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Did Ibn Ashur say Jesus was raised alive and will return?
hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith tafseer exegesis tafasir tafaseer commentary malik ibn anas malik bin anas imam maalik imam malik ibn anas imaam imams prayer leader maaliki malikite malikiyyah maliki school muftis imaan eemaan eeman faith koran quraan al-quran sura soorah surat suwar soora chapter ayah aya ayat ayaat aayah aayat sahabah sahaba sahabi sahabiyyah sahabiyat 'alim aalim sheikh shaikh sheik shuyukh shaykhs deen al-din ad-deen ad-dinA preacher's post on Ibn Ashur and the second coming: what the tafsir says
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth says a preacher's post misquotes the tafsir it cites, which takes the verse to mean Jesus really died and leaves how he was raised open to interpretation.
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Mufti Abu Layth turns to the preacher he calls Shaykh Shadi, punning that 'shadi' can mean monkey, says he has a video on the man's incompetence and questions his PhD, and shows the preacher's Instagram post on a Maliki scholar, Ibn Ashur [?], and the second coming of Jesus. He says the post portrays the scholar as holding that Jesus was raised miraculously alive with everything else doubtful, and that a group of Companions narrate hadith of the second coming with nothing in the Quran against it. Reading the tafsir on screen, Mufti says it states only that what must be believed from the Quran is that Jesus was not killed or crucified and that God raised and saved him, and that how this happened is subject to interpretation. He shows that on the verse 'I am giving you death' (3:55) the tafsir takes the apparent meaning of a real death, rejects reading it as sleep, points to Jesus speaking in Surah al-Ma'idah as one who had already died, and cites Imam Malik's view that Jesus died while the early authorities stayed silent on how. The tafsir adds, he says, that texts saying Jesus is alive are better read as an honorific life, as with martyrs.
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[Music] it this wit sh Shadi Shadi because Shadi the word Shadi can also mean monkey in so I don't know whether it's because of that reason shik Shadi decides to um do more monkey business but I have a video on the incompetence of this man God knows how he achieved that PhD which I did say by the way I do believe
that PhD thing is a partial scam as well but tell her another day another day another day that doesn't concern me you see your personal scams live it man live it live the life brother brother live it man this is so that is your personal thing I've got no issues with however you want to do one to four 4 to one but uh when you start preaching the religion rather this one big problem you know this one big problem so what we've
got now is uh those of you that are familiar shik Shadi made a uh he made a an Instagram post where he decided to speak about the Maliki Legend and the controversial topic of the second coming of Jesus [Laughter] Christ so what say this one H what say so there you can see people [Music]
Dr he says uh now you could the opinion of Islam he is Islam on the second coming now look at the misquoting he mentions two key points here one and what one must believe in accordance to the text of the Quran is that isaam was neither killed nor crucified okay but Allah has raised him to himself and saved now look look how he's portraying it he's portraying first of all as though Allah has raised him miraculously alive life this is how he's portraying and he's remember this is his
quoting he's quot he's quoting this so he says uh uh from those saved him from those who are pursuing him and anything else is a matter of doubt anything else is doubtful AB is doubtful this one second Point second Point Shadi strike twice they say lightning never strikes twice but Shad Mubarak strikes twice so Shad Mubarak says uh he says second part he says he quotes
again a group of the companions of the messenger of Allah narrate aith about the second coming of Isa so group of companions narrate then uh and there is nothing in the Quran that goes against the second coming of Isa in the last days so obviously you know when
something like that is going to happen you're going to get me I have to kind of like do my little spice to that so I made a comment as you can see here on his post uh so I said look uh I hope you read it properly the clock is ticking for Monday night tick tock tick [Laughter] tock L and behold people I
thought inside you know the actual ways insan you know but I like the way a particular person says it he says he says it almost in that pigeon insan so I thought isn't since I've also got this work oh
o o o o so I thought yeah what is uh M so the first quote I find but I'm not going to leave you guys out of it there it is my beloveds right so he writes here he says this is what is mandatory to believe in in light of the Quran that Jesus was not killed and was not
crucified and then he says and Allah raises him but and he saves him from the people who are trying to kill him as to what is other than that meaning how does he go up was it an actual death was it does he dilate Ron does he go up alive does he say you know how does this happen he
says not Shadi says everything else is a matter of [Music] that no he says everything else is is everything else he says he doesn't say everything else he says the other matters of how this happened says these matters are subject to subject to interpretation okay and then he goes on to say and I've discussed this I discuss it previously I discuss
it in the verse of the Quran in Surah Ali Imran let's go to Surah Al Iman what this one because there's a second Point remember there's nothing in the Quran that goes against this this uh um this you know there's nothing as he said there's nothing uh in the Quran that goes against that so let's see man let's see so this you naughty naughty is all right so this is the verse that you can see uh is
now to do the famous verse to do with I am giving you death what does Sayo what this one he says as you can see there the apparent reading of the Quran is I'm giving you death says and then he goes on and he justifies why because that's what death actually means and he goes on to say
that so he says that is just a majazi you know people could say sleep is a like the sister of death he says yes but that's a metap and he goes on to say here uh let's just check if that is in the in the next one have I got the clip up there um right so anyway here I've got it right here he is saying if I just on
[Music] moment if I just come back to here clearly he's saying he goes on to say this is page 108 that this shows that that he has that the known death this is the death it's talking about and he says why because if you read in Surah ma it's even clearer because in Surah ma Jesus is speaking that he had already been dead so he
says and to say that Jesus had just gone to sleep and was raised there is no meaning to this it doesn't even make sense um so he goes on now this you can see here let me just bring it up he mentions so some people did this they did an interpretation to say it meant like this and it meant like that how did he happen how was he raised and what you know what are these interpretations so he says was and you can see here it's quoted he says uh
uh to it is the wa of death that Jesus has and this is the apparent reading of Malik in and prior to that sentence he says uh you can see it here um just trying to see if it's in this one as well but here it he does mention that Malik how did how was Jesus killed he says
abik Malik that they that they were quiet we don't know how they just remained silent they did not describe how this could have happened and he says and he says and that was that they were successful in that approach that that was the approach of success um and you can see here he quotes Imam Malik's quote that of Jesus having an actual death so this is uh
people's this is in U all right that was here as well let me show that to you this is here Imam Malik and where I've put the red line that they stayed silent about how he died and that was the and if you move on this is still speaking uh real death once again quoting see I'm giving you death upon its literal this is quoting it I've got it right there on the screen so you can read it um and he
says that look he says he says if you have some text saying Jesus is Alive it's better to interpret those to mean a kind of Life of honoring like the way we say uh uh Martyrs are alive this is like a kind of uh a it's an honorific speak okay in saying that you know we don't call them dead we call them that they are living you know with God that's
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