Who is Uzair in the Quran? Ezra or Osiris? | Mufti Abu Layth

since okay I think let's come to this question of who is or Zeile in the Koran people Jose in the side beam I've been asked this a while back and I did think about it and I think in the past my research was simply the usual kind of ol what I read in several tough I see it about being Asura in the Jewish tradition and this is how I dance it but right let's revisit these people because

as aid in the Quran we have on memento people's people's if we go to now right so now in surah Tauba verse 30 Allah mentions what Carla tell Yahoo do what

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here you go hey unipolar latina calf illumine that they simply resemble or reiterate the words of those who went before them are tell'em love an ayah Furqan you know may God destroy them like you know god damn them in other words for what they're saying now this you know Paulo Tilly who does Aaron Abdallah who was a the popular script that you've had from people means that was aid was Ezra now Israa is a Jewish scribe he's seen by several Muslims as

being sorry and Jewish people by son several as a great figure a huge positivity and by others as a negative figure so he is somebody who wants the Jews were the Israelites were taken captive in Babylon much of this scripture is destroyed so they lose a lot of this scripture now it is pieced together again and restructured rewritten a lot of it by Ezra described

so some people feel that in doing so he fabricated a lot of things or he authored them himself so a lot of the Torah today may be from Ezra and hence by doing so in a way he those Jews who accepted what he said kind of took him to be divine this is what a lot of more fastening said in the past commentators on Quran why because you see they didn't know who this verse is referring to this verse that Paula tilia who taught was a drone even Allah owes aid is is the son

of God so they think about who's owes aid who is this person some people thought he's an Arab because the name sounds Arabic this interpretation of it being Ezra doesn't really fit the bill I mean you can you can do a force fit on saying well you know this is because because by accept like I mentioned by accepting his rendition of the Torah you've given him godlike status theoretically and etcetera etcetera but the Jews are saying that but we've never called him the son of

why do you say and and alive not saying some Jews because some mother sitting in the past mentioned some role Emma like even has him for example he mentions that or some Jews in Yemen believed Ezra to be the Son of God now I'm not sure that that Nuri that claim hasn't been proven so although it hasn't makes the claim but people haven't managed to prove it really that who were these Jewish people in Yemen that made that claim the Jews by and large say that we've never claimed as right to be the Son of God so this is a mistake in the Quran if you're claiming that and the

other thing is a lot not saying wahala bajalia hoot o Allah you know Bob Dole nasi minyak hoon Allah saying were our little yahoo that the Jews are saying this so the Jewish people as a group so it could be the early Jews when they were smaller in number but they were the whole collective or it could be in the time of the Prophet but neither have clearly ever said in the documents that Ezra is the son of God now I've recently revisited this and I came across some videos that initially sparked my interest and then I started reading up on me and I've read several things online

and it appears people that it is not Ezra who's a volatile yahuda was a turning table that was a is the son of God Jose is Osiris the Egyptian myth Egyptian the Egyptian god from Egyptian mythology now I wanted to share this with you and go through the detail now at first it may sound bizarre that why is AusAID Osiris now Osiris is the Greek

rendition of his name the name you know later on romanized and the whole thing but his name so in the Bible he's mentioned as OC r now generally in our Rubick he is they do write the Greek version as well Osiris like that but they write who save you save is how they write no Cyrus now who is Osiris first of all Osiris is the first Pharaoh he's this he's the child of the Sun God the great Sun God raah so you have the great

Sun God and then he has these children now people feel that rah ended up becoming too raw he became like he wasn't really too interested in people and so on and so forth just to give you a brief backdrop I'm going to come back to the point but who is just to introduce you to Osiris so from the children so that Rajas I mean there's four particular siblings two girls two boys and you have Osiris Seth set sorry

and Isis who's the sister of Osiris who marries Osiris and they later on give birth to Horus who is another famous Egyptian and God but what's special about Osiris is he is the one who deposed his raw so they get rid of the Sun God rah and he becomes the first ruler on earth he is seen as the god of life the god of death he's seen as the god of the underworld the god of Agriculture it was through him that the Nile would flow and that you see for for

the Egyptians Nile the River Nile meant life okay so for Osiris he was one of the he is seen as one of the greatest figureheads in Egyptian mythology somebody that he is the one who has put order in place in the world from chaos he puts structure in there he is seen as the god of compassion they kind of rahim and remember he's not seen as God God but a figure as in a person who is like this a bit like Hindu mythology in that sense the

way you'll see ROM and you'll see these characters so like that now what happens with him is he is killed out of kind of jealousy by his brother set he is then brought back to life by a site by Isis his wife who's also his sister interesting kind of relationship going on there but and in some narrations that set set what he does is he when he kills him he cuts his body he kind of dismembers it into so many pieces and spread he spreads it out over Egypt so

Isis has to go about finding all these pieces she brings him together and then mummifies him and he was the first person to be mummified in Egyptian history he is the first Pharaoh by the way so that was his title whilst he was living the first Pharaoh now once you have this backdrop to why who Osiris is and he has by the way those of you that have seen the the kind of this a pinecone staff the stick that is actually a symbol of

of Osiris now you have to remember something growing up in this culture because this is where the Israelites grew up especially in the time mas this is where Moses grew up Osiris was this figure and remember he's not seen as ultimate God he's seen as a person the way like in Hindu mythology you're gonna see ROM ROM is even though he's seen as God be seen as a man Rama and Sita and him going to rescue Sita and he's a hero Romi's now in a similar way Osiris is a

hero who kind of deposes rah and he kind of sets things up for mankind and he does all these great things for mankind now these people you see the Jewish people in early the in the time of Moses they would have been heavily influenced with the figurehead with this personality of Osiris just as all Christians were now you see an example of this is I'd like

to take our attention to a verse in surat al-a'raf you've got rights oh oh

right here is so verse 138 where Allah says what job was not see once Moses the Exodus now look at this verse what job was now be Bernice our our ll Baha so Allah says we traversed we took them across the sea the Israelites fat oh Allah oming Yakko foon alas now so they came across a people who were worshipping some idols this is who this is the Jews because at that time the Israelites were the Jews okay so I tore that oh me ya Corfu now that asana mean l'homme so they had

these idol Alleluia Musa so they cried out to Moses a Jelena Allah and Kamala whom alia why do you make a figurehead of a God for us the way they've got these gods parlor in nakum almond touch alone he said that indeed your people so deep in your ignorance now you see this was the Israelites as they were emerging from Egypt they had a huge baggage a huge culture the piranhas quoting that they you see they would have seen

even though God is obviously God and they're accepting Moses but they would have seen Hussein or in Arabic or Zaid as as a divine figurehead like a semi the way people in India for example imagine they embrace Islam but they would still have a reverence for like Ron trade up they would think that you know at all Shriram was an amazing person and he had divine like a kind of a divinity not in the way you might think of God but a kind of divinity to him that he was the chosen or he was a son of God one might say especially in

the time in their language so hence were are literally a hoot or zero nip number so the early Jews had said that about Osiris and speaking on how much this culture of Osiris was embedded in Egyptian surroundings and Egyptian understanding is I speaking of the staff thing this the stick I want to take our attention to I know many people may disagree with me on this interpretation yeah but I want to take our attention to

surah taha yeah so you've got verse 17 yeah Allah addresses Moses and he says what man till capya me Makia what is that that you hold in your right hand [Laughter] you see now this verse is incredibly interesting why because what does moosa aleihsalaam respond with you see he says all I hear are sunny aasaiya he said that this is my staff my stick that a

Tabaco i Lee had that I you know I lean on it and what a host should be allowed under me and I use it when I'm you know seeing to my attending to my flock of sheep I will kind of use this stick and wall efe have Mahara and he says and I have other needs with this sticker so why do you think that you see the general understanding is that Moses why did he have this staff oh because he was a shepherd fair enough

I actually think part of this stick thing was the culture in which Moses grew up with the Pharaohs see the Pharaohs this stick and especially the pine cone staff was symbolic of Osiris that Osiris this thing this is nice that this is what he had and hence the Pharaohs all had it this kind of staff and Moses Elise and I'm grew up in that culture that this was the the power thing this was the slick thing this was the awesome thing to do to have a kind

of a stick like that and in some ways I feel that that's what Allah kind of just highlights not to criticize but to show that look that kind of connection and in these verses I feel Moses recognizes that and hence he doesn't answer it like that he says because Allah says it warmer tilaka be a meaning I am Muslim and what is that by the way in your right hand Carla here are saya he says it's my stick he could just stop thee he goes on

to justify why he has he to what Co Ali you know I mean on it how should be how I live under me I tend to my flock with it wali Fe inaudible ha you know and I've got other needs in his collar LT I am you know crappie and and then it appears to move now you see to me this verse demonstrates one the the kind of culture of the of the Pharaohs in which Moses grew

and he also shows on other coming back to a question we're looking at earlier on that there is no harm in having certain aspects of a culture so long as you don't really see that even if they were pagan istic but you don't see or affiliate to that paganism there's nothing wrong with that and to me this verse about Musa Allison is speaking about that so that you see with this in mind it makes perfect sense that yahood is the early Israelites and you can see when they leave Egypt in the Quran them

saying to Moses halana ila and Kamala Omaha you know they see these people worshiping statue they still have that sentiment it's still very fresh and Osiris would have been a very powerful figure so for the early Jews to think that he was a kind of he had an element of divinity to him just in the way that some if a Hindu was to convert to Islam but would still maybe hold that kind of position for arm it that makes a lot more sense to me that in this verse of

the Quran Jose is Osiris so I wanted to share that with you guys because a few people had asked me and although I had initially mentioned the Israel thing I was not too content with it myself I felt they didn't really fit nicely that it was kind of like a forced fit and this actually seems to make a lot of sense so I hope that's of some help people cool let's move on to some other questions