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Quran 68:51 (they would almost make you slip with their eyes)

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Cited in 2 segments across 1 recording · 2020 · quran/quran:68:51

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15 Nov 2020video Does the Quran mention the evil eye? No: the Quran mentions envy (hasad) but never the evil eye, and the verse about eyes making the Prophet slip is a metaphor for hateful stares, as Ibn Ashur and others explain. Lessonposition checkedQuran 68:51 (they would almost make you slip with their eyes)hasad (envy)al-'ayn (the evil eye)Sahih al-Bukhari machine6 min 43 s2:41on YouTube
15 Nov 2020video Confirmation bias: reading the evil eye into the Quran Mufti Abu Layth says that people came to Islam already believing the evil eye was science and, through confirmation bias, found it in verses that do not mention it, such as the verse about eyes almost making the Prophet slip, even though many exegetes did not read it that way. He recommends the Urdu tafsir of Abdul Karim Athari, whom he describes as coming from a small, unusually reason-based circle within the Ahl-e-Hadith of India, and says Athari also reads the verse as the disbelievers staring as though to trip the Prophet, before calling him insane. Lessonposition checkedQuran 68:51 (they would almost make you slip with their eyes)Abdul Karim AthariSalafiHanafi school machine3 min 22 s41:06on YouTube