Recordings › A Reply to Sheikh Yasir Qadhi - Mufti Abu Layth · 20 Oct 2018 › Segment 10 of 15
Which verses are used to argue that Jesus had a father, and does the Quran rule it out?
salat salaah namaz prayer salaat namaaz as-salah al-salah salawat muftis koran quraan al-quran sura soorah surat suwar soora chapter ayah aya ayat ayaat aayah aayat ulama ulema ulamaa nikah nikkah nikaah nikah nama nikahnama zina zinaa zinah fornicationSurah al-Tahrim, Surah Maryam, and the verses used to argue that Jesus had a father
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machinesummary, machine-writtenThe Quranic account of Mary implies a virgin conception but does not state it, and 66:12 is not read literally by anyone, so demanding literal reading everywhere is inconsistent. The scholars who held Jesus had a father argue from 6:85-87 and 6:101, and calling them deviants is a huge stretch.
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Mufti Abu Layth reads 66:12, that Mary guarded her private parts and 'we breathed into it of our spirit', noting that the verb ahsanat is used of chastity through marriage as in 4:24, and says no Muslim he knows reads this verse literally, so Qadhi cannot demand that every other verse be read literally. He then reads the account in Surah Maryam, 19:16 onward: Allah sends his spirit, generally understood as Jibril though the verse does not say so, who appears as a well-formed man and says he will give her a pure boy, which Muslims do not take literally either; she says no man has touched her, he answers that it is easy for her Lord, and she conceives. He says the passage implies a virgin conception, which he accepts, but does not state it, just as the table verse implies without stating; Allah could have said plainly that Jesus had no father and did not. He presents the arguments of the scholars who held a natural birth: 6:85-87 lists Zakariya, Yahya, Isa and other prophets and then 'their fathers', which weighs on the side of Jesus having a father; and 6:101, where Allah argues that he cannot have a child since he has no companion, reasoning that in their view only makes sense if all births follow the natural order. He says it is up to people what to believe, but that declaring such readers deviants and no longer mainstream Muslims when the Quran does not say otherwise is a huge stretch.
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Mufti Abu Layth says the Quranic account of Mary implies but does not state a virgin conception, that 66:12 is read literally by no Muslim so literal reading cannot be demanded everywhere, and that declaring deviant those scholars who hold Jesus had a natural birth is a huge stretch; he presents 6:85-87 and 6:101 as those scholars' arguments.
“no Muslim that I'm aware of generally believes that to be literal so yet yet you're saying that any other verse must always take every literal implication”
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the Quran in surah tota hareem in verse verse 12 you had the verse about Mary whoa Mary my Boneta in Ramallah t a sonnet for jaha and Mary who had been chaste and safe guarded her private parts and asana by the way is a verb that is used often in Arabic to do with safeguarded through marriage so hence they say when somebody is in trouble for adultery were they my son as allah says in the quran well mas an ottoman and Nisa which is the beginning of the fifth
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now that's in surah tutoring now as far as I'm aware no Muslim would generally believe that to be literal I mean I don't know maybe she'll hear sort of God he does believe it to be literal but generally Muslims don't believe God actually went and breathed into Mary's private parts with his spirit into that no but no Muslim that I'm aware of generally believes that to be literal so yet yet you're saying that any other verse must always take every literal
implication so this is my this is my point now this is the verse that you're referring to that in surah Maryam and there's another one as well but this one is in a bit more detail what kerfield kitabi maryam and remember maryam when she set off to a place for Taha that mean dunya German and then Allah says for our salah alayha rohana fatima Salalah hey Bashar and so we and we sent our spirit and this once again they say is the spirit here is the Holy Spirit being gibreel but Allah didn't say that but they this is the general understanding
and he appeared as a strong man to her as sorry as a fully-developed man call it a near homonym inca in cantata yeah she said i seek refuge in allah from you paula in a manner of solar ibiki i am the messenger of your lord Lee AAHA balakey Holloman zakiya so I may give to you a lamb a young boy now by the way most Muslims don't accept that either literally that he gave the child to to marry nobody Muslim I don't know any Muslim that accepts that
literally so eyelets I know you're cool illegal am unwilling me obsessed me but sure well I'm a kuba a year she says that no man has touched me I'm not a woman of bad character oh how can I have a child Carla cause I like a caller Ibuki who are Lea hanging that such your Lord has said he and it is easy for him well in niger allahu and so that we may make him I attend Lena see where I'm at a mineral can Amalia and then it mentions she became pregnant and went to a distant land and so on no we're here
does it say that it was a virgin conception I'm just saying you can still believe that I do except it implies that just as the table verse implies that the table was sent down yet several people didn't accept that it was sent down because he didn't clearly say so so a lot could have clearly said yes and Jesus didn't have a dad but a lot doesn't say that once in the Quran he does not say that so yes you can take this verse and say you know I I take from this that it she it was a virgin birth but to say people anybody who
disagreed with that has left the the Dino has become a deviant and gone against this and that how that goes and and let me tell you and those people who argued against that so for example those like Maulana Abdul Karim an asari his teacher maulana in ayatollah gujarati it was vizier Abadi and a lama termina ahmadi and all these scholars that they have so for example they use this verse in the Quran which is in surah al-anam well i speaking about the prophets and in surah 80 verse 85 he says was that
career yeah yeah Issa well yes I could aminosilane and all of these prophets were from the pious people Zachariah yeah here Issa and yes they were all pious why is my ill well yes sir were Eunice were lute and all of these were : football now al al-amin and we favored all of these women ABBA him and their fathers we favored was the reality him or f1 him and they brothers and offspring this verse would include Jesus in de because it says it mentions these eight prophets and it says and their fathers now you could say yeah but that
was just lit that was just usage language but it didn't include him who but it does seem to Incline definitely weighs in on the side that he had a father weighs in on that side another verse that those people used is in surah 2 an arm and they using the quran d it's not that they making this stuff up Allah says in surah al-anam and this is a very powerful verse that they use we allow in refuting people says buddy Osama Watty one Allah who created the heavens and the earth Analia kun Allahu Allah
how can God have a child listen to this listen to these people I'm knockin Allahu Willard how can God have a child well I'm tackled level sahiba and he did not have a wife or a companion you see because Allah is showing them the reasoning that how can God have a child and he didn't have a wife now if you're gonna say yeah but you could just have a miracle child like he did in the other verse so that means God's reasoning here that God has given is silly like God is
arguing against them in unless the only reason that would make sense is if a reason and the laws of nature make sense why else does this make sense why is God saying to them but he Osama was he well on that Allah the creator of the heavens and the earth Ania cool Allahu Allah how can he have a wallet well mtech Allahu sahiba and he did not have a female companion because that's how babies are born so right so this shows this is a clear
verse why otherwise this reasoning is to say the Lord you say well that's easy God doesn't need to God could just make a child without having a female so then that's an argument like that's an argument against God for using that as an argument the only way that verse can make sense is if all births follow a natural law of order or natural order of law sorry so now the so these are the arguments used by these people who argued for a natural birth and like I said look it's
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