# Has Yasir Qadhi said that the views of great scholars should not bind a researcher?

*A critic's clip of Qadhi on scholarship as regurgitation and breaking the paradigm*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/27/
- Date: 2021-03-02 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (2:01:49–2:05:05)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1OOltqtPTw&t=7309s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/

**Topics:** Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Views on contemporary scholars; How to study Islam

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth plays a clip of Qadhi urging researchers to break from inherited scholarship, and notes that the critic sharing it accuses Qadhi of the modernism Qadhi charges others with.

## Longer summary

Calling it a royal rumble in which everyone must be brought in, Mufti Abu Layth introduces a clip circulated by a commentator he calls Danny boy, whom he takes to be Daniel Haqiqatjou [?], highlighting Qadhi's underlying views of the Islamic tradition. In the clip Qadhi says that what is said, even by giants of the Islamic tradition, should not matter to a true researcher; that scholarship as the ummah is currently set up largely consists of regurgitating and memorising rather than challenging; and that one must be brave enough to break away from the paradigm, which brings baggage and tension for a Deobandi, an Azhari or a Madinah graduate who has studied for fifteen or twenty years. The commentator calls this a belittling of the Islamic tradition. Mufti says the commentator is accusing Qadhi of the very same thing Qadhi accuses people like him of, being a modernist.

## Sources and names cited

- Yasir Qadhi
- Daniel Haqiqatjou [?] ('Danny boy')

## Transcript (machine tier, 2:01:49–2:05:05)

[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

[2:02:28] one these are not nice so so i think let's bring in what our his underlying views about the islamic tradition all right man what is going on what is this one islam okay so you're basically even if it's said by giants should not matter to a true researcher and even when it's coming from giants in the islamic tradition it shouldn't matter to a true researcher to understand that the way that our ummah is currently set up

[2:03:08] scholarship by and large consists of regurgitating and memorizing it does not consist of challenging it does not consist of being brave enough to break away from the paradigm frankly yeah so this is a belittling of the islamic tradition and if a devandhi has studied you know 10 15 right so i don't know why it's got that background i take that with his video clip this background

[2:03:46] of uh the trees so anyway here she has below it is mentioning [Music] right he is mentioning his methodology and none other than danny boy is highlighting it who is accusing yasir adi of the very same thing that yasir khadi is accusing people like me and other people of of being a modernist and so here and when it comes to claims like how can you disagree right here people right here man this

[2:04:24] one right here should not matter to a true researcher and a even when it's coming from giants in the island it says even when it comes to understand that the way that our ummah is currently set up scholarship by and large consists of regurgitating and memorizing it does not consist of challenging it does not consist of being brave enough to break away from the paradigm frankly so so this is a belittling of the islamic tradition and if adeobandi has studied you know 10

[2:05:04] 15 20 years in his institute or an azhadi or a medina guy and then they dare break away from the standard narrative as you are aware that comes with a lot of baggage and a lot of tension it's very difficult to do that and my argument is very straightforward so what if a lot of people said something a moment ago below it the jar with a small biggidy himself was saying that how can these people disagree in the second coming of jesus when giants giants giants have said it

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment b1OOltqtPTw/s/27. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/b1ooltqtptw/s/27/

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