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Will Allah judge someone who follows only the Quran by the Quran alone?
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth will not speak on who is saved: he finds it arrogant for a human to presume where anyone ends up, since Allah's mercy encompasses everything. We should concern ourselves with our own path.
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A caller says he keeps getting into discussions with a local Quranist group, that he is not completely against them and finds truth in their view, and puts forward his own idea: the Quran can be misinterpreted because language is understood differently, but on the Day of Judgement Allah may judge someone who had only the Quran by the Quran, since the doors of paradise are wide, while those who take the narrower ways of the various groups have confined themselves. Mufti Abu Layth says the question has several layers. On the first, salvation in the hereafter, he says he personally finds it very arrogant for a human to presume who will go where, since Allah's mercy encompasses all creation and only Allah knows how He will treat people. He says nobody should go around telling others they are going to hell; we concern ourselves with our own path and serve people.
Question as read aloud · questioner not identifiedIf someone follows only the Quran, even if they misinterpret it, would Allah hold them only to the Quran on the Day of Judgement, since the doors of heaven are wide?
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Mufti Abu Layth says that he personally finds it very arrogant for a human to presume who will go where in the afterlife, which only Allah knows.
“this is me personally i always find it very arrogant to to assume on these matters about who will go where in the afterlife”
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that i was talking to a quranist okay there is a huge quranist group here in arizona um it's in tucson actually tucson is a city south of phoenix i'm actually in phoenix so um every time i go there it's like i'm not trying to have any problems with anybody but i feel like every time i go there it's like they notice like different things about me like i'm praying sunnah prayer okay i get it it's not in the quran okay and then it comes up and i always make this personal intention that i'm just a i'm a nobody and i don't want to argue with anybody that's why i have
no problem with christians jews atheists yeah look look they all have free will i have free will subhanallah you know uh it's okay but for some reason i feel like i'm always getting into these discussions with the quranis and i'm not actually completely against them i actually think that there's a lot of truth in it for example i think the prophet was the first queen honest i think i actually think he was the first quran that is because he wasn't following any others you know well i'm just saying is that and then and then so when i so i've actually come up with my own idea
and i know it needs to be cleaned up a little bit but my idea is that allah has sent the quran and if somebody follows the quran um there's a possibility that they misinterpret it it's possible it's very possible no it's not it's very it's very very possible because the quran is in language and we all understand language differently yeah so so if i was to look at the quran only yes there's no sunnah prayer there's no enough prayer but i feel like on the day of judgment if that's all i had i think allah i'm just saying i think allah would say well
the gate the doors of gay the doors of heaven are very wide if all you had is the quran but if you're going to use the narrow hallways of these different org groups you know the salafis and the sunnis and the shias then you've confined yourself and that's okay too because that's a reading meaning meaning it's one way of reading the quran in in that depth but i feel like one of the mercies of allah is that everybody does not have to be at that level that allah's graciousness is so great that las vegas like you know what yeah i know i sent the messenger and the
messenger went to such a degree and then there's all these other people that have actually created these other divisions but not so different but i'm only going to hold you to the quran and you see what i what i would say to this is that right because there's there's many uh layers to that question so the the first layer that you're
asking about from god's perspective you see now and the ahira the eschatological we're looking at who has salvation in the afterlife and you see these things really no i always find it this is me personally i always find it very arrogant to to assume on these matters about who will go where in the afterlife and who will you know i'm this measly human who can't you know figure out stuff in this human life and here here i am trying to talk on matters
about god's decree it's not really doesn't befit me as a human uh i i don't this is me personally i i find it almost as very you know stupendously arrogant to try attempt that so i wouldn't speak on things like that you see allah's mercy encompasses all his creation it encompasses all and only allah knows what he will do and what he how he treats we just we just deal with ourselves in this world that's what i would say so nobody can be going around telling you're going to hell that guy is definitely going to hell this woman's definitely going to hell
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