# Can Yasir Qadhi's zombie theory of Gog and Magog be defended? *Refutations of the zombie theory and Qadhi's attempts to justify it* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/smoocevigde/s/4/ - Date: 2019-11-03 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: A Response to Yasir Qadhi on Miracles | Mufti Abu Layth (12:00–16:47) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMOOcEVIGDE&t=720s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/smoocevigde/ **Topics:** Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Dajjal, Mahdi and the signs **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth says Qadhi's zombie theory, refuted even by Salafi critics, cannot be justified and should simply be disowned. ## Longer summary Mufti Abu Layth says many Salafis attacked Qadhi over the zombie remark, among them the online critic Abu Ibrahim, known as the Exorcist, who once wrote a refutation of Mufti in which, Mufti says, he caught him out over a report he quoted; Abu Ibrahim too made a video refuting Qadhi. He says Qadhi has since been trying to justify the remark, which he says cannot be justified and should simply be disowned, comparing it to a viral clip of a man who owns an embarrassing moment. He sums up Qadhi's reasoning as: hidden subhuman peoples are geographically unfathomable and irrational, so it is zombies, and mocks it with an old anecdote of a feared scholar who turns out to be harmless, and with jokes about drugs. ## Sources and names cited - Yasir Qadhi - Abu Ibrahim [?] (online critic) - Ya'juj and Ma'juj (Gog and Magog) - Salafi ## Transcript (machine tier, 12:00–16:47) [11:59] 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 [12:32] I'll be like my look right so so yeah so even what is even a boy Rahim has a YouTube video refuting ship yes and are the on this whole zombies thing and several other people have refuted in people said what the hell and said to him you've lost the plot and and then ever since sure he has a card he has been trying to justify this one you can't justify yeah this is one of those [13:11] things you can't justify you know just disown it now have you seen that me mother some guy where he's he's speaking and he just he's just kind of thoughts it's like some kind of I don't know it's in another loud I don't know whether it's Swahili or oh it might be Somali you I don't know what language it is he's speaking in a language and he just thoughts in between it's a viral clip and he just says al hamdulillah he's like well damn he's like well I'm just [13:46] gonna own it now but anyway all the you know this one justification so so ever since he's been trying to justify this he's been like bending over backwards and doing all these backflips and gymnastic aerobics and trying to say well oh well I didn't quite mean it like I meant you know come on these zombies [14:21] ain't that bad zombies for God's sake let me get this right let me get this right people he said this subhuman all humans being trapped behind a berry on earth due to our contemporary knowledge of science and geography demonstrates that that's nonsensical therefore it is more likely plausible that [14:53] it will be zombies Oh God cha-cha-cha me and Yusuf me and you survive me and Yusuf you know the good old anecdote of the guy that everybody feared you some major scholar of Islam and he approaches and everybody oh they're the movies alike quickly sit up straight do this dude and then when they ask him to introduce himself he says he says my [15:32] name is he says people call me me and rusev not use of Jusuf like a cha cha cha cha cha so they're just kind of Carol relaxed again that attach hides me intrusive charts not geographically fathomable and it's not rational so ah so it's zombies [Laughter] no no drugs bad you no no no no [16:09] marijuana today today heroin this this one he's not taking the make out the listeners you know so yeah yes Adi he's been trying to justify since so anyway he he then decides to have a he does a podcast which is just on I think this last week with the madman loops so they [16:46] have a podcast and this podcast now you see what he's trying to do is he's trying to also reassert that I'm still very traditional yeah eyes on of Yulia eyes I have me home it's me and her right so the thing is he's he's trying to reassert himself as guys relax it's still me yes right so he's trying to justify and he's going through all these ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment sMOOcEVIGDE/s/4. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/smoocevigde/s/4/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. Ask a qualified scholar about your own situation.