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David Wood

Cited in 15 segments across 4 recordings · 2018 to 2021 · person/person:david-wood

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5 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth LatestWhy is Yasir Qadhi saying the Prophet was infatuated with Zaynab? Mufti Abu Layth finds Yasir Qadhi's recent claim, that the Prophet's infatuation with Zaynab was the early normative account, baffling and harmful, and plays clips to show it. Question written questionguest speechYasir QadhiZaynab bint JahshZayd ibn HarithaDavid Wood machine9 min 17 s2:30:24on YouTube
10 Dec 2020video Yasir Qadhi's reply to Jay Smith over 'holes in the standard narrative' A played clip of Yasir Qadhi answering Christian polemicists who used his 'holes in the standard narrative' remark, calling them unqualified and likening variant readings to accents. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechYasir QadhiJay SmithDavid WoodDaniel Brubaker machine6 min 58 s0:00on YouTube
10 Dec 2020video Is Jay Smith a reliable critic of the Quran's preservation? No: he agrees with Yasir Qadhi that Jay Smith and David Wood are not clued up and chase sensation, repeating academics' summaries without understanding them. DiscussionYasir QadhiJay SmithMohammed HijabPatricia Crone machine6 min 59 s6:58on YouTube
24 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Opening: a Sunday-night stream past midnight and tonight's plan Housekeeping: Mufti Abu Layth opens the stream and lists tonight's topics, including David Wood tearing the Quran, the UAE-Israel deal and a quarrel with a critic. AnnouncementDavid WoodMohammed Hijabthe UAE-Israel normalisation deal (2020)Farid [?] machine6 min 44 s0:24on YouTube
24 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth How should Muslims react when someone tears or burns the Quran? Mufti Abu Layth says tearing the Quran harms nothing in Islam and Muslims should never be enraged by it, while he condemns it and urges everyone to respect religious symbols. Lessonguest speechDavid WoodApostate Prophet [?] (YouTuber)Abdullah Sameermushaf machine8 min 13 s1:27:21on YouTube
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. Lessonguest speechMohammed HijabDavid Wood machine5 min 36 s1:35:34on YouTube
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. LessonMohammed HijabDavid WoodDr Shabir Allytawhid machine2 min 38 s0:00on YouTube
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. Lessonposition checkedMohammed HijabDavid Woodtawhidthe Trinity machine2 min 37 s2:38on YouTube
24 Dec 2018From the Mind of a Mufti What was Hijab's main argument against the Trinity, and did Wood answer it? Hijab's central argument was that the Trinitarian creed defined at Nicaea in 325 cannot be shown in any earlier Christian source, which Mufti Abu Layth calls precise and well researched and which Wood failed to answer sufficiently. Wood seemed shaky and unprepared, and the debate leaned less on reason than it could have. LessonMohammed HijabDavid Woodthe Council of Nicaea (325)the Trinity machine3 min 56 s5:15on YouTube
24 Dec 2018From the Mind of a Mufti What does it mean that Allah performs salah upon the Prophet? Wood kept asking to whom Allah prays if He 'performs salah' on the Prophet, which Hijab answered well as sending blessings. Mufti Abu Layth says pressing a linguistic point after it was answered, without knowing Arabic, was pathetic. LessonMohammed HijabDavid WoodQuran 33:56 (Allah and His angels perform salah upon the Prophet) [?]salah machine2 min 05 s9:11on YouTube
24 Dec 2018From the Mind of a Mufti Do Muslims accept doctrines as irrational as the Trinity, such as the uncreated Quran? Wood's real challenge was that Muslims who mock the Trinity as irrational themselves accept doctrines such as the uncreated Quran and attributes that are 'neither God nor other than God'. Mufti Abu Layth says this was a genuinely tough point that Hijab did not fully answer, but Wood put it so badly that few noticed. LessonMohammed HijabDavid Woodkalam Allah (the uncreated Quran)sifat (the divine attributes) machine3 min 58 s11:16on YouTube
24 Dec 2018From the Mind of a Mufti If Muslims accept miracles that defy reason, can they still object that the Trinity is irrational? Muslims must hold the Quran to be in line with reason, because accepting miracles that make no sense removes any ground for objecting that three cannot equal one; consistency is all or nothing. Hijab denied that Muslims ever held anthropomorphic beliefs, but some did, though Mufti Abu Layth does not share them. Lessonposition checkedMohammed HijabDavid Woodal-Shafi'itajsim (anthropomorphism) machine2 min 24 s15:14on YouTube
24 Dec 2018From the Mind of a Mufti Did the Prophet teach a creed about God's attributes, and when did the Muslim creed emerge? The Prophet taught faith, not a formal creed; the Muslim creed emerged two to three hundred years later, and its doctrine of attributes 'neither God nor other than God' is, in Mufti Abu Layth's view, irrational and unfounded in the Quran and Sunnah. Ordinary Muslims do not know this material, which is why Wood's objections did not land. Lessonposition checkedMohammed HijabDavid Woodaqidahiman machine3 min 44 s17:38on YouTube
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. LessonMohammed HijabDavid Woodtakbir machine6 min 31 s21:22on YouTube
24 Dec 2018From the Mind of a Mufti What should Muslims learn from the Wood versus Hijab debate? Thorough knowledge wins debates, Muslims must raise their adab, and they must be consistent: if the laws of nature do not matter for miracles, then there is no ground to say three cannot equal one. Clips about camel urine or suspended laws of nature send a confusing message. Lessonposition checkedMohammed HijabDavid Woodadabreport: the prophet told the sick to drink camel urine machine3 min 47 s27:53on YouTube