# Was Yasir Qadhi's video on the return of Jesus an academic discussion?

*From 'academic discussion' to bid'ah and heresy: Mufti Abu Layth's assessment of Qadhi's video*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/9/
- 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 (35:30–38:07)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3NSX3UFy8&t=2130s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/

**Topics:** Exchanges with Yasir Qadhi; The second coming of Jesus; Sects, sectarianism and takfir

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth says Qadhi's video, announced as academic, ended by fabricating a modernist-school narrative and declaring deniers heretics guilty of bid'ah, which he calls a preachy khutbah rather than academic discussion.

## Longer summary

The clip concludes that anyone who denies the return of Jesus has contravened the agreed beliefs of the ummah and contradicted the hadith, and that the least that can be said is that they have fallen into religious innovation, bid'ah. Mufti Abu Layth says that a discussion announced as academic and fair ended by fabricating entire narratives, such as a modernist school founded by Muhammad Abduh of which all these people are followers, by claiming they have a deep-seated problem with Islam because of an obsession with science, and by calling deniers a notch below kuffar, heretics in Islam and clear innovators. He says Qadhi borrowed his phrase about the dons of the Maliki madhhab and asked how one can claim to be Maliki or Sunni, and calls the speech nothing short of a preachy Friday khutbah rather than an academic discussion.

## Sources and names cited

- Yasir Qadhi
- Muhammad Abduh
- bid'ah

## Transcript (machine tier, 35:30–38:07)

[34:56] is that well allah said so you think so the claim that jizya is not going to be accepted the claim that you're either going to be a muslim or you're going to be with the judge it actually makes sense the level of kufur that you're going to have to have you're going to be on the side of the jab there's not going to be any middle category after that so in reality far from being illogical this is completely logical so all of these therefore it's pretty straightforward to state and i don't do this is not something i usually do but it is pretty straightforward therefore that anybody who denies the return of jesus by virtue of the fact

[35:35] that they have contravened the agreed upon beliefs of this ummah that they have contradicted them with hadith that the least that can be said is that they have fallen into a religious innovation or a bidder now you see on romantico people so you can see this that look this discussion that began by this is going to be an academic discussion that's how shaykh has already begun this that i'm going to have an academic discussion i'm going to mention a lot of issues i'm going to bring up you know this is going

[36:13] to be a fair discussion ends up with not only fabricating uh entire narratives like saying well oh there's a modernist school that began by muhammad abdul who's influenced all these people somehow these people are really just all followers of muhammad abdul that these people have a deep crisis or not crisis but they have a a deep seated problem in islam because they're so obsessed with science that these people anybody who denies this is basically a notch below kuffar

[36:52] even though he's not saying for he he then goes on to say well it's clearly they are heretics in islam or at least that this is clearly a bidder clear bitter a deviation a heresy in islam so what began by saying look this is going to be an academic discussion went on to say well this is uh going to be a clear this is a clear bidder and this is what it is these people have invented this thing of differentiating hadith these people you know this is mentioned

[37:29] in all these books the giants the dawns dawns of the obviously copying me dons of the maliki method have said this how can you even be a maliki how can you claim to be a maliki how can you claim to be a sunni this is not sunni islam this speech of our beloved was nothing short of a jummah [Laughter] him saying that look i'm going to all these people have said all these people

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment TR3NSX3UFy8/s/9. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/tr3nsx3ufy8/s/9/

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