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11 segments in 11 recordings · 2017 to 2023 · 0 verified · 8 checked positions · fiqh/medical-ethics · Feed

Most recent statement · 10 Mar 2023Can a pregnancy last for years, as was said of Imam Malik's birth?Older segments link here so no earlier explanation is read as the last word.

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Latest answer · 10 Mar 2023

10 Mar 2023video LatestCan a pregnancy last for years, as was said of Imam Malik's birth? No: reports of years-long pregnancies are best explained by phantom pregnancies followed by real conception, not dismissed as lies or taken literally. Lessonposition checkedImam Malikphantom pregnancy (pseudocyesis)Matt Walshnifas (postnatal bleeding) machine7 min 07 s6:54on YouTube

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2023 · 1

22 Feb 2023video Is it okay for adults or children to change gender? Mufti Abu Layth says gender transition is an adult's own choice after professional advice, but children should not be put through it until they can decide for themselves. Discussionposition checked machine6 min 27 s28:41on YouTube

2021 · 2

16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Did the Prophet tell people to drink camel urine as medicine? Mufti Abu Layth says camel urine is not medicine and the Prophet never really told anyone to drink it; the report is weak in its chain and, if taken at all, reads as a rebuke. Question from live chatguest speechMohammed Hijabreport: the prophet told the sick to drink camel urinereport: the people of uraynah had their hands and feet cut off and their eyes brandedAnas ibn Malik machine6 min 30 s1:26:20on YouTube
2 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Is it haram to have an anal swab test for COVID? An anal-swab COVID test is not haram, Mufti Abu Layth says, any more than a colonoscopy, if that is the test. Question raised by Mufti Abu Laythposition checkedCOVID-19 pandemic machine6 min 11 s53:23on YouTube

2020 · 4

17 Oct 2020video Does the Quran or Sunnah say anything against psychedelics? Nothing in the Quran or Sunnah forbids psychedelics, which existed for Allah to prohibit had he wished; Mufti Abu Layth says they are non-addictive and therapeutic, unlike alcohol, and are about connecting to God. Lessonposition checkedharampsilocybinDMT (dimethyltryptamine)Boris Johnson machine3 min 43 s36:01on YouTube
4 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Is hijama (cupping) a sunnah I should practise? Mufti Abu Layth says hijama is an Arab custom rather than an Islamic practice, and nothing about it is proven scientifically. Question from live chatposition checkedhijama (cupping) machine2 min 59 s1:24:29on YouTube
19 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Is it haram for medical students to dissect dead bodies? The guest says dissecting cadavers for medical training is permissible, and cites a Salafi fatwa forbidding it as an example of Ahl al-Hadith rigidity. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechShaykh Kashif Khan (guest)Ahl al-Hadithfiqh'awrah (nakedness of the dead) machine3 min 57 s25:17on YouTube
16 Feb 2020From the Mind of a Mufti Is it Sunnah to drink camel urine as medicine? No, you should not drink camel urine: he calls it nonsense and says the report is problematic in its chain and its text, even though it is in al-Bukhari. Question source not recordedposition checkedreport: drink the urine and milk of the camelsSahih al-Bukharimatn (text of a report)Salafi machine4 min 55 s0:00on YouTube

2019 · 1

14 Aug 2019On Current Events Does Islam allow gender transition for someone diagnosed with gender dysphoria? Where there are legitimate biological concerns and medical input, he believes it is permissible, but he opposes sowing doubt about gender in children. Question source not recordedposition checked machine5 min 11 s0:00on YouTube

2018 · 1

2 Jan 2018Responding to Refutations Ruqya and the Quran as a cure: spiritual diseases, not cancer The Quran is a cure for the spiritual diseases of the heart, not a replacement for medicine for physical illness. The Prophet told people to seek medicine. Lessonposition checkedAbu Ibraheem HusnaynQuran 17:82 (we send down of the Quran what is a shifa) [?]report: lift your hand and read the whole verse (unresolved)report: tadawaw seek medicine (unresolved) machine5 min 20 s40:38on YouTube

2017 · 1

20 Sep 2017Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Did the Prophet use ruqya or doctors when he was ill? When the Prophet fell ill Arab doctors treated him, which is how Aisha learnt medicine, so recited verses were never meant as a cure-all and the 'treatment by Quran' books misuse the book. The Quran's verses help against whispering, and one reads them for oneself without any raqi. Lessonquoted view, not his positionguest speechShaykh Akram Nadwi (guest)AishaAbu Bakrreport: aisha learned medicine from the arab doctors who treated the prophet when he fell ill machine5 min 18 s38:51on YouTube