Does Allah Swear in the Quran? -Mufti Abu Layth

the question is that some critics of the Quran have claimed that Allah swears in the Quran uh is that true quoting the verse zanim referring to an illegitimate child I suppose K people the term bastard is what people are you know that word carries a certain mph with it doesn't

right so the this this is the term that people are referring to that is this now the word zanim doesn't although it does refer to an illegitimate child in that sense as in the person being addressed in the Surah who's being so boastful his own lineage was in dispute in his time and so this was but it doesn't so one could say look the term illegitimate child and the term using the term bastard I'll say it again just because of the the

Buzzy do not be cropping that people right so it doesn't although they carry the same kind of meaning but they don't in terms on the scale of vulgarity they're not equal in that sense one does have you could they could equally be offensive that that is true but they're not the same one is a term that is used as a swear often and the other is not necessarily used as a swear so this term zanim is not really a swear that the Arabs would swear by like that wasn't their kind of so they might have said something like you

know you're so for example you're the uh IIA for example that you're son of a uh fornicating woman and stuff like that and these kind of swears you do get from uh that time you read it in the different texts that people when they were swearing they were kind of swearing like this but they weren't using words generally like zenim as a swear it wasn't really although it does have the meaning of it's like saying when people get into an argument or it starts they don't say you illegitimate child you know that that's not really a although that could be insulting but that's not how people swear they don't use that they'll just use actual swear words so

in a similar sense I know that khim Hussein R Hussein R sah sah right from Pakistan who's called for the head of Asia B right so I think um uh in his famous words so he swears online those of you everybody knows this I mean you know in his famous words his famous [Laughter] words is

is right so yeah yeah so he he has these famous swears now when asked why do you swear he said I swear well so what God swears in the Quran I think that's a stupid and dumb argument although I don't believe necessarily swearing per se one is swearing at somebody swearing per se I don't believe is Haram like people just using the f word in language like people say ah you know like they'll swear like something happened or damn or something that that in and of itself is not Haram in my understanding okay harming Somebody by curing them or doing

something causing harm to people is Haram that's a different topic so I would agree with in part within in saying that swearing is not Haram per se although in this context he is actually swearing to I believe is it uh who's he sparing to somebody so that would be wrong and unacceptable but I feel generally I would agree with him but what he as to using the Quran as a Del is utterly wrong what's your F name somebody who attributes vulgarity to God somebody who attributes vulgarity to

[Music] God I need to make that mean I mean these kind of things are look utter what can a person say I mean this is misrepresenting this Dean it's creating more hatred in in in the hearts of Muslims towards God and his faith Allah doesn't swear in the Quran um that coming back to I'm not saying swearing generally is Haram I'm not saying that generally one is not at people but using words but it doesn't God doesn't do it

okay that's the stupid to that to you see I I would feel that it is it is it is Blasphemous I would feel that it is Blasphemous it is right all right so the thing is these people it's it's unfortunate what they've done really they've created like these kind of deep uh Cults who justify anything they say and other people they want to like now that's actually an insult against God to say well God's swearing but then they will say other

people like let's hang them because they've been Blasphemous that's what what Hussein R is calling to isn't he he's calling for executing asbi because she's Blasphemous against the prophet and and God is much greater and here you're attributing nonsense to God it's utter blasphemy right so I think these people do really need to reacquaint themselves I know I I watched that clip where he

said and no [Laughter] sorry he said you know I've read the books of grammar he's trying to tell people that I I'm learning like I know what I'm talking about so yeah anyway that's uh my thoughts on that what else