# Introduction: the Quran-preservation debacle and a leaked 2016 email

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wdd_gyzi9dg/s/1/
- Date: 2020-08-19 · Kind: other · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Farid Gangu Teli leaking Yasir Qadhi's emails | Mufti Abu Layth (0:00–2:34)
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDD_GyzI9Dg&t=0s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wdd_gyzi9dg/

**Topics:** Dawah and debate culture; Preservation and variant readings

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth introduces a commentary on who leaked a private 2016 email of Yasir Qadhi on the Quran's preservation, an episode he calls a cataclysmic debacle.

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth, with music and laughter, introduces the person he nicknames Gangu Teli, whom the recording's title identifies as Farid, and says viewers do not know what has been going down. He describes the whole debacle over the preservation and readings of the Quran [?] as a cataclysmic event set off by somebody giving it a push, and lays out a puzzle about a chain of people involved. He goes back to 2016, when a third party [?] got hold of a private email of Yasir Qadhi which was then leaked to the whole world, and says he will keep one foot there and the other in the recent episode in which Yasir Qadhi tried to explain those emails.

## Sources and names cited

- Farid [?]
- Yasir Qadhi

## Transcript (machine tier, 0:00–2:34)

[0:00] this brings us to our below it ah below it we love it uh we've got here so those of you that don't know our beloved uh who is [Laughter] those of you that don't know ganguteli our own good

[0:35] [Music] let me present our own beloved [Music] [Laughter]

[1:10] people god you don't know what's been going down oh my god people oh my god so this whole debacle this whole fiasco this tsunamic cataclysmic event of the kira at an hour below it uh with a small d the d sub oh this d this d began by somebody giving the d to this to this whole cataclysm and that began because there's so many d's in this with tawa man

[1:48] so tawa man is a d and there you've got this d so the question this question is what is you know so the question was got hold of yasir we've got to go back in time let's zoom back out people time travel going back a bunch of years 2016 tawa man gets hold of yasir khadi's email private email

[2:19] and our mind leaks it the whole world is oh which fast forwarding but we're going to go back there keep one foot there we're going to stretch the other foot back recently where uh our below it yes made the the sad kind of moment where he tried to have his epiphany and explain those emails and then dug himself a deeper hole but this goes back to that point the leaked emails the leaked emails yes

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment WDD_GyzI9Dg/s/1. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/wdd_gyzi9dg/s/1/

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