Has Mufti Read The Bible And What Does Islam Say About The Bible? | Mufti Abu Layth

have you ever read the Bible in full and what are your thoughts and what does Islam say about the Bible um I haven't read the Bible in full now I've read from it um you know time to time I've read discussions on it um now and then you know I'll I I obviously I'm not going to be um you know so well versed in the maybe all the details of certain parts of the Bible and stuff maybe stuff that I've just come across in my discussions so I've ended up looking into it and I've read

that but when you say what are my thoughts on the Bible I think it's yeah I don't know what angle to even uh because the the Bible is very different to the Quran the Bible was never a Quran a Quran is something that is recited it has a recital property to it a as a as a um you know as something that has a

rhythmic formation and structure it was never that the Bible is different it's obviously a collection of books you know 60 plus books which uh people they they admit is um the effort of men so it's not a so it's fundamentally very different ontologically speaking there is a difference um when we're looking at the being the essence of the Bible they're saying that well there was things that there was

Revelation there was scripture and then scripture was interpreted and documented by people and you know commented commentated on and there's explanations and then there's just stories and there's all kinds of stuff this letter you know the New Testament there's gonna be letters of the Apostles and there's going to be all this kind of stuff going on afterwards so all of this put together is the Bible what I would say is look

okay you put that whole discussion aside it's because I know that the Bible has the stories in it some of the stories are like okay I don't know what to do with that obviously you can only really look at them today in a metaphorical sense and um understand them to they definitely can't apply to today's world and stuff and some things are very strange you know when you read the Bible so certain things about the Bible what the Israelites were doing what the you know so there seems to be this understanding that maybe the Israelites were um offering you know there was a uh the

god Malik that they were offering uh child sacrifices to him maybe they were doing it I don't know this there's all kinds of things even when you see some of the stories of all the genocide and all of this in in the in the Bible now that's going to all in my understanding be really just the interpretation of people that people just interpreted it and put it that way and they're not going to disagree really in that because they themselves will accept that this was just people who wrote it this way um what I would say is let's step away from all of this for a moment it's not sometimes

the detail it's the symbol of a book that mobilized people see in the past people they became like they they had a book see this this concept is so empowering this is why Allah says and it's not a physical book that the Muslims had in the early days but it's we have a book

we have scripture we are people of a book there's something so powerful about that concept that it it completely bypasses for a moment for a moment I'm not saying it's irrelevant but it bypasses for a moment the intricate details within the book but it's that these people have what they believe is a Divine book behind them all and

and that can move mountains and as you can see it mobilized um Nations it's set up civilizations it it did so much that that just the belief of the book as an you know as a belief structure just this we have a book we have the book kitabullah Allah this is now the Quran of you obviously the the in in the Bible they did the same kind of thing the the book they had

so yeah that's I don't know if that if that does Justice to your question but I hope it helps um what does Islam say about the Bible you see people are divided some people feel that Islam comes and negates the Bible I'm not so sure it really does um I mean it obviously negates certain things within the Bible but but the Bible never claims to be a um you know an infallible Corpus of texts so this so for example if you say

to a Christian look there's a contradiction in this and this they'll just be like okay because they'll because they recognize well the book wasn't Divine means like the text was written by people so some people some so many Muslims the Islamic view or the Muslim view is divided some people feel that the scriptures before the Quran are all corrupted other people feel that they're not necessarily corrupted sure it doesn't mean every single thing in them is fine but they don't make that claim anyway but the essence of

so for example when you say the Ten Commandments were the Ten Commandments to Moses that they don't ex think that that was corrupted or they let's say they say that Jesus came to give the good news this you know this the gospel the good news they accept that and that maybe many of so it's not so some people feel it is others feel that the general message isn't corrupted but it's just that the people themselves um they didn't that there was they were lacking and they weren't actually

um where they need to be that's that's one okay I hope that helped