# What has Yasir Qadhi said about challenging the giants of the Islamic tradition?

*Haqiqatjou's clip: Qadhi on scholarship as regurgitation and breaking from the paradigm*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/15/
- Date: 2021-03-14 · Kind: lesson · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth (57:59–1:01:57)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3NSX3UFy8&t=3479s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/

**Topics:** Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; Views on contemporary scholars; How to study Islam

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** A clip circulated by a critic shows Qadhi saying that even the giants' views should not matter to a true researcher and that scholarship has become regurgitation. Mufti Abu Layth notes that the critic accuses Qadhi of exactly what Qadhi accuses Mufti of.

## Longer summary

Continuing what he calls a royal rumble, Mufti Abu Layth brings in a clip by a commentator he calls Danny boy, whom Mufti's remarks indicate is Daniel Haqiqatjou [?], highlighting Qadhi's underlying views of the Islamic tradition. In the clip Qadhi says that what is said in any of the Islamic sciences, even by giants, should not matter to a true researcher, that scholarship in the ummah as currently set up consists largely of regurgitating and memorising rather than challenging, and that one must be brave enough to break away from the paradigm, which is difficult for a Deobandi or Azhari or Madinah graduate who has studied for fifteen or twenty years. The commentator calls this a belittling of the Islamic tradition. Mufti points out that this critic is accusing Qadhi of the very thing Qadhi accuses Mufti and others of, being a modernist who breaks from the giants, and replays the passage.

## Sources and names cited

- Yasir Qadhi
- Daniel Haqiqatjou [?]

## Transcript (machine tier, 57:59–1:01:57)

[57:52] himself is there any consistency to what shaykh is saying i'm trying to i'm trying to fathom before i even begin my reply this is uh this is all very interesting you see but then i thought it's only fair to to kind of extend see since it's a royal rumble people we got to get everybody in

[58:23] uh everybody needs to be rumbling inside this royal rumble people so who else it's about time we also bring on the great the genius danny boy [Music] boy challenge my boy mandel boy mental why we got to bring in the danny boy on to these people otherwise [Music] it's it's only fair people this one these are not nice so so i think let's bring in his underlying views about the islamic

[59:02] tradition all right man what is going on what is this one islam okay so you're basically any of the islamic sciences even if it's said by giants should not matter to a true researcher and even when it's coming from giants in the islamic tradition it shouldn't matter to a true researcher to understand that the way that our ummah is currently set up scholarship by and large consists of regurgitating and memorizing it does not consist of challenging it does not consist of being brave enough to break away

[59:41] from the paradigm frankly yeah so this is a belittling of the islamic tradition and if adelbandi has studied you know 10 15 20 years in his institution right so people they dare break away from the standards people's moment eco right so i don't know why it's got that background i take that with his video clip this background of the trees so anyway here sheikh yasir khadi the below it is mentioning

[1:00:22] [Music] right he is mentioning his methodology and none other than danny boy is highlighting it who is accusing yasir khadi of the very same thing that yasir khadi is accusing people like me and other people of of being a modernist and so here and when it comes to claims like how can you disagree right here people right here man this one right here should not matter to a true researcher and even when it's coming from giants in the islam

[1:01:00] even when it comes from giants matter to a true researcher to understand that the way that our ummah is currently set up scholarship by and large consists of regurgitating and memorizing it does not consist of challenging it does not consist of being brave enough to break away from the paradigm frankly so so this is a belittling of the islamic tradition and if adeobandi has studied you know 10 15 20 years in his institute on azadi or madinah guy and then they dare break away from the standard narrative as you are aware that comes with a lot of baggage and a lot of tension

[1:01:39] it's very difficult to do that and my argument is very straightforward so what if a lot of people said something a moment ago below it the jar with a small biggidy himself was saying that how can these people disagree in the second coming of jesus when giants giants giants have said it it is in every book have all the ummah gone astray

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment TR3NSX3UFy8/s/15. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/15/

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