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al-Khidr

Cited in 8 segments across 3 recordings · 2018 to 2021 · person/person:khidr

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13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth LatestAre there answers to the hardest ethical questions about stories in the Quran? Mufti Abu Layth says he has answered every hard question on his 2016 list, such as the killing of the boy in Moses' story, by research true to the text, and others can build on it. LessonMusa (Moses)al-Khidr (referred to, not named: the one who kills the boy)Christopher HitchensAisha machine7 min 49 s40:01on YouTube
14 Jan 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran Who was al-Khidr and why is he called the green one? Al-Khidr is a figure of Islamic literature and folk belief whose name means the green one, said to be because the ground turned green where he sat. Earlier scholars preferred the pronunciation al-Khadir. Lessonal-KhidrMulla Ali al-Qarial-Qari's treatise on al-Khidr [?]Hanafi school machine2 min 35 s0:00on YouTube
14 Jan 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran What happened between Musa and al-Khidr in Surat al-Kahf? Musa and his companion travel to the meeting of two seas, meet a servant of Allah who damages a ship, kills a boy and repairs a wall, and is rebuked by Musa each time. Al-Bukhari's hadith adds the detail that Musa had claimed to be the most knowledgeable of people. LessonQuran 18:60-82 (Musa and the servant of Allah)Musa (Moses)al-KhidrYusha ibn Nun (Joshua) machine5 min 47 s2:35on YouTube
14 Jan 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran Was the story of Musa and al-Khidr a dream? Mufti Abu Layth reads everything after Musa and his companion fell asleep at the rock as a vision, which explains its strange details. Scholars who read it literally struggled to explain them. Lessonposition checkedMusa (Moses)Yusha ibn Nun (Joshua)al-KhidrQuran 18:60-82 (Musa and the servant of Allah) machine5 min 40 s8:22on YouTube
14 Jan 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran Is al-Khidr a prophet, and is he still alive? Classical scholars disagreed on whether al-Khidr was a prophet or a saint, and many held he is still alive while others denied it. Mufti Abu Layth likens the stories of his appearances to saint legends in other religions. Lessonquoted view, not his positional-KhidrIbn al-JawziIbn Ishaqal-Baghawi [?] machine8 min 46 s14:02on 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
24 Dec 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran The story of Musa and the servant of Allah in Surah al-Kahf and al-Bukhari Mufti Abu Layth outlines the story of Musa and the servant of Allah from Surah al-Kahf 18:60 onwards and its fuller telling in al-Bukhari's hadith 4725. LessonQuran 18:60 (Musa sets out for the meeting of the two seas)Musa (Moses)Yusha ibn Nun (Joshua)al-Khidr (the servant of Allah; name garbled in the transcript) [?] machine5 min 30 s0:01on YouTube
24 Dec 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran Did the journey of Musa and Khidr really happen, or was it a vision? Mufti Abu Layth holds that everything after Musa and Joshua slept at the rock happened in a vision, which explains the story's strange shifts. Lessonposition checkedMusa (Moses)Yusha ibn Nun (Joshua)al-Khidr (the servant of Allah; name garbled in the transcript) [?] machine5 min 51 s5:31on YouTube