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What is the Beast of the Earth? What did Ibn Aashour really say? -Mufti Abu Layth

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1 · 0:01Accused of misquoting Ibn Ashur on the beast of the earthResponses to critics · Dajjal, Mahdi and the signsmachine 3 min 54 s0:01on YouTube
2 · 3:55What does the Quran say about the beast of the earth?Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs · Contested versesmachine 3 min 10 s3:55on YouTube
3 · 7:05Will a beast really appear at the end of times?Dajjal, Mahdi and the signsmachine 2 min 36 s7:05on YouTube
4 · 9:41Do the signs of the Hour have to come before the Hour?Dajjal, Mahdi and the signsmachine 1 min 18 s9:41on YouTube
5 · 10:59Does Ibn Ashur say the beast comes before the Day of Judgment?Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs · Contested versesmachine 4 min 31 s10:59on YouTube
6 · 15:30Ibn Ashur: the creature speaks to the deniers at the gatheringDajjal, Mahdi and the signs · Contested verses · includes a quoted viewmachine 3 min 55 s15:30on YouTube
7 · 19:25Calling it a misquotation is poor scholarshipResponses to critics · Dajjal, Mahdi and the signsmachine 2 min 13 s19:25on YouTube

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right okay whilst you're loading up some questions they had been a question on this beast of the end of times which I will clarify you see look this beast at the end of time some people this in a lot of deity the books it speaks of a beast at the end of time now none of the other books are actually clear about what this means and even the scholars today when they speak about they're not actually too sure what it means like if you ask them for the details they don't actually know in a previous video I had read how even are sure stated that that was on the day of

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judgment so some people wrote an article against me saying that he's misquoting hip not sure and that's not true if now shield doesn't say that and I did say on my thing that look you this is somebody could say I understand something different from what even harsher is saying but to say I'm misquoting is a stretch it's not even a stretch it's just wrong right you can't say I'm misquoting because I'm not and I mean so people got involved unfortunately also I think people unnecessarily got involved amongst the most odd Sohaib side who I

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do respect and and love as a friend now he got in touch I mean he got involved he also wrote an article supporting that statement that I'm misquoting then I got in touch with or started so hip and we had a lengthy discussion and he reread it his his stance and understood and and actually made it very clear that he that it's incorrect to say I'm misquoting and he actually said that I see what you're saying if not you could be saying that although he would still like to take the understanding that even now sure he's not saying that but it's

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plausible definitely from what I'm not actually saying that that's what he is saying I will actually clarify it by reading it in a moment and show you that he is actually saying that nevertheless the reason I mentioned that about start so habeas because put an article out there in the public domain so people had asked me about it so I responded that look as far as I'm aware he's very clear that I'm not misquoting now at that stage he said that he felt he rushed into his maybe decision and he shouldn't have so hamdulillah but I you know although I

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didn't like the fact that you know why put an article why not just contact me first and have a discussion why put an article against me but still nevertheless I appreciate and like the the civil discussion that followed you know we got in touch disagreed in fact it was a whole day's discussion back forth back forth voice note messages rechecking I've rechecked maybe I've made a mistake he rechecked me and then at the end he said well you know what coming to think about it I rushed into that I can see why you're saying he's saying this although I would still like to disagree but you definitely to say that you're

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misquoting is wrong that that's that to say attribute miss quotations to you is wrong you're not misquoting so I mean I I appreciate that and this kind of it's a shame we can't have this civil discussion with people you know there was Mawlana a niece of Lester who had a similar discussion with me he felt I was miss quoting him now shoot we took out the tough seed we ready ready together at the end he said the same thing you're not misquoting he said okay maybe he'd still like to disagree he said that you know give me this point that point but you know you definitely not misquoting and I and I appreciate I don't want them

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necessarily to agree with me but that civil respect if only we can return to more and more of this and Mel I say right so may Allah bless these all amount and their efforts I mean right so but because I was asked I will kind of read the the actual translation because people said I missed out part which I didn't but I'll read it to you right so this by the way before I read this we've got to understand that these verses of the Quran in surah number that are what are they speaking about they begin with

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verse 80 where Allah says in the collectors mail motor well that was me Asuma do either one long would be mean that you do not make the dead here so he's speaking about the people who are dead and those who are misguided and he says well my aunt Abby had ill only unbel Allah to him in touch me allow me to be a attina for Muslim moon you can simply only you can't guide those who are kind of blinded by their miss guidance only those whom Allah wills they are Muslim so that's the verse then so the first verse verse 80 is speaking about the grave okay and he speaks about

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you can't make them you can't benefit them you can't make them be guided neither those who are misguided then first 82 is this verse why they walk I'll follow Ali him original home table a terminal or they took a limo and the NASA can will be ayat inna my opinion verse 82 so 8180 about the grave 81 is talking about even if they were misguided only Allah guides them 82 is when the matter has been established and we will take out for them a creature that will address them

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that they used to deny our verses they didn't believe in offices okay then 83 what so a t28 is 82 apparently what I had said was talking about the day of judgment the grave the day of judgment and then 83 and 84 say were Yaman a shadow mean couldn't Leo muttonfudge am in May you cut the movie ayat enough a who used our own and on the day when we've taken each group of people who disbelieved and they spread apart hot dogger opala occurred up to me iit well-known to hate to be her ailment and mother kuntum damn alone and allah says

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did you deny my verses and what was it that you you know we're doing so 83 and 84 are clearly speaking about the day of judgment so the grave the the judgment and then the afterlife about about what there is what the result and so on about these groups so the other thing to ask people is you ask them well okay let's put this all aside for a moment i want you to tell me what do you want us to believe in about this beast so they say we want you to believe that at the end

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of times there will be a beast so he said well first of all what do you mean by end of times do you mean when the time has ended or do you mean it hasn't ended there's still plenty of time to come yet like when this let's say an antichrist and people are still running around doing their thing with daily business do you mean then and what is the purpose of this beast so because this beast is not a fitness not a trial for people it's from the usher artists from the signs of the hour so most people will say we don't know they will say well once the beast appears then a man can't be accepted from anyone

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he said well okay so when the beast appears and it talks because it says it will talk to people so the people is talking to must be able to comprehend what the beast is saying true say yes so he said well is there just one beast because if the beast appears here let's say in birmingham UK and he's talking to me and now iman is no longer valid anything no good deeds are valid anymore so in that case what about the people in china if a person in China becomes Muslim can he still not become Muslim because the Beast is talking to me is that what we're saying or are we saying what are we saying so saying are you saying there's multiple beasts or are you saying that

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everybody will see the beast at the same time or are we saying so and is the Beast gonna stay with us so people still so can people still do bad things like can somebody still murder somebody he can still do crimes he just so people can still do bad things and that will count against them but if they do good things Allah won't accept that from them is that what we're saying I mean either what exactly are we saying so now my point is and then they say yeah then he said but I thought when the Sun rises from the West then Iman is no longer accepted so they say yeah that to say

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well is the Sun rising from the West who is the Beast like what's going on so this is why everything to do with the end of times people is really something to be taken just as islamic information as Ignacio said in a stocky car to unlock this is just Islamic information is to be taken with a pinch of salt it's like stories they give you some understanding but they're not to be taken as like literal events like that like we're going to so now let's another confusion by the way is when we say something is from the sign of the hour

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does that mean it has to have happen before the hour or could it happen with the hour so a TB and even a Hodja quotes him as well and for adeana Rosina stuff she'd say that the Asha - sir I can occur before the sir or and aha Oh with the hour they can occur so as the world is Mb the world is ending so right now let's say the world is ending in the new world is being born this happening that's happening is that part of this world or the next world that I accept is a valid difference of opinion so you

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could say the actual sir and what's happening right now and the new world being made and people appearing is that still part of this world or the next world and will that because time will cease to exist so all of a sudden you can't say well time because time ceases in that sense so what are we talking is this all still the end of time because the end of time is at the same point the birth of a new realm which is timeless so in that sense I accept this esta laughs in saying the signs of the hour they because they can happen with

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the hour and is the our part of this world or the next world I would say it's part of the next world if people wanted to say that's part of this world it's not a big deal so now let's take a look at evening our shoes so if nourisher says in his verse right so after beginning this he says were harder into : elliptic irritability a moment dr. donahoo mine'll worried this is now going back to what was speaking about the AMA about death about reminding them and what has been stored for them for happy I'll miss out the grammar parts because that doesn't make [Music]

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you know how the aluminum are to fire German table ha at focus on a pizza this is attached to the sentence before he all Manasa Bertuzzi Korea matter cut them in holy he he says and this is then related to the verse in nicoletto small motor that you do not guide you do not make the dead here what fold what is meant by a loophole is a lock alcohol he says or either be a barrel either Latika the bow ha this is meant that which they denied the promise which they denied the threat motuhake mean you know in a state of arrogance mystic power who in her because they said it's taking forever to

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happen when they would say much ahadith what do in kuntum saw the thing when will this hour come this promise come if it was truthful one who must are only her lula bhakti he was early coming worked it I hate you in Harlem little fauna is and yet full of an illusion little general unarmed ah now listen he says the fact a lie saying what kaha it has happened he says this is mustahab he says this is it's borrowed for its occurrence of that time now listen to this he says it's from the time that the world begins its destruction till the point that they integer now

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that this is all one kind of time zone which is timeless and he's saying that this is all one realm you see so you can understand what I was talking about when I said whether that's part of this dunya the akhira is up to people to disagree with well I had to Shiro Allah Sheikh Ayman ashraddha halal in white and the verse points to a matter of the science of the occurrence of this great threat this great promise Allah the only Ruby he and what they had been warned about what world were idle Akbar and that was the greatest threatened promise

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Yani were either bath and that is the resurrection Fatah toshiro Allah Sheikh Ayman a schrott Issa and it points to a matter of the ash righto sir a Worman Hawara tell our that so and it is from that which goes against people's habits that they are that it's it's a non supernatural event so here what is the supernatural event it could be speaking about this beast sure it could be speaking about the resurrection because it's a supernatural event other ways and he says then he's gonna go into grandma whatta a barón rojo a he be several model it's a criminal harm in a movie a

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horror who and then he says that look and this saying well all that and when he has happened why because of its closeness now they trying to say by this he means that it has it won't happen on the day of judgment it'll happen close to they could take that but he's not I know you know he's not saying that in my understanding but they're saying when Allah saying is there what Kyle hold and when it has happened why is he saying it when he has happened like this because of the closeness to when it's gonna happen they're saying no so this means a

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closeness to the hour they can take that but it doesn't in my understanding mean that then he explains that by what creature means in Arabic we can miss that part out if nothing interesting then he says what God Ruby a tree waspy Hadid Abba and there's a lot of narrations about this creature when it's going to come out the time it's going to come out of our own body but on the if weak turbulent motions by shuttle as I need they are weak you can find them in subsea of Bihari sorry of core to be lateral official me have enough day there's not even point in bringing them and criticizing them here then he says

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well Roger DARPA terminal or lyrium so bringing out the DARPA from the earth is to show them k4 you're here loud motor how Allah brings back the dead if can open Ankara bars because they have denied the resurrection voila Shaka and Nicola Mahalo home little home be halal huh sure that there is no doubt that the creature speaking is a sign that the huh sure has occurred the gathering the day of judgment has occurred while in namaha local all kalamaja Malala say need a battalion Lahore Multan demon Alya rode him in Kabul illogical army Helaman were oka

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him in Ashraf II in sanema Asahi now why Allah made a creature addressed them because when the best of creation address them when the best of creation addressed them they rejected best of creation was who the Messenger of God The Messenger of God has already addressed them and they denied it they dead no creature has actually emerged yet so right now liya Khun Ella who is en Fiat Eric diary or a guru Nabil Masha now here this caused a bit of confusion for some people because they said look

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he's saying so it's an embarrassment for them a shame at the end of time at the end of time but read on you ie Runa be film a sure at the end of time you ie Runa be he right this is obviously fee fee Mihaly not right you are here ona be he film a sure that this is something that they are embarrassed with at the end of time an embarrassment for them in the hasha so some people said well this is at the end of time well that comes back to end of time being that nocta that is that a part of this

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or the next world you can disagree for you follow how high are abou Uncle ami wrastling Kareem these people turned away from the words of a messenger tell me is the messenger gonna be at the end of time he's the messenger gonna come before qiyamah right they've already gone the kuffar of Quraish you denied the messenger of god for who Tebow a Dallas Ernie hire one in by him so they were made to be addressed by an animal that normally doesn't speak how can the kuffara Koresh be addressed by an animal The Messenger of God is not speaking to

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people today is he so so this has already happened and he says Allah Almighty Allah is the father tolerable mineral map that the work of a lot Manasseh but venema so that's just the point is saying and then he says as to this verse in the nasa kenobi ayat in leop known tar literally is harder harder harder harder hey thula meu canal mushrikuna varietal Quran for Jaclyn Alec is on the home Hina lion for home look because this is from a heartful ala they said this is a supernatural event so they said also it must happen in this world hey thula meu canal ma cherie kun the

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mushrik who's the mushrikun work today in his time in our shoots and 20th century who would mushrikuna mushrikuna of the time of the prophet that they denied the quran so this they were forced to hear the as an embarrassment they heard that they the denial was in vain and it was stupid of them on the tongue war the speech of a creature on the day of judgment so look and then he says as two people saying that the iman doesn't benefit lion fair enough sandy Manohar lambda con hominem in Kabul in

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surah al-anam he says wa ham lahardee Allah Allah and takuna high cotton lima - kalamoon madaba bite he says the fact that the creature is gonna say this in this world is by it right so there you go people you can judge for yourselves they there was no cut and paste there was nothing I wasn't kind of like doing one of those sigh wands it's very clear now you could say look I'm still not convinced fine but to say I'm misquoting is just poor scholarship that shows two things it shows one the level of Arabic of these people is very poor right they themselves and two if the Arabic is good

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then they're too cloudy to judge objectively because the people who I spoke to that said if now I shouldn't say that the reason why they said that is because they said if now should can't say that because that doesn't make sense because there's a hadith in Sahih Muslim saying it see that this shows us so you're not reading it objectively you're reading it with a mindset that oh he couldn't have said this well that's your mindset and I contacted by the way shift led a reason I contacted him is because his father Abdullah led has one of the

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most most compound collections of the a shot of the sir are the signs of the hour put together before his death and I visited him a few years back as well in when I went to sunshine in Morocco and so we're you know and and hamdulillah that was a great blessing meeting I spoke up at that time but because his father compiled one of the most comprehensive collections and and whether he agrees with that or not that his understanding so I messaged this to chefs led Muhammad Italy and I said look here's the pages can you read this do you do you feel on misquoting and he

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actually confirmed as well in addition to other scholars I also message they confirmed he confirmed very clearly regardless of his understanding he said if not sure is saying this it'll happen on the hasha on the day of judgement to show those who denied the resurrection

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