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Miraculous events described in Qur'an always have natural explanations - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki

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so people you know we're hooked up on miracles we have this kind of obsession about miracles and you know Jesus is gonna come this is a miracle or this is gonna happen it's a miracle and everybody just wants supernatural events to happen but they don't happen and this is why they keep getting ridiculed by non-muslims and atheist so my suggestion is to strip the this folklore and superstition away from Islam go to the pure understanding of Islam and keep that as two things mentioned in the Quran stories in the Quran you have to

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remember when Allah mentioned in the Quran about stories there was an objective why he mentioned them the objective was that you take a kind of a lesson from them it was not about the kind of miracle per se now Allah was not trying to teach biology when he was teaching a story he was not trying to teach physics wasn't trying to teach geography so you don't make your lessons out of those stories you take what Allah said and you keep it to what he has said you can speculate that's up to you but

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what he hasn't said don't add you can say this is my interpretation I'm inferring this from what Allah has said but don't say Allah has said that that's different so Allah when he speaks of certain events that were miraculous that appear miraculous he was the the purpose was law was not mentioning much detail he was just mentioning something

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2018, April 20). Miraculous events described in Qur'an always have natural explanations - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gtjxvc3gedc/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2018. "Miraculous events described in Qur'an always have natural explanations - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki." Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded April 20, 2018. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gtjxvc3gedc/
BibTeX 
@misc{abulayth-GTjxvC3gEDc,
  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Miraculous events described in Qur'an always have natural explanations - Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki}},
  year = {2018},
  month = {4},
  date = {2018-04-20},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gtjxvc3gedc/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/gtjxvc3gedc/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}