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18 May 2021video
LatestStatement on the break-in at Mufti Abu Layth's home
Mufti Abu Layth describes masked men breaking into his home and terrifying his family, and asks whether this is the character Islam teaches.
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Earlier answers · 64 · newest first
2021 · 34
18 May 2021video
Response to accusations over Palestine remarks and claims he is not Muslim
Mufti Abu Layth says he has always supported Palestine and only argued for safe passage for its people, that 'exile' was a slip of the tongue, and that those calling him a non-Muslim and invading his home are not following Islam.
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26 Apr 2021MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
How did Lupe Fiasco discover Mufti Abu Layth?
The guest says he found Mufti Abu Layth while looking for alternatives to the Salafi content that dominates Muslim YouTube, and values his different point of view.
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13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Responding to viewers' love: a grown-up child, and haters as a measure of impact
Mufti Abu Layth says he does not feel he deserves viewers' praise and reads his critics' obsession as a sign that they feel threatened by his ideas.
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13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Reading supporters' messages: ease of deen, the Bukhari series, apostasy
Supporters' messages thank Mufti Abu Layth for making the deen easy and for his work on Bukhari, the age of Aisha and apostasy.
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13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Humour as a natural gift
Mufti Abu Layth says humour comes naturally and cannot be faked, and that he asks serious interlocutors to excuse his.
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13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
How has the internet changed who gets to speak about Islam?
Mufti Abu Layth says the internet let him reach people without the backing of mosques or organisations, which would never have given him a platform.
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13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
LatestWhy are some clerics so hostile to Mufti Abu Layth?
Mufti Abu Layth says clerics who oppose him see in his approach the end of their institutional religion, and calls their reaction its final pangs.
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13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
More messages: a middle path between Salafism and Quranism, and 'God is not dumb'
Supporters' messages describe finding a middle path between Salafism and Quranism and using the intellect in faith, and Mufti Abu Layth responds.
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13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
How should I deal with online hate preachers?
Mufti Abu Layth says critics who use him for views, especially hate preachers, should be mocked and blocked, and that their obsession harms them more than him.
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13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Can critics cancel an independent preacher?
Mufti Abu Layth says efforts to cancel him cannot work, because he is independent and speaks to the silent majority of ordinary Muslims, not his critics' followers.
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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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6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Jealousy, entitlement and the critics who resent his following
Mufti Abu Layth says much of the hostility he receives comes from jealousy and a sense of entitlement among critics who resent his following.
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6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Did Mufti Abu Layth say incest is natural, and is homosexuality unnatural?
Mufti Abu Layth never said incest is natural. He says that calling homosexuality unnatural is not scientific because it occurs in most species, though one may still hold it haram, and that he cited Imam Malik only for not interfering in other people's way of life.
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6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
How often does Mufti Abu Layth change his views, and is that a weakness?
Mufti Abu Layth changes his views when evidence is compelling and says developing one's opinions over life is a sign of intelligence, not weakness. He advises viewers to do the same.
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6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
How was Mufti Abu Layth's video on Aisha's age received?
Mufti Abu Layth is proud of the video: many people, especially women, told him it brought them back to Islam, while most clergy resent it because questioning the inherited ruling threatens their authority and livelihood.
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15 Mar 2021video
Is Mufti Abu Layth a Mu'tazili?
Mufti Abu Layth is not a Mu'tazili because he is Sunni. The Mu'tazila were an early faction defined by their view of sinners, and calling them 'super rationalists' is later Sunni propaganda.
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16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Will you give talks in Mirpuri?
No, he says he could not give talks in Mirpuri; his audience is the younger community, and others already serve the elderly in that language.
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16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Where are most of the Mufti's viewers from?
His analytics show most of his viewers are in the UK, he says, though the live audience seems to be mostly Canadian and American because of the late hour.
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16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
A prospective MindTrap guest who has gone quiet
A planned MindTrap conversation with a speaker who offered to come on was postponed, and Mufti Abu Layth has not heard back since.
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16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Sign-off: subscribe, the Discord coming soon, take the chance
Mufti Abu Layth closes the stream with reminders to subscribe and a note that the Discord is on its way.
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9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Yasir Qadhi's mugs and Bollywood lines: do his critics watch him?
Mufti Abu Layth plays a clip of Yasir Qadhi with branded mugs and wonders aloud how closely his critics watch him.
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9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
What qualifications does Mufti Abu Layth have?
Mufti Abu Layth lists degrees in psychology and education, an alim and mufti course and ijazahs, but says degrees mean little to him.
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9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Is Mufti Abu Layth a feminist?
Mufti Abu Layth says he would like to think he is a feminist, though feminists seem not to like him.
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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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2 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Chat interlude: short sellers buying back, new moderators and Shaykh Atabek on Mind Trap
Chat interlude: Mufti Abu Layth appoints new moderators and recommends his Mind Trap with Shaykh Atabek.
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26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Will the Mufti open an academy to train muftis?
No: he says founding an institution drains one's life and takes away the freedom to think and speak, and that online teaching and books reach more people.
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26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Is Mufti Abu Layth against Imam Bukhari?
No: he says he respects al-Bukhari as an outstanding hadith scholar, though not infallible, but holds that the book reaching us was altered in transmission, so troubling reports deserve caution.
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19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Will you discuss reincarnation with a guest on Mind Trap?
Mufti Abu Layth is still looking for the right guest to discuss reincarnation on Mind Trap, and has only skimmed the Shia response a viewer mentions.
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19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Why don't you open an Islamic academy?
Mufti Abu Layth will not open an academy because he feels institutions consume their founders and religion is a hard market to sustain one in.
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19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
People are cruel: complaints used to try to stop a retreat he spoke at
Mufti Abu Layth recounts how a self-styled journalist tried to get a 2016 retreat he spoke at cancelled by complaining to the venue and the police.
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12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Mind Trap guest suggestions and the 'blacklisting' mentality
Guest suggestions for Mind Trap; he says his only criteria are that guests be interesting and interested, and he criticises the blacklisting culture.
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8 Jan 2021video
Rumours that Mufti Abu Layth is behind a social media preacher
Mufti Abu Layth dismisses as a crazy conspiracy theory the claim that he, Yasir Qadhi or Mohammed Hijab is behind a social media preacher he likes.
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5 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Will Hamza Tzortzis or Nouman Ali Khan come on Mind Trap?
Mufti Abu Layth would love to host them on Mind Trap and will resume after his Covid recovery; Shady Nasser has agreed to come on.
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5 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Will Lupe Fiasco come on Mind Trap?
Yes: Lupe Fiasco has agreed in principle, and Mufti Abu Layth says he will follow it up.
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2020 · 12
11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Are madrasas failing their students?
Mufti Abu Layth says the madrasa phenomenon is dysfunctional and dumbs students down though it supplies the raw materials; both say those who leave orthodox positions are ostracised, and the guest recommends a few years of traditional study combined with academic study.
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5 Nov 2020video
What does Mufti Abu Layth think of Shaykh Hamza Yusuf?
Mufti Abu Layth loves Hamza Yusuf as an icon for Western Muslims and a key inspiration for his own studies, while disagreeing with his neo-traditionalist views. He adds second-hand reports that his personal manner can seem unwelcoming, and says their personalities would probably not match.
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27 Oct 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Mufti Abu Layth's chat round: answering critics, soft drinks and Syrian rue
Mufti Abu Layth says he only answers persistent public critics, that non-alcoholic drinks are halal, and that he has not read the reports on Syrian rue.
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27 Oct 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Mufti Abu Layth's chat round: Sunni and Maliki, beards and quick answers
Quick answers: Mufti Abu Layth says he is Sunni and Maliki, and that the din is not in the beard.
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27 Oct 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Mufti Abu Layth's chat round: Birmingham over London and channel housekeeping
Mufti Abu Layth picks Birmingham over London and handles housekeeping in the chat.
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13 Oct 2020video
Does questioning religion with reason destroy faith?
Not for him: he says he has put every matter of the deen to his reason and his faith stood the test, though he does not ask others to do the same.
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24 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Chat asides: an edited comedy appearance and a podcast invitation
Chat asides about an edited guest appearance and a suggested podcast guest.
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4 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
A Birmingham mosque, meeting Mufti, and the new Patreon
Mufti Abu Layth speaks well of a Birmingham mosque, explains how to meet him and announces his Patreon.
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26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
What is Mufti Abu Layth's own position on hadith compared with the Quran-only view?
Mufti Abu Layth is a Sunni who is critical of parts of the hadith literature without rejecting it wholesale, and he opposes labelling Quran-only Muslims as deviants or misguided.
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20 Jun 2020video
Why did Mufti Abu Layth change from how he looked and spoke in his old videos?
The change in his look and views came gradually over more than a decade through study, reading and new circles, not from any event or loss of faith. His personality, he says, was always the same; the old clip only shows the serious speaking style he was taught.
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17 Jun 2020video
What does he think will happen to Yasir Qadhi and Mohammed Hijab after this controversy?
Mufti Abu Layth predicts Qadhi must choose between owning his view and losing followers, and that Hijab will face a similar crisis within a decade because their claimed certainties are unsustainable. He says he is glad he never pandered to a crowd that would turn on him.
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7 Apr 2020video
Message to critics: criticise truthfully, not with lies
Mufti Abu Layth believes in Allah and His Messenger but rejects folkloric, medieval readings of Islam. He asks critics to attack his real views, not lies.
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2018 · 7
30 Aug 2018BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari
Backdrop to BukhariGate: a widespread debate, his training, and transparency
The criticism of Sahih al-Bukhari is a widespread debate that Mufti Abu Layth joins as a trained scholar who studied the book in full. The religion is not diminished by questioning it, and he refuses requests to keep the discussion private.
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23 Apr 2018video
Who is Mufti Abu Layth's message aimed at?
His message is for the majority of Muslims who do not practise or feel Islam cannot stand up to reason, to show them that it can.
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20 Apr 2018From the Mind of a Mufti
Can people with very different religious views still talk with respect?
People who disagree on many things can still sit together, talk with respect and enjoy each other's company, and Mufti Abu Layth says this is the conduct Muslims need to return to, in line with the Prophet's great character.
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13 Mar 2018Islamic Eschatology
Why do other scholars not see what Mufti Abu Layth sees about the return of Jesus?
Others do see it but fear their own group; Mufti Abu Layth says belonging to no sect lets him follow what makes sense in light of the Quran and Sunnah.
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13 Mar 2018Islamic Eschatology
Shaykh Abdul Majid's civility; the 'Mufti' remark clarified; music in front of one's daughters
Mufti Abu Layth praises a critic's civility, clarifies that he objects to attacks on his qualification rather than seeking a title, and says that not wanting music or dancing before one's daughters does not make them haram.
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8 Mar 2018From the Mind of a Mufti
Why do you dress in a t-shirt and joke around while teaching Islam?
Mufti Abu Layth dresses and acts the same on and off screen so that nobody meets a different person in real life. Putting on a pious appearance for the camera would be a double standard and would create cognitive dissonance in viewers.
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15 Feb 2018From the Mind of a Mufti
Is it worth studying at a madrasa?
The madrasa is an excellent place if you bring critical thinking to it, and dogmatising if you do not; studying with several denominations, as he did, helps you see the good and the bad in each.
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2017 · 1
29 Sep 2017From the Mind of a Mufti
Do Muslims online have the right to demand evidence about a scholar's private life?
The public is not a court and has no jurisdiction to demand or weigh evidence about someone's private life, which everyone has a right to. Mufti Abu Layth says those attacking Nouman Ali Khan cannot fill his place when the next generation needs answers about the Quran.
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2016 · 1
21 Dec 2016video
Opening reflection on everyday miracles and an introduction of Mufti Abu Layth
An introducer reflects on everyday life as a miracle and introduces Mufti Abu Layth's studies in Damascus, Islamabad and Karachi.
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2015 · 5
6 Apr 2015video
Why was Mufti Abu Layth sent to prison?
Mufti Abu Layth was charged with aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office after contacting a police officer to arrange mediation for a friend whose children were missing, and served about seven weeks of a six-month sentence. He says he did nothing wrong and was treated unfairly for refusing to testify against the officer.
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6 Apr 2015video
Did Mufti Abu Layth call a Birmingham school the Trojan Horse school?
Mufti Abu Layth says the quote was aimed at the police, not the school: he was asking why counter-terrorism officers shared confidential data about him with a school they themselves were calling a Trojan Horse school. He was not validating the allegations but questioning the officers' sincerity.
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6 Apr 2015video
Why did some Islamophobic journalists defend Mufti Abu Layth?
Mufti Abu Layth says it was mutual interest, not support: those concerned with the school highlighted his criticism of the counter-terrorism officers. Being shared by someone does not make them a friend, and most of them would disagree with most of what he says.
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6 Apr 2015video
LatestWhat is Mufti Abu Layth currently teaching?
An online fiqh course on the Risalah of Ibn Abi Zayd, al-Ashmawiyyah, a completed reading of Qadi Iyad's Foundations of Islam and a sirah series, with hadith categorisation, an Andalusi poem in hadith terms and a Maliki retreat planned. He believes the school of Madinah would make the deen a way of life for Muslims in the West.
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6 Apr 2015video
What does Mufti Abu Layth plan to do next?
Continue teaching and counselling, start some form of voluntary work in prisons for people abandoned by society, and pursue international projects once travel restrictions after his release allow.
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2014 · 4
2 Jul 2014video
How did Mufti Abu Layth become a mufti?
It was not planned: an interest in Arabic and the Quran grew step by step, taking him from self-study to Syria and then Pakistan, where he trained as a mufti.
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2 Jul 2014video
What is Mufti Abu Layth's favourite Islamic science?
Fiqh, because he loves debate and argument between the schools, though he also has a strong interest in hadith and Arabic grammar.
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2 Jul 2014video
Why does Mufti Abu Layth not dress like a traditional mufti?
The attacks do not bother him much: he holds his appearance permissible and wants to be a role model for Muslims who cannot relate to the traditional look.
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2 Jul 2014video
What does Mufti Abu Layth hope to achieve?
Mufti Abu Layth hopes to spread inclusivity and compassion and a wider understanding of the Maliki school, which he feels the West needs.
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