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Is someone who says something wrong about the Prophet guilty of blasphemy?

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Mufti Tariq Masood was wrong, but a mistake is not blasphemy

DiscussionRecorded 29 Sep 2024On Current EventsSegment 2 of 5 in the recording2024-09-29-S02

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Not when there was no such intention: Mufti Abu Layth says Mufti Tariq Masood was clearly wrong, but he meant to praise the Prophet, so calling him a blasphemer is unacceptable.

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Mufti Abu Layth says Mufti Tariq Masood was clearly wrong, since there are no grammatical errors in the Quran. Mufti says the majority hold that the Prophet did not read or write, though a substantial number disagreed, among them the Andalusian scholar Abu al-Walid al-Baji [?], who wrote a book on it; he calls that a legitimate disagreement, but says the claim that mistaken writing was preserved was categorically wrong, adding that the first dictionary, by al-Khalil ibn Ahmad [?], came generations after the Prophet. He then says that people who make a mistake are not blaspheming even when the mistake is horrendous, citing the hadith of the man who finds his lost camel and in his joy says 'You are my servant and I am your Lord', which is not counted as disbelief because he did not intend it. He says the speaker meant to praise the Prophet, so jumping to call him a kafir or a blasphemer is unacceptable.

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Mufti Abu Layth says that when people make mistakes it does not mean they are blaspheming, even if the mistake is horrendous.

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“when people make mistakes it does not mean that they are Blas feing even if they get it wrong even if it's horrendous that's not their intention”

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character that this we this Dean is one of Love ease and mercy that that give good tidings do not scare people away you know make things easy that is a so this call for uh this kind of bloodthirsty call to say that whenever somebody you know makes a mistake I mean let's be clear that muik

5:11

Mas clearly was 100% wrong in what he was saying clearly I mean first of all there are no grammatical errors in the Quran secondly okay the the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam according to fair enough the majority opinion is that the Prophet uh did not read and write but there are substantial who have felt that he could read and write though although he was not somebody that would do that and one of the leading Scholars um of of Muslim

5:49

Spain Abul W Ali almost from a thousand years ago he dedicated an entire book to that um called and he brought evidence and showed that but this is not the the point that could be an ILY uh disagreement people could say you know hold one position or another but this thing that the the prophet was unaware of people writing down mistakes and then the Quran being preserved this was categorically wrong he was uh clearly mistaken and he said that you know you

6:28

could tell by the dictionaries of the time the first real dictionary comes Generations after the prophet it's authored by KH ahed ahed alidi the teacher of cway and it's called there were no dictionaries so to speak the dictionaries followed the Quran so just to be clear on that that said when people make mistakes it does not mean that they are Blas feing even if they get it wrong even if it's horrendous that's not their intention you know there is a famous

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Hadith that the prophet says that a person he loses his camel in the desert and and he's almost dying of thirst and and he has all of his uh equipment and and his food and drink on this camel and and it goes missing and he and he's stranded and just as he's on the brink of Despair he he sees his camel and he's so EX static with joy he he's you know he runs up to it he Embraces it and he thanks Allah and he's so you know overcome with this Ecstasy of joy that he says Ya Allah you know uh

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you know and he gets it wrong he's trying to say that you know truly you are my Lord I am your person he says you are my person I am your lord the Propet said this in a that this is what his Lan his his tongue ends up saying you see it doesn't make it kufur in the sense that they didn't intend to say that so we have to be careful that when somebody says something even if it is utterly wrong and inaccurate they all clearly

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made a mistake or whether it's a difference of opinion or whether it's a minority opinion or whether it's just completely off the mark like this that the prophet you know was unaware of these mistakes the point is the person saying it is saying it in a context where they're somehow trying to praise the prophet now it's come off um you know it's on its head but what the context is they're trying to praise the prophet in saying look even though the prophet was somebody that didn't read and write he

9:06

he he brought the world to education and so their intention is good although they you know they may miss the mark and get it wrong so to just jump up with this person is a cfir they've blasphemed they are a mad this is unacceptable this is not the way of this thing okay what I want to do is also I want to show as well I'll show you this actual masalah this matter that Mi T Mas has brought up there's a particular

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verse of the Quran from that that we will seize them by their for loocks on the day of judgment and whether this is primarily referring to Abu jahal and then other people by extension but before this I just want to say that you know there mu T Mas Sab and other people have come out and they've made videos now saying that look I didn't mean this and for blasphemy one must look at intention now and that is absolutely

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