Recordings › A Reply to Sheikh Yasir Qadhi - Mufti Abu Layth · 20 Oct 2018 › Segment 7 of 15
Does the Quran say Ibrahim was thrown into the fire, or that the table was sent down to Jesus's disciples?
muftis hasan hadith hasan li-ghayrihi hasan li-dhatihi hasan sahih kufr kuffar kaafir kufar kaafirun disbelief jahannam jahanam jahannum koran quraan al-quran sura soorah suwar soora chapter ayah aya ayat ayaat aayah aayat qira'at qira'ah qiraa'aat qira'aat jihad jihaad as-salamu alaykum assalamu alaikum assalamualaikum salaam salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam peace greetingThe birds of Ibrahim, Ibrahim and the fire, and the table of al-Ma'idah: reading the text as it stands
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machinesummary, machine-writtenNo verse of the Quran says that Ibrahim was thrown into the fire or that the table came down to the disciples, and 'incline them towards you' is the literal wording of 2:260. These are readings of the text as it stands, and calling those who hold them deviants is unacceptable.
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Mufti Abu Layth takes the verses Qadhi cited. On the birds in 2:260 he says the word fa-surhunna ilayka means to incline them towards you, which he says is the literal wording and the reading Abu Muslim [?] gave centuries ago, while 'cut them' is an interpretation that does not fit the word ilayka and 'then kill them' is not in the Quran; he asks why following the actual reading is called deviation. On Ibrahim and the fire he reads 21:68 onward, where the people say burn him and Allah says we saved him and Lut, and then the verses on Nuh being saved, and argues that no verse says Ibrahim was thrown into the fire; the command 'O fire be cool and peaceful' does not say what means were used, just as the Quran says Allah saved Nuh from the flood without his being thrown into it, tells the sky to hold back its water in 11:44 though everyone knows rain comes from clouds, and speaks of fruit coming from the earth without mentioning seeds. He adds that had Ibrahim survived being thrown into a fire his people would have believed, whereas he left his town and migrated. On the table asked for by the disciples in al-Ma'idah he reads 5:114-115, where Allah says he will send it down but will punish any who then disbelieve, and says no verse states that the table came down; the commentators disagreed, and Hasan al-Basri and Mujahid, students of Ibn Abbas, said the disciples were frightened by the threat and withdrew the request. He concludes that people may believe either way, but that forcing one's interpretation onto the text and calling others deviants is unacceptable.
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Mufti Abu Layth says that no verse of the Quran states that Ibrahim was thrown into the fire or that the table was sent down to the disciples, and that reading 2:260 as 'incline them towards you' is the literal wording, so these are readings of the text as it stands rather than reinterpretations, and calling those who hold them deviants is unacceptable.
“on a lot of these occasions people that are saying we are reinterpreting verses were actually just reading the verses as they are”
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guys to think about now he mentioned certain verses of the Quran he gives that right now he gives the first verse he he mentions is the one to do with the birds in Surat al-baqarah verse 260 what if Ali Ibrahim that Ravi araignee a kafir to heal motor show me how you bring the lot at the dead to life I wouldn't talk mean Allah said do you not believe it Raheem ELISA Lam said I do it so I may have tranquility in my heart so Allah say is called Allah for who's our bottom in a fiery force or on
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does not mean to cut them it means a mill whole night lake make them being climbed towards you and why would you use the word a lake why would Allah have a lake in this was towards you all take cut towards you it doesn't make any sense so the literal reading of this is incline them towards you and that is what abu muslim had translate ad in had translated this versus ages or centuries and centuries ago so that's in most of the toughest yearbook so when he said that nobody interpreted that in that way I don't know once again was
this his understanding or or he's not come across these are the interpretations or so for sort of night in lake bring them make them be inclined towards you and then go place one bird on each mountaintop and i've explained that before he somehow feels to say that is a deviation why that's the actual word of the quran the actual reading i'm going with the actual reading you're going with an interpretation the actual reading of sovereignity lake is to kind of a mill Hoonah a lake make them be inclined towards you now people say
inclined them towards you then kill them but that then killed them is not in the quran so that's an interpretation I'm going with the actual reading why is that a deviation now he said oh they used the verse of the quran about ibraheem alehissalaam being thrown into the fire right now the question right so okay so we have this verse of the quran now in this verse in surah al-anbiya verse 68 and
and then going moving forward as well a lhasa quotes the non-muslims of ibrahim ali slums time saying carlo harbor a fool who once Oralia to come in kuntum for i mean that they said why don't you burn him and aid or give victory to you to your many gods if you are to do anything and then allah says culinarian are okuni burden was salam and other ibrahim and they tried to plot against him for allahumma la colline but we made them lose
they were the losers one @j now who and we saved him walton ll ordinality Barack Navi huddle Alamein and loot we saved him and loot to the land which we had blessed for people and then Allah goes on to say but then Allah follows this verse a few verses speaking about prophets and then one no hand is Naadam in Kabul and nor Noah who had called his people before and we responded to him first a novel Fernet Jana who and we saved him Allah goes on to say as well
and then mentioned one asana who and we get made him victorious now no way in the Quran is there a single verse is there a single verse that says ibraheem alehissalaam was thrown in the fire there is no verse that says ibraheem alehissalaam was thrown in the fire now you could say well hmm there's no verb but there is no verse Allah says we saved him but does that mean he was thrown in the fire oh Allah saved him some other by using some of the means that he managed to escape now you could say well Allah doesn't say but he doesn't he definitely
does not say he was thrown into the fire now there is the verse yeah now do Kuni burden what's 11 Allah Ibrahim that verse does exist that a last then says and I just read that that Oh fire be that all fire be be cool and peaceful towards Ibrahim now the question was that yep so is this not a miracle and why would the fire be so cool towards Ibrahim if he wasn't thrown into it well
to start off with most of them are sitting all right that Ibrahim Ali sallam was caught by these people they built a big fire and they tied him up whilst they were making this big fire now the heat of this allah has mentioned Kuni burden wa sallam on be peaceful and be cool too Ibrahim now were any mediums adopted in how this wind sorry in how this fire had a cool effect are in terms of its heat upon Ibrahim Ali Salam was it through a wind was it through a cool breeze was it
through some Allah doesn't say but Allah doesn't say that in many things like let me give you an example another verse where Allah says about Noah Noah who Allah uses the same in the same way he says we saved him from the flood he wasn't thrown into the flood we saved him from the flood we saved Ibrahim from the fire Allah says and then we said to the sky yes summer this is in surah hood verse 44 yes am i ugly ie o sky hold back your water now everybody knows the sky doesn't rain water
it's the clouds and there's a process everybody knows that but Allah saying the sky yeah but that's how general usage is in the Quran not on all occasions but on many occasions Allah will refer to the sky you refer to oh and we made fruit come forth from the earth but we know there's a process there were seeds there were things we know this a lot doesn't mention that every time you say something so is that going against any verse of the Quran how is that going so on a lot of these occasions people that are saying we are reinterpreting verses were actually just
reading the verses as they are the problem is many of these people have forced their interpretations onto the verses so Allah never said in any verse of the Quran that Abraham was thrown into the fire one of the questions if Abraham was thrown into the fire and he didn't burn why didn't the people become why didn't the people embrace the message that would have been an incredible miracle yet Abraham leaves his is town and migrates everybody knows this so
whereas think about it all the people would have accepted orders of what the hell we tried to kill this person and he didn't die but that's we know that's not what happened people did not embrace the message of Abraham so that's one thing another example is like you will see in so for example surah maidah there's a verse about there's a verse about the table a surah the surah of the table
right right sorry it's just the connection they almost went a bit weak so it's the surah of the table and the Hawaii in the disciples of Jesus asked Jesus that can yo God send down a table and Allah says is the verse of the Quran right so it quotes them first verse 1 1 4 and then 1 1 5 is 7 o Maryam Allah Amaro bonanza Elena mati that's a minister mantacorn Alana evenly over Lee now you know I it's a mink what is it
now antihero raza pain o Allah send down a table from the sky that it may be a feast and and so on and this is what the people with was asking him that it may be a feast for us and we may celebrate and Allah says Paul Allah in me Moniz Aloha alaikum for me yak for vardaman company or the other band lazybone Adam in anatomy Allah says I will send down this table but should any of them disbelieve after it then I will give them such a punishment and that that nobody has ever received such a
punishment now P people would say oh ok so law sent down this table but I want to ask you something way does it say that Allah actually sent the table it doesn't say any verse is saying if I send this table and you disbelieve then watch what happens now see look in all the tough acid and all the major toughie see if this is even assured they will write what telefilm officer oon demo first serine disagreed an almighty the hell nestled at - Emma
I'm lanterns in did the table actually come down they disagreed fan Mujahid wall has an unknown limb Massimino polar Allah so Hasan al-basri Mujahid they said when Allah said for maniac form income for maniac for bottom income whosoever disbelieves then watch the punishment huh Fuu they became frightened first offal men pala penis Uli - em Tintin for them - no said that they that they became frightened and they said that you know what forget it we don't want it that is the selleth of this Omar the students of evening bus
were saying that that the table didn't actually get sent down now you can believe that the table got sent down that's up to you people can believe that it didn't get sent down that's up to them but no way in the Quran does he actually say that it got sent so what I'm trying to say is to force your interpretation onto something and then to call other people deviance is unacceptable he then went on to say about the birth of Jesus and this is something that people are deviants for
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