Islam Revisionists on Islam | Mufti Abu Layth

you see they say people feel that in the time of Abdul Malik in number one Islam seems to undergo a renovation and I think there's some truth some truth to that I think there is some truth to that maybe I don't you see I don't put it down to necessarily sinister reasons though a lot of the Islam revisionists they will put this down to sinister reasons like they will say Islam was made up by of the molecule number one

that he made everything up you know I think that's very difficult to believe even some of the other revisionists like even Fred Donner and other people said look that's very unlikely because for you know the amount of effort that it would have been required you know optimally cube number one to to conduct to construct this figure the Prophet Muhammad sallallaahu lives on because they said like he made him up this was what some people felt and he

made up the entire Islam for one Calif to have pulled that off it was you know it's easier that because if you're looking at this from an anthropological perspective just as an anthropologist you're gonna go for the easiest option like the most likely the most doable human option it's easier for the Prophet to have existed then for Abdul Malik to have pull this off as an entire stunt like that's much more incredible and

unlikely for one person to have pulled off such a a concoction of Islamic history culture or on legacy religion passion everything it's very very unlikely because Abdul Malik apna Marwan although he was a great you know I'm sure it was a great charismatic person and he was obviously had great initiative and was in his own right you know a very powerful leader but the level of charm and charisma and power and influence you'd need to pull off a stunt like that it's easier and much

more believable that the Prophet Muhammad sallallaahu lism actually existed do you understand so that's from a historian perspective that said today historians have actually uncovered several Byzantine and other writers who were in the time of the Prophet who actually mentioned the Prophet maybe a year or two after him passing away so Allah leaves to them when they mention him as Muhammad or Muhammad and they speak about him this man from Arabia with who has a religion and they obviously don't have generally they don't praise him they don't believe in the Prophet but they say this person and

some of them described him as oh you know he has a band of like kind of nomad nomads who are Raiders and things like this but they do speak of him and this is um you know it's categorical proof that he existed so yeah so I mean I'm sorry of slightly digress there yes so my point was that people feel that because Abdul Malik no Marwan the oldest coins you have in Islam go back to him so where it says like his inscripted la ilaha il-allah things like this the Dome

of the rock was built by him that's actually an interesting question why he built the Dome of the rock it makes it doesn't make as much sense actually I think it may have been to rival a kind of holy ground but it doesn't actually make much sense the Dome of the rock rock the Masjid you know the actual Cooper to saw that the the golden dome mosque that you have today in Jerusalem this was built by Abdul Malik am no Marwan and some of the oldest inscriptions of the Quran you have still they that are in some of the

ambulatory some other walkways internal walkways there actually date back to his time some of them now a lot of it has been renewed over the ages but there are some old inscriptions that have been archaeologically kind of checked and dated so this is why they feel everything goes back to a lot of things go back to him he's also one of the in his time mandated that people take of Arabic as the as them as the official lingua franca because even in the early Sahaba time the Muslims may have been writing in Arabic on their own but the

main records they kept in other places were in their languages so they would have kept the Greek records in Greek they would have kept the Persian ones in Persian they would things weren't arriba sized and and a lot of Muslims used to use the Greek the Byzantine kind of scribes to do the writing and it's in other molecule number ones time that he passes the the II D to say that right everything's gonna be in Arabic and it creates a bit of a storm but by doing so he actually propels the Arabic language to magnitudes that were unforeseeable

before so I mean it is amazing and one of the stories has it that he I mean this is one of the stories that they say that the scribe that they used to have the person who do the documents he was a Byzantine a lot of them were monks sometimes because they could read and write Christian monks but this Christian they say that he actually urinated he needed to take a leak and he couldn't be bothered so he urinated in the ink pot

he's like target it's like target engaged that's gotta be I mean if this is a massive ink pot because as most men know it doesn't matter how good you think your target is the command the chain of command just does not follow it's like it's like okay target engaged and then he's that way you're like okay what's going on here why can't you follow a simple chain of command I'm

looking over there aim over there what's this what kind of cluster bombs are you dropping so this so yes so this scribe what he did was he urinated in the ink pot this is what the myth has it and this news reached Abdul Malik and he said that what the hell you know is this what they're doing and we're writing we're using them to write our kind of you know holy stuff as well or other

stuff as well which has you know names of God in the air or things like this and so he said enough I'm not gonna use them we're gonna use our wrong people and our own script so the myth has it whatever it was but Abdul Malik definitely you know he is a huge kind of an epicenter for where things just drastically change so yeah now with him that they do feel that this term Islam is brought more to the forefront in his lifetime it may be it may be that he kind of brought that more to the

forefront these things once again they don't really impact us as Muslims like we're not we shouldn't become insecure it's not a you know it's not you know it's not a big deal like that it's a nuanced change but it's nothing you know it doesn't mean oh my god Islam is fake doesn't mean anything like that it's just saying that look obviously all things would take in slight institutionalization process along the ages right so let's move on what are the