# Was Jesus born of a virgin, and how could a jinn father a child?

*Pregnant nuns and the Y chromosome: a side note on the natural birth of Jesus*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/18/
- Date: 2020-04-22 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Shaykh Dr. Shabir Ally | Juxtaposing the Quran, Jumbling Aisha's age & Jinn Possession | MindTrap#16 (1:25:40–1:29:36)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsQKsrXndNw&t=5140s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/

**Topics:** Jesus in the Quran; Jinn possession; Guest conversations

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth says he has recently become inclined to the view of Abdul Karim Athari and Tamanna Imadi that Jesus was born naturally, since the Quran never explicitly states a virgin birth and 6:101 argues from the absence of a companion. The guest sets that controversy aside and says a jinn, being a different species, could not impregnate a woman.

## Longer summary

The guest continues that the medieval explanation of pregnant nuns by evil spirits is itself mind-boggling, since it is unclear how a spirit could impregnate a woman. He recalls putting to Christian friends in debates that if Jesus was born of his mother alone the child should have been female, since the Y chromosome does not come from the mother, and that a physician who debated him in Britain admitted the Y chromosome must have been created by God, which would make Jesus a creation of God, though he would not draw that conclusion. On a side note Mufti Abu Layth says he has recently become inclined to the view, held by scholars of the subcontinent such as Abdul Karim Athari and Tamanna Imadi, that Jesus was born of a natural birth, since the Quran never explicitly says it was a virgin birth, these scholars naming Joseph the carpenter as the father, and he cites the verse in which Allah argues against the Christians that he could not have a child since he has no companion, reasoning that would be flawed if Jesus had been born without one; he asks whether the guest shares this view. The guest declines to take on every controversy at once and returns to possession: jinn do not have human chromosomes, being a different species, so it makes no sense that they could intermarry with humans or make a woman pregnant.

## Sources and names cited

- Dr Shabir Ally (guest)
- Jesus (Isa)
- Abdul Karim Athari
- Tamanna Imadi
- Quran 6:101 (how can He have a child when He has no companion): https://quran.com/6/101
- jinn

## Transcript (machine tier, 1:25:40–1:29:36)

[1:25:00] know they jinn might even be a page in your Quran but but but I saw enough to real from it and and realize that no it cannot be the case plus I knew something from comparative religion that that helped my understanding in this regard you know in in in in medieval Christianity they there did there was of course monasticism and so monks lived in in their own Hermits and and the nuns lived in the non Aires and and yet the nuns were becoming pregnant so how did they explain this well they said well the jinns did this so they call them punk you buyer or suck you buy I don't

[1:25:40] remember the you know okay you know it you know it's this is the evil spirits that are doing this to them but then that too is mind-boggling because how how does the evil spirit cause the woman to become pregnant you know when sometimes wouldn't be in our debates we talked about a Saleh Salaam and how he was formed in the womb of his mother I mean I put to our Christian friends you know how if he just simply was born from his mother alone without

[1:26:18] any male intervention you would expect the child to be female for the child to be male it has to be a y-chromosome and that doesn't come from the mother so there was an actually if a physician in the UK who debated with me and and he actually admitted that the the y-chromosome must have been created by God so in that case Jesus would would be a creation of God but but he wouldn't take that he wouldn't reach that last conclusion but but now coming back to the jewelry on a side note before you come back to to that [ __ ] and we can come back to this later

[1:26:56] on again if you like you see in I am of the view and this is obviously a recent kind of thing that I've become inclined to that Jesus was born of a natural birth aleihsalaam and this certain were fussing like Maulana Abdul Karim Allah 30 and maulana a night of dirty and others as well that held that view india tov see that it was that the quran never explicitly says that it was a virgin birth and they mentioned the father to be use of amateur Joseph the carpenter I'm not sure if that is a view that you

[1:27:33] subscribe to but I mean I I do I have said that that is my understanding because the Quran itself if you look at the Quran it is arguing against like this a verse in of the Quran where Allah is condemning Christians and saying that look an ayah cool Allahu well it how could God have a child while I'm talking level sahiba and he did not have a female companion now according to this logic what God God's logic in this verse is flawed because they would say well Jesus was born without a companion so you know why is God using that as an

[1:28:13] argument against them I mean this was just amongst the things I'm not sure if you find yourself in amongst those thoughts well yeah obviously you know if we if we introduced all of the controversial is also going to be difficult so yeah as for the the Jen possession issue so I you know if we

[1:28:52] think about the idea of where the y-chromosome for Jesus come from and we have to say about God created that so you know how does the makes the woman pregnant like the Jin does not have human chromosomes because these are different species so how does the Jin and in the first place how do they intermarry with with the human race and in the second place how is it that they say that the Jin possesses the person and makes the person pregnant like it doesn't it doesn't make any sense like the way they say that and so now taking it a step further again from

[1:29:31] you know being informed by my comparative religion studies I in the Bible there is much mention of assadís and I'm driving out demons like he would go into a certain town and he drives out demons he goes into another town he's driving out demons once he drove out so many demons that they fell that demons pleaded with him okay there don't destroy us just put us into the herd of pigs and he put them into the herd of pigs and the herd of pigs immediately rushed off the cliff to their deaths well you know if Jesus is possessing all like driving out all of these demons this seems to be one of the chief miracles that he performs not

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment KsQKsrXndNw/s/18. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/ksqksrxndnw/s/18/

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