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Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth · 2 Mar 2021 › Segment 21 of 45

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Was Yasir Qadhi's lecture on Jesus's return really academic?

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From 'academic discussion' to bid'ah: Mufti Abu Layth's verdict on Qadhi's lecture

LessonRecorded 2 Mar 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu LaythSegment 21 of 45 in the recording2021-03-02-S21

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Mufti Abu Layth says Qadhi's lecture, billed as academic, ended by branding deniers of the return innovators and heretics, making it a preachy Friday sermon rather than an academic discussion.

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The clip concludes that anyone who denies the return, having contravened the agreed beliefs of the ummah and contradicted the hadith, has at the least fallen into religious innovation, bid'ah. Mufti Abu Layth says that a discussion announced as academic and fair ended by fabricating narratives, such as a modernist school begun by Muhammad Abduh of which all these people are followers, by claiming that they have a deep-seated problem because they are obsessed with science, and by calling deniers a notch below kufr, heretics and clear innovators. He says Qadhi borrowed his own phrase about the dons of the Maliki madhhab to ask how one could claim to be a Maliki or a Sunni, and calls the speech preachy, nothing short of a Friday khutbah. Before beginning his reply, he says, he will as always bring someone on board.

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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

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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

1:39:45

i'm going to mention a lot of issues i'm going to bring up you know this is going to be a fair discussion ends up with not only fabricating uh entire narratives like saying well oh there's a modernist school that began by muhammad abdul who's influenced all these people somehow these people are really just all followers of muhammad abdul that these people have a deep crisis or not crisis but they have a d a deep-seated problem in islam because they're so obsessed with science that these people anybody who denies

1:40:25

this is basically a notch below kufar even though he's not saying for he he then goes on to say well it's clearly they are heretics in islam or at least that this is clearly a bidder clear a deviation a heresy in islam so what began by saying look this is going to be an academic discussion went on to say well this is uh going to be a clear this is a clear bidder and this is what it is these people have invented this thing of differentiating hadith was

1:41:03

these people you know this is mentioned in all these books the giants the dawns dawns of the obviously copying me dons of the maliki mother have said this how can you even be a maliki how can you claim to be a maliki how can you claim to be a sunni this is not sunni uh islam this speech of our beloved was nothing short of a juma khutbah

1:41:35

him saying that look i'm going to uh all these people have said all these people have said said this and we do this is it was so preachy you know claiming i mean beginning by saying that this is going to be so academic so before i even begin my reply right what i have to do is as always people

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who can i who can i bring on board to assist me with a reply to tag man tag man tag team man none other than the below it yasir khadi himself let's bring yasir khali onboard you see himself himself man himself man some

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Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2021-03-02-S21, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/21/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, March 2). Was Yasir Qadhi's lecture on Jesus's return really academic? [Video, segment 2021-03-02-S21, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/21/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2021. "Was Yasir Qadhi's lecture on Jesus's return really academic?" Video, segment 2021-03-02-S21, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded March 2, 2021. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/21/
BibTeX 
@misc{abulayth-2021-03-02-S21,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Was Yasir Qadhi's lecture on Jesus's return really academic?}},
  year = {2021},
  month = {3},
  date = {2021-03-02},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/21/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/21/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2021-03-02-S21, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}
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