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Jinn, magic and the unseen

Possession, the evil eye, amulets, dreams, horoscopes and the end of times: what is real, what is folklore, and how to tell the difference.

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26 Apr 2021MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth LatestDo obscene or blasphemous thoughts during prayer ruin my salah? Intrusive or blasphemous thoughts in prayer are not a reason to worry: noticing them is a sign of faith, as a hadith says. Mufti Abu Layth adds that jinn in the Quran means the unseen and possession stories are folklore. Discussionguest speechLupe Fiasco (guest)salahwuduwaswasa machine7 min 40 s1:31:29on YouTube
13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth LatestWhere are the answers to the questions on the Jesus debate? Mufti Abu Layth says most of the Jesus debate questions are answered in his long reply, and that the shaykh he answered has substance but is torn between his views and his following. Question from live chatYasir Qadhi [?]Isa (Jesus) machine2 min 37 s1:39:28on YouTube
13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Are the devils really chained up during Ramadan? No verse says so; Mufti Abu Layth reads the hadith on chained devils as meaning that good deeds become easier in Ramadan's shared spirit. Question from live chatposition checkedreport: idha dakhala ramadan sulsilat al-shayatin (paraphrased by the host; unresolved)shaytan machine1 min 20 s2:58:11on YouTube
6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth What does Yasir Qadhi argue about Malikis and the return of Jesus? Yasir Qadhi argues in the clip that the return of Jesus is established by mutawatir hadith and affirmed by the great Maliki scholars, so a Maliki cannot deny it. Mufti Abu Layth sets out the points he will answer. Lessonquoted view, not his positionguest speechYasir QadhiIsa (Jesus)Imam Malikmutawatir machine4 min 20 s2:13:03on YouTube
6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Did Imam Malik believe Jesus will return? There is a statement from Imam Malik that Jesus died, and Malik never taught the second coming in his fatwas or the Muwatta, so it is no huge claim that he did not hold it. Transmitting a report is not endorsing it. Lessonposition checkedImam MalikIsa (Jesus)Yasir Qadhial-Mudawwana machine7 min 42 s2:17:23on YouTube
6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Why does the Muwatta contain hadith that Imam Malik did not follow? Malik included in the Muwatta reports he did not practise, and the only report about Jesus there shows him telling a pig to pass in peace. Mufti Abu Layth reads this as a sign Malik rejected the reports that Jesus will return to kill pigs. Lessonposition checkedImam MalikIsa (Jesus)al-Muwattareport: the dog licking the vessel and malik said we do not know its reality machine5 min 49 s2:25:05on YouTube
6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth LatestDid the Prophet really spy on a boy he thought was the Dajjal? The Ibn Sayyad and Dajjal reports are absurd and insult the Prophet's dignity, and their contradictory accounts of who and where the Dajjal is show they are not revelation. Lessonposition checkedDajjalIbn Sayyadreport: the prophet hid behind palm trees to overhear ibn sayyad and his mother warned him (sahih muslim with a variant in bukhari, number not stated)report: ibn sayyad swelled with anger until he filled the street (sahih muslim, number not stated) machine12 min 36 s2:30:54on YouTube
6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth LatestWhere does the belief in the Mahdi come from? The Mahdi belief is disrespectful to the Prophet, who was the rightly guided saviour, and entered Sunni Islam from early Shia political movements; the Mahdi hadith describe figures of that time. Lessonposition checkedMahdiShiaal-Mukhtar al-ThaqafiMuhammad ibn al-Hanafiyya machine8 min2:43:30on YouTube
6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Are the signs of the Hour part of Islamic creed? One can be a Maliki and doubt these reports: Ibn Ashur, Shaykh al-Islam of the Malikis, classed the signs of the Hour as information rather than creed, and Imam Ahmad said the malahim reports have no foundation. Lessonguest speechIbn AshuraqidahMahdiIsa (Jesus) machine7 min 06 s2:51:30on YouTube
6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Why does Mufti Abu Layth say it is not a huge claim that Imam Malik denied the second coming? Malik's record and Ibn Ashur's standing show a Maliki can deny the second coming, and the Dajjal reports insult the Prophet. He invites Qadhi to a dialogue on MindTrap. Lessonposition checkedImam MalikIsa (Jesus)Yasir QadhiIbn Ashur machine8 min 12 s2:58:36on YouTube
14 Mar 2021video Opening: Qadhi's post on the drama of refutations and tonight's plan Yasir Qadhi has complained about refutations; Mufti Abu Layth says ideas, not people, are being refuted and that tonight's session will reply to Qadhi's video on the second coming of Jesus. OtherYasir Qadhi machine2 min 43 s0:03on YouTube
14 Mar 2021video Which Quranic verses does Yasir Qadhi say point to the return of Jesus? Qadhi's clip cites three or four Quranic phrases, Jesus speaking in maturity, the People of the Book believing before his death, and Jesus as a sign of the Hour, and concedes they only strongly suggest a return. Mufti Abu Layth interjects that the sign of the Hour would then have come two thousand years ago. Lessonquoted view, not his positionguest speechYasir QadhiIsa (Jesus)Quran 3:46 (he will speak to people in the cradle and in maturity)Quran 4:159 (none of the People of the Book but will believe in him before his death) machine7 min 48 s2:46on YouTube
14 Mar 2021video What does Yasir Qadhi claim about the hadith on Jesus's return being mutawatir? Qadhi's clip claims the hadith of the return are too numerous to discount, narrated from about ten companions, held to be mutawatir and found in dozens of theological works, including those of the Maliki school's leading figures. Mufti Abu Layth responds with sarcasm and says the reply is still to come. Lessonquoted view, not his positionguest speechYasir QadhimutawatirSahih MuslimAbu Hurayra machine5 min 16 s10:34on YouTube
14 Mar 2021video LatestWho does Yasir Qadhi say first denied the return of Jesus, and what is the Ahmadiyya connection? Qadhi's clip claims ijma on the return, names Muhammad Abduh as the first to deny it and links deniers to the Ahmadiyya. Mufti Abu Layth calls the association ironic, since that movement is itself messianic, and says Qadhi's own evolution theory comes from Abduh. Lessonguest speechYasir QadhiImam MalikIbn Atiyya al-Andalusi [?]Muhammad Abduh machine6 min 35 s15:50on YouTube
14 Mar 2021video What does Yasir Qadhi say about the claim that the return of Jesus came from Judeo-Christian sources? Qadhi's clip calls the claim that the return of Jesus entered Islam from Judeo-Christian sources through Wahb, Ka'b or al-Zuhri a preposterous charge without evidence that would mean the faith was corrupted and the ummah misguided for fourteen centuries. Mufti Abu Layth asks listeners to remember these words. Lessonquoted view, not his positionguest speechYasir Qadhial-ZuhriKa'b al-AhbarIsrailiyyat machine2 min 34 s30:17on YouTube
14 Mar 2021video How does Yasir Qadhi answer the objection that Jesus killing pigs and refusing jizya makes no sense? Qadhi's clip concedes that one early authority held Jesus died a natural death, and answers the objection that the return reports are irrational, Jesus killing pigs and refusing jizya, with 'Allah said so' and the claim that there will be no middle category between Islam and the Dajjal. Lessonquoted view, not his positionguest speechYasir QadhiIsa (Jesus)Dajjaljizya machine2 min 39 s32:51on YouTube
14 Mar 2021video Was Yasir Qadhi's video on the return of Jesus an academic discussion? Mufti Abu Layth says Qadhi's video, announced as academic, ended by fabricating a modernist-school narrative and declaring deniers heretics guilty of bid'ah, which he calls a preachy khutbah rather than academic discussion. Lessonguest speechYasir QadhiMuhammad Abduhbid'ah machine2 min 37 s35:30on YouTube
14 Mar 2021video What did Yasir Qadhi himself say about problematic signs of the Hour such as Gog and Magog? Mufti Abu Layth plays Qadhi's earlier talk calling Gog and Magog the most problematic sign of the Hour and a cause of people leaving Islam. He accuses Qadhi of half truths, such as omitting that the Maliki authorities held the Jesus reports unestablished, and says a Jesus who descends from the sky to chase pigs is a reasonable thing to question. Lessonguest speechYasir QadhiYa'juj and Ma'juj (Gog and Magog)Isa (Jesus) machine5 min 17 s38:07on YouTube
14 Mar 2021video Does the Muslim account of the Mahdi, Jesus and Gog and Magog parallel Jewish messianic literature? Qadhi's own clip lays out the Midrash's two messiahs, Gog and Magog and judgement, notes the parallel with the Muslim Mahdi, Messiah and Gog and Magog, and suggests both traditions simply had it. Mufti Abu Layth responds with sarcasm and notes Qadhi's admission that Muslim books contain bizarre material. Lessonquoted view, not his positionguest speechYasir QadhiMaimonidesthe MidrashYa'juj and Ma'juj (Gog and Magog) machine3 min 55 s43:24on YouTube
14 Mar 2021video Did Yasir Qadhi himself say a hadith came into Islam from Jewish sources through Abu Hurayra? Qadhi's clip endorses Ibn Kathir's view that the Gog and Magog report is defective and came from Israelite material through Abu Hurayra and Ka'b al-Ahbar. Mufti Abu Layth calls this hypocrisy, since Qadhi called the same claim about the Jesus reports preposterous. Lessonguest speechYasir QadhiIbn KathirAbu HurayraKa'b al-Ahbar machine2 min 37 s47:19on YouTube
14 Mar 2021video What is Yasir Qadhi's zombie theory about Gog and Magog? Qadhi's clip calls a hidden tribe of billions ludicrous and floats, through a friend, the idea that Gog and Magog could be zombie-like humans. Mufti Abu Layth responds with jokes and introduces Qadhi's answer to the Google Earth objection. Lessonquoted view, not his positionguest speechYasir QadhiYa'juj and Ma'juj (Gog and Magog) machine5 min 23 s49:56on YouTube
14 Mar 2021video Is Yasir Qadhi consistent about whether Gog and Magog could be hidden underground? In one clip Qadhi says it is not impossible, since Allah is all-powerful and Ibn Taymiyya's rule allows what astounds the mind, that thousands live underground; in another he says he cannot believe a tribe has been trapped for four thousand years. Mufti Abu Layth asks where the consistency is. Lessonquoted view, not his positionguest speechYasir QadhiIbn TaymiyyaYa'juj and Ma'juj (Gog and Magog) machine2 min 40 s55:19on YouTube
14 Mar 2021video Is there really ijma that Jesus will return, and did Muhammad Abduh invent the denial? Mufti Abu Layth says none of Qadhi's claims hold: not one of the hundred narrations is sound, Ibn Hazm recorded Muslim disagreement on the return nine centuries ago, major creed works omit it, and the Maliki authorities Qadhi cites held the reports not to be mutawatir. He announces a reply series, Disclosure with a big D. Lessonposition checkedYasir QadhiIbn HazmIbn Taymiyyaal-Aqida al-Wasitiyya [?] machine5 min 13 s1:09:48on YouTube
14 Mar 2021video Does 'he will speak to people in maturity' or 'before his death' prove that Jesus will return? The verse about Jesus speaking in the cradle and in maturity concerns those he addresses, children and grown men, and the first to read it as a return was al-Husayn ibn al-Fadl, who died in 282 AH and transmitted strange reports. 'Before his death' was recited by Ubayy and Ibn Abbas as 'before their death' and read by commentators as referring to Jesus, the Prophet, the truth or Allah. Lessonposition checkedQuran 3:46 (he will speak to people in the cradle and in maturity)Quran 5:110 (you spoke to people in the cradle and in maturity)Quran 4:159 (none of the People of the Book but will believe in him before his death)al-Husayn ibn al-Fadl al-Bajali al-Naysaburi machine5 min 14 s1:20:13on YouTube
14 Mar 2021video Which Quranic verses count against Jesus returning? Mufti Abu Layth reads 43:61 as the Quran being knowledge of the Hour, as Hasan and others said, and cites 5:75, 21:34 and 43:59 against a return: Jesus ate food and was subject to natural laws, no human before the Prophet was given eternal life, and Jesus is called an example for the children of Israel alone. Lessonposition checkedQuran 43:61 (he is a sign, or knowledge, of the Hour)Quran 5:75 (the Messiah was only a messenger; they both ate food)Quran 21:34 (we gave no human before you eternal life)Quran 43:59 (he is only a slave whom we favoured and made an example for the children of Israel) machine5 min 14 s1:25:27on YouTube
14 Mar 2021video LatestDoes the Quran say Jesus died, and how did the Prophet understand the verse 'when you took me'? The verse 'I will give you death' and Jesus's words in 5:117 that he does not know what his people did after he was taken show, in Mufti Abu Layth's reading, that Jesus died; the Prophet himself, in a Bukhari report, applies the same verse to his own absence from his companions, confirming the reading. Lessonposition checkedQuran 5:110 (remember my blessings upon you)Quran 3:55 (I will give you death and raise you to me) [?]Quran 5:116-118 (did you tell people to take you and your mother as lords?)report: on the day of judgement people will be raised naked and some of my companions will be turned away and i will say as the righteous slave said machine5 min 15 s1:30:41on YouTube
14 Mar 2021video Why does Mufti Abu Layth say the Bukhari chain for Jesus's descent is unreliable? The first Bukhari chain leaves two narrators' names ambiguous, a practice al-Dhahabi and Ibn Hajar record of al-Bukhari, and passes through al-Zuhri, whom the critics describe as inserting his own words into reports and making mursal reports reach the Prophet. Lessonposition checkedreport: yanzilu fikum ibn maryam hakaman adlanreport: the prophet tried to end his life on several occasionsSahih al-Bukharial-Bukhari machine9 min 18 s1:35:56on YouTube
14 Mar 2021video What problems does Mufti Abu Layth find in the Sahih Muslim chains for Jesus's return? The second Bukhari chain passes through Qutayba, who once concealed a known forger in a chain, and the Sahih Muslim chains pass through narrators faulted for lax or inaccurate transmission from al-Zuhri, notably Yunus ibn Yazid, with al-Zuhri himself recurring in each. Lessonposition checkedSahih al-BukhariSahih Muslimal-BukhariQutayba ibn Said machine5 min 16 s1:45:14on YouTube
14 Mar 2021video Who are the problematic narrators in the Sahih Muslim reports on Jesus's return? The Sahih Muslim chains include a narrator who suffered memory loss, a narrator who cannot be identified and could not have met Abu Hurayra, a major mudallis whose reports some critics discarded as fabrications, and Abu al-Zubayr, whom Abu Hatim did not consider reliable. Lessonposition checkedSahih Muslimal-BukhariAli ibn al-Madinial-Dhahabi machine6 min 32 s1:50:30on YouTube
14 Mar 2021video Is there a single hadith on Jesus's return with an unproblematic chain? Every chain Mufti Abu Layth examined for the strongest reports in Bukhari and Muslim contains a criticised narrator, so Qadhi's claim that they leave no doubt fails; accepting a report because al-Bukhari included it, while ignoring critics who were his equals or seniors, is arbitrary. Lessonposition checkedSahih MuslimSahih al-Bukharial-Nawwas ibn Sam'anal-Walid ibn Muslim machine5 min 13 s1:57:02on YouTube

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