Recordings › Monday Nights with Mufti #204 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth · 2 Mar 2021 › Segment 7 of 45
Was the Prophet Moses actually the pharaoh Akhenaten?
haj pilgrimage hadj muftis jahannam jahanam jahannumThe Akhenaten and Moses theory: inclined to it, research ongoing
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth leans towards the theory that Moses was Akhenaten but says his research is ongoing and it is not established; he notes that the Levites bore Egyptian names.
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Asked to explain the theory linking Akhenaten and Moses, Mufti Abu Layth refers to a recent clip from a meetup in which someone challenged him on it. He says he is inclined towards the theory that Moses was Akhenaten, but that his research is ongoing and he cannot state it as a fact; so far he finds a strong alignment between the two narratives. He adds that the Levites, Moses's tribe, had Egyptian rather than Hebrew names, unlike the other eleven tribes, which he finds fascinating. He then reads a few chat remarks, among them a request to invite a particular mufti onto MindTrap, which he says he would welcome.
Question as read aloud · questioner not identifiedCan you explain the Akhenaten and Moses theory?
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Mufti Abu Layth says he is inclined towards the theory that Moses was Akhenaten, though his research is still ongoing and he cannot say it as a fact.
“do check that out i go into it i am inclined towards the the theory that moses is was a canarton”
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that she drops the blade and says and she also then becomes part of the motion in the ocean people so that's a story that even has them transmits in this book obviously she's on her way to hajj we don't get these kind of services on route to hajj but times chandra times man and the times because so anyway let's uh so that's that's part of what so it's very fascinating books i'm not sure how he contradicts himself
but uh it's definitely interesting right now what is going on people what is going on somebody said can you explain the akhenaten and moses theory uh right so the akhenaten theory i've already you know i've got a clip i put it up recently where somebody challenges uh on the meet up and we have a bit of a discussion so do check that out i go into it i am inclined towards the the theory that moses is was a canarton uh but
like i said in that in that thing that look my research is still ongoing i'm reading up i'm not obviously it's we can't say i can't say anyway as a fact it is he was moses but so far the things i've looked at it seems um you know this seems to be quite a strong alliance between these two narratives and also what i was looking at recently were the the names of the levites you see he was from moses was a levite so he was from levy or i don't know what to say levi but levy now
that's his kind of tribe they all had egyptian names unlike the other 11 tribes so if you look up the names of the levites they are not hebrew names so that's fascinating so the people who moses was from not just him all seem to be egyptian that's interesting interesting megan can you say hey
[Music] men have not changed in a thousand years [Laughter] why change for the sake of change what's the word these you know these should hindi words why change mufti can you bring muftilia zaman on mind trap i would love to get him on but i don't know if he would come on why don't you ask him and see if he'll he's ready to to to come on that would be great
um all right so uh don't forget the super chats let's take a look i think i may have missed some super chats let me take a look um i see sarasan mufti do you think the historical figures like how right-wing europeans praise king charles martel for defeating muslims in france but ignore his slaughter of european pagans mufti do you think we whitewash muslim historical figures of course of course everybody does you know in these kind of things
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