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Rashad Khalifa

Cited in 5 segments across 2 recordings · 2020 · scholar/scholar:rashad-khalifa

Citing segments

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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 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 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