# Who is Uzair mentioned in the Quran? *Who is Uzair in the Quran? The Ezra reading and its problems* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gdlcbtkyhgm/s/1/ - Date: 2019-12-29 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Who is Uzair in the Quran? Ezra or Osiris? | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–5:45) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdlCbTkYHgM&t=0s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gdlcbtkyhgm/ **Topics:** Contested verses; The ancient Near East and scripture; Christians and other faiths **Question as asked:** Who is Uzair in the Quran? **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth says the common reading of Uzair as Ezra does not really fit, since Jews never called Ezra the son of God. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says the interpretation of Uzair as Ezra does not really fit the bill and can only be a forced fit. **Evidence, his words at 3:47:** “this interpretation of it being Ezra doesn't really fit the bill I mean you can you can do a force fit” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdlCbTkYHgM&t=227s) ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth takes up the question of who Uzair is in the Quran, saying he had earlier given the usual answer from the tafsir works that it is Ezra. Mufti reads Surah al-Tawbah 9:30, where the Jews are said to call Uzair the son of God and the Christians the Messiah. Mufti explains that Ezra is the scribe who pieced the Torah back together after the Babylonian captivity, which led some commentators to say the Jews gave him a godlike status. Mufti says this interpretation does not really fit, since Jews say they never called Ezra the son of God, the claim that some Jews in Yemen did so has not been proven, and the verse speaks of the Jews as a group. ## Sources and names cited - Quran 9:30: https://quran.com/9/30 - Ezra - Isa (Jesus) - Torah - the Israelites in Babylon - tafsir ## Transcript (machine tier, 0:00–5:45) [0:00] 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 [0:33] 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 [1:13] colleton Yahoo Yahoo - Jose run even Allah and some people did read it as was a Reuben Allah but in the general rewire was a rune Abdullah that was a the Jewish the Jews said that Hosea is the son of God were Paulette in Massaro al maseeh abdullah saleh whom and the christian said that jesus is the son of God the Elohim before him that is the what they say with their mouths that is a statement that they have brought forward you BA you love Allah mentions [1:51] 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 [2:30] 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 [3:08] 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 [3:47] 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 [4:26] 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 [5:05] 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 [5:44] 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 ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment GdlCbTkYHgM/s/1. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gdlcbtkyhgm/s/1/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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