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Accused of misquoting Ibn Ashur on the beast of the earth

tafseer exegesis tafasir tafaseer commentary muftis koran quraan al-quran sura soorah surat suwar soora chapter 'alim aalim ulama ulema ulamaa alhamdulillah alhamdulilah al-hamdu lillah alhumdulillah alhamdulillaah

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Mufti Abu Layth says a scholar who accused him of misquoting Ibn Ashur accepted, after a civil discussion, that he had not, even while still disagreeing.

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Mufti Abu Layth takes up a question on the beast at the end of times, saying the books are not clear on what it means and that scholars today are unsure of the details. Mufti says that after he read in an earlier video that Ibn Ashur placed it on the Day of Judgment, an article accused him of misquoting Ibn Ashur, and a scholar he respects and loves as a friend also wrote an article supporting the charge. He says that after a day-long civil discussion by voice notes that scholar told him he had rushed and, while still preferring another understanding, accepted that it was wrong to say he was misquoting; another Mawlana reached the same conclusion after they read the tafsir together. Mufti regrets that the article was published before contacting him, says he does not need them to agree with him, and wishes for more such civil respect.

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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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Mufti Abu Layth. (2018, May 29). Accused of misquoting Ibn Ashur on the beast of the earth [Video, segment 2018-05-29-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eoq_mxafx5o/s/1/
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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Accused of misquoting Ibn Ashur on the beast of the earth}},
  year = {2018},
  month = {5},
  date = {2018-05-29},
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  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eoq_mxafx5o/s/1/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2018-05-29-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
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