Summary: The Quran and Evolution -Mufti Abu Layth

is that today certain scholars are calling for us to revisit our understanding of the Quran this is a problem some people have said in the past that Adam was in heaven and other people said that heaven was on earth it's not a problem evolution lifetime of sin yes a merciful

wouldn't propose opportunity of course a key question on on the punishment of the afterlife doesn't match the crime perpetrator in this it's not commensurate commensurate [Music] [Laughter] so right so mmm so what is what so what game is God playing yeah question so have you have you heard my responses to these before by the way Dena Tokyo

you've definitely I mean maybe I should wear a hijab in this together I'll have to send my research to her to make a video on it then you would have watched so that right so I've answered all of these in detail before evolution all of this kind of stuff I have shown that look there is a difference of opinion in Islamic understanding when we read the Quran the Quran actually in fact what I would advise you to do because I won't do it justice today I would advise you when

you get a moment watch my video which is a reply to Cheryl Adi so Shetty I said oddly when he made that hot wire which I'm pretty which a huge bulk of was the same that me in that he some of the challenges or the questions he presents is evolution and he says well these Muslims today some of them that say evolution is compatible with Islam and blah blah blah you know basically saying that this is nonsense so in my response I go through the Quranic verses that are in line with evolution and how do you want it like so

to to deny evolution you have to be radically interpreting so many verses of the Quran like this is like you know uh come up Laura they created you in stages but I'm but a communal Arlena but he grew you like plants out of the earth you'd have to be there's so many ways I go through the entire thing saying that look how would you when Allah says what you're an aluminum or wa ja alna mina Michael a Shane hey that we from a single source of life created everything

that was alive today that's a clear verse of the Quran so these verses clearly argue in line for things like evolution now one could say well there's other verses in the Quran things like you know a lot of thing I created Adam from you know with my two hands and things like this how do you understand those verses well if you would you're gonna have to end up interpreting one of these and in all honesty those verses to do with Allah saying things like that are usually not understood by people literally most Muslims don't understand

things like Allah saying oh look about two hands and I'm creating added they just understand that to mean affection and care and things like this that God is saying that he was very affectionate that Adam is like there was but Adam was special but this is the thing and and then I in my video I highlight the some very fascinating verses which are actually quite which pose problems to people that are very anti evolution when it comes to Adam because Allah says well of jalapeno in sana means Salah Latin main theme that we created in CERN from

a solar from a kind of a gooey extract of thene of kind of like clay or whatever but then it says that so much I'll know who fear God before that it says not fear karate machine right then we made him do all the way from Coventry bringing his head of the Koran with him right then we placed him as a drop of of semen in a firm kind of

environment which is the womb now the question is all the more serene that's like following on from a verse all the more for Syrian say the first thing well our collateral in Sun is Adam but then was either metropolis fell and then they say because there's too much I'll now who then we made him so here they've had to we defective force superimpose and interpretations like no this doesn't mean Adam this part he is not talking about other people okay fine but that's an interpretive then you have other verses by the way like things and I go through all of

these in details like when Allah says we created ma were we created man and woman and from them many by the way all of these verses that say that what Allah canal that we created mankind from a single soul the you know this theme in my head I mean has old Yajur and created from its partner it comes in about five or six different verses in the Quran it never mentions Adam in them although the word Adam is used for Adam on several occasions in the Quran it's it's used often I mean I think it's up to 25 times or something but it the word Adam Allah

doesn't you know uses Adams name on many occasions but whenever this verse comes that we created mankind from a single soul never says we created mankind from Adam never not in a single verse of the Quran but he says me enough sin were hater and then what's interesting in one of these Allah say is that I went from he created its partner and when he covered as in intimacy when they had sexual intercourse she was off child and Allah says and then as the pregnancy grew they made or are in lame air

tightness Holohan that lana kunin diminish arcanine if you give us a sound child we will be very grateful they made though I then Allah says when we gave them a sound child ja rule ja allah llahu shuriken them - they did she look with Allah was that Adam this is a new story we've never heard that story about Adam and then people say that was Adam because they have to because this is where mankind began look so they kind of then they say oh like if you read it literally the body and all these other more fastening they're gonna say well

hmm maybe this was a lesser kind of shaky deed like shape and said to him look they say feel a smile like he decided to name the son after false goddess or some person but he it's not that he really believed but it's nonsense like why are you degrading prophets like that so I feel that these we can revisit these beliefs do need to be revisited I don't feel it clashes with the Quran and I don't think it's it should be used to freak people out of Islam because today the problem is Islam has never clashed with science up until

today we are in a very kind of like history in the making Islam has never clashed with science in our history up until today where through genetic DNA we can see that evolution existed not just through fossils fossils is the weaker evidence today through DNA and Islam sorry the interpretation of Islam by many people is no so for the first time in Islamic history Islam is plashing with science that has

never happened so yes so if that answers the