Mufti Abu Layth Archive: belief/prophethood-and-miracles

Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

2025-10-18T00:00:00Z

Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

The guest says calling the Prophet the best of creation is an unprovable inference contradicted by verses and reports favouring Abraham; Mufti Abu Layth says the guest rejects inference for that title while relying on inference to say what breaks the fast.

Answer from 18 October 2025 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: quoted view (stated in order to be discussed, not necessarily held)

Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:46:26)

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Does 'we sent you only as a mercy' (21:107) describe the Prophet or the act of sending him?

2025-10-18T00:00:00Z

Does 'we sent you only as a mercy' (21:107) describe the Prophet or the act of sending him?

Mufti Abu Layth says the primary Arabic reading of 21:107 is that the Prophet himself was sent as a mercy for the worlds, with the exclusive negation amplifying that, while the guest's reading that the sending is the mercy is a secondary understanding he may hold but not impose.

Answer from 18 October 2025 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (at 32:42)

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Is the Prophet Muhammad the most beloved of creation and a mercy to the worlds?

2025-10-18T00:00:00Z

Is the Prophet Muhammad the most beloved of creation and a mercy to the worlds?

The guest holds that God's sending of the messenger, not the Prophet himself, is the mercy, and that calling him the most beloved of creation is unprovable celebrity worship; Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet is a mercy for the worlds and that if some are more beloved than others one must be at the top.

Answer from 18 October 2025 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Br Muhammad MFG | Quranist Only Belief - A Dialogue | MindTrap #82 - Mufti Abu Layth (at 27:42)

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Did the parting of the sea have a natural explanation?

2021-04-06T00:00:00Z

Did the parting of the sea have a natural explanation?

God acts through the laws of nature, so the parting of the sea can have a natural explanation such as a strong wind, and Moses exposed the magicians' tricks rather than outdoing them with magic.

Answer from 6 April 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 3:26:41)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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Did Abraham really cut up birds that came back to life?

2021-04-06T00:00:00Z

Did Abraham really cut up birds that came back to life?

In the verse of Abraham and the birds he reads a symbol: birds nurtured by Abraham come to him from afar, a sign of the soul's affinity to God, rather than birds cut up and revived.

Answer from 6 April 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #209 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 3:19:16)

A more recent answer on quran/hermeneutics exists (18 October 2025): Does 3:188 mean everyone who likes praise will be punished?

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Can the revelation of the Quran be explained without the supernatural?

2021-03-02T00:00:00Z

Can the revelation of the Quran be explained without the supernatural?

The words of revelation manifested in the Prophet's mind rather than being composed by him; whether that counts as supernatural depends on the definition, and trance experiences are only an approximation. Mufti Abu Layth says he is not saying the Prophet was making the words of the Quran, but that the words were manifesting to him.

Answer from 2 March 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 43:32)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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Did all prophets after Abraham come from his family?

2021-02-16T00:00:00Z

Did all prophets after Abraham come from his family?

No: the Quran nowhere limits prophets to Abraham's line, he says; the Israelites' favour is relative, and other peoples were favoured differently. Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran nowhere says that prophets came only from Abraham's line.

Answer from 16 February 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:46:51)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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Why does the Quran focus so much on the Israelites?

2021-02-16T00:00:00Z

Why does the Quran focus so much on the Israelites?

Most peoples had prophets, he says; the Israelites are highlighted because in the Prophet's Arabia they were seen as the scholars of the people of scripture. Mufti Abu Layth says the Israelites are highlighted in the Quran because around the Prophet's time in Arabia they were seen as the academics of the people of scripture.

Answer from 16 February 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #202| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:21:32)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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Did the companions really see the angel Jibril as a man?

2021-02-09T00:00:00Z

Did the companions really see the angel Jibril as a man?

Mufti Abu Layth says only the Prophet saw Jibril, in a trance-like vision; companions who thought a stranger was Jibril were assuming. Mufti Abu Layth says that when the Prophet sees Jibril it is in a trance-like state, a vision the Prophet is having alone.

Answer from 9 February 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:10:12)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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Can I say Prophet Yusuf was more handsome than Prophet Muhammad?

2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Can I say Prophet Yusuf was more handsome than Prophet Muhammad?

Praising Yusuf's beauty takes nothing from the Prophet Muhammad, Mufti Abu Layth says; the prophets are not in a competition. Mufti Abu Layth says the prophets are not in a competition, so saying Yusuf was especially handsome does not require insisting the Prophet Muhammad was more handsome.

Answer from 19 January 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #198 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:34:28)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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Could Socrates or the Buddha have been prophets?

2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Could Socrates or the Buddha have been prophets?

Mufti Abu Layth believes figures such as the Buddha, Socrates and Zarathustra could have been prophets, though we cannot know since Islam does not mention them. Mufti Abu Layth says he believes figures such as the Buddha and Socrates could have been prophets, though we just don't know.

Answer from 12 January 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:50:22)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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Why would God stop sending revelation?

2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Why would God stop sending revelation?

Revelation as a religion has ended, he says, but the Prophet said it continues in dreams, which can guide a person but are not for preaching. Mufti Abu Layth says the Prophet did not say revelation per se ends, but that revelation in its formal manner as a religion ends.

Answer from 12 January 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:14:59)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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Why can't there be any prophets after Muhammad?

2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

Why can't there be any prophets after Muhammad?

Mufti Abu Layth says no new prophet or world religion will come after Muhammad; the statement about his son Ibrahim, if true, was hyperbole. Mufti Abu Layth says the statement that the Prophet's son Ibrahim would have been a prophet had he lived is, if true, hyperbole.

Answer from 12 January 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #197 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:06:52)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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If miracles don't break nature's laws, what is the point of miracles?

2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

If miracles don't break nature's laws, what is the point of miracles?

Belief does not need supernatural miracles; private belief in them is fine, but preaching them as standard Islam damages Islam. Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims may privately believe in supernatural miracle stories, though he does not think they are correct; his only problem is when they are preached as standard Islam.

Answer from 5 January 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:29:58)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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Is the Quran a miracle that proves Islam to everyone?

2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Is the Quran a miracle that proves Islam to everyone?

Mufti Abu Layth holds the Quran is subjectively miraculous in its effect but not a universal miracle that converts all who hear it, and he cut the exchange short out of discomfort. Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran is miraculous in the emotions and experiences it creates subjectively, but cannot be called a universal miracle that makes everyone who hears it Muslim.

Answer from 5 January 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:24:16)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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Do you believe in miracles?

2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Do you believe in miracles?

Mufti Abu Layth accepts miracles in the sense of life's wonders and timely help, but says God does not break His laws of nature and the supernatural signs failed their stated purpose. Mufti Abu Layth says God does not break his laws of nature, because they are his laws.

Answer from 5 January 2021 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #196 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:16:33)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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Does the Quran actually say the miracles happened?

2020-12-11T00:00:00Z

Does the Quran actually say the miracles happened?

Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran often never states that a miracle occurred, as with the table for Jesus, and that the prophets were real though later assumptions colour them; the guest says the Quran rearticulates the discourses of its milieu.

Answer from 11 December 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:56:12)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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Who were the riders seen at Badr?

2020-12-11T00:00:00Z

Who were the riders seen at Badr?

Mufti Abu Layth takes the Badr angels as strength and vigour rather than a physical event and floats a theory that the riders seen were Persian knights of the House of Karen; the guest prefers a purely literary reading.

Answer from 11 December 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:39:02)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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Did angels really fight at the battle of Badr?

2020-12-11T00:00:00Z

Did angels really fight at the battle of Badr?

The guest says the angels at Badr are a literary description of God strengthening the believers' hearts, since the named Muslims who killed the enemy chiefs are known, and that the same reading applies to earlier prophets' stories.

Answer from 11 December 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: quoted view (stated in order to be discussed, not necessarily held)

Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:34:56)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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Did the Prophet Muhammad perform miracles?

2020-12-11T00:00:00Z

Did the Prophet Muhammad perform miracles?

The guest argues that the Quran implies the Prophet performed no miracles and ties signs to compulsion, so traditionalists read miracles in from hadith; both speakers appear to reject the view that every prophet needs a miracle.

Answer from 11 December 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: quoted view (stated in order to be discussed, not necessarily held)

Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:30:29)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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Did Jesus really speak in the cradle, and did the earlier prophets exist?

2020-12-11T00:00:00Z

Did Jesus really speak in the cradle, and did the earlier prophets exist?

The guest says historians can be confident that Muhammad and Jesus existed but less so of earlier figures, and that the Quran's Jesus stories, such as speaking in the cradle, are dramatised; Mufti Abu Layth says no clear verse says Jesus spoke in the cradle.

Answer from 11 December 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Dr Javad T. Hashmi | Axis of Morality & Archetypal Myths in the Quran | MindTrap 46 |Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:24:52)

A more recent answer on quran/hermeneutics exists (18 October 2025): Does 3:188 mean everyone who likes praise will be punished?

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Did God really command Ibrahim to sacrifice his son?

2020-10-28T00:00:00Z

Did God really command Ibrahim to sacrifice his son?

No: in Mufti Abu Layth's reading the command did not come from God, and the Quran in Surah al-Saffat only reports that Ibrahim saw a dream and that his son urged him to act on it. The notion of sacrificing a son is traced to the culture of the ancient Near East. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the command to sacrifice his son did not come from God, and that the Quran in Surah al-Saffat reports only that Ibrahim saw a dream which his son urged him to carry out.

Answer from 28 October 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: "God did NOT ask Abraham to sacrifice his son" | Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:00)

A more recent answer on quran/hermeneutics exists (18 October 2025): Does 3:188 mean everyone who likes praise will be punished?

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Do people with schizophrenia have real religious insight?

2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Do people with schizophrenia have real religious insight?

Mufti Abu Layth says an overlap between such disorders and religiosity is plausible, but it would be a correlation, not proof of cause. Mufti Abu Layth says there could be an overlap between certain disorders and high religiosity, both linked with high temporal-lobe activity, but that it would be a correlation, not a causative demonstration.

Answer from 27 October 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #188 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:52:19)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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Was revelation words dictated by Gabriel, or inspiration the Prophet put into words?

2020-07-03T00:00:00Z

Was revelation words dictated by Gabriel, or inspiration the Prophet put into words?

The guest argues that Quranic wahy is non-verbal inspiration through the ruh which the Prophet put into Arabic; Mufti Abu Layth says he finds himself with those who hold revelation was expressed within the Prophet.

Answer from 3 July 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Prof. Dr Khalil Andani | The Oral Text & the Ontology of The Quran | Mindtrap with Mufti #28 (at 52:33)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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Does khatam al-nabiyyin mean the last prophet or the best prophet?

2020-06-26T00:00:00Z

Does khatam al-nabiyyin mean the last prophet or the best prophet?

The guest understands khatam al-nabiyyin as the last prophet, since the Quran addresses all people until the end of the world, and says the Quran gives the time of the end of the world.

Answer from 26 June 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: quoted view (stated in order to be discussed, not necessarily held)

Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (at 2:16:30)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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Did Rashad Khalifa claim to be a messenger of God?

2020-06-26T00:00:00Z

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.

Answer from 26 June 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: quoted view (stated in order to be discussed, not necessarily held)

Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (at 1:52:57)

A more recent answer on hadith/quran-only-movement exists (18 October 2025): How should Muslims engage people with very different views of the religion?

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Could the number 19 patterns in the Quran be a coincidence or a human habit?

2020-06-26T00:00:00Z

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.

Answer from 26 June 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: quoted view (stated in order to be discussed, not necessarily held)

Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (at 1:45:14)

A more recent answer on quran/hermeneutics exists (18 October 2025): Does 3:188 mean everyone who likes praise will be punished?

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What numerical patterns does the guest find in the Quran's word counts?

2020-06-26T00:00:00Z

What numerical patterns does the guest find in the Quran's word counts?

The guest lists word-frequency symmetries in the Quran, such as dunya and akhirah 115 times each, month twelve times and day 365 times, and says the number 19 is a test that most people fail.

Answer from 26 June 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: quoted view (stated in order to be discussed, not necessarily held)

Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (at 1:33:33)

A more recent answer on quran/hermeneutics exists (18 October 2025): Does 3:188 mean everyone who likes praise will be punished?

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What is the miracle of the number 19 in the Quran?

2020-06-26T00:00:00Z

What is the miracle of the number 19 in the Quran?

The guest says the number 19 proves the Quran is God's word letter by letter and that Muslims otherwise have no objective evidence for its divine origin; he recounts a Turkish scholar insisting the bismillah has twenty-one letters rather than nineteen.

Answer from 26 June 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: quoted view (stated in order to be discussed, not necessarily held)

Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (at 1:26:59)

A more recent answer on quran/hermeneutics exists (18 October 2025): Does 3:188 mean everyone who likes praise will be punished?

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Were the Prophet's judgements meant to bind Muslims after his death?

2020-06-26T00:00:00Z

Were the Prophet's judgements meant to bind Muslims after his death?

The guest says the Prophet's authority as judge and leader was for his lifetime only, that his bay'ah was a reciprocal social contract in which women voted, and that his messengership ended once the Quran was delivered, so obeying the messenger cannot mean obeying Bukhari.

Answer from 26 June 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: quoted view (stated in order to be discussed, not necessarily held)

Recording: Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 (at 31:53)

A more recent answer on hadith/quran-only-movement exists (18 October 2025): How should Muslims engage people with very different views of the religion?

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In what sense is the Quran a miracle?

2020-06-19T00:00:00Z

In what sense is the Quran a miracle?

The guest says the Quran's miracle is linguistic, a composition that cannot be emulated, not mathematical. Mufti Abu Layth adds that for him it is a miracle in the subjective experience of reading it, in its civilisational impact and in its literary symmetry, not in bending the laws of nature or in scientific foreknowledge.

Answer from 19 June 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Dr. Shehzad Saleem | the Preservation of the Quran & the Problem of Qira'at | MindTrap with Mufti#26 (at 1:42:47)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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Do the prophets' bodies decay in the grave?

2020-04-07T00:00:00Z

Do the prophets' bodies decay in the grave?

Mufti Abu Layth did not teach that the prophets' bodies decay: he read out a question and described a devotional and a factual approach, noting most Muslims take the devotional one. He says critics who present it as disrespect to the Prophet are lying.

Answer from 7 April 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: quoted view (stated in order to be discussed, not necessarily held)

Recording: Misrepresenting Mufti | Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:19)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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Why does Mufti Abu Layth say both the attackers and the admirers of Shaykh al-Yaqoubi need balance?

2020-04-06T00:00:00Z

Why does Mufti Abu Layth say both the attackers and the admirers of Shaykh al-Yaqoubi need balance?

People cannot be bullied into beliefs, and al-Yaqoubi has rightly not responded to the letter. But his admirers also need balance: claims that he performs miracles or read the Shama'il in four hours go too far and provoke hatred of him.

Answer from 6 April 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: People Attacking Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi | Mufti Abu Layth (at 11:31)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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What was Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's prophecy about Muhammadi Begum and did it come true?

2020-03-31T00:00:00Z

What was Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's prophecy about Muhammadi Begum and did it come true?

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's claimed revelation that Muhammadi Begum's husband would die if she married another was not fulfilled, since the husband lived on and the couple had children. Mufti Abu Layth also mocks his claim to be an incarnation of Ram and Vishnu. Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's claimed revelation that Muhammadi Begum's husband would die within a year or two if she were married to anyone but him was not fulfilled, since the husband lived on and the couple had children.

Answer from 31 March 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Responding to Qadiani Trolls | Mufti Abu Layth (at 15:54)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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What was the purpose of God sending Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as a prophet?

2020-03-31T00:00:00Z

What was the purpose of God sending Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as a prophet?

A prophet is sent with a purpose, as with Jesus, Moses, David and Muhammad, but Mufti Abu Layth sees none in Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who lived and died under British rule without liberating even Qadian. The caller could not name a message and asked to call a friend. God sends a prophet with a purpose, as with Jesus, Moses, David and Muhammad, and no such purpose or achievement can be shown for Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who lived and died under British colonial rule without liberating even Qadian.

Answer from 31 March 2020 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Responding to Qadiani Trolls | Mufti Abu Layth (at 9:16)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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Did the Prophet really split the moon in half?

2019-10-18T00:00:00Z

Did the Prophet really split the moon in half?

No: Mufti Abu Layth says the moon was not split; the companions described what they perceived, most likely a lunar eclipse, and Quran 54:1 is about the end of the world. Mufti Abu Layth says the moon was not split and that the verse of the Quran on the moon splitting has nothing to do with that alleged event.

Answer from 18 October 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Hadith on The Moon Splitting | Mufti Abu Layth (at 0:02)

A more recent answer on belief/prophethood-and-miracles exists (18 October 2025): Can the Quran be used to call the Prophet the best of creation?

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If God knew earlier scriptures would change, why not send the Quran first?

2019-09-14T00:00:00Z

If God knew earlier scriptures would change, why not send the Quran first?

The earlier prophets were sent only to the Israelites and their books were never meant to be preserved word for word, so the question rests on a misunderstanding. Mufti Abu Layth says that, as far as Muslims are concerned, Jesus came only for the Israelites and not for mankind.

Answer from 14 September 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: Is the Quran corrupted? | Mufti Abu Layth (at 11:21)

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Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's unfulfilled prophecies, the mubahala oaths and his death

2019-01-15T00:00:00Z

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's unfulfilled prophecies, the mubahala oaths and his death

Mirza's prophecies about living to eighty, further marriages, another son and dying in Makkah or Madinah were not fulfilled, and he died first after mubahala oaths. He died of cholera and bowel illness, as his son's biography records. Mufti Abu Layth says Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's prophecies about his lifespan, his marriages, a further son and his place of death were not fulfilled, and that he died of cholera and bowel illness.

Answer from 15 January 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: A Reply to False Messiahs: Mirza Ghulam Qadiani! -Mufti Abu Layth (at 27:43)

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Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's developing claims: reformer, messiah, prophet, Krishna

2019-01-15T00:00:00Z

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's developing claims: reformer, messiah, prophet, Krishna

The claim that Mirza never claimed prophethood is a half-truth: he began as a reformer in 1884, then claimed to be the promised messiah, a prophet in 1901 and Krishna in 1904. Mufti Abu Layth quotes these claims from Mirza's own books. Mufti Abu Layth says the claim that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad never claimed prophethood is a half-truth, since his early writings disclaim it but from 1891 onward he claimed to be the promised messiah, then a prophet, then Krishna.

Answer from 15 January 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: A Reply to False Messiahs: Mirza Ghulam Qadiani! -Mufti Abu Layth (at 14:32)

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Who Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was and the claim that God spoke to him in Punjabi

2019-01-15T00:00:00Z

Who Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was and the claim that God spoke to him in Punjabi

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was born in 1839 in Punjab. Mufti Abu Layth argues that God intervening in an age of colonial suffering by merely talking to one man in Punjabi, with nothing changing, is not a credible divine plan.

Answer from 15 January 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: A Reply to False Messiahs: Mirza Ghulam Qadiani! -Mufti Abu Layth (at 6:33)

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If God can do anything, why not take the miracles in Quranic stories literally?

2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

If God can do anything, why not take the miracles in Quranic stories literally?

Reading the stories as suspensions of natural law means ditching reason, which leaves no ground to reject any myth; reason must be all in, though the prophets were real people. Mufti Abu Layth says reason is either all in or out, and one cannot follow it only ninety per cent of the time.

Answer from 8 January 2019 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: In Depth: Sulaiman (a.s.), the Throne of Sheba, and Miracles in the Quran -Mufti Abu Layth (at 9:32)

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What should Muslims learn from the Wood versus Hijab debate?

2018-12-24T00:00:00Z

What should Muslims learn from the Wood versus Hijab debate?

Thorough knowledge wins debates, Muslims must raise their adab, and they must be consistent: if the laws of nature do not matter for miracles, then there is no ground to say three cannot equal one. Clips about camel urine or suspended laws of nature send a confusing message. Mufti Abu Layth holds that Muslims must be consistent in following the voice of reason, because if they say the laws of nature do not matter when it comes to miracles they lose any ground for saying that three cannot equal one, and that Muslims also need to raise their adab in debate.

Answer from 24 December 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Kind: general teaching

Recording: On the David Wood and Muhammad Hijab Debate: Reflections & Review -Mufti Abu Layth (at 27:53)

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Did Musa beat Pharaoh's magicians with stronger magic?

2018-04-20T00:00:00Z

Did Musa beat Pharaoh's magicians with stronger magic?

No: Mufti Abu Layth prefers the reading that Musa's staff exposed the magicians' trickery, since out-doing their magic would only teach that might is right. Mufti Abu Layth says that Musa exposing the magicians' trickery, rather than outperforming their magic, sits better with his understanding.

Answer from 20 April 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Did the Staff of Moses (AS) really turn into a snake? - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 6:16)

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Did Musa's staff really turn into a snake?

2018-04-20T00:00:00Z

Did Musa's staff really turn into a snake?

No: Mufti Abu Layth holds the staff was described as moving as though it were a snake, while the magicians' sticks moved by a chemical trick. Mufti Abu Layth says that in his understanding the staff of Musa was not an actual snake but was described as though it were one.

Answer from 20 April 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Did the Staff of Moses (AS) really turn into a snake? - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki (at 0:01)

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Why do only believers in jinn possession seem to experience it?

2018-04-15T00:00:00Z

Why do only believers in jinn possession seem to experience it?

Mufti Abu Layth says personal and family anecdotes are used to defend possession while the same Muslims dismiss Hindu miracles or Christian doctrine by reasoning against them, applying reason to everyone's claims but their own. He cites a study finding the brain's rational centre quietens during one's own religious experience. Mufti Abu Layth holds that Muslims apply reason to dismiss other religions' miracles and doctrines but switch it off for possession once a belief has been Islamised, relying instead on anecdotal experiences that only ever afflict believers.

Answer from 15 April 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Jinn: Myth and Reality in Islam by Mufti Abu Layth (at 24:48)

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Did a tree really cry for the Prophet, and why does Mufti Abu Layth reject the hadith?

2018-04-09T00:00:00Z

Did a tree really cry for the Prophet, and why does Mufti Abu Layth reject the hadith?

Mufti Abu Layth does not hold the crying-tree reports to be established: their chains are problematic and Muslims cannot call other religions' miracle stories absurd while accepting their own; the Prophet's greatness does not depend on a tree. Mufti Abu Layth holds that the report of the tree crying for the Prophet is not established, that its chains are problematic and it clashes with the principle that such things do not happen, and that Muslims cannot dismiss other religions' miracle stories as absurd while accepting their own.

Answer from 9 April 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:17:02)

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Do miracles in the Quran break the laws of nature?

2018-04-09T00:00:00Z

Do miracles in the Quran break the laws of nature?

No, in Mufti Abu Layth's understanding: Allah does not break the laws He set, so every event called a miracle in the Quran has an explanation within nature, as fish falling from the sky does; abandoning reason would make every religion's claims equally valid. Mufti Abu Layth holds that Allah never breaks the laws He set in nature, so everything called a miracle in the Quran has an explanation within those laws even if not yet known, and that abandoning reason would make every religion's claims equally valid.

Answer from 9 April 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: The Role Of Reason In Religion - Mufti Abu Layth (at 1:05:16)

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Close: miracles and reason to come, follow the pages, closing prayer

2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Close: miracles and reason to come, follow the pages, closing prayer

Sign-off with a preview of talks on miracles and on the meaning of reason, an invitation to follow his pages, and a closing prayer.

Answer from 13 March 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

Recording: PRELUDE: Why There Is NO 2nd Coming Of Jesus (as) In Islam- Mufti Abu Layth (at 2:31:10)

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Is it acceptable to criticise a hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari?

2018-02-21T00:00:00Z

Is it acceptable to criticise a hadith in Sahih al-Bukhari?

Al-Albani himself rejected around a dozen reports in Bukhari, so criticising a Bukhari report does not make someone a deviant. The salaf understood the Quran's miracles in several ways, and miracles had causes within God's natural law. Mufti Abu Layth says that criticising reports in Sahih al-Bukhari cannot make a person a deviant when al-Albani rejected around a dozen of them, and that the salaf understood the Quran's miracles in several ways, miracles always having causes within God's law of nature.

Answer from 21 February 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (at 14:23)

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Does he believe in miracles?

2018-02-21T00:00:00Z

Does he believe in miracles?

Yes, miracles exist on a spectrum, but none ever defies God's own laws. Rare events can occur, but they always have a cause and a natural explanation, whether or not it is known. Mufti Abu Layth holds that miracles exist on a spectrum but that no miracle ever defied God's own laws: rare events can happen, but they always have a cause and a means through nature and the laws of physics, whether or not it is known.

Answer from 21 February 2018 · auto-transcribed, may contain errors

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Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (at 7:50)

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