Recordings › A Response to Yasir Qadhi on Miracles | Mufti Abu Layth · 3 Nov 2019 › Segment 3 of 11
What are Ya'juj and Ma'juj (Gog and Magog), and could they be zombies?
hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith combining prayers jam' al-salah jam bayn al-salatayn jam' al-salatayn muftis koran quraan al-quran ulama ulema ulamaaYa'juj and Ma'juj: the traditional reading, Qadhi's doubts and his zombie theory
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machinesummary, machine-writtenQadhi rejected the traditional reading of Ya'juj and Ma'juj on geographical grounds and floated colonialism and zombies; Mufti Abu Layth says the colonial reading holds strongly for him and mocks the zombie idea.
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Mufti Abu Layth says people with double standards preach what they cannot believe, and that Qadhi recently said he can no longer accept the traditional understanding of Ya'juj and Ma'juj. He explains that understanding: creatures, human-like or otherwise, trapped behind a barrier built by Dhul Qarnayn [?], who will break through at the end of time and pour forth from every direction, as the Quran says, wreaking havoc; he notes the words are not clearly Arabic and that some identified them with the Turks or the Chinese, which he calls stupid. He says Qadhi rejected the traditional reading because modern geography has mapped the earth and found no hidden billions, and suggested it might be a metaphor for chaos or for colonialism, an interpretation Mufti says he himself has said holds very strongly for him. He then mocks Qadhi's further suggestion, attributed to students of knowledge, that Ya'juj and Ma'juj could be zombies, listing sarcastic boxes it ticks.
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Mufti Abu Layth says he has said in the past that the colonial phenomenon holds a very strong interpretation of Ya'juj and Ma'juj for him.
“I've said as well in the past that that does hold a very strong interpretation for me for being the kind of colonial phenomenon that humans went through”
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this discussion the problem is that many people they have these double standards you see so they struggle to they preach something but they can't really believe in that thing themselves so I feel that Sheriff Adi has also reached that kind of a stage in his life now recently he he had some discussion not so long ago we he spoke about you Jamaat and he expressed that how he is now incapable of accepting a literal understanding of ya'juj and ma'juj or
the traditional if I let me reword that the traditional understanding of ya Georgia module so what is yet do Jamaat Jude yeah Georgia Matich are nobody's truly sure I guess if you take a very the perspective of scholars coming through the ages whether these were some kind of human-like creatures that will emerge at the end of time that they may be trapped behind some kind of a barrier and when they do emerge they will you know wreak havoc on earth that they will
completely destroy the earth and they will be from the signs of you know the apocalypse of the end of time right now so share the acid body now there are verses in the Quran referring to you Jamaat Union yadu Jamaat Jude doesn't actually mean something like it's not um it's it's not a clearly meaningful word in Arabic so it's not quite sure what the word means it seems to be a ya jus Jam attitude so people weren't sure this is why it was like an elusive term
it seems to have been an Arab sized term so it's not perhaps not Arabic in origin so some people felt maybe these were two tribes of people and then there's this story that maybe they were these ancient crimes that were trapped behind a barrier by this person called little Canaan and these people every day try to escape from this barrier they are incapable of doing so however towards the end of time and they will finally overcome this insurmountable barrier and they will be unleashed on the earth were humming had Amin yeah until as the quran says and they from all
directions pour forth now and this havoc and chaos on earth now Ange the traditional perspective was that they were the strange looking kind of people or whatever they were a lot of people some people felt they were humans maybe slightly deformed and some people felt they were maybe some other kind of creation some people felt there were the Turks random and some people felt they were the Chinese which is so stupid right so nevertheless sheriff yasser
called the recently discussing this came out with with just being true to himself said look I can't accept that it doesn't make sense because there are no millions and millions of people or billions billions on earth that are undiscovered our contemporary geography has uncovered has mapped out the earth for us there is no great barrier behind which these people stand therefore we can't accept this the way it is he then went on to give some interpretations he said perhaps this could be a metaphor for just chaos on
earth it could be as some people have said maybe it was the colonialism things like this and and and I've said as well in the past that that does hold a very strong interpretation for me for being the kind of colonial phenomenon that humans went through oh and then he gives the southern interpretation where he says okay I'm I didn't come up with this but I was having a discussion with these students of knowledge and they came up with this and even though it sounds really strange but it ticks all the boxes they could be
zombies I don't know what kind of box is they that tick like in need of psychiatric chaotic mentally handicapped take just escaped from a psych ward take suffering from severe delusions tick what kind of box is that ticked [Laughter] desperately in need of mushrooms take
eligible for eligible for special benefits and welfare tick right so I feel that this is on YouTube by the way I think it is on YouTube so you had a lot of people a lot of selfies came out attacked him including our good old friend Abu Abu Ibrahim The Exorcist
right so if you remember a wall back the Exorcist or he did a refutation of me in which he quoted a by for the and I got him you know I catch him out you know I said bye it's so fun to catch our hobby using life hadith it's so fun that makes my day that I'm like just like a kid with a new toy like I'm just so ecstatic
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