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18 Oct 2025MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
LatestWhy do Quranists reject the Islamic tradition as a whole?
The guest says Quranists differ in interpretation but agree that the Islamic tradition is riddled with errors, and that Mufti Abu Layth's BukhariGate work leads people to Quranism; Mufti says the guest's own prayer choices came from the tradition and objects to disrespect towards the people of the mosque.
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2025 · 1
18 Oct 2025MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
How should Muslims engage people with very different views of the religion?
Those with very different views still come from love for the religion, and the only way forward is dialogue and humanising one another; the guest says the Quran is the only thing that can unite Shia and Sunni, and both sign off warmly.
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2024 · 1
29 Sep 2024On Current Events
LatestSpread love, and take account of the damage our words have done
Mufti Abu Layth says this deen is one of love and hope, and everyone, himself included, must reckon with the harm their words may have done.
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2023 · 6
9 May 2023video
Was the Prophet harsh with people?
No: Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet was soft and attentive with people and came from mercy, unlike harsh dawah that puts others down.
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9 May 2023video
LatestWhy do religious debates make people so defensive?
Mufti Abu Layth says debates rarely change minds and feed the ego, so he prefers conversations where people can disagree.
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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
LatestShould Sunnis preach to Shia Muslims about what they get wrong?
Mufti Abu Layth says no: it only leads to sectarian fighting. Answer people who come asking, but Sunni-Shia debating does no good.
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22 Feb 2023video
Is it my duty as a Muslim to preach to others?
Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims have a duty to be an example, not a duty to preach; turning religion into preaching information makes people judgmental.
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22 Feb 2023video
What should Muslims focus on in confusing times?
Mufti Abu Layth says the best thing is to focus on yourself and be an example of light, inviting and welcoming people rather than condemning them.
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2022 · 1
8 Jan 2022video
Why does Mufti Abu Layth say he wronged Dawah Man?
Mufti Abu Layth says he wronged Dawah Man by picking on him repeatedly although Dawah Man never publicly criticised him, breaking his own rule, and he wishes him well despite their differences.
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2021 · 5
25 Oct 2021video
Should I debate Quranists?
No: arguing never changes anyone's mind and only breeds hatred, so give your view if asked and see Quranists with compassion. He finds their case weaker than they think, since fiqh was built on the living tradition, not on hadith.
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16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Why is quoting science to defend hadith like camel urine risky?
Mufti Abu Layth says Hijab cannot yet leave his Salafi audience, and that using science to prove absurd claims usually backfires, as with camel-urine research and earlier polemics.
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19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
A debater, Saqib Shaami's crew and a conference on the finality of prophethood
Mufti Abu Layth recalls a debater facing down Saqib Shaami's entourage when it disrupted a finality-of-prophethood conference in Birmingham.
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12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
What do you think of Harun Yahya and his books?
Mufti Abu Layth says Harun Yahya's scientific-miracles books spread a lot of wrong information, and mocks the 1,000-year sentence given to Adnan Oktar.
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5 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
If miracles don't break nature's laws, what is the point of miracles?
Belief does not need supernatural miracles; private belief in them is fine, but preaching them as standard Islam damages Islam.
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2020 · 14
11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Where does morality come from if not from God?
The guest says a theist can ground moral realism in God while an atheist who relies on evolution alone cannot, and that traditionalist debaters exploit opponents who know little philosophy.
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27 Oct 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Was it right to slap someone for insulting Islam?
Mufti Abu Layth condemns the assault outright, but says provocative critics should be wary and take precautions, since some will not be as civil.
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24 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Doesn't Aisha's marriage age justify child marriage?
Paedophilia is unacceptable; he says defending the Prophet by comparing him to kings who married children is no defence and, in his view, blasphemous.
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24 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Is it right to attack critics of Islam personally?
Mufti Abu Layth says Mohammed Hijab bears some responsibility for provoking the Quran-tearing, and urges Muslims to attack arguments, not people and their families.
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19 Aug 2020Responding to Refutations
Introduction: the Quran-preservation debacle and a leaked 2016 email
Mufti Abu Layth introduces a commentary on who leaked a private 2016 email of Yasir Qadhi on the Quran's preservation, an episode he calls a cataclysmic debacle.
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19 Aug 2020Responding to Refutations
Who leaked the emails: the missing link revealed
After years of uncertainty over who leaked Yasir Qadhi's email, Mufti Abu Layth says it has transpired that Farid was behind the leak.
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19 Aug 2020Responding to Refutations
Ismail Patel's published exchange: the apology and the 'academic' consulted
Ismail Patel published his email exchange with Farid, in which Farid apologises for the leak and says he had consulted Abdul Rahman Hassan as an academic.
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19 Aug 2020Responding to Refutations
What did the leak of Yasir Qadhi's emails on the Quran's preservation lead to?
The leak of Yasir Qadhi's emails set off a fitna in which people doubted or left Islam, and Yasir Qadhi's own explanation made it worse. Being clever and well-read does not make someone an academic.
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19 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Is the guest's approach to the Quran's history just confirmation bias?
The guest says his questions came from the Muslim sources themselves, not from Western scholars, who have merely extracted the same data from Muslim books. Muslims must answer such questions rather than snub them, since the Quran is a book for all mankind.
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17 Jun 2020video
How did Mohammed Hijab react after his interview with Yasir Qadhi backfired?
According to Mufti Abu Layth, Hijab posted that Yasir Qadhi 'will be refuted' once the mob turned, which Mufti attributes to a wish for popularity. Mufti says he would never backstab a guest in that way.
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17 Jun 2020video
Why does he say the backlash against Yasir Qadhi is his own doing?
Mufti Abu Layth says Qadhi and Hijab built the refutation culture that has now turned on them, and that a shaykh who calls Halloween, Christmas greetings, music and the beard too controversial should not open with the preservation of the Quran.
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17 Jun 2020video
What should Yasir Qadhi have said about the preservation of the Quran?
Mufti Abu Layth says the mistake was raising the problem in public without any answer: Qadhi should have given some answer, such as saying plainly that the Quran would come out the same as it is today. The fallout, he says, is Qadhi's own fault.
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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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31 Mar 2020video
The caller from Canada: trolling, the word Qadiani, and pictures of Mirza
Mufti Abu Layth recounts telling a caller that the trolling did not suit him and asking whether he believed Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was a prophet, then mocks pictures of Mirza on screen.
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2019 · 7
12 Dec 2019From the Mind of a Mufti
What does Mufti Abu Layth think of Mohammed Hijab's aggressive debating style?
Mohammed Hijab is intelligent, articulate and shows maturity of thought, but deliberately shouting at and dominating opponents on the claim that Allah commands harshness towards those who challenge Islam is, if that is what he meant, nonsensical and unacceptable.
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18 Oct 2019From the Mind of a Mufti
What does Mufti Abu Layth think of Mufti Menk?
Mixed: Menk fills a real demand for simple, uplifting stories and is likeable and funny, but Mufti Abu Layth says such preachers spread inauthentic stories and cement false beliefs, and he suspects Menk is less strict than he portrays himself.
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21 Aug 2019From the Mind of a Mufti
Closing: build bridges, talk to everyone, and an invitation to Daniel Haqiqatjou
Talk to everyone, including ex-Muslims, and hold dialogue where ideas differ. Mufti Abu Layth has invited Daniel Haqiqatjou to a dialogue on apostasy.
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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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4 Aug 2019From the Mind of a Mufti
'Islam gave these rights first' and blinding people with jargon
Mufti Abu Layth addresses the lecture's point that Islam gave rights such as voting 1,400 years before the suffragettes, saying that is fine to mention but people alive in 2019 will ask why Muslim rulings are still backward today, so it is nothing to gloat about. He criticises dropping philosophical names and terms that impress those who do not know them but make Muslims look weaker to those who do, as some did in arguments for God, and parodies such jargon. He says a real discussion would define liberalism and admit that some fascist versions of it exist and can be dangerous, but that liberalism is an attitude against imposed authority, not a separate religion. He concludes that the lecture was a straw man resting on Locke, Hobbes and Kant, and hopes Mohammed Hijab might reflect on it.
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25 Jul 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran
How should Muslims respond to an ex-Muslim who criticises the Quran?
Attack the argument, not the person: Mufti Abu Layth says a genuine seeker deserves respect, that the claim itself is false, and that Muslims who call the Prophet a mercy to the world must show it in how they respond.
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10 May 2019video
As a convert, should I try to convert my spouse or family?
No need: Imam Malik said Islam should not be pressed on a convert's husband, since he knows what Islam is. Speaking about Islam is fine, but obsessing over converting people is not.
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2018 · 7
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
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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21 Jul 2018From the Mind of a Mufti
Do any Sunni scholars say mut'ah is not haram?
A recent Moroccan Maliki scholar argues in a book that mut'ah is not haram; Mufti Abu Layth calls the 'marry me your daughter' retort in his debate with a Salafi immature.
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10 May 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Why would an apostate deserve death, and what about the three days to repent?
An apostate cannot be killed for disbelief, since that would condemn every disbeliever, and the 'three days to return to Islam' is absurd: it coerces people into hypocrisy and belittles the Prophet's thirteen years of preaching.
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9 Apr 2018The Voice of Reason in Islam
How do we know the Quran is the word of God, if not by reason?
Arguments that the Quran is true because it says so, is unlike other books, is eloquent or flawless, or speaks of rain and fruit are no stronger than a spiderweb, Mufti Abu Layth says; without reason one only believes Islam is true because one was told.
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9 Apr 2018The Voice of Reason in Islam
Was Zakir Naik right to dismiss evolution as 'just a theory'?
No: Mufti Abu Layth says Naik's mocking reply to an ex-Muslim did Islam a disservice, and that in science a theory can be an established fact, as with gravity, not merely a hypothesis.
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21 Feb 2018On the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ
Did the Prophet take Safiyya the night her husband was killed, as the Tommy Robinson clip claims?
No: Mufti Abu Layth says the story conceded by the Muslim debater is false and that, as described, it would be rape, so conceding it and arguing over the word is indefensible. Muslims who have not studied Islamic history should not debate these subjects.
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2015 · 1
6 Apr 2015video
How should Muslims respond to Islamophobia?
Begin with yourself: learn properly, since much Islamophobia is fed by Muslims saying things they do not understand, keep links with the ulama, and work on communicating the right ideas in the right words.
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