# What is Yasir Qadhi's zombie theory of Gog and Magog?

*Qadhi's zombie theory of Gog and Magog, and Mufti Abu Layth's jokes*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/25/
- Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:53:29–1:57:36)
- 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=6809s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/

**Topics:** Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** In the clip Qadhi rejects a hidden tribe of Gog and Magog as irrational and floats a zombie theory instead, which Mufti Abu Layth mocks.

## Longer summary

In the clip Qadhi says it is ludicrous to posit that billions of people are somewhere under the earth in today's world, since we can see the whole earth, and offers a more entertaining theory he attributes to a friend in a private conversation: that the zombies of popular horror films and series such as The Walking Dead, human but not quite human, make more sense than a billion people hidden in some far-away land, perhaps through some virus or vaccine. Qadhi says he projected the idea onto his friend so that the audience's laughter would slowly turn to contemplation. Mufti Abu Layth supplies running jokes, linking the idea to the coronavirus, China and the Great Wall, and saying that one would realise zombies make sense only once the LSD had kicked in.

## Sources and names cited

- Yasir Qadhi
- Ya'juj and Ma'juj (Gog and Magog)

## Transcript (machine tier, 1:53:29–1:57:36)

[1:53:28] was it that there are billions of people somewhere in today's world clawing away so honestly tell you this is something that i am involved in many discussions of this nature with many people and what not and one of my scholarly so he says that this to posit this is as far as he's concerned it's just kind of ludicrous to assume that a bunch of people are under the earth somewhere millions or a billion of them just living there this is ridiculous why because we can see the world we can see the earth this is just crazy he then goes on to

[1:54:07] posit a different theory which is slightly more entertaining man be friends in a private conversation so whatever you will and we're talking about this problematize it is a problem well it's a problem for any rational mind what are you going to do with the major it's not if you look at the popular imagination of our times you find a genre of literature and horror movies oh what horror movies man the walking dead so he's going to he's speaking about zombies now you see where this is heading [Music]

[1:54:44] where is it heading don't call them that word for those who don't know the word maybe the youngers can tell them later on the word is the z word people we say the said word to ya mother fathers blind those monsters will land on us and eat us so so happy 1.

[1:55:07] don't people are human but not quite human allah frankly frankly it makes more sense than believing that a billion people are somewhere in timbuktu so it makes more sense believing in zombies than it does in people let's say ya jude matuj being under the globe or zimbabwe or or some far away land it makes more sense to me anti-virus some type of vaccine oh people you corona you're teasing me it's corona is this where it's all

[1:55:47] happening people are yeah oh my god and they come corona came from china corona came from china the big wall is in china and yeah these i knew it these majors are chinese [Laughter] china virus this is china virus this is yat mature people yeah jewish matuj

[1:56:18] my laughter turned to a serious contemplation and i said but how do we tell the public this then i said i'll just project it on to my friend which it is see so he is brought into this true it is coming from him and i'll take myself out the picture so that as you laugh you laugh at my friend but the laughter will slowly turn to contemplation and deep down inside you'll realize this makes a lot more sense see so you will as you stop laughing you'll realize yeah zombies actually does make sense man it actually does you know you realize that zombies makes sense

[1:56:56] you also realize that damn the lsd has definitely kicked in [Laughter] you're right the zombies make sense but so does that but why is that dragon staring at me [Laughter] zombies definite yeah zombies definitely make sense but why am i floating in a pink cloud [Laughter] i gotta learn these han han gestures than anything else out there

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment b1OOltqtPTw/s/25. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/25/

Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. Ask a qualified scholar about your own situation.