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Cited in 15 segments across 10 recordings · 2018 to 2021 · book/book:bible
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2 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Did the early Muslims respect the Torah and Bible, and are they corrupted?
The Bible has changed in words, stories and translation, but Mufti Abu Layth says its core message is still valid and the Quran does not call it wholly corrupted.
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5 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Who was Lilith in Jewish legend?
Mufti Abu Layth retells the Jewish legend of Lilith, Adam's first wife, who left him over equality and became a night demon.
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5 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Is the story of Lilith in the Bible?
No: the story comes from Jewish commentary on Genesis; the Bible only names Lilith vaguely in Isaiah as an evil spirit.
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11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Does God's morality change over time?
The guest says universal morality does not change, only ritual law: the Quran corrects the biblical conquest narrative by implying the Israelites inherited Egypt rather than slaughtering another people.
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11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Is the story of Adam in the Quran a myth?
The guest reads the Adam story as sacred myth whose point is human dignity, improving on the Babylonian and biblical accounts by removing original sin and blame of the woman; Mufti Abu Layth holds the figures and events were real but told to appeal to listeners.
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11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Does the Quran actually say the miracles happened?
Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran often never states that a miracle occurred, as with the table for Jesus, and that the prophets were real though later assumptions colour them; the guest says the Quran rearticulates the discourses of its milieu.
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28 Oct 2020video
Where did the idea of sacrificing a son come from in Ibrahim's time?
Human sacrifice to gods such as Moloch and Baal was a widespread practice of the ancient Near East, and the Bible's story of Jephthah sacrificing his daughter shows it. Mufti Abu Layth says this surrounding culture explains how such a dream could come to Ibrahim.
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28 Oct 2020video
Is it wrong to believe that God asked Ibrahim to kill his son?
Mufti Abu Layth says the belief is absurd and, on inspection, blasphemous, because it has God asking a father to murder his child for his pleasure and then stopping him, like a mock execution. The Quran never says God told Ibrahim to sacrifice, though it could have.
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19 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Where does the claim that the Quran is preserved to the very dot come from?
Mufti Abu Layth says the slogan that the Quran is preserved to the very dot is not traditional but a creed cemented in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when religious people entrenched themselves in fundamentalism against modernity and colonialism. Early Muslims were comfortable with a Quran that was preserved while allowing variation.
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14 Sep 2019video
Is the Bible corrupted?
Yes, if corrupted means not preserved word for word, since they were never meant to be a recitation; but the general message of Jesus was most likely kept.
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14 Sep 2019video
Is today's Bible the same one Christians and Jews read in the Prophet's time?
Quoting the Bible where it makes sense is fine. Whether today's Bible matches the one of the Prophet's time he does not know, though it most likely may, and the Quran does not address it.
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24 Jul 2019Quick Fiqh!
Have men historically worn earrings, or is it a recent fashion?
Men have worn earrings for thousands of years, in Assyria, Egypt, among the Israelites, in Persia, India and Europe, usually as a mark of nobility or soldiery. Only the European church restricted them to women, which is why defiant groups such as pirates kept wearing them.
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8 Jul 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Is the story of Hajar running seven times between Safa and Marwa true?
Mufti Abu Layth thinks the story of Hajar running seven times between Safa and Marwa was most likely added later to give the ritual an Abrahamic link, though he believes the Zamzam story is true. The Quran mentions Safa and Marwa only as a remembrance of God, without linking them to Hajar or Abraham.
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24 Dec 2018From the Mind of a Mufti
Did the topic of Tawhid versus the Trinity favour the Muslim side, and how well prepared was Hijab?
Tawhid appeals to reason while the Trinity is held by Christians as a supra-rational truth, so the topic itself favoured Hijab. Even so, Mufti Abu Layth was impressed by Hijab's thorough biblical research and impromptu quotation of the Bible, while Wood seemed unprepared.
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26 May 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Is it possible for Prophet Yunus to have survived inside a whale?
Highly unlikely but not impossible: the Quran describes no superhuman feat, only that he was swallowed and thrown out very sick.
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