# How does Yasir Qadhi answer the objection that Jesus killing pigs makes no sense?

*Qadhi's clip: the one early authority on Jesus's death, and 'Allah said so'*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/20/
- Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:36:30–1:39:06)
- Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=5790s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/

**Topics:** The second coming of Jesus; Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** In the clip Qadhi admits one early authority held that Jesus died, and answers objections to Jesus killing pigs and refusing the jizya with 'Allah said so'.

## Longer summary

The clip says all these figures view Jesus as having died on earth and so deny that he was raised alive and will return, and that the view that he died a natural death is very obscure in early Islam but not unknown, one early authority holding that he died and will come back alive. Mufti Abu Layth notes that Qadhi had claimed nobody denied the return and now admits one person. Qadhi takes up the objection that the reports make no sense: why Jesus would kill pigs, refuse the jizya and not allow kufr to remain when everyone is free to choose. His answer to all these whys is that Allah said so, and that with the level of kufr at that time one will be either a Muslim or on the side of the Dajjal, with no middle category, so the reports are completely logical.

## Sources and names cited

- Yasir Qadhi
- Isa (Jesus)
- jizya
- kufr
- Dajjal

## Transcript (machine tier, 1:36:30–1:39:06)

[1:35:50] you are claiming that our faith has been corrupted at the most basic level and that the entirety of the ummah has been misguided for 14 centuries and claimed that it was introduced by judo christian sources and it became ijma of the ummah and it became tawatur hadith you see this to me is the far bigger problem than denying the return of jesus and that is the destruction of the epistemology of islam that's really what it is which is why this is uh somewhat of a dangerous topic to get involved with much later that this group is bringing forth such a preposterous claim but they have zero evidence and the onus

[1:36:29] of proof is on them to bring not us well then what is left of preservation of our theology right so that's a very very dangerous point to make all view jesus as having died on this earth and so they deny that jesus was raised up alive right and so obviously when you don't believe that jesus is still alive then obviously there is no return and so the interpretation of jesus having been killed is something that is um very obscure in early islam but it is not unknown no sorry not killed natural death died naturally it is not unknown there's one tab you're eight

[1:37:08] one person who disagreed so one person he's claimed nobody denied his return one early authority had an interpretation in which he said jesus died a natural death and then he shall come back alive so right that these reports don't make any sense why would jesus kill pigs what have pigs done to have them killed so here he's briefly tackling you know what is it irrational so what's the uh can we can that be a an issue that it's irrational why will jesus not accept jizya why will jesus not uh allow kufur to remain when freedom is everybody's allowed to choose you know

[1:37:47] if you want to remain muslim or not from insha'allah uh why this why that oh yeah what am i doing almost making you guys miss it one moment dico there it is and the response to all of an interpretation in which he said jesus died a natural death and then he shall come back alive so right that these reports don't make any sense why would jesus kill pigs what have pigs done to have them killed why will jesus not accept jizya why will jesus not uh allow kufu to remain when freedom is everybody's allowed to choose you know if you want to remain muslim or not from

[1:38:26] insha'allah why this why that and the response to all of these whys is that well allah said so you think so the claim that jizya is not going to be accepted the claim that you're either going to be a muslim or you're going to be with the child it actually makes sense the level of kufur that you're going to have to have you're going to be on the side of the jad there's not going to be any middle category after that so in reality far from being illogical this is completely logical so all of these therefore it's pretty straightforward to state and i don't do there's not something i usually do but it is pretty straightforward

[1:39:05] therefore that anybody who denies the return of jesus by virtue of the fact that they have contravened the agreed upon beliefs of this ummah that they have contradicted them with hadith that the least that can be said is that they have fallen into a religious innovation or abida now you see on romantico people so you can see this that look this discussion that began by this is going to be an academic discussion that's how shaykh assad began this that i'm going to have an academic discussion

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment b1OOltqtPTw/s/20. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/20/

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