# What should Yasir Qadhi have said about the preservation of the Quran?

*Am I being harsh? Raising the problem without an answer, his uncle's lesson, and what Qadhi should have said*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/atcn8auo8oc/s/4/
- Date: 2020-06-17 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: On Shaykh Yasir Qadhi "How not to do controversy!" | Mufti Abu Layth (10:24–16:48)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATcN8aUo8oc&t=624s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/atcn8auo8oc/

**Topics:** Preservation and variant readings; Dawah and debate culture; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth says the mistake was raising the problem in public without any answer: Qadhi should have given some answer, such as saying plainly that the Quran would come out the same as it is today. The fallout, he says, is Qadhi's own fault.

## Longer summary

Anticipating the charge that he is being harsh, Mufti Abu Layth says this is what you get for promoting and taking part in the culture of calling people like him a deviant sect, and for thinking Hijab a friend while refusing to appear with people like Mufti; he warns against so-called companions whose words come back to bite. He says Qadhi kept saying the matter should not be discussed in public, yet the problem was discussing the question, not the answer: when he reached the answer he told people to enrol on his paid course, and Mufti says he should have given them some answer. He says the public will now either force Qadhi to pretend he sees no problems or make him own his view and be further disowned. He tells a story of his late uncle in Karachi, who, when Mufti said a man could not be faulted for being poor, agreed but said being an idiot was his own fault; likewise, Mufti says, coming on live and making such statements without qualifying them is Qadhi's own fault. To Hijab's blank-mushaf question, he says Qadhi should simply have said that of course the Quran would come out the same as it is today, and given some clarity, instead of calling it complex. He notes ex-Muslims and Islamophobes having a field day, Jay Smith having made a whole video, and describes Qadhi as now heartbroken.

## Sources and names cited

- Yasir Qadhi
- Mohammed Hijab
- Jay Smith
- mushaf

## Transcript (machine tier, 10:24–16:48)

[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

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment ATcN8aUo8oc/s/4. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/atcn8auo8oc/s/4/

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