# Has Yasir Qadhi been consistent about whether Gog and Magog could be hidden underground?

*Qadhi on Google Earth: 'not impossible' in one clip, 'I cannot believe it' in another*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/26/
- Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:57:36–2:01:49)
- 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=7056s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/

**Topics:** Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs; Text criticism, reason and the Quran; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth sets an older Qadhi clip defending the Gog and Magog hadith as 'not impossible' against his later statement that he cannot believe it.

## Longer summary

Saying that since he brought in Qadhi as a tag team it is only fair to assist Qadhi too, Mufti Abu Layth plays an older clip in which Qadhi answers the question how one can believe the Gog and Magog hadith when Google Earth has mapped the whole world: this is what the hadith tell us, and a rule of Ibn Taymiyya holds that the Sunnah does not bring the impossible but may bring what astounds the mind, so it is not impossible that Allah has thousands of people living somewhere underground. Mufti sets this beside the clip in which Qadhi said that anyone who knows science, geography and modern civilisation cannot believe a tribe has been trapped behind a wall for four thousand years, and that he himself cannot believe it. He plays the two against each other amid laughter, saying this is all very interesting before he has even begun his reply.

## Sources and names cited

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

## Transcript (machine tier, 1:57:36–2:01:49)

[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

[1:57:36] so people that was our beloved as you could see right there now just to give you an example here is another interesting piece man interesting piece from the below it himself so if somebody were to say how can we believe this a hadith when google earth has mapped the whole world we can zoom in and see everything around us and there is no massive land hidden from mankind the responses

[1:58:09] you see people the issue the issue man is that because i brought in yasir khadi as a tag team it's only fair it's only fair you know where you give you must take as well or will you take you must give as well so it's only fair that to to assist yasir qadhi i

[1:58:46] [Music] let me see so this is the question that yes posed but we've traveled back in time and yes of course everything around us and there is no massive land hidden from mankind the response is

[1:59:19] [Music] this is what the hadith tell us this is what the hadith tell us and there is a simple rule that ibn tamiya mentions memorize this rule memorize it people memorize it yeah we're gonna have one moment one moment man one moment man just to give you guys a bit of what somebody had

[1:59:50] [Laughter] this is supposed to be able even in samia [Music] [Laughter] ah right so let's go back man let's go back man what is going on so even sunnah does not bring the impossible so this is possible but possible possible but it does bring that which astounds the mind is it impossible that somewhere

[2:00:29] underground allah has thousands of people living it's not impossible it's not impossible it's not surprising that our medieval scholars believe obviously we gotta give a box dare i say anybody who knows science and geography and modern civilization you cannot believe you cannot believe that there is a tribe for four thousand years trapped behind a wall i mean if you believe this any that's your position i i cannot believe it i cannot believe it i'm just being i cannot i find this very difficult to believe is it impossible that somewhere underground allah has thousands of people living it's not impossible it's not impossible they're

[2:01:09] in some place separated from mankind [Laughter] you know what i don't understand yes [Laughter] i'm trying to fathom before i even begin my reply this is uh this is all very interesting you see but then i thought it's only fear

[2:01:48] to to kind of extend see since it's a royal rumble people we got to get everybody in we need that uh everybody needs to be rumbling inside this royal rumble people so who else it's about time we also bring on the great the genius danny boy [Music] boy challenge my boy mental boy mental why we gotta bring in the daddy boy on to these people otherwise [Music] it's it's only fair people this

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment b1OOltqtPTw/s/26. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/26/

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