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Why does Mufti Abu Layth not believe Jesus will return?

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Coherence: why belief in Jesus's return collapses, and the caller's objection

DiscussionRecorded 13 Oct 2020Segment 3 of 14 in the recording2020-10-13-S03

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What collapsed the belief for him was its incoherence: a this-worldly event so spectacular must have a purpose, and the answers given raise hundreds more questions.

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Mufti Abu Layth says that beyond reason he looks at coherence: unseen matters such as the afterlife are not absurd, just unprovable, and need little explanation, but when a belief concerns this world, such as a prophet coming back, one has the right to ask its purpose. He says what really collapsed the belief in Jesus's return for him was its incoherence, the answers raising hundreds of other questions. The caller asks whether by that reasoning one should question the virgin birth, or Yunus surviving inside a whale, saying God is not limited by nature, our minds are limited, and some things are simply part of faith.

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Mufti Abu Layth says what really collapsed for him the belief that Jesus will come back was its incoherence.

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“but what really collapsed that belief that let's say jesus will come back is the fact the incoherence of the matter”

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particular light that float around like a spirit you know they've got a wings and they do this and they they look like humans except they float and but this the quran never really ever said anything like this but we what we do is we just use our imagination and i'm not saying using our imagination is a bad thing it's fine but the problem is when we take that figment and then concretize it and assume anything else is wrong that becomes the problem now coming back to the main question that you see when we see the belief of jesus

7:08

one was the reason aspect but not just the reason the reason okay the fact that somebody lived for like i said in the cosmos this from a natural perspective is absurd but put that aside because even if we do not believe that let's say we don't believe that that's not how it's happening fine let's look at it from a comprehensive perspective a coherence perspective everything has to come together uh in a holistic way to make sense and that question is this when we believe in something should there be a reason why we believe in it so there's some

7:47

things which for example are unseen to us like there's going to be an afterlife okay okay fair enough we also as a human as human beings tend to have a yearning which makes us feel that we will live forever anyway now this concept is not necessarily uh absurd it's just not provable and that's fine but we accept that let's say a person accepts it now the question here is okay is there a reason fine but we don't as human beings when we're talking about things that do not involve us in this world

8:27

we don't need so much much of an explanation because they become things of the absolute unseen now when we're going to talk about this world things of this world and somebody presents a belief should that not have a an objective behind like if i said to you that look by the way a prophet is going to come back so you i feel have the full right to ask okay why there's there's nothing wrong in us in fact i would feel it's right to ask

9:06

that okay what is the purpose what is the mission if god is going to do something so spectacular that then there must be an objective behind it now when you start asking these questions about things like let's say jesus what happens is everything falls to pieces and this is where the problem arises so my thing my belief on jesus as an example yes it did have the the reason based angle to it but what really collapsed that belief that let's say jesus will come back

9:44

is the fact the incoherence of the matter it is so contradictory like within itself like when people say so for example why is he coming back they it's it's absurd like what they will say that what the answers they give give rise to hundreds of other questions based on that then um the miraculous birth of jesus peace be upon him so then uh you would question that too it's like why why would i question it because you will be using your reasoning say in order to have a baby you know biologically physiologically you need to have the sperm you need to

10:23

have the egg you need to have the ovulation and the whole process and i i do believe and this was i've said i have a whole video on this called the virgin birth yeah i saw that and and uh you're saying how it doesn't say that mary was speaking at the moment that she wasn't uh having a husband right but then uh so if you believe in allah and his uh you know so mary by the way unlimited powers and you know if he makes he creates something he has the power to go against the creation he's not limited by he's not limited by the forces of you know

11:01

that nature thing in that case you know the prophet that was inside a whale so physiologically biologically explained to me how could he have survived so these are the things that i'm saying that our mind is limited our sight is limited how we think of things are limited there are certain things that we just you know as part of our fate so there's no need to question it or find reason for us to understand it and those traps and i think it's profound because once you start questioning one thing then you're going to start questioning something else sure now you see this is now okay i'm going to answer those questions actually i want to answer them

11:39

right but just before i do i want to make clear that you see i'm not saying to people just so we are clear and this is for the poorest more so i'm not saying you necessarily having this impression i'm not saying to the viewers that they need to uh be like me and think like me and question things and be have like a critical cap on when they looking at faith matters or i'm not saying that at all and i'm not saying to people that they should reject these beliefs what i'm saying is that look to some people they will be like you're saying that

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, October 13). Why does Mufti Abu Layth not believe Jesus will return? [Video, segment 2020-10-13-S03, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hiu1gjszg1e/s/3/
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