Recordings › Reply to Yasir Qadhi's False Claims on 2nd Coming of Jesus | Mufti Abu Layth · 14 Mar 2021 › Segment 4 of 30
Who does Yasir Qadhi say first denied the return of Jesus, and what is the Ahmadiyya connection?
hadeeth ahadith ahaadeeth hadis hadees ahaadith tafseer exegesis tafasir tafaseer commentary malik ibn anas malik bin anas imam maalik imam malik ibn anas imaam imams prayer leader maaliki malikite malikiyyah ijmaa consensus muftis kuffar kafir kaafir kufar kaafirun qiyamah qiyama qiyamat yawm al-qiyamah yawm al-qiyama resurrection hijra hijrat hijri migration shaykh shaikh sheik shuyukh shaykhs umma ummat community deen ad-deen ad-dinQadhi's clip: Imam Malik, the ijma claim, Muhammad Abduh and the Ahmadiyya link
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machinesummary, machine-writtenQadhi's clip claims ijma on the return, names Muhammad Abduh as the first to deny it and links deniers to the Ahmadiyya. Mufti Abu Layth calls the association ironic, since that movement is itself messianic, and says Qadhi's own evolution theory comes from Abduh.
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Qadhi says in the clip that Imam Malik not having the hadith is neither here nor there, which Mufti Abu Layth calls a huge claim he will answer later, adding that this is only the teaser and that Qadhi must be heard out first. The clip cites an early historian who died in 355 AH [?] and Ibn Atiyya [?] (d. 541) saying the ummah unanimously agreed that Jesus is alive in the heavens and will return, with only philosophers and unbelievers denying it, and says Qadhi could find nobody before modernity who explicitly negated the return: the first was Muhammad Abduh (d. 1905), the student of Jamal al-Din al-Afghani and a founder of modernist Islam, who reinterpreted the return as the coming of a Christ-like spirit of compassion. The clip then describes Mirza Ghulam Ahmad's movement in India, which held that Jesus died in Kashmir and that the second coming was a Jesus-like figure. Mufti says Qadhi is trying to associate denial of the second coming with the Qadianis, and notes the irony that the Ahmadi movement is itself built on a messianic vision, since its founder claimed to be the messiah. The clip says Abduh's school was sceptical of miracles and of the signs of the Day of Judgement; Mufti adds that Abduh is also the source of the evolution theory Qadhi himself holds, natural evolution until Adam, who was divinely placed. The clip ends by calling this the criterion between those who believe in the unseen and those who do not, which Mufti says is one charge short of kufr.
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just this is what you all deserve this is what [Laughter] right so let's go back uh maliki's school claiming that isa is so how can anybody claim allegiance to the maliki medha and yet claim that is not going to come back despite all of the great giants of the maliki medha uh maliki school claiming that isa is going to come back and by the way the notion that imam malik does not have this particular hadith it's neither here nor there imam i read in that imam ali didn't believe that
is coming this is a huge claim huge claim people huge claim so by the way all of these points we will be responding to this is not my response yet this is teaser appetizer the response is yet coming you could wait 2 000 years for a second coming you can wait for my response also coming wait man wait let's listen to what sheikh has to say first we must with all due respect hear him out first
and then then we will engage 355 hijrah he has one of the earliest treatises on history entitled the book of the beginning and his eben altair died 541 hijrah in his famous tafsir he writes that the ummah has unanimously agreed about the hadith that mentioned that isa is in the skies in the heavens and alive and he shall come back towards the end of times when he says the entire ummah has unanimously agreed that isa will come back and only the philosophers
and those who don't believe in any religion basically have and the philosophers basically the atheists or hidden non-muslims and the philosophers have only denied this apostates let's stick pay attention people pay attention i was not able to discover anybody pre-modernity who explicitly negated the coming back of jesus christ okay
the first person to question the return of isa was first person so nobody in history had questioned this until muhammad abdul who died in 1905 who is of course the student of jamal dean lovrani and of course one of the founders of what is called modernist islam or what is called the you know neo if you like enlightenment so nobody in islam had ever questioned this until muhammad comes along and he questions it and then what we're going to see as well are below it
is going to do is say that basically everybody today that has questioned these things is simply an extension of muhammad abdul school so this is a school this is like a sub school okay okay okay okay let's let's see interesting interesting dentist and basically reinterpreted uh the coming of jesus he basically said the return of jesus means the spirit spirit-like compassion of jesus will come not a so you can see this is according to muhammad abdul is the person who's come up with this interpretation that jesus does not mean jesus it means like a
christ-like spirit of goodness will transcend and take over the world let's let's proceed persona jesus right so he kind of had a bizarre wheel that uh it means that the the spirit of jesus not the spirit meaning like you know the compassion of jesus is going to come and his well in india you had a new movement and that movement was a particular person by the name of merzel who began claiming that jesus had died jesus had come to kashmir and lived the rest of his life there and then died and was buried in kashmir
and that the second coming of jesus was not the actual original jesus but a jesus-like figure and muhammad abdul muhammad abdul school note that how what he's trying to do just keep this make a mental note what he's trying to do is somehow make an association between the denial of the second coming and katyani's even though the irony is the whole hadiyani school is based on a messianic vision it's based on saying that a messiah will come hence he claims to be himself the messiah
but no that point sorry i thought of being academic you know academic activity let's focus focus people focus focus this is why you're all going to miss the boat when jesus comes you're going to be in the lines of the you need to pay attention pay attention is very skeptical of miracles uh very much in line with trying to to to take modern notions of liberalism and of whatever you know the notions aren't intimidating i need to learn these islamic uh very skeptical of the signs of the
day of judgment um skeptical of a hadith overall so there's this school that's very well known they also invented this questioning miracle is also by uh muhammad abdul on a brief little side note muhammad abdul is the same person who sharehasarkadi takes his his evolution theory from
evolution theory that evolution was all natural evolution until adam and then adam was divinely placed there is from muhammad abdul and his teacher jamal nobody before them had ever said that but but sorry man i digress man so these are the first people to question miracles pay attention people pay attention type of people well-known this is the criterion between those who believe in and those who don't believe in and that's basically one charge short of kufr so this denial of the second coming and
these miracles is basically a problem with people who refuse to accept the unseen which is one notch below disbelief [Laughter] even though even though even though you see you see belief is all about god god is unseen nobody has a problem with that nobody has a problem with the concept of raw unconsciousness these kind of things even from a scientific perspective are unseen but still stale of hands still still let's pay attention pay attention
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