Recordings › Discussion on Miracles: A fallacy against God | Mufti Abu Layth · 13 Oct 2020 › Segment 6 of 14
Why do most Muslims believe in the virgin birth?
muftis iman imaan eemaan eeman koran quraan al-quran ulema ulamaa scholarsWhy the virgin birth became the majority belief
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth says the belief spread through the dominance of the Christian narrative across the empires surrounding Arabia.
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Mufti Abu Layth says many ulama held his view, though the majority believe in a virgin birth. He attributes that belief to the mass proliferation of the Christian narrative, since Christian powers surrounded Arabia, the Byzantines to the north and the South Arabian and Aksumite kingdoms to the south, with only the Hijaz in the middle. He raises the question of why the Quran did not clearly condemn the belief, and the caller answers that some things are left to faith, asking how Adam was created if not from nothing.
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Mufti Abu Layth says belief in the virgin birth spread among Muslims through the mass proliferation of the Christian narrative around Arabia.
“now what simply led to it is the mass proliferation of the christian myth that this had happened because the christians had this myth that was everywhere”
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i don't know if that makes sense now i get the fact that most people not all they have been by the way they've been many ulama that have this view that i'm saying there have been many that have held this belief but the majority don't so the majority would believe that look jesus was born of a virgin birth now why do they believe this that and you see now that we where i would look into the kind of the the causative elements that what led to that belief now what simply led to it is the mass
proliferation of the christian myth that this had happened because the christians had this myth that was everywhere because the christian empires the byzantines in the north you had the southern arabian kingdom and the oximite kingdoms in the south that the christians had enveloped the whole you know you just had hijaz in the middle really which is just you know wasn't really christian but otherwise christians were everywhere so this belief made people and then the quran okay here comes an interesting question why didn't the quran just clearly condemn this why didn't he say that
because you know god could have just made it very clear correctly yeah i i think that's part of faith you know there are certain things that is there that is for you to think and for you to have faith certain things and in that case how was adam alaihissalam created he wasn't created from another mother or or you know on our biological something he was created from nothing right so yeah no we will come to that but why why would we think adam was created from nothing
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@misc{abulayth-2020-10-13-S06, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{Why do most Muslims believe in the virgin birth?}}, year = {2020}, month = {10}, date = {2020-10-13}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hiu1gjszg1e/s/6/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hiu1gjszg1e/s/6/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2020-10-13-S06, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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