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The white minaret of Damascus: places that did not exist in the Prophet's time
hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis ahaadith masjid masjed masaajid masajid muftis sunna sunnat sunan prophetic practice al-dajjal dajjaal ad-dajjal antichrist koran quraan al-quran ulama ulema ulamaa subhan allah subhaanallah subhanallaah salam as-salamu alaykum assalamu alaikum assalamualaikum salaam salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam greeting deen ad-deen ad-din
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machinesummary, machine-writtenHadith placing Jesus's descent on a white minaret in Damascus describe a structure that did not exist in the Prophet's time; Mufti Abu Layth says such reports appeared once Damascus became the Umayyad capital.
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Mufti Abu Layth offers a thought experiment: a hadith foretelling a great event at Minar-e-Pakistan would be either a stunning prophecy or, as any reasonable person would say, a fabrication by passionate nationalists, since the tower did not exist in the Prophet's time. He says the hadith of Jesus descending on the white minaret east of Damascus is the same case: scholars identify it either with the minaret the Umayyads built decades after the Prophet when they turned a Damascus church into the Umayyad mosque, or with a white tower in Douma [?] built by Nur al-Din Zangi hundreds of years later. He notes in passing that Christ simply means Messiah, so Jesus Christ is a faithful rendering of al-Masih. He says Arabia had little contact with Damascus, which was under Roman and Christian rule in the Prophet's lifetime, yet after the capital moved there under the Umayyads hadith about Damascus suddenly abound and Jesus is to descend on a formerly Christian city, which he finds suspect.
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Mufti Abu Layth says hadith placing Jesus's descent at a white minaret in Damascus are suspect because no such minaret existed in the Prophet's time and Damascus became central only after it became the Umayyad capital.
“the Muslims move the capital to Damascus the Muslim capital ends up as Damascus all of a sudden subhanAllah there's so many hadith about Damascus now”
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the Dajjal is here they will rush back to Damascus when they get there the jail will not be there but Jesus Christ will descend upon them they will tell him to lead them in praise this is this is Asahi Constantinople's being conquered since over 600 years almost 600 years so the thing is we read Jesus Christ where is the Dajjal so these people now they going to twist this they're gonna say oh here but this doesn't mean that that doesn't mean that widening it is face it we've got a huge problem with the detail it clashes with the Quran it
clashes with the Sunnah of the so these things and you know what's interesting people here's an interesting hadith now tell me something if I told you if I told you guys this is a hadith now listen up listen up this is a hadith and in the future a time will come when a great event will take place next to menara to Pakistan with minar-e-pakistan this is a hadith let's say I said this is a hadith hmm so this can mean two things this can mean two things one either the Prophet subhanAllah prophesized that
they will be a great mineral Pakistan in the future and therefore he prophesized about this Tower of Pakistan which is amazing subhanAllah so this is a prophecy subhanAllah subhanAllah Bishop Bishop Bishop is Allah all other people would say wait a minute but there was no standing the time of the Prophet there was no me not at the bike standing the time the Prophet so this definitely sounds fabricated by some people who are just passionately nationalistic about Pakistan right am I am I wrong let's just be reasonable here like if you
heard this about any other religion wouldn't you say the same thing you would you'd say look that well that clearly sounds fabricated right so what does the hadith say hadith says Jesus Christ peace and blessings be upon him and Christ by the way simply means Messiah means Messiah okay so in Arabic Messiah in English Christ so in the Quran is referred to as an Messiah and in the hadith of Jesus Christ so Jesus Christ will descend Allen menara till Bava shar-pei Adam asked in the eastern part of Damascus Jesus Christ will come down on the white tower
on the white minaret okay on the white minaret hmm oh yeah there was no white mineral in the prophets time oh yeah I never thought about that the white minaret now all um I say this could refer to two minarets one which most scholars felt it - was the one built by the Umayyads bunny Omega during their so decades after the Prophet when the Muslims conquered Damascus which was under Christian rule and they took over the umayyad mosque which still stands today was originally a church so they built this white minaret and they have it done
white so this is what most scholars said the menorah told Babel where Jesus is going to land which by the way didn't exist in the prophets time the other opinion is it's the white minaret in hooter which recently came under attack may Allah grant peace and security to all its you know inhabitants are mean but in hudud is a white tower which was built by new routines engi hundreds and hundreds of years after the Prophet so guys is that and so a long belt should already be ringing hmm it's interesting
let me get this right people Arabia has no contact with Damascus yes some contact with Jerusalem very little contact with Damascus in the time of the Prophet Damascus is under the Roman Empire it's under Roman rule you know it's under their Christian thing nothing to do with the rape yet the Prophet lives his lifetime after he passes away after 30 years after the Prophet and so on moving forward the Muslims move the capital to Damascus the Muslim capital ends up as Damascus all of a sudden subhanAllah there's so many hadith about Damascus now
subhanAllah subhanAllah Bishop Bishop this it is that is this is this not suspect all of a sudden there's so many hadith about Damascus Damascus never had no relation with with he jars with the Prophet lived during his lifetime Muslims conquered Damascus right during how much time I mean they liberated then obviously beginning with mahalia of the Ilan and then after him you see then these people this becomes the capital of money umeå Damascus all of a sudden everything all the Hadees are about
Damascus all of a sudden Jesus is gonna come to Damascus which by the way was Christian and they converted to Islam like so am I the only one seeing wait a minute is a question mark here that mmm that's really interesting you know all of a sudden we get Damascus becomes the the center of the Islamic world all of a sudden and the prophets been speaking about Damascus for for so long apparently mmm and do you know something this and and then all of a sudden the key things what are the key places Jerusalem Damascus and what Alps Mount Sinai where does the Prophet Jesus
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@misc{abulayth-2018-03-13-S19, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{The white minaret of Damascus: places that did not exist in the Prophet's time}}, year = {2018}, month = {3}, date = {2018-03-13}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/19/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/nhzyu3bkbwe/s/19/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2018-03-13-S19, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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