Recordings › A Response to Yasir Qadhi on Miracles | Mufti Abu Layth · 3 Nov 2019 › Segment 8 of 11
Does the Quran say Jesus was born of a virgin?
muftis qadar qadr taqdir taqdeer qada wa qadar al-qada wa al-qadar predestination atharis atharism athariyyah koran quraan al-quran ulama ulema ulamaa as-salamu alaykum assalamu alaikum assalamualaikum salaam salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam peace greetingThe virgin birth: what the Quran says explicitly, and the scholars who revisited it
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth says the Quran does not explicitly state a virgin birth, citing recent scholars who read Mary's glad tidings like those given to Ibrahim and Zakariyya.
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Mufti Abu Layth says Qadhi deemed him a heretic by essence, outside mainstream Islam, for questioning interpretations, and urges viewers to watch the discussion themselves. He says all he said about the virgin birth was that the Quran does not explicitly say Jesus was born of a virgin; that the early Christians did not believe it and it became doctrine by the third century; that the Bible does not mention it; and that Matthew's use of Isaiah's prophecy rests on the word almah, a young woman, rather than betulah, a virgin. He cites scholars of recent times who revisited the matter, Tamanna Imadi [?] and Maulana Abdul Karim Athari [?], and a book on the birth of the son of Mary by the latter's teacher, whose name the captions garble. He reports their argument that the angel's glad tidings to Maryam parallel those to Ibrahim and Zakariyya, which did not exclude a natural father, and that one may infer that Mary's husband Joseph was not inclined to intimacy until the divine decree changed this, which he says one may call a miracle.
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Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran does not explicitly mention that Jesus was born of a virgin birth.
“so now coming back to this in the Quran it does not explicitly anyway mention that Jesus was born of a virgin birth”
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so because some theologians started to do that it created a problem which we're still dealing with today that some Muslims believed think that maybe the intellect is bad which is the dumbest the dumbest thing anybody could say right so okay let's put that argument there let's leave that day let's return to judge dredd Mia and Joseph RB right so Mia Jessica V he says that okay people like me for questioning certain interpretations that exist today should
be deemed a heretic this is his words that I am truly essentially by my essence I am a heretic and I should not be part of mainstream Islam this was his view in the same discussion and I plead with you all to watch this just in case somebody thinks I'm making this up or I'm exaggerating in the same discussion he goes on to say well he goes on to discuss the yeah jutsu my judge now let's just pause
before getting into that he attacks me for saying that oh because I questioned certain things like let's say was Jesus born of a virgin birth now all I said was that no way the Quran does it explicitly say that Jesus was born of a virgin birth the early Christians did not believe that Jesus was born of a virgin birth this was something that were later Christians believed and it was made doctrine by the third century after Jesus so this was not even early
Christian belief and you know the thing the Bible Bible mentions no such thing and this thing about the prophecy in that I think the Gospel of Matthew refers to the the prophecy of Isaiah where he says that the maiden the young maiden will be with child they translated as virgin the the actual original word alma is not necessarily a virgin so whereas Batool in the in the Jewish Bible is a virgin so that's interesting they don't use the term virgin Elma
often was a virgin but half it just meant a young maiden a young lady a young woman that's what it meant so now coming back to this in the Quran it does not explicitly anyway mention that Jesus was born of a virgin birth and I've got a detailed video explaining that if you watch that and they have been many great allama of Islam especially of recent times that have spoken about this they've revisited they've looked at in in-depth people like a llama the man named Andy who wrote on the topic people like Maulana Abdul Karim Allah 13 east of Syria or
what was our discusses this in-depth explaining that look there's nothing to say that that the Quran simply when the angel when the angel appears to Maria Amalia salam and says that you will have you know gives her glad tidings and she says but i've not yet but i've not been touched and he says but the Lord has decreed but the same the angel appears to Abraham gives him glad tidings when he says how but my wife has now attained the menopause and she's of an old age
and he says well the same thing to Ibrahim he appears to Korea where he says my wife is barren and and he says the same infertile and he says the same thing it did not mean that there was no natural method that took place he didn't mean that he just they were all kind of non there was no father involved in any of them so Abraham is not the father it's just only the is only from the mother but no nobody said that but with Maryam Allah Salam people took this because it was the prevailing
Christian doctrine at the time now Maulana Abdul Karim Allah 3 looks at this in depth his teacher Moroni in Ayatollah I was in Abadi L Gujarati he has a detailed book on it as well called a Yunus mhmm he will add the tip no Maryam regarding the birth of the Son of Mary where he speaks that look the Quran doesn't actually say this the Quran may one may say that it implies were one could infer that that's true you could equally infer that at the time the the husband of Mary everybody believes that Mary was married to Joseph
that the husband of Mary was just not interested in intimacy he was not an intimacy inclined individual and then he became in that he was not mad in this way but he was as part of the divine decree so he changes this was the kind of if you want to call it a miracle now my point was that you see when he mentions that oh people like like me like Mufti Abu layth are saying that look certain things go against science or go against reason now what is
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