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Cited in 10 segments across 7 recordings · 2017 to 2021 · person/person:firawn

Citing segments

Newest first. Each opens the whole segment, not a bare quote.
19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Why did Moses have to strike the sea with his staff for it to part? The sea did not part instantly but over a long while, Mufti Abu Layth says; striking it showed the Israelites the way would be through it. Question written questionposition checkedMusa (Moses)PharaohColin Humphreysthe Exodus machine1 min 51 s2:43:20on YouTube
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. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechDr Javad T. Hashmi (guest)Musa (Moses)Pharaohthe Bible machine2 min 11 s47:41on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Does the Quran ban slavery, and what does 'what your right hand possesses' mean? The guest says the Quran abolishes slavery as the greatest crime, since owning a slave is to claim to be a rabb like Pharaoh, and that what the right hand possesses means contractual marriage. Mufti Abu Layth holds that slavery is abrogated through trajectory hermeneutics rather than by an explicit ban. Discussionguest speechEdip Yukseltrajectory hermeneuticsrabbabd machine10 min 29 s1:08:39on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth If the Quran abolished slavery, why is there no explicit verse saying so? The guest says rabb is used in the Quran only for God, so that owning a slave is shirk and la ilaha illa Allah is itself the abolition of slavery. Mufti Abu Layth notes that rabb has ordinary linguistic uses and that non-Muslims recorded Muslims as owning slaves. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip Yukselrabbabdshirk machine7 min 51 s1:19:08on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Does the Quran say the Israelites were slaves in Egypt? A chat question cites 26:22, where Moses says Pharaoh enslaved the Israelites; Mufti Abu Layth says historians describe them as outcast second-class citizens rather than slaves but grants the verse deserves a closer look. Question from live chatquoted view, not his positionguest speechQuran 26:22 (that you enslaved the Children of Israel)Musa (Moses)Pharaoh machine2 min 32 s2:24:24on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Why were the Israelites told to sacrifice a heifer, and what does it teach about religious detail? The heifer was commanded to break the Israelites' lingering reverence for their Egyptian masters' cow worship, and the rabbis' frivolous questions about it exemplify the clerical obsession with detail. Mufti Abu Layth agrees and recalls arguing the same. Discussionguest speechEdip YukselQuran 2:67-71 (the heifer of the Children of Israel)Musa (Moses)Pharaoh machine2 min 40 s2:36:06on YouTube
14 Jan 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran Is al-Khidr a real person who is still alive? No: he reads al-Khidr as part of a vision shown to Musa, whose three events mirrored Musa's own life and mission. The boy was not really killed, and al-Khidr does not roam the earth. Lessonposition checkedal-KhidrMusa (Moses)Pharaohthe golden calf of the Israelites machine6 min 19 s22:48on YouTube
20 Apr 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran Did Musa's staff really turn into a snake? No: Mufti Abu Layth holds the staff was described as moving as though it were a snake, while the magicians' sticks moved by a chemical trick. Question raised by Mufti Abu Laythposition checkedMusa (Moses)Pharaoh (Fir'awn)Quran 20:59 (the meeting at forenoon on the day of the festival)Quran 20:66 (their ropes and sticks seemed to him to move) machine6 min 15 s0:01on YouTube
15 Apr 2018Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Magic in the Quran: Musa and Pharaoh's magicians, an illusion In the Quran the magic of Pharaoh's magicians was only an illusion; Musa's fear was a natural human reaction, not proof that the magic was real. Lessonposition checkedMusaPharaoh (Fir'awn)Quran 20:66 (their ropes seemed to him to move by their magic; verse not numbered by him)Quran 7:116 (they bewitched the eyes of the people; verse not numbered by him) machine5 min 10 s10:13on YouTube
20 Sep 2017Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Does the Quran say that Shaytan or the jinn can possess or control a person? The Quran never says people lose their will; it commands believers not to follow Shaytan's footsteps, which presupposes the will and power to refuse. On the Day of Judgement Shaytan himself says he had no authority except to call people, so he teaches and whispers but never forces. Lessonquoted view, not his positionguest speechShaykh Akram Nadwi (guest)ShaytanjinnQuran 24:21 (do not follow the footsteps of Shaytan; he commands shameful and evil things) machine5 min 13 s7:53on YouTube