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Edip Yuksel

Cited in 35 segments across 2 recordings · 2020 · scholar/scholar:edip-yuksel

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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. Question from live chatposition checkedEdip YukselQuran-only (Quranist)report: killing geckos is rewarded (unresolved; cited as an example of hadith dogmatism)Aisha machine8 min 13 s0:01on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Opening: introducing Edip Yuksel, who refuses titles and insists all are equal The guest rejects titles such as professor, saying that in religion, philosophy and politics only the words count, not the name or rank of the person speaking. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip Yuksel machine3 min 53 s0:35on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth The guest's background: languages, translations, books, Beltways and a constitution for Turkey The guest describes his languages, his Turkish and English translations of the Quran, his books on the number 19, his unpaid religious work, his Beltways transit project, a proposed Netflix documentary and a draft constitution for Turkey. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip YukselQuran: A Reformist TranslationManifesto for Islamic ReformNineteen: God's Signature in Nature and Scripture machine8 min 29 s4:28on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Why did Edip Yuksel write a reformist translation of the Quran? The guest describes translating the Quran with Rashad Khalifa and says the Sunni religion distorted the message, beginning with adding Muhammad's name to the shahada; he calls Sunni and Shia translations deliberate distortions and says the Quran was betrayed through hadith. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip YukselRashad KhalifaRecep Tayyip ErdoganMetin Yuksel [?] machine8 min 32 s12:57on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Was the hadith literature a conspiracy against the Quran? The guest says the hadith corpus is a deliberate conspiracy against the Quran by its enemies, including the Umayyads, and that reports such as the Banu Qurayza massacre and the killing of a woman critic were fabricated to justify later rulers' crimes. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip YukselAbu Sufyanthe UmayyadsSahih al-Bukhari machine6 min 30 s21:29on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Does the guest think every hadith is fabricated? The guest says not every hadith is evil, but truth is mixed with falsehood and even genuine sayings cannot be a source of religion, since the Quran makes God the only source of law and limits the messenger's duty to delivery. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip YukselQuran 42:21 (partners who legislate what Allah has not permitted)Quran 6:19 (this Quran was revealed to me to warn you)Quran 25:30 (my people have deserted this Quran) machine3 min 54 s27:59on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Were the Prophet's judgements meant to bind Muslims after his death? The guest says the Prophet's authority as judge and leader was for his lifetime only, that his bay'ah was a reciprocal social contract in which women voted, and that his messengership ended once the Quran was delivered, so obeying the messenger cannot mean obeying Bukhari. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip YukselQuran 60:12 (the pledge of the believing women)Quran 6:19 (this Quran was revealed to me to warn you)bay'ah (mubaya'a) machine6 min 31 s31:53on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Can Muslims do ijtihad from the Quran alone? Mufti Abu Layth agrees with the guest that making Islam Bukhari-centric is a problem, as his BukhariGate series argues. The guest says the Quran declares itself easy to understand and that whoever thinks it difficult or rejects its clear verses loses access to it. Discussionguest speechEdip YukselQuran 54:17 (we have made the Quran easy to remember)Sahih al-Bukhariijtihad machine2 min 36 s38:24on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Are any hadith genuine, and what about reports confirmed by history? The guest says even genuine sayings of the Prophet are not religion and that the hadith paint contradictory portraits of him. Mufti Abu Layth agrees that the Mi'raj negotiation, the child-marriage report and the Uraynah torture reports are false narrations. Discussionguest speechEdip YukselQuran 25:30 (my people have deserted this Quran)the Isra and Mi'rajreport: the prophet negotiated the number of prayers from fifty to five on the night journey on the advice of moses machine7 min 57 s41:00on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Can hadith be sifted with criteria, or must the whole corpus be rejected? Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet's practice survives as a living tradition in fiqh and that he accepts a hadith only if it passes reason, the texts and the principles. The guest replies that narrators who fabricated a stoning verse forfeit all credibility, like a false witness in the Quran. Discussionguest speechEdip Yuksela hadith must not contradict reason, the transmitted texts or the established principlesThe deen reaches us through continuous living practiceQuran 24:4 (those who accuse chaste women without four witnesses) machine3 min 53 s48:57on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Does any hadith actually explain the Quran? The guest challenges hadith followers to find a hadith that explains the Quran, says the Quran uses the word hadith negatively and sunnah only for God's law, and holds that descriptive reports are history, not religion. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip Yukselal-huruf al-muqatta'at (the initial letters)hadithsunnah machine6 min 37 s52:50on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Does the Quran abrogate its own verses? The guest denies abrogation, reading 2:106 as about miracles replaced over time, since ayah in the singular never means a verse. Mufti Abu Layth says he is not against abrogation in principle but that 2:106 does not prove it and that no verse was ever lifted from the Quran. Discussionguest speechEdip Yukselnaskh (abrogation)Quran 4:82 (they would have found many contradictions)Quran 2:106 (we do not abrogate a sign or cause it to be forgotten) machine9 min 12 s59:27on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Does the Quran ban slavery, and what does 'what your right hand possesses' mean? The guest says the Quran abolishes slavery as the greatest crime, since owning a slave is to claim to be a rabb like Pharaoh, and that what the right hand possesses means contractual marriage. Mufti Abu Layth holds that slavery is abrogated through trajectory hermeneutics rather than by an explicit ban. Discussionguest speechEdip Yukseltrajectory hermeneuticsrabbabd machine10 min 29 s1:08:39on 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. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip Yukselrabbabdshirk machine7 min 51 s1:19:08on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth What is the miracle of the number 19 in the Quran? The guest says the number 19 proves the Quran is God's word letter by letter and that Muslims otherwise have no objective evidence for its divine origin; he recounts a Turkish scholar insisting the bismillah has twenty-one letters rather than nineteen. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip YukselQuran 74:30 (over it are nineteen)bismillahSuleyman Ates [?] machine6 min 34 s1:26:59on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth What numerical patterns does the guest find in the Quran's word counts? The guest lists word-frequency symmetries in the Quran, such as dunya and akhirah 115 times each, month twelve times and day 365 times, and says the number 19 is a test that most people fail. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip Yukseldunyaakhirahrasul machine5 min 11 s1:33:33on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth How does the guest's number 19 differ from Bible numerics, and how does he read 74:29-31? The guest says 19 is a test most people fail, distinguishes his system from Ivan Panin's Bible numerics, and retranslates 74:29-31 as describing a precise, obvious mathematical structure rather than scorching the skin in hell. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip YukselQuran 74:29-31 (lawwaha lil-bashar, over it are nineteen)Ivan PaninRabbi Judah (11th century) [?] machine6 min 30 s1:38:44on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Could the number 19 patterns in the Quran be a coincidence or a human habit? The guest says the 19 structure cannot be chance or subconscious habit, that mathematicians cannot refute it, and that 19 appearing only in chapter 74 and being unveiled in 1974, nineteen times seventy-four lunar years later, is a prophecy. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip YukselRashad KhalifaQuran 74:1-2 (O you who are hidden, rise and warn)abjad numerals machine7 min 43 s1:45:14on 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. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip YukselRashad KhalifaQuran 72:26-28 (he reveals the unseen to a messenger he chooses)Quran 40:34 (Joseph came to you before; no messenger after him) [?] machine3 min 55 s1:52:57on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Why was Rashad Khalifa assassinated? The guest says Rashad Khalifa was declared an apostate by a 1989 Madinah gathering under Ibn Baz and killed within a year by a group linked to al-Qaeda, and he lists coincidences of the number 19 around the murder, Y2K and the 9/11 attacks. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip YukselRashad KhalifaIbn BazSalman Rushdie machine5 min 12 s1:56:52on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Did the number 19 appear in the guest's life before he discovered it in the Quran? Before he knew anything about the number 19 the guest had named his youth activist group FT-19, which he sees as an early connection to the number. Question from live chatquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip Yuksel machine2 min 39 s2:02:04on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth LatestDoes the Quran allow a husband to hit his wife? The guest reads 4:34 as telling a persistently flirting wife to leave rather than as permission to beat, and says four words in the verse were mistranslated to create male authority. Mufti Abu Layth says the statement that men provide is descriptive, not prescriptive. Question from live chatguest speechEdip YukselQuran 4:34 (the 'hitting verse')daraba (wadribuhunna)qawwamun machine7 min 49 s2:04:43on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth How does the guest translate the verses on cutting off the thief's hand, jizya and polygamy? The guest's translation renders the thief's punishment as cutting off the means, the tax on non-Muslims as war reparations, sa'ihat as women active in society, and polygamy as permitted only for widows with orphans in exigent circumstances. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip YukselQuran 5:38 (the thief, cut off their hands)jizyasa'ihat machine3 min 58 s2:12:32on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Does khatam al-nabiyyin mean the last prophet or the best prophet? The guest understands khatam al-nabiyyin as the last prophet, since the Quran addresses all people until the end of the world, and says the Quran gives the time of the end of the world. Question from live chatquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip YukselQuran 33:40 (khatam al-nabiyyin)khatam al-nabiyyinnabi machine1 min 20 s2:16:30on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Is seeing the number 19 everywhere a sign or a superstition? The guest rejects personal and anecdotal sightings of 19 as numerology and chance, distinguishing them from the Quran's structure, and invites Zakir Naik and Nouman Ali Khan to debate him. Question from live chatquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip YukselZakir NaikNouman Ali Khan machine2 min 40 s2:17:50on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Does the number 19 structure work in all the readings of the Quran? The guest says the 19 structure is found in the Hafs reading, where it revealed two spelling errors and two added verses, and that the Warsh reading differs little; he also expresses regard for Ghulam Ahmad Parwez. Question from live chatquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip Yukselqira'atHafsWarsh machine2 min 35 s2:21:49on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth What does Edip Yuksel think of Sam Gerrans? The guest respects Sam Gerrans as articulate but says his failure to see the number 19 leads him to invent arbitrary meanings for the initial letters, and that 19 is a divine test of one's bigotry. Question from live chatquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip YukselSam Gerransal-huruf al-muqatta'at (the initial letters)Salih machine2 min 38 s2:26:56on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Is al-kitab the same book given to every prophet? The guest says owning a slave is shirk, that kawthar means abundance rather than a pool, and that al-kitab is the one divine law sent to every prophet, whose goal, peacemaking, is secular while iman is distinct. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip YukselQuran 108:1 (we have given you al-kawthar)kawtharal-kitab machine2 min 37 s2:29:34on YouTube
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
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth What does the word salat mean in the Quran according to the Quran-only view? The guest defines salat from the Quran as solidarity rather than ritual: with God, which is remembrance and connection, and with people, which is the secular Friday gathering; the essence is dhikr, not physical form. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip YukselQuran 75:31 (he neither believed nor prayed)Quran 33:56 (Allah and his angels send salat upon the Prophet)Quran 9:103 (take from their wealth a charity and pray for them) machine3 min 54 s2:38:46on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Does prayer have to be physical, or is remembering God enough? The guest is not against the physical form of prayer but says it is only an expression; the one necessary component of salat according to the Quran is conscious connection with God, so one may pray sitting or while travelling. Question from live chatquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip YukselQuran 4:43 (do not approach prayer while intoxicated)salahsujud machine2 min 34 s2:42:40on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Closing: how to reach the guest, conferences, peace with Sunnis and Shias, and parliamentary speeches The guest invites contact through his website and proposes Zoom sessions and conferences with Sunni and Shia scholars, saying he debates fiercely but bears no animosity and defends anyone's rights; he points viewers to his parliamentary speeches and his refutation of ISIS. Announcementguest speechEdip YukselISIS machine3 min 56 s2:45:14on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Should social media companies be allowed to censor people as the new public square? The guest says Twitter suspended him at the Turkish government's instance and that corporations now controlling the virtual public square should be regulated and bound by due process; Mufti Abu Layth agrees the question is a fascinating one. Discussionquoted view, not his positionguest speechEdip YukselTwitterRecep Tayyip Erdogan machine3 min 55 s2:49:10on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Is consciousness in the brain, or is the brain a receiver for the soul? Mufti Abu Layth holds that consciousness is non-local and the brain a receiver like a radio; the guest disagrees, describing a human as matter plus information that is backed up in God's record and restored to a new body at the resurrection. Discussionguest speechEdip YukselGeorge BerkeleyRene Descartesruh machine7 min 51 s2:53:05on YouTube