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PersonYusuf (Joseph)
Cited in 10 segments across 8 recordings · 2018 to 2021 · person/person:yusuf
Citing segments
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29 Jan 2021MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
How did Shaykh Atabek Shukurov become a scholar?
The guest traces his path from a Soviet childhood through Karachi and Saudi Arabia to eight years in Syria, where he learned to compare inherited cultures with the classical texts.
machine6 min 49 s6:17on YouTube
19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
A classical Arabic love poem on how the prophets' attributes are shared out
Mufti Abu Layth recites a classical Arabic love poem in which the beloved gets the prophets' beauty and the poet their sorrows.
machine3 min 46 s7:57on YouTube
19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Can I say Prophet Yusuf was more handsome than Prophet Muhammad?
Praising Yusuf's beauty takes nothing from the Prophet Muhammad, Mufti Abu Layth says; the prophets are not in a competition.
machine2 min 22 s2:35:33on YouTube
11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Why does the Quran give so little detail about some prophets?
The guest says the brief, repeated stories are archetypes recalled to console the Prophet, which audiences already knew; Mufti Abu Layth argues that following an archetype does not show a story was invented.
machine7 min 25 s2:25:43on YouTube
15 Nov 2020video
Does Surah Yusuf prove the evil eye is real?
No: Jacob told his sons to use different gates for their safety and to avoid drawing attention, not because of the evil eye. They had already been to Egypt, so the evil eye reading makes no sense.
machine11 min 39 s44:28on YouTube
28 Aug 2020video
Does Edip Yuksel believe in praying five times a day?
Mufti Abu Layth thinks Edip Yuksel accepts the five prayers but not as the primary objective. Mufti calls rejecting all hadith the opposite extreme to hadith dogmatism, since all we know of early Islam comes through the living tradition.
machine8 min 13 s0:01on 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.
machine7 min 51 s1:19:08on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Did Rashad Khalifa claim to be a messenger of God?
The guest says Rashad Khalifa did claim to be a messenger, not a prophet, commissioned to unveil the miracle of 19, and that the Quran calls Muhammad the last prophet rather than the last messenger. Khalifa held the last two verses of Surat al-Tawba to be interpolations.
machine3 min 55 s1:52:57on 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.
machine9 min 32 s1:57on 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.
machine3 min 08 s9:09on YouTube