# Does he believe in miracles? *Who Sunni Defence are, and miracles as a spectrum that never defies God's laws* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8u9-aslyrze/s/3/ - Date: 2018-02-21 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Sunni (Wahhabi) Defence Pt.I -Mufti Abu Layth (7:50–10:29) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U9-ASlyrzE&t=470s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8u9-aslyrze/ **Topics:** Prophethood and miracles; Responses to critics **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** 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. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** 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. **Evidence, his words at 8:59:** “I believe that yes miracles is there like a spectrum okay so miracles did exist but what do miracles mean I don't believe there was ever a miracle that defies God's laws” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U9-ASlyrzE&t=539s) ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth identifies the critics as the Sunni Defence channel, which is dedicated to refuting the Shia and, he says, suspended that work to focus on him. He reports a comment under their post asking why a channel set up to refute the Shia is obsessing over him for holding different opinions when, the commenter said, people are accusing Aisha of grave things and whether a tree cried is irrelevant. He then restates the key point he has made several times: miracles exist, on a spectrum, but he does not believe there was ever a miracle that defied God's own laws, since it would be absurd for Allah to defy His own laws; very rare events can happen, but they always have an explanation and a means through nature and the laws of physics, whether known or not, because this world is a world of causes. He closes by saying he assumes the three men, whom he mocks as the three stooges, are Salafis, and turns to the Salafi movement. ## Sources and names cited - Sunni Defence (YouTube channel) - Aisha - miracles never defy God's laws; they have causes within nature - asbab (causes) ## Transcript (machine tier, 7:50–10:29) [7:40] religion that you're creating and then I said okay put that aside now let's look at the chains and I problematize the chains and shown that they have problems to them so so anyway the this channel called the Sunni defense right the Sunni defense channel who are a channel dedicating to dedicated to refuting the Shia they decided to suspend their day job of refuting the Shia and focus on me [8:20] so one of the major comments in that whole post to them was that guys he said this channel dedicated to the refutation of Shia so why are you guys focusing on Mufti ablaze because this is absurd they because they said like you you guys whether in fact somebody said this in the comments to them that whether a tree cried or not is irrelevant people are accusing eyeshadow dial on how being a prostitute and things like this and instead of you guys focusing your attentions on refutations what you guys [8:59] claim to be set up for you're too busy obsessing over mostly Abu layth because he has different opinions so this is so this is the key point deep miracles exist I have explained this on several occasions before that I believe that yes miracles is there like a spectrum okay so miracles did exist but what do miracles mean I don't believe there was ever a miracle that defies God's laws so Allah would not say about loose and then defy his own laws [9:38] that that would be that would be absurd so yes things which would be be very rare events could happen but they would always have an explanation and a means through nature and the laws of physics for them so that whether we know them or not but they would have as bad causes because the dunya is a dad a sperm so now coming to this hadith so these people said this now the Sunni defense team these three stooges if I can call [10:16] them right they go about kind of arguing against me about me criticizing these chains and I want to say here these people I assume them to be seller fees I could be wrong but this whole Salafi movement yeah the seller fees rose on the back of this sympathy you see of like that you see of trying to say don't look at tradish don't look at numbers it's not a numbers game it's the truth try to use try to look at the evidence try to be objective that you know they cried these claims ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 8U9-ASlyrzE/s/3. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/8u9-aslyrze/s/3/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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