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Quran 2:67-71 (the heifer of the Children of Israel)

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Cited in 2 segments across 1 recording · 2020 · quran/quran:2:67-71

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26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth If you reject all hadith, how do you know how to pray? The guest rejects every hadith collection, including Nahj al-Balagha, as a source of religion, and says the objection that the Quran does not detail the five prayers is a circular argument built on fabricated details. Question from live chatquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip YukselNahj al-BalaghaAli ibn Abi Talibsalah machine3 min 55 s2:32:11on 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