# Why does Mufti Abu Layth hold views that most scholars disagree with? *Where does he get his beliefs from, against the majority of scholars?* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hiu1gjszg1e/s/1/ - Date: 2020-10-13 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Discussion on Miracles: A fallacy against God | Mufti Abu Layth (0:07–3:56) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIU1GJSzg1E&t=7s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hiu1gjszg1e/ **Topics:** Reason and revelation; The second coming of Jesus **Question as asked:** When you make these interpretations or beliefs yourself, how are you basing them differently from all the other madhhabs, even the Malikis? What are you using as a source? **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth takes his beliefs from the Quran in the light of reason, since God calls people to faith through reason, and tests whether a belief is coherent as a whole. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says he takes his beliefs from the Quran in the light of reason, since God calls people to faith based on reason. **Evidence, his words at 2:03:** “i'm getting my beliefs from the quran but in light of the voice of reason so i do i believe that look allah calls us to faith based on reason” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIU1GJSzg1E&t=123s) ## Longer summary A caller says he has listened to Mufti Abu Layth's talks on the return of Jesus and to his critics, and asks on what source he bases interpretations that the majority of scholars, Malikis included, disagree with. Mufti says someone recently asked him something similar about Jesus having a biological father, and whether he was just trying to be different. He says he takes his beliefs from the Quran in the light of reason, since God calls people to faith on the basis of reason and would not then ask them to believe what goes against it. He adds that he asks whether a belief makes sense holistically and coherently, giving the example of a man living alone in the cosmos for millennia, which reason would not generally accept. ## Sources and names cited - Isa (Jesus) - Maliki school ## Transcript (machine tier, 0:07–3:56) [0:06] um my question was regarding i have listened to some of your talks in regards to the resurrection of jesus peace be upon him and your stand as a maliki and um i have also listened to you know your critics and um it seems like a majority of scholars you know from different methods they disagree with you and your interpretation of things so when you make these interpretations yourself or these uh beliefs yourself what are you how are you basing it differently than all the other mud hubs even the molecules you know what are you using as [0:45] a source you see that that's a very uh good question i mean people have asked me sometimes in fact somebody i don't know whether it was today you sorry whether it was yesterday or the day before i sometimes i lose the sense of time but uh somebody very recently was asking me as well that look uh about uh an issue to do with jesus and my belief on jesus actually that wasn't to do with the resurrection that was more to do with whether he had a biological father and the issue that the question that they asked me as well was that mufti you know where are you getting [1:25] this from is this i understand you know you're doing this but what what what are your motivations behind saying this and doing this are you just trying to be different from the christians or are you trying to is that is that the purpose and i think that's what the person assumed because he was saying you know and uh but isn't this causing greater harm you know you're trying to and but i mean in a similar way to your question uh by the way sorry like within what what do we call you abdul malik malik number one [2:03] the famous caliph but still right so right so i've done malik but this question that look where am i getting first first of all where am i getting my kind of beliefs from secondly why why am i going out with these kind of beliefs that it's a kind of like a slight follow-up so i'm getting my beliefs from the quran but in light of the voice of reason so i do i believe that look allah calls [2:39] us to faith based on reason so it doesn't make sense that he would call us to believe based on reason and then tell us to believe in something which goes against reason this is one part of the of the belief uh of what um what powers certain perspectives that i then take it is the voice of reason um secondly i do you know analyzing certain things i look at it and i do think like holistically [3:17] does this make sense i mean one is from a reason perspective but one is does it make sense comprehensively like within itself so the jesus thing is a is a good example because one is the from the reason perspective you know can a human being just be living up there in the cosmos just on his own he's just floating in mid cosmos somewhere this obviously is from a reason perspective that's not a belief that reason would generally accept okay but i'm sorry to cut you but if you start [3:55] using our reason then we could reason and question everything we could reason even uh the encounter of jibrael with prophet muhammad right so they say that one of the first persons who used reason was iblis because he was asked to prostrate in front of adam and he used reason by saying that no i'm made of fire he's made of dirt why should i so isn't part of is it wasn't part of belief also that it's fate that's something we don't have to understand everything that we expected that's a very good question uh abdul malik first and firstly the police iblis was ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment HIU1GJSzg1E/s/1. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hiu1gjszg1e/s/1/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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