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Cited in 11 segments across 8 recordings · 2018 to 2021 · person/person:nuh

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6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Did Noah really live 950 years? Noah's 950 years refers to an ancient counting system like those of the Sumerian king lists, signalled by the verse's unusual wording, not to ordinary years; he never said the Quran copied an error from the Bible. Lessonguest speechNuh (Noah)Quran 29:14 (a thousand years less fifty)the Sumeriansthe Old Testament machine4 min 30 s3:15:33on YouTube
12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth A preacher's 'discoveries': Gog and Magog in Kyrgyzstan and Noah's ark at al-Judi Mockery of a preacher's claims to have located Gog and Magog in Kyrgyzstan and Noah's ark in Turkey. Otherguest speechYa'juj and Ma'juj (Gog and Magog)Nuh (Noah)Quran 11:44 (the ark came to rest on al-Judi)the Old Testament machine9 min 21 s3:02:00on YouTube
11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Does the Quran speak in symbols and metaphors? Mufti Abu Layth agrees with Ibn Rushd that the Quran speaks in symbols and that scripture is a kind of art, but asks whether the guest thinks the prophets and their stories are fictitious. Discussionguest speechDr Javad T. Hashmi (guest)Ibn Rushd (Averroes)Yuval Noah HarariSapiens (Yuval Noah Harari) machine2 min 48 s1:13:07on YouTube
13 Oct 2020video If humans evolved, why are there still chimpanzees? Nobody claims humans came from chimpanzees; both share a common ancestor, and evolution is now shown through genetics, which he says poses no problem for Islam. Discussionposition checkedAdamQuran 49:13 (We created you from male and female)Musa (Moses)Nuh (Noah) machine5 min 46 s37:20on YouTube
7 Apr 2020video Do the prophets' bodies decay in the grave? Mufti Abu Layth did not teach that the prophets' bodies decay: he read out a question and described a devotional and a factual approach, noting most Muslims take the devotional one. He says critics who present it as disrespect to the Prophet are lying. Discussionquoted view, not his positionShaykh Asrar Rashid [?]Nuh (Noah) machine7 min1:19on YouTube
18 Oct 2019From the Mind of a Mufti What does Mufti Abu Layth think of Mufti Menk? Mixed: Menk fills a real demand for simple, uplifting stories and is likeable and funny, but Mufti Abu Layth says such preachers spread inauthentic stories and cement false beliefs, and he suspects Menk is less strict than he portrays himself. Question from live chatMufti MenkNuh (Noah)the flood of Nuh machine9 min 15 s0:02on YouTube
8 Jan 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran How should Muslims read the stories in the Quran? Quranic stories can be read as narrative and for lessons, but where they suggest the supernatural we must ask how to read them, unlike myths we never take as real. Lessonposition checkedQuran 12:3 (We relate to you the best of stories)Yusuf (Joseph)Prometheus (Greek myth)Pandora (Greek myth) machine9 min 32 s1:57on YouTube
8 Jan 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran If God can do anything, why not take the miracles in Quranic stories literally? Reading the stories as suspensions of natural law means ditching reason, which leaves no ground to reject any myth; reason must be all in, though the prophets were real people. Lessonposition checkedIsa (Jesus)the TrinityQuran 35:43 (you will never find any change in the way of God) [?]Adam machine6 min 26 s9:32on YouTube
11 Aug 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran Did the Prophet Nuh really live for 950 years? Nuh did not literally live 950 years, Mufti Abu Layth says. The verse's use of two different words for year, sana and 'am, is deliberate and not just rhetorical variation. Lessonposition checkedQuran 29:14Nuh (Noah)sana (year)'am (year) machine3 min 53 s0:00on YouTube
11 Aug 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran Why do ancient texts say people lived for hundreds or thousands of years? The enormous reigns in the Sumerian king lists reflect a different counting system, likely based on sixty, and the numbers shorten after the flood. Mufti Abu Layth believes the Old Testament's long lifespans were inherited from this Babylonian material. Lessonposition checkedQuran 29:14Nuh (Noah)Gilgameshthe Old Testament machine5 min 16 s3:53on YouTube
11 Aug 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran Why does the Quran call the ruler in Yusuf's story a king but Musa's a Pharaoh? The thousand sana follow the counting of Nuh's own people and the fifty 'am are years as we count them. The Quran relates narratives in the terms of their own time, as when Yusuf's ruler is a king and Musa's is Pharaoh. Lessonposition checkedQuran 29:14Nuh (Noah)Yusuf (Joseph)Musa (Moses) machine3 min 08 s9:09on YouTube