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Fakhr al-Din al-Razi

Cited in 13 segments across 8 recordings · 2017 to 2025 · scholar/scholar:fakhr-al-din-al-razi

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18 Oct 2025MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Why are two of the daily prayers recited silently when 17:110 says not to be silent? The silent prayers come from the living tradition Malik described, handed down from the Companions' descendants; Mufti Abu Layth reads 17:110 as being about crying out to Allah, neither in despair nor in silence, rather than the five prayers, citing 8:35 where 'prayer' means whistling and clapping. Discussionguest speechBr Muhammad (MFG, MuhammadFromGod channel)Quran 17:110 (be neither loud nor silent in your prayer, but seek a way between)Quran 8:35 (their prayer at the House was only whistling and clapping)Imam Malik machine10 min 12 s2:31:09on YouTube
2 Mar 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Does the Quran say that Jesus died? 'I will give you death' and Jesus's words at the Judgement show that he died, and the Prophet applied those words to himself in a Bukhari report, which settles the reading. Lessonposition checkedYasir QadhiIsa (Jesus)Quran 5:110Quran 3:55 machine4 min 56 s2:33:59on YouTube
21 Nov 2020video What did classical scholars say about whether jinn can harm or possess people? Imam al-Shafi'i rejected the testimony of anyone claiming to see jinn, Ibn Hazm forbade adding to what Allah said about them, and al-Tahawi held that Satan can only insinuate, not harm; what is called possession is mental illness, and accepting it would void responsibility. Lessonposition checkedImam al-Shafi'ial-BayhaqiIbn Hazmal-Fisal fi al-Milal (Ibn Hazm) machine7 min 46 s26:14on YouTube
15 Apr 2018Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Are there authentic hadith showing the Prophet casting out jinn? No report of the Prophet expelling a jinn is free of criticism: the Ya'la ibn Murra and Umm Aban reports are weak, and the sound version of Uthman ibn Abi al-As's story in Sahih Muslim mentions no jinn at all, as al-Nawawi points out. Mufti Abu Layth asks why a Prophet sent as a mercy would never have taught about so common a danger. Lessonposition checkedYa'la ibn Murra [?]report: yala ibn murra and the child from whom the prophet drove out a demon on a journeyUthman ibn Abi al-As al-Thaqafireport: uthman ibn abi al-as said i struggle with the quran and the prophet struck his chest and told him to lead his people machine6 min 31 s13:03on YouTube
15 Apr 2018Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Is jinn possession just a difference of opinion among scholars? Mufti Abu Layth refuses to treat it that way: although scholars from Fakhr al-Din al-Razi to Shaltut, Ibn Ashur and al-Shawkani rejected possession while Ibn Taymiyya affirmed it, this is not a harmless fiqh difference like raising the hands in prayer, because the belief drives abuse and exploitation and brings ridicule on Islam. Lessonposition checkedShaykh Akram NadwiFakhr al-Din al-RaziAbu Ya'la al-Hanbali [?]Mu'tazila machine2 min 07 s1:05:31on YouTube
15 Apr 2018Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Three kinds of what was called magic: mind control, potions and illusion What people called magic fell into three kinds: mind control and hypnosis, chemical potions, and stage illusion, all of which have natural explanations. Lessonposition checkedFakhr al-Din al-RaziIbn AshurMustafa Bin Hamza [?]Derren Brown machine5 min 06 s5:07on YouTube
15 Apr 2018Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Magic in the Quran: Musa and Pharaoh's magicians, an illusion In the Quran the magic of Pharaoh's magicians was only an illusion; Musa's fear was a natural human reaction, not proof that the magic was real. Lessonposition checkedMusaPharaoh (Fir'awn)Quran 20:66 (their ropes seemed to him to move by their magic; verse not numbered by him)Quran 7:116 (they bewitched the eyes of the people; verse not numbered by him) machine5 min 10 s10:13on YouTube
15 Mar 2018Responding to Refutations Does the verse about Jesus speaking as a kahl prove he will return? No: kahl means mature adulthood from about thirty or forty, and al-Razi says Jesus reached that age on earth. The reading of the verse as the second coming first appeared with a scholar who died in the 280s AH, not among the salaf. Lessonposition checkedIsa (Jesus)kahlQuran 3:46 (he will speak to people in the cradle and as a kahl; the phrase also occurs in 5:110)Fakhr al-Din al-Razi machine2 min 38 s5:13on YouTube
13 Mar 2018Islamic Eschatology Verse 3:46 and the meaning of kahl: al-Razi and the origin of the second-coming reading Kahl in 3:46 means mature manhood, which al-Razi says Jesus reached on earth; the reading of the verse as a second coming began only in the late third century with al-Bajali. Lessonposition checkedQuran 3:46Fakhr al-Din al-Razial-Husayn ibn al-Fadl al-Bajali al-Naysaburi [?]kahl machine2 min 36 s2:08:49on YouTube
20 Sep 2017Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Which classical scholars denied that jinn can possess people? Ibn Hazm held that claiming possession is a claim without knowledge and haram, since the Prophet spoke only of whispering; al-Tahawi noted that every taught du'a is against whispering, al-Razi said Shaytan cannot cause illness, and al-Shafi'i rejected the testimony of anyone claiming to see jinn, which only prophets can. Lessonquoted view, not his positionguest speechShaykh Akram Nadwi (guest)Ibn Hazmal-Fisal fi al-Milal wal-Ahwa' wal-Nihal (Ibn Hazm)al-Tahawi machine7 min 53 s23:06on YouTube
20 Sep 2017Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Did Ibn Taymiyya believe in jinn possession, and does his view have proof? Ibn Taymiyya believed jinn possess people and treated them, but by his own rule of accepting nothing without proof from the Quran and Sunnah his claims fail: seeing something leave a patient does not prove it was a jinn. Levitating patients and beating the 'possessed' are tricks played on onlookers. Lessonquoted view, not his positionguest speechShaykh Akram Nadwi (guest)Ibn TaymiyyaIbn HazmFakhr al-Din al-Razi machine3 min 56 s30:59on YouTube
20 Sep 2017Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Does the hadith that Shaytan flows in a person's blood prove possession? No: the Prophet said it to two men who saw him with his wife Safiyya, about human suspicion, and nobody present was possessed. The Quran itself appeals to reason and proof, so possession must be tested by reason, which someone reading the Quran without cultural baggage would never find in it. Lessonposition checkedal-Razi [?]aql (intellect)Quran 88:17-18 (do they not look at the camel, how it was created, and at the sky)report: the shaytan flows in the son of adam like blood said when two men saw the prophet with safiyya machine6 min 32 s1:09:02on YouTube
20 Sep 2017Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions Why not treat jinn possession as just a difference of opinion among scholars? Because it is not a harmless difference like raising the hands in prayer: belief in possession underwrites mass exploitation, a multi-million pound industry and ridicule of Islam and its Prophet. Al-Razi, al-Maraghi, Ibn Ashur and al-Shawkani are among those who denied it, and the abuse must end. Lessonposition checkedFakhr al-Din al-RaziAbu Ya'la al-Farra [?] (Hanbali)Mu'tazilaMustafa al-Maraghi machine1 min 55 s1:56:14on YouTube