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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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2023 · 4
22 Feb 2023video
Should Muslims tell gay people what the Quran says about homosexuality?
Mufti Abu Layth says Americans are overwhelmingly not Muslim, so speaking on issues there means speaking to non-Muslim norms rather than preaching the Quran to them.
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22 Feb 2023video
LatestDid some Muslim scholars say homosexuality is not haram?
Mufti Abu Layth says he described, not endorsed, a minority view that it is not haram; Islamic history holds diverse views, many scholars' poetry shows bisexual appreciation, and persecution is unacceptable.
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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.
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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.
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2021 · 4
13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
What was the real crime of the people of Lut?
Mufti Abu Layth says the people of Lut were destroyed for rejecting God, as in every prophet's story, with their other behaviour secondary.
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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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26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
A clip on parent titles for LGBTQIA+ families, and gender-neutral language
Mufti Abu Layth plays and reacts to a clip on alternative parent titles in LGBTQIA+ families and comments on gender-neutral language, saying people forget humans are part of nature.
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12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Does the Quran clearly forbid homosexuality?
Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran has no explicit prohibition of homosexuality, though most Muslims have held it haram; he thinks the aim was to push people into marriage.
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2020 · 1
24 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Is it a problem that Muslim scholars today have no secular education?
Mufti Abu Layth agrees secular education matters but says it is no cure for obsession, and holds that other people being gay does not make anyone gay.
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2019 · 7
21 Aug 2019BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari
Did Mufti Abu Layth mock Imam al-Nawawi?
Mufti Abu Layth says he did not mock al-Nawawi but read his own words, which assume as a given that young boys are prettier than many women and that anyone would be tempted by them. Al-Yaqoubi, he says, should have watched the whole video before judging.
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21 Aug 2019BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari
Why did medieval scholars like al-Nawawi write that boys are prettier than women?
Mufti Abu Layth says al-Nawawi voiced a sentiment of his age, shared by many medieval Muslims and by the Greeks, in which attraction to adolescent boys was assumed; reporting this is not mockery. A Saudi critic's reply that many women are ugly, he says, proves the point.
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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.
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4 Aug 2019From the Mind of a Mufti
Should Muslims campaign against LGBTQ people, and is homosexuality unnatural?
Muslims should leave LGBTQ people alone, since fighting them will only deface Islam. Calling homosexuality unnatural is inaccurate, as it is widely found in nature, unlike incest.
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2 Aug 2019From the Mind of a Mufti
Why does Islam forbid homosexual activity?
Islam did not address homosexuality directly; it outlawed all sex outside marriage to build strong family units, and homosexuality was prohibited as a by-product. There are no clear sahih hadith on it, and scholars differed on related questions such as anal sex.
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2 Aug 2019From the Mind of a Mufti
How did classical scholars treat intersex people (khuntha) and their right to marry?
Classical scholars ruled that a khuntha, an intersex person, can neither marry nor be married, which Mufti Abu Layth calls cruel, absurd and a failure of scholarship to give a truly Islamic answer.
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2 Aug 2019From the Mind of a Mufti
What did Ibn al-Arabi write about a classmate who was both bearded and breasted?
Qadi Abu Bakr ibn al-Arabi recorded a classmate with a beard and breasts who came to al-Ghazali's lessons with two servant girls and whose nature puzzled him for years. Mufti Abu Layth reads this as an example of people in the past finding outlets with servants and slaves.
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2018 · 4
20 Dec 2018From the Mind of a Mufti
Does Islam say homosexuals should be thrown off buildings or executed?
There is no sahih hadith in which the Prophet spoke about homosexuals, the reports of Ali ordering executions are not authentic in Mufti Abu Layth's view, and the early jurists disagreed, with the Hanafis holding it is not a hadd offence. The claim of a consensus that homosexual acts deserve death is false.
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20 Dec 2018From the Mind of a Mufti
Were there Muslim scholars and caliphs in history known to be homosexual?
Mufti Abu Layth reports, without endorsing their views, that several celebrated Abbasid-era figures were known for homosexuality, including a chief judge of Basra who argued for it from the Quran, the caliphs al-Amin and al-Ma'mun, and Muhammad ibn Dawud al-Zahiri. He cites al-Dhahabi and the poetry of the period as his sources.
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20 Dec 2018From the Mind of a Mufti
Is homosexuality haram in Islam, and why were the people of Lut destroyed?
Mufti Abu Layth accepts the majority view that homosexual acts are haram, but says the punishments scholars assigned were variable public-order measures that changed over time, that the people of Lut were destroyed primarily for rejecting their prophet, and that the ruling does not require hatred of homosexual people.
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15 Apr 2018Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions
How does Mufti Abu Layth explain an exorcist who says he is possessed by a jinn?
As displacement of guilt: the exorcist's 'jinn' professed sexual love for him, which Mufti Abu Layth reads as the man projecting desires he could not reconcile with his religious identity onto a jinn. He says the man may sincerely believe it, but belief does not make it true.
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