# Does Yasir Qadhi hold that even positions in aqidah lie within a spectrum of opinion? *Qadhi on aqidah as a spectrum and scholars' words as secondary evidence* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/17/ - 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 (1:05:54–1:09:48) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3NSX3UFy8&t=3954s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/ **Topics:** Creed and the schools of theology; Sects, sectarianism and takfir; Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** In the clip Qadhi says that even in aqidah positions lie within a spectrum, that absorbing one's teachers' view does not make it true, and that no scholar's word is evidence in itself. Mufti Abu Layth says this sits ill with Qadhi declaring him a heretic for departing from the majority on the return of Jesus. ## Longer summary The clip continues with Qadhi saying that if ninety-nine percent of one's teachers hold a position one naturally absorbs it without challenge, that this does not make it true, that even in aqidah every position lies within a spectrum of opinion, that very few are brave or foolish enough to break away because it comes with costs, and that no matter who says what, whether Ibn Taymiyya or anyone else, it is secondary or tertiary evidence and not evidence in itself. Mufti Abu Layth notes that Qadhi stresses this even for aqidah, and says that on one hand he is listening to this, and on the other hand he is being thrown out of Islam, called a heretic and accused of bid'ah by the same man: the hand that gives also takes away. He quotes a couplet about those who make their own place in the world, and says that with the assistance of Qadhi himself he has managed a reply before even beginning. A brief aside addresses a viewer's comment before he announces a quick overview of what Qadhi claimed. ## Sources and names cited - Yasir Qadhi - Ibn Taymiyya - aqidah ## Transcript (machine tier, 1:05:54–1:09:48) [1:05:40] here on one hand i'm listening to him on the other hand i'm being chucked out of almost islam and being called a heretic and doing vida one hand you know the hand that giveth take it away huh this one this one people what a certain philosophy and they're taught a certain whether it's whether it's whether it is a position like ismail and his health the fact that you have not heard contrary and all now it's important here what he said and they're taught a certain whether it's [1:06:17] not i don't know what just happened to his face there but note how he says that even if it is akida if it is akida as well because that's important means nothing because in the end of the day every first on every trend is basically within a spectrum of opinion very few people are brave enough or foolish enough depending on how you want to look at it because it comes with cons when you break away right to to go outside the box and think [1:06:56] for themselves like okay of a fact that i want every student of knowledge and and and potential adam and adam to be aware of and that is that no matter who says what that is a secondary maybe even tertiary evidence it is not an evidence in and of itself the evidence so people it is not do you hear this it is not an evidence of itself that he wants people it's the the brave or the people [1:07:40] they make their own place in this world [Laughter] we are not those this is as we are not those who the world made us we made our own place in this world so people as you can see being paying attention pay attention pay attention so let me just play the ending of the top of a position in battle of a position it transcends the quantity and even the big names that said it whether it's ibn tamiya whether it's [1:08:19] whether it's all of this is secondary we'll look at the evidences and of course for every field they have their different evidences but anyway for me this was one of the most important points that i wanted to stress uh via this lecture that if you say so you could see from there that by the assistance of without me even beginning yet by the assistance of big d himself we've managed to say well [1:08:56] mother father what is going on man what is this mother father what is this man what is this man so father means father and father father that's a sanskriti word so now here this is what yasir khadi sahib has been going on about right so let's take a look very briefly now i mean not briefly let's take a quick look now at if i can some people who are being [1:09:34] this people is a quick overview now to show what is it that yes said to sum it up for you guys all right so you've got these were some of the key things that below it has made that the response would be academic clearly wasn't the quran strongly suggests the second coming uh it doesn't there are four verses show this to be true i'm afraid not these leave no doubt uh that's utter nonsense hundred narrations not a single one ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment TR3NSX3UFy8/s/17. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/17/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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