# Can the detailed aqidah taught today be proven from the Quran and Sunnah alone? *Aqidah as a construction of the ages, and a challenge to prove it from the Quran and Sunnah alone* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ckwrlhtbygo/s/2/ - Date: 2018-01-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Reply To Zakaullah Saleem (Salafi)- By Mufti Abu Layth (5:29–10:17) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKWRLHtBYgo&t=329s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ckwrlhtbygo/ **Topics:** Responses to critics; Creed and the schools of theology; Salafism and Wahhabism **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth says aqidah as taught today was put together by Muslims over the ages, while the Prophet taught only simple belief. He challenges the maulana to a face-to-face meeting to prove his aqidah exclusively from the Quran and Sunnah, guaranteeing it cannot be done. ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth says that, to be honest, everybody's aqidah is something Muslims have put together over the ages: the Prophet taught simple belief in Allah, revelation, the afterlife and Allah's control of everything, and never taught the way these people teach, so anyone who says otherwise is misattributing. He extends an offer to the maulana, since he has called him out as a jahil, which he says he is: come face to face and prove that this aqidah is taught exclusively and explicitly from the Quran and Sunnah, which he guarantees a hundred percent cannot be done, and since he is a jahil it should not be difficult to disprove him. He calls it a humble offer, says he respects the maulana as a senior, and asks what he says. He closes with a poet's couplet about arms that are tried and tested, which no one will be able to lift against, says he will move on to the questions, and repeats that he is not dissing Salafis in general. ## Sources and names cited - Maulana Zakaullah Saleem [?] (imam at Green Lane Masjid; named in the video description) - Green Lane Masjid (Birmingham) - aqidah (creed) - tawhid - jahil (ignorant person) - Salafi (Wahhabi) - sunnah ## Transcript (machine tier, 5:29–10:17) [5:17] [laughter] control. So he puts it down to the lack of in Muslims. But look, let's be honest. Let's be honest. Everybody's [snorts] everybody's really is something that Muslims have put together over the ages. [5:45] Let's be real. True. As people say, the prophet only taught simple like believe in Allah and revelation and afterlife and Allah is in control of everything. That's it. He never taught the the way these people teach. [6:05] Nobody this anybody who says this is is misattributing the way people and this is look we have some groups that bang on about and molana saying this I would ext I'd like to extend extend a gesture molana sahib if you can prove to me since you're addressing me and you've called me out as a jah as a jah. [6:38] I'm a jah. I'm a right. So I would like to extend to you an offer. You come and prove to me that you this you're teaching only from the Quran and Sunnah. I can guarantee you 100% you cannot prove it through the Quran and Sunnah. [7:05] just Quran and Sunnah guarantee you cannot prove it. And since I'm a Jahil, how difficult can it be to disprove me? [laughter] [laughter] Since you called me out for being a Jahil, which I am, so come correct me, take up my offer, come sit face to face, [7:40] let us let us kind of chat and you prove since is the thing I will challenge challenge that you cannot prove your through the Quran and Sunnah exclusively. ly exclusively and explicitly Allah. [8:03] So molana see and that's and since I'm a jah it can't be that difficult can it so what say so what say you [laughter] what is it [laughter] nutty [snorts] so this is I kind humble humble offer humble and you're senior I I [8:38] s you know I respect you and come and have prove to me since you're saying that the reason all these people are misguided is their I I extend that prove it to me through Quran and I guarantee guarantee that you will not be able to do it. But then what do I know? [9:04] I'm but just a ain't [laughter] I? Or in the words of the poet [laughter] nothing the person will not be able to lift. And I'm not saying that I'm saying that in general. [9:32] The poet says that's lni sahib says in his poem that they will not be able to lift nor a dagger nor a sword that these arms of mine are tried and tested. So so let's now move on to some of these questions people. Right. So other than that, by the way, this isn't I don't I I'm not dissing seller fees in general. [10:01] Okay? [laughter] Is that hard to believe now? I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not love you yet. or all the copy out ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment cKWRLHtBYgo/s/2. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ckwrlhtbygo/s/2/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. Ask a qualified scholar about your own situation.