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22 Feb 2023video
LatestIs there an LGBTQ push in media and schools?
Mufti Abu Layth agrees there is a disproportionate LGBTQ push in media and objects to sexualising young children, calling it hypocritical that polygamy cannot be described the same way.
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2021 · 12
15 May 2021video
LatestWhat can ordinary people do about the Palestinian crisis, and do social-media posts help?
Global outcry and boycotts are necessary even though Israel ignores them and acts with impunity, but Instagram posts make no difference to the crisis, which is not caused by lack of awareness, so Muslims should not guilt-trip one another.
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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
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
Why is Salafi content so dominant online?
Mufti Abu Layth says the Najdi dawah is a small puritan movement kept alive by oil money, which dominates Islamic content online only because it invested early in Q&A websites.
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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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2 Mar 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Is Mohammed Hijab breaking away from the Salafis?
Mufti Abu Layth thinks Hijab's point against the fatwa is fair, though his language was crude and not Mufti's style, and welcomes what he sees as Hijab outgrowing Salafism.
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19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Why is it so hard to find real, honest people?
Mufti Abu Layth says nobody fully knows anyone, social media feeds an endless search for someone better, and the appalling conduct of some Muslim men pushes women into hardline feminism.
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19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
'Danny Boy's' Telegram post calling female academics 'snarling witches'
Mufti Abu Layth mocks a commentator's post calling female Islamic Studies academics 'snarling witches', and says men who block women's education are insecure.
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12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
What does Islamic law say about the harms of social media?
Mufti Abu Layth agrees fiqh is out of sync with problems like social media's harms and needs updating.
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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
Is it haram for a mother to kiss her child on the lips?
There is nothing haram in a mother kissing her child; he says the haram lies in the perverted comments, and the Prophet kissed his grandsons.
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2020 · 16
22 Sep 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Are there enemies of Islam today?
Mufti Abu Layth says some people do hate Islam, but criticising or leaving Islam is not the same as hating it, and he will not engage those driven by hatred.
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22 Sep 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Mufti Abu Layth rates Dawah Man's video marketing
Mufti Abu Layth rates Dawah Man's marketing and production as clever, while saying his religion is skewed.
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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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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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4 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
A viral picture of 'Aisha's sewing machine'
Mufti Abu Layth debunks a viral image claiming to show Aisha's sewing machine and urges Muslims to use common sense.
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4 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Masala segment: mockery over who leaked Yasir Qadhi's 2016 emails
A comic segment in which Mufti Abu Layth mocks those he presents as behind the leak of Yasir Qadhi's 2016 emails.
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14 Jul 2020live stream
What are the allegations against the Quran reciter on Twitter?
Mufti Abu Layth shows the allegations circulating on Twitter against a well-known Quran reciter, says he cannot tell whether they are true, and says criminal claims should go to the police.
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14 Jul 2020live stream
A viral clip of a preacher who rarely leaves home because of women
Mufti Abu Layth shows a viral clip of a preacher who says he avoids going out because of women, calls him sincere in his way, and jokes about the clip.
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10 Jul 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Will AI destroy jobs or create new ones?
Mufti Abu Layth suggests AI also creates new industries; the guest agrees but says automation will take labour jobs first for the sake of profit.
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2 Jul 2020video
Is it wrong for a hijabi YouTuber to take off her hijab?
Removing the hijab is her own choice and her own business, Mufti Abu Layth says; he adds that some scholars hold hijab is not obligatory and that he finds their argument stronger.
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2 Jul 2020video
Why are people angry at a hijabi influencer who removed her hijab if it is her choice?
The problem is not the hijab but duplicity: Mufti Abu Layth says building fame and income on a religious image one does not believe in is a double life that inevitably collapses, and he advises against living fake lifestyles.
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26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
The guest's background: languages, translations, books, Beltways and a constitution for Turkey
The guest describes his languages, his Turkish and English translations of the Quran, his books on the number 19, his unpaid religious work, his Beltways transit project, a proposed Netflix documentary and a draft constitution for Turkey.
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26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Should social media companies be allowed to censor people as the new public square?
The guest says Twitter suspended him at the Turkish government's instance and that corporations now controlling the virtual public square should be regulated and bound by due process; Mufti Abu Layth agrees the question is a fascinating one.
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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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19 Apr 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Does making people feel guilty about pornography make things worse?
Mufti Abu Layth says telling people simply not to watch pornography is unrealistic and that guilt-tripping over what is not categorically haram may add to depression; the guest likens past bans on television and the internet.
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17 Jan 2020Responding to Refutations
Reaction to Daniel Haqiqatjou's post about Mufti Menk writing 'Almighty' instead of 'Allah'
Mufti Abu Layth mocks Daniel Haqiqatjou's complaint that Mufti Menk tweets 'Almighty' rather than 'Allah' as petty, says Haqiqatjou is not trained in the Sharia, and says he is driven by hostility to the left rather than scholarship.
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2019 · 6
21 Aug 2019From the Mind of a Mufti
5Pillars' coverage of Mufti Abu Layth and its article claiming he denies the afterlife
Mufti Abu Layth reacts to a 5Pillars article claiming he does not believe in the afterlife, which drew on a clip of him calling the Quran's afterlife imagery symbolic. He says no press is bad press and that he has addressed the issue in many videos.
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1 Aug 2019On Current Events
Introducing the controversy over a famous Instagram 'couple goals' pair
Mufti Abu Layth introduces the social media controversy around a famous Muslim Instagram couple accused of living double lives.
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1 Aug 2019On Current Events
Why is it harmful when religious influencers present a fake perfect life?
Mufti Abu Layth says their private lives were their own business, and that the harm lay in preaching standards they could not live by and selling an unattainable ideal of marriage in God's name.
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1 Aug 2019On Current Events
Is it right to condemn people for being in a polygamous marriage?
Mufti Abu Layth says polygamy is a personal choice Islam allows, so people should not hate on others for it, though nobody has to practise it.
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1 Aug 2019On Current Events
Do you need to appear perfectly pious to be a good Muslim?
No one needs to pretend to be pious; being genuinely human makes the deen more workable, while sanctimonious fake preaching drives people from faith.
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15 Jan 2019Responding to Refutations
Backdrop: trolling by Ahmadis and the video that prompted the reply
The reply was prompted by an Ahmadi video claiming Mufti Abu Layth borrowed his views from them, followed by days of online trolling. Mufti says he opposes persecution of Ahmadis but will respond.
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2017 · 6
29 Sep 2017From the Mind of a Mufti
What happened with Nouman Ali Khan and Mahira Khan online?
Two online campaigns in the same week, against Nouman Ali Khan over allegations and against the actress Mahira Khan over a photograph, show the same Muslim attitude to responding, which Mufti Abu Layth sets out to examine.
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29 Sep 2017From the Mind of a Mufti
Was it wrong to publish the allegations against Nouman Ali Khan?
Releasing ambiguous allegations of abuse against Nouman Ali Khan, later said to concern flirtatious messages, was clear-cut haram and character assassination in Mufti Abu Layth's view. He calls the handling despicable and contrary to the Prophet's message.
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29 Sep 2017From the Mind of a Mufti
What arguments were used to justify exposing Nouman Ali Khan?
The campaign rested on three claims: a duty to forbid evil, greater accountability for leaders, and the idea that any relationship involving a person of status is abuse. Mufti Abu Layth presents these as the views he is about to answer.
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29 Sep 2017From the Mind of a Mufti
Is it Islamic to name and shame someone for a sin?
Naming and shaming a person for a sin is a modern tabloid practice with no basis in the Prophet's example, who addressed wrongdoing without naming anyone. Those acting as haram police are mostly unqualified, and Mufti Abu Layth notes they ignore rulings that apply to themselves.
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29 Sep 2017From the Mind of a Mufti
Why does it matter that the word 'abuse' was used about Nouman Ali Khan?
Calling flirtatious messages abuse misuses a word people understand to mean molestation or rape, in Mufti Abu Layth's view, and it was used to destroy a man who made the Quran relevant in English. He calls the campaign coordinated, driven by ulterior motives, and an act of Judas.
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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
Why do so many young Muslims feel confused or embarrassed about Islam today?
Negative media portrayal, extremism, postmodern questions, doubts about rulings, culture and racism all weigh on young Muslims, and Mufti Abu Layth asks what the answer is.
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2014 · 1
2 Jul 2014video
Is difference of opinion in Islam a mercy?
Yes, definitely: difference of opinion is a mercy and a message of tolerance. He also calls social media vital for da'wah.
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