though Mufti Abu Layth does not share them.
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24 Dec 2018From the Mind of a Mufti
Was Hijab right to show David Wood no respect in the debate?
Hijab's aggressive, loud and condescending manner, which he justified by Wood's record of bigotry, was used by non-Muslim commenters as ammunition and made Muslims look rowdy, while Wood stayed composed. Mufti Abu Layth sees it as damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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24 Dec 2018From the Mind of a Mufti
What should Muslims learn from the Wood versus Hijab debate?
Thorough knowledge wins debates, Muslims must raise their adab, and they must be consistent: if the laws of nature do not matter for miracles, then there is no ground to say three cannot equal one. Clips about camel urine or suspended laws of nature send a confusing message.
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30 Aug 2018BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari
Replies to critics: Jonathan Brown, academic dialogue, going public, the Aisha debate
The problems with Bukhari should be discussed openly, because hiding them is what makes people lose faith. He finds Jonathan Brown's response emotional rather than academic and will take up the debate on Aisha's age.
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