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On Shaykh Yasir Qadhi "How not to do controversy!" | Mufti Abu Layth

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1 · 0:00What did Yasir Qadhi say to Mohammed Hijab about the preservation of the Quran?Preservation and variant readings · Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi · Views on contemporary scholarsmachine 2 min 36 s0:00on YouTube
2 · 2:36How did Mohammed Hijab react after his interview with Yasir Qadhi backfired?Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi · Dawah and debate culture · Social media · includes a quoted viewmachine 3 min 51 s2:36on YouTube
3 · 6:27Why does he say the backlash against Yasir Qadhi is his own doing?Dawah and debate culture · Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi · Views on contemporary scholarsmachine 3 min 57 s6:27on YouTube
4 · 10:24What should Yasir Qadhi have said about the preservation of the Quran?Preservation and variant readings · Dawah and debate culture · Exchanges with Yasir Qadhimachine 6 min 24 s10:24on YouTube
5 · 16:48What does he think will happen to Yasir Qadhi and Mohammed Hijab after this controversy?Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi · The Mufti and the channel · Dawah and debate culturemachine 2 min 21 s16:48on YouTube

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0:00

those of you that know this was but this is what it was all about you acted that very well-known issues it's very clear to you and to every single very advanced student and specialist that the standard narrative has holes that's what I'm gonna say the standard narrative does not answer some very pressing questions

0:37

okay so many of you may be familiar what [ __ ] Kazu Aziza Ghazi salty is he went on a on an interview with with Mohammed hijab and what he decided to do in that interview is no he never decided to be fair to be fair to him Mohammed hijabs sprung on him this question this controversy to do with the Koran not being preserved what is this about you know because how do we have these different manuscripts or these different

1:16

variants and what's going on I'm yeah sir avi Saab what he does is he decides to just be very open and he decides to say well you know what I'm gonna just pull my heart out and say that we've got huge problems with the horahan yeah but then what makes it worse is he doesn't give the solution like he keeps saying this is something we shouldn't be discussing in front of people shall be

1:55

discussing this in front of people but then he carries on discussing it but only discussing the problem part yeah and when it comes to the solution he says well you know this is really complicated why do you go on my course right so why do you go on my course and you know I had a hundred people on it and join my paid course and what I'll do is I'll take you through the answers but there was a point in there we Mohammed

2:31

hijab says to him that look if I gave you a blank must have a blank Quran and you can use any mus have you wanted but you have to rewrite the Quran would you rewrite it with pretty much what we have today and for some reason so what happened is after this whole episode of Mohammed hijab kind of pressing him and him deciding to have this moment of

3:09

Epiphany and transparency and I want to just pour my heart out to the world this backfired so badly have people flipped the mob flipped worse than that Mohammed hijab realized that oh my god this is backfired on him as well right so people turned on Mohammed each other what does Mohammed he job do he turns on Yasir Qadhi he has a if I can let me just see where was the oh I had here's

3:48

somewhere right here is so this is a part of Mohammed hijabs Facebook post he decides to make a Facebook post saying that yes sir are the against him after the interview he will be refuted huh he will be refuted mm-hmm boy you're finished he will be refuted this is what some Muhammad hijab besides - you know what let's just

4:27

turn on him this [ __ ] ara had come on day and you know something this yeah cell cardiod come on their food you know what I'm gonna have a heart-to-heart [Laughter] [Music]

4:54

[Music] he decides to come on day and do a heart-to-heart little does he know mama D job turns on him and says if I think he's being a deviant and if he's gonna be a deviant we're gonna refute him reckon we're gonna turn on him and this is who he by the way yessir Bobby would never agree to come and have a dialogue with me I had asked

5:31

him less ever done no no no I would never backstab any any of my guests I wouldn't do that not my style I mean I may ask him questions I may do that but I wouldn't backstab them you know I wouldn't kind of call him on press these questions and then say oh you know what he needs to be refuted so this is where you've got this statement by obviously Mohammadi job to gain his own popularity

6:10

[Laughter] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Laughter] this is what has happened people this is

6:45

why but I want to say look listen people in many ways share here's an Aldi Mohammadi job in many ways this is for them just chickens coming home to roost they are part and parcel of this mob culture of creating this we need to review people this you know this refutation culture of like oh if you're straight yes and are these one of the biggest proponents of these not so long

7:22

ago he he made a video where he was speaking about me he doesn't mention my name but he's saying yeah you know this he's speaking about these so-called musti's and and he says that the this this scholar we wish he would rather than claiming to be Sunni Maliki just cool just claim to be of another sect non Sunni Martha silly or something so we don't have to refute you a cha-cha cha-cha and now you know check this out

7:59

people check this out sure here so far because Issa when you know look this is - aha - two Americans you know Americans really don't know how to handle this stuff - things they can't handle one seems to be they can't handle women as soon as they get uncertain what as soon as they get to a certain kind of Fame usually the big problem you know and two they can't handle controversy

8:37

people I king of controversy you know come ask me out and I'll help you I'll give you some tips Kazi Saab yes sir Ozzy he look when he's being asked Halloween no no no too controversial won't say Halloween is permissive Oh

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Merry Christmas huh too controversial music is it is it can you clearly say music is not Haram hmm too controversial to be clear you know too controversial you know this one these are not nice you know men's jewelry controversial controversial no no no a cha cha cha Haeju Oh too controversial beard Oh too controversial Buhari gate can we speak about Bihari no

9:43

too controversial a cha cha cha the first controversy he wants to begin with is the Quran isn't preserved no foreplay just a new is this what is going on here I mean is that the controversy you want

10:20

to begin with you know things like Merry Christmas is too controversial Halloween is too controversial so you want to begin with that is not preserved the backbone of Islam this is the thing you know and people might say that Oh Mufti you know you're being harsh on him but am i because in all honesty this is the thing this is what you get one

10:59

this is what you get for for for promoting this culture creating this culture and for even up until recently being a part of it this is what what you were doing this is what you're doing with people like me oh you're this is a deviant sect these are deviant people this is wallahi yeah yeah you know there's a deviant yeah and then for thinking Mohammed he job is a friend you wouldn't give you wouldn't ever he would never come on a show with people like me or other people but he wants to come on a show with

11:34

Mohammed hijab whatever lisanna coming whether listen I come inhale into not emo beware of what you say in front of these so-called companion friends in a minute Allah this is it people

12:12

then it comes back and it bites you you know this on his own bite so this is so for being so foolish and stupid you see you have to kind of old that's his own fault and look let me tell you something he kept saying or we shouldn't discuss this in front of the public no no discuss this in front of the public I will marry chachi discussing the discussing the question was the

12:45

problem not discussing the answer when he came to the antique he started saying oh come on my course everybody joined my enroll on my paid course I will then give you the answer does ISA the question was the problem not the answer give them the answer or give them some answer and then he's like oh my god I've got so much hate now the song hate

13:22

and because now the public are either gonna force him to pretend he doesn't believe in what he did in his problems and pretend that there's no problems that he sees oh he's gonna have to own his truth and become further disowned and his chickens coming home to roost because you know this let me taste something you know what my uncle legend yeah may Allah bless his soul and have mercy on his soul and grant him an elevated maqam internet'll v oz you know

14:02

once we were in Karachi yeah when we were chatting and we were talking about someone my uncle was telling me about this person and he was kind of criticizing him and I said to my uncle I said I said mama I said to him that because the person that we were speaking about was poor were poverty-stricken and I said look reborn lp3 no tea and am uncle said to me he said higher he said get away he said very bona valtini you know you I said look the person

14:42

being poor isn't a you know you can't fault him for that and he said is it higher he said that's true you know healthy una Ramona real teeny he's my food on both body healthy you know this is this is the problem you see like you is he being an idiot this is your fault so when you decide to come on when you decide to come on come on live and make these kind of dumb statements and then not even qualify them not even

15:21

you know when the person's asking just to kind of dramatize the whole thing would you be able to write some Quran that looks like the Quran today whoo that's a very complex Russian oh what a complicated you have this foreign had a solemn woof oh you know so four nuclei like a colon Nutella Yahoo Warren is this guy on a bow just look say what you have to say and then just give some clarity you know say that look of course the quran is gonna

16:00

be the same crimea what other chironomid not right oh this is complicated you know this one I mean people obviously having a field day X Muslims are having a field day J Smith is going on about he's made a whole video all these Islamophobes are loving it so yeah so this was the story of our beloved possessor who is right now heartbroken

16:38

[Music] gianna be not ill kg/hr this is how cuz it's not right now it's living without a heart but yeah so that's that's what happens people that's what happens so yeah so I had to cover that part and I hope the and but before I went into it I wanted to cover the topic beforehand of the dynamic nature of the Quran so people already know that somebody said yes earth are the Eagles no I'm not

17:16

saying I know say that yeah I say his behavior is like it's true though his behavior was a bit you know and mark my words you know something he has only gone further down in his crisis because he will now have to choose does he remain true to himself like does he own this or does he now have to pretend and he will lose so many more funds and so much more of a following that he's pandering to Muhammad hijab I actually believe in because he's younger gave him

17:54

a decade I feel he too will will crumble under a similar crisis because these people they've began you see they began their journey on from this kind of plateau that that isn't sustainable you know with all these certainties that they claim that just ain't they and with maturity that will kind of crumble but yeah guys I hope that's been of some help people let's let's wrap

18:34

this up he can step down now I'm sure he can but you know he's gonna lose it all isn't he this is why I was saying that I'm so glad hamdulillah that I did things my way you know like at the end of the day if my opinions change they change people know that's who I am they don't need to accept me but I'm not pandering or sucking up to a kind of Frankenstein crowd who you know will then turn on me

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