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Cited in 4 segments across 3 recordings · 2015 to 2020 · term/term:jihad
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11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
How should the stories in the Quran be read?
The guest describes his dissertation on jihad in the Quran and his project translating Muhammad Ahmad Khalafallah's suppressed study of the Quran's narrative art, which he says is right.
machine3 min 59 s59:44on YouTube
11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Does the Quran treat every human life as sacred, even in war?
The guest says the Quran holds every human soul sacred, which classical exegetes on jihad missed; Mufti Abu Layth says Muslim scholarship must shift from outdated fiqh to ethics.
machine3 min 27 s1:52:45on YouTube
14 Jul 2020live stream
Did the Prophet Muhammad ever kill anyone himself?
Mufti Abu Layth is not aware of such a killing and doubts the usual example, though it may have happened in battle; the Prophet's battles were all defensive in essence.
machine1 min 53 s40:56on YouTube
6 Apr 2015video
Should Muslims deny that jihad exists in Islam to counter extremism?
No: he says denying jihad or reducing it to self-defence feeds extremists, who use it to call scholars sellouts. The answer is to reclaim traditional Islam and own the concept with its context and conditions.
machine3 min 55 s31:30on YouTube