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Cited in 6 segments across 5 recordings · 2019 to 2022 · term/term:qiblah

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16 Dec 2022video Is worship or how I treat people the real sign of faith? Mufti Abu Layth says worship is a personal matter between you and God, while how you behave among people is the true measure of your iman. Lessonposition checkedreport: ya ibna adam maridtu fa lam taudni (God is found with the sick and the hungry)Quran 2:177Quran 21:107report: lan yudkhila ahadan amaluhu al-janna (no one enters paradise by his deeds) machine2 min 34 s7:08on YouTube
15 May 2021video LatestIs there archaeological evidence for David's kingdom, and how did Jerusalem become holy for Muslims? Archaeology has not found the kingdoms of David and Solomon, and Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims should apply the same scrutiny to their own narrations, where early scholars differed over al-Aqsa and the first qibla and the Umayyads under Abd al-Malik promoted Jerusalem with fabricated hadith to rival Ibn al-Zubayr. Lessonposition checkedDavid (Dawud)Solomon (Sulayman)al-Masjid al-Aqsaqiblah machine3 min 52 s20:57on YouTube
17 Dec 2019From the Mind of a Mufti What is Dan Gibson's Petra theory and are his measurements trustworthy? Gibson measured around 160 early mosque foundations and found the earliest pointing to Petra rather than Makkah. Mufti Abu Layth says the data are transparent and not falsified, though Gibson is somewhat mischievous, and that his explanation of the south-pointing North African mosques is ridiculous. LessonDan GibsonEarly Islamic Qiblas [?]qiblahthe tradition lacks, and needs, critical review machine2 min 39 s2:36on YouTube
17 Dec 2019From the Mind of a Mufti Why did the earliest mosques face Petra instead of Makkah? Most likely, he says, because Muslims inherited Nabataean devotion sites already aligned to Petra's constellation, so Gibson is right about the measurements but wrong that Petra was Makkah. Makkah was called Umm al-Qura, he suggests, after Petra's name, brought by Qusayy. Lessonposition checkedDan GibsonPatricia Cronethe NabataeansQusayy ibn Kilab machine3 min 31 s18:21on YouTube
19 Jul 2019From the Mind of a Mufti Was the first qibla really Petra, as Dan Gibson claims? Mufti Abu Layth is not convinced that the first qibla was Petra: the statistical argument is a fallacy and Sunnis, Shia and Khawarij would never all have agreed on the Ka'bah. He still finds revisionist research compelling on some other matters and says Muslims should engage with it. Question source not recordedposition checkedDan GibsonEarly Islamic Qiblas [?]Quranic Geography [?]qiblah machine6 min 45 s0:00on YouTube
8 Jul 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran Why did God stop Abraha's army but let the Qaramita steal the Black Stone? The Black Stone has no sanctity of its own: it was most likely a remnant of pre-Islamic stone worship that Islam kept as a ritual of submission to God, so its theft by the Qaramita, though wrong, was no great matter. Umar himself said it was only a stone that can neither harm nor benefit. Question from live chatposition checkedQuran 105:1 (have you not seen how your Lord dealt with the people of the elephant)Abrahathe Qaramita (Carmathians)Shia machine15 min 38 s0:00on YouTube