# Will a beast really appear at the end of times?

*What would a literal beast at the end of times mean?*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eoq_mxafx5o/s/3/
- Date: 2018-05-29 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: What is the Beast of the Earth? What did Ibn Aashour really say? -Mufti Abu Layth (7:05–9:41)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoQ_mXafx5o&t=425s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eoq_mxafx5o/

**Topics:** Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth says a literal beast raises questions nobody can answer, and that end-times reports are information to take with a pinch of salt, not literal events.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says everything to do with the end of times is Islamic information to be taken with a pinch of salt, not as literal events.

**Evidence, his words at 9:02:** “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” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoQ_mXafx5o&t=542s)

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth relates the questions he puts to people who want Muslims to believe in a beast at the end of times: whether the end of times means after time has ended or while life still goes on, and what the beast is for. Mufti says they answer that once the beast appears faith is no longer accepted, and he asks whether there is one beast or many, whether someone in China could still become Muslim while the beast speaks to someone in Birmingham, and whether bad deeds would still count while good deeds do not. He notes they also say faith is no longer accepted once the sun rises from the west, and asks how that fits with the beast. He concludes that everything to do with the end of times is Islamic information to be taken with a pinch of salt, like stories that give some understanding, not literal events.

## Sources and names cited

- ashrat al-sa'ah (signs of the Hour)
- Quran 27:82 (we will bring out for them a creature from the earth): https://quran.com/27/82

## Transcript (machine tier, 7:05–9:41)

[6:25] 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

[7:04] 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

[7:43] 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

[8:23] 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

[9:02] 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

[9:40] 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

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment EoQ_mXafx5o/s/3. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eoq_mxafx5o/s/3/

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