Recordings › Dr Edip Yuksel & the Quran only methodology | Mufti Abu Layth · 28 Aug 2020 › Segment 1 of 1
Does Edip Yuksel believe in praying five times a day?
hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis ahaadith muftis sunna sunnat sunan prophetic practice janna jannat paradise koran quraan al-quran sura soorah surat suwar soora chapter sahabah sahabi sahabiyyah sahabiyat khalifah caliph khulafa khilafah khilafat caliphate khilafa madinah al-madinah madeenah ajr sawab thawab thawaab sawaabAfter the dialogue with Edip Yuksel: rejecting all hadith is the other extreme
Play from 0:01
The video loads from YouTube only when you press play. Click a time in the transcript to seek.
Watch the answer
Open on YouTube at 0:01The player starts at 0:01, where the answer begins.
This segment0:01 to 8:14 · 8 min 13 sGeneral teaching
The answer in brief
machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth thinks Edip Yuksel accepts the five prayers but not as the primary objective. Mufti calls rejecting all hadith the opposite extreme to hadith dogmatism, since all we know of early Islam comes through the living tradition.
In more detail
A chat questioner asks Mufti Abu Layth whether Dr Edip Yuksel believes in praying five times a day, and Mufti says he thinks Edip Yuksel accepts it without seeing it as the primary objective. Mufti says the dialogue shows the difference between himself and someone who truly rejects hadith, and calls rejecting all hadith the opposite extreme to hadith dogmatism such as the report about killing geckos. Answering chat comments that Edip Yuksel bullied him or won, Mufti says he respects him as his senior who dedicated decades to Islam, disagrees with calling people deviants, and says his show probes and cross-examines guests rather than holding debates. Mufti says he agrees with many of the symptoms Edip Yuksel points to, such as the age of Aisha, but not the solution, since everything known about the Prophet, even the move to Medina, comes through the living tradition. Mufti calls the claim that the Quran outlaws slavery a huge stretch, recounts challenging him on the word rabb used for a master in the story of Yusuf, says the Prophet's companions lived a warrior lifestyle yet the Prophet taught compassion, and says the number 19 theory is overdone and Rashad Khalifa's claim that some verses were interpolated is a huge stretch. The next chat question, about the challenge of the Quran, is cut off as the recording ends.
Question as read aloud · questioner not identifiedDoes Dr Edip Yuksel believe in praying five times a day?
Position stated
Mufti Abu Layth says he does not buy rejecting all hadith, which he feels is the opposite extreme to hadith dogmatism.
“i don't buy the whole rejecting all hadith i feel it's the opposite extreme of you know you have hadith dogmatists”
Category: method
Kind: general teachingTranscript
machine0:01 to 8:14 · click a time to seek · dotted terms open the glossary
uh mahin mirza asked does doctor eddie yuksel believe praying five times a day i think he accepts it but he doesn't um feel that that was the primary objective but he does accept it you know people accuse me of being a monkey hadith of rejecting hadith you need to watch my dialogue with dr edith that is somebody who truly rejects hadith and you can see the difference you know people say oh mufti rejects hadith is a hadees rejecter i'm not a hadees rejecter and you have to put me side by side and see now i feel that dr eddie
it was an amazing dialogue amazing conversation we had however i do feel that um i mean i don't buy the whole rejecting all hadith i feel it's the opposite extreme of you know you have hadith dogmatists like selfies hardcore selfies and madras and how this attitude of hadith once we have a hadith nothing else can come in our way and it doesn't matter if it makes no sense we should go around killing geckos and killing lizards because it's somehow a reward for us from god and we're gonna get to jannah by killing lizards and this kind of absurdities and then
i feel this is the opposite extreme no hadith ever it doesn't matter what the hadith says we'll never look at a hadith you know i feel that look but hadith too you know the sunnah or even the sunnah in essence i feel that look that's that's you know we know that many hadith have come down that they do seem to reflect of reality so i i just feel that um you know that that's not that doesn't really add up either so i don't accept that either uh clear saying he really took over mufti
he bullied you no no no look i i i is senior to me in age a senior in in having dedicated his life to islam even though we disagree you know he's a quran only person but he still dedicated decades of his life to islam and it's not i disagree with this calling people deviants calling people they should be like this they should be look that's their view it's not my view i disagree with it i don't feel it's um correct in my understanding but i'm not i don't feel it's
my job or anybody's job to be outcasting people from islam now i feel he had some strange but anybody who comes on my show i look i did present certain uh how would you answer this how would you answer that but it's not about you see i don't what i'm not trying to do on mine trap is call people on and then have a debate with them see it's not my style because i can do that but what that would just turn into an argument then wouldn't it um because not everybody likes being challenged so like i don't mind being challenged but some people they can react impulsively you see so
that's not my purpose my purpose is to probe a little to present counter arguments but to let them talk let people listen to what they have to say and i will kind of probe it as well but it's not a an interrogation that's not what it's about it there will be some cross-examination along the way yeah so uh no i know you were joking clear but i i know some people may genuinely have this question uh somebody said he wiped the floor with you think so okay fair enough if that's how you feel i don't feel he did i don't feel it was a debate anyway he
did ask about luke you can't uh and i agree with many of you see this was my thing i agree with a lot of the problems the symptoms but i just don't agree with the solution see like he's saying the age of aisha and so on and i agree with these things but i don't feel the solution is to say all hadith are bs that's not the solution because i feel that you know look we can see there was a living tradition that did preserve things how do we know anything i did say to him how do we know anything about the prophet how do we even know that the prophet moved to madina which was yathrib we only know this through the living tradition you know it's not in the quran it doesn't mention in the quran
like to reject the living tradition to reject the sunnah like this it doesn't like what what's the purpose i don't see that purpose to it because anything we actually know about early islam is only what has been passed down to us by by narrations yeah all right so and the slavery thing didn't really make sense he said slavery is outlawed in the quran i felt that was a huge stretch huge stretch i did say to him as well that he asked me oh the word rob can never be accepted i did say to him well how would you answer about yusuf ali sanam
saying you know about um and then he did think about that and he said well he even says okay that's a good one but then he says look okay but that was that's because they believed in pagan gods but it's evident that in that context the person was about giving his master not his pagan master but but his actual master alcohol to drink like he's kind of so yeah i don't i felt that was too much of a stretch you know this whole um i feel it's trying to wash everything down like i feel look let's be real
the sahaba the prophet's lifetime was a warrior lifestyle they lived like we have to that they they lived in very brutal circumstances they it wasn't and yet you see what's amazing is they the prophet taught exemplary compassion despite being from an atmosphere that was very brutal and a warrior lifestyle you see so there's no point pretend you see this is why i i don't pretend that they were like they weren't these kind of hippies that were just walking around all lovey-dovey they weren't i mean and i feel sometimes
when if we try to present that the prophet's lifestyle was all wishy-washy and hippy and hey it's all you know everybody's on oxytocin you know it's like it's old it wasn't like that they were they they were warriors i mean they was like the whole atmosphere the that the greater arabia was was like a raid lived off a raiding lifestyle you know so so yeah so i feel that's the that's an interesting point but yeah but that was i i really loved the discussion even afterwards
uh dr did say to me that look oh i think i i think i cut you off on too many things i shouldn't have and uh he said to me you know you should have stopped me you should have cut me off and i said look that's i said to him look these were my actual words through i said to him you're my senior yeah don't worry about it's all good this it doesn't look this is not the purpose of uh these kind of dialogues it's about bringing a different voice to the platform and saying well have a look agree disagree i disagree with um many of the things about i feel the number 19 thing is a bit overdone
and rashad khalifa i don't really agree with some of it obviously him saying some verses in the quran 2 were kind of interpolated and they weren't from the quran from surah i feel is a huge stretch huge stretch but yeah so but it was a fascinating conversation do check that if you have a chance omar omar says what is the challenge of the quran is any parameters uh was it only for people
Paragraphs overlapping 0:01 to 8:14. Full text on the recording page.
Cite this segment
Stable id, transcript version and tier are part of the citation. Every change to a transcript is logged.Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2020-08-28-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/cajsgns9eiy/s/1/ (accessed 1 November 2026)
- APA 7
Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, August 28). Does Edip Yuksel believe in praying five times a day? [Video, segment 2020-08-28-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/cajsgns9eiy/s/1/
- Chicago author-date
Mufti Abu Layth. 2020. "Does Edip Yuksel believe in praying five times a day?" Video, segment 2020-08-28-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded August 28, 2020. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/cajsgns9eiy/s/1/
- BibTeX
@misc{abulayth-2020-08-28-S01, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{Does Edip Yuksel believe in praying five times a day?}}, year = {2020}, month = {8}, date = {2020-08-28}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/cajsgns9eiy/s/1/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/cajsgns9eiy/s/1/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2020-08-28-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
Something wrong here?
Tell us what is wrong and it will be checked against the recording. Nothing changes until a person has reviewed it.
Sending a note needs JavaScript, which is off or unavailable in this browser. Nothing has been sent.
No name, email address or account is asked for or stored, and the inbox does not store your IP address. For rate limiting it keeps an unreadable fingerprint of your connection for 48 hours, and our database provider's own logs record connections as every website's do. Only your note, its kind, the page and the moment in the recording are kept, for review.