Qs The Quran doesn’t say the Prophet was “the best example”? | Mufti Abu Layth

like in the quran right isn't there the verse i i could be wrong definitely please correct me but something to the effect that allah says um um the uh prophet muhammad is uh is amongst the best of examples rather than saying perfect or the best allah very skillfully uses a way of describing the prophet that it leaves the door open that there could be other readings of the quran and that the prophet is one reading of many readings therefore in

that approach i would if i could use the prophet's life sunnah rather than the hadith the living tradition sunnah then that is one reading of allah's will i yeah i i think the verse you're referring to is rasulullah and that indeed in the messenger of allah you have a a fine beautiful a role model now yeah it could be both could be a role model could be an example could be so

you see now it true the wording doesn't say um that you know uh there is only you don't have no role models except in the prophet you have no uh so it doesn't say that but what i would like to say here is two things you see uh first of all why doesn't it say in that way um i because i feel that you see the quran and this is once again it shows because people sometimes accuse you know especially islamophobes will accuse the

prophet of of conjuring the quran and if it did he would have done it in a way if he had made it up to say i am the only example you ever have this is true this is not but that's not the wording of the quran because you see there are many things in life in which one will need an example the prophet salallahu alaihi sallam was not everything so he wasn't for example here to be an engineer and show you oh you want to do engineering do this he wasn't here to be a a doctor to say look oh by the way you

want the best medical practice be like this he wasn't he was here as the best guide to god and to show you how to serve humanity in in in trying to attain god this as a rasool as a nabi this is his this is what he was and he was the best there was and you see so it's not in in the in the seer of the prophet sallallahu alaihi sallam he uh he he the prophet questions once when they are um cross-pollinating their stock and he says oh that's strange why do you do that and they say well oh

okay we won't do it. and it messes up and the prophet says to them and they come complaining to the prophet prophet says why why do you do it he says well you said you found it strange he said i did find it strange you know you guys are more knowledgeable about your stuff and don't come to me about you know if one of you is the prophet he needed to navigate the desert once he called a person that was a skilled navigator he didn't say well everybody follow me he took the the right resources so in a similar way this is this is the and the second point i was

going to say so so this the theme you can see the quran being so just there yeah mentioning it in a way but not sealing it to say that the only you will have no other role model in anything you will in whatever in life you're seeking there will be role models for you you take the best from everything and you leave what's bad the other thing i want to follow this with is um you see this is more a um the kind of other that muslims have with the prophet salallahu and and this is really from our place of love for the prophet

that you see it's out of because to us like this whole um enlightenment this whole compassion bolstering it this whole teaching has come to us from the prophet the quran to us has been taught to us from the prophet salallahu see we wouldn't say it in a way where we juxtapose it as a comparison so i wouldn't say personally that look like in this way that look that the prophet is

a really good example except you also have other examples or if i was to say the prophet is a great example in deen but such and such is a great example in medicine i wouldn't you see to out of that love for the messenger of allah that we have you understand so to me that's it's it's more an issue of devotion as as as muslims it's not you're right there's not a technical thing is different and i don't think any the prophet never taught it like that that i'm the only you know don't if you want to know how to do horse riding you only come to me if you want to know harvesting only come to no no the

prophet never said and i don't think any muslim goes about it like that but we're just out of adap and out of love for the prophet and and the deen we we we express it in this way it's been quite a it's been quite a lengthy session i gotta wrap how do i join your discord group uh right so that's actually via patreon so if you go into patreon facebook it's got it here on just malm and on patreon i've got so there's just it's basically a kind of a subscribed uh kind of membership where people there's

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