Review of Messiah | Mufti Abu Layth

the Messiah the TV series those of you that haven't watched it I'm going to review it I'm gonna give my thoughts on it there may be some spoilers but I don't really think they're spoilers because to be honest if you watch the trailer you ready the trailer already has this kind of information in like you already watch this thinking well you see they already give you the impression that you know it's not is he really the Messiah is he you know surely there's an explanation so I don't think really in my perspective that anything I discuss

would ruin the entertainment value I don't think so that's my take on it but I'm gonna review it I'm gonna share my thoughts people so here goes so I feel people that the Messiah was epic I absolutely loved it honestly I thought it was amazing I've seen all of it I copped it all I've been watched a over this weekend and I thought you know what I have to review this now I would give the Messiah something like nine out of ten

honestly me your people nine out of ten I think it's amazing and I'm going to explain why I'm also going to explain that those people who don't like it what I think so I think if you're watching this from the perspective and I'll tell you those of you that haven't watched it I'm gonna give you some guidelines on what to keep at the forefront of your mind whilst watching it and you really enjoy it okay so those of those people that are watching this because they think it's I don't know like a sci-fi it's not a sci-fi okay this is actually

the series is meant to be based in realism it's actually meant to be like real so it's not like you know like wizards and this and that it's not meant to be like that okay so it's meant to be almost it's not a documentary it's what I feel it's well-made but it's it's meant to be a drama okay so keep that in mind so people watching it thinking it's a sci-fi or action are gonna hate it they will probably rate it like four out of ten because there's very little action in it and it's not a sci-fi day okay so that goes out the window those that are watching it thinking or

maybe there's gonna be some kind of very intricate super complex plot even though I do I love the plot but the plot is still exactly what the trailer tells you there's nothing more to the plot the plot is a man as arisen and people are following him people claim is the Messiah there is very I mean that that's the plot really much more to say so if you're thinking I don't know something this is gonna have that kinda the Pratt's gonna diversify it's gonna become a new plot and it's not so in that case you wouldn't maybe you might

think well it was just okay five out of ten maybe six out of ten that's it right those people watching it Muslims that think you know there's all this drama that think this is about right sorry of just right those people that are watching it thinking that this is about the Dajjal or Messiah had the gel this has got nothing to do with the Dajjal okay the Antichrist you know really disappoints me why Muslims always play

the victim card religion being attacked all the dirt it's nothing to do with the Dajjal people nothing I mean first of all I don't believe that the gel thing or the second coming of Jesus or the Messiah is true anyway I believe that's an inherited concept from Christianity that Muslims have the Messiah concept and from the Jewish traditions and Jesus from Christianity and the Antichrist and I've got a detailed video explaining that but even if you do believe in there's going to be Jesus is going to come back and there's going to be a messiah and let's say you

believe in all of these this is not to do with I mean I suppose very faintly it's obviously to do with the Messiah but it's nothing to do with the Dajjal because of the Gerling Islamic teachings those those who believe in that the gel to be a neutral person is that there's going to be this Antichrist who comes and does all this evil stuff and he's going to claim to be God and people will worship him and then Jesus will come and destroy him this has got nothing to do with that people nothing this guy so far in season

one I I don't know unless they the writers changed I rich in but he's actually a good guy he's not actually somebody used the Antichrist okay so this you can calm down so if you're watching the Messiah to learn up either so some Muslims who are watching this to touch up on the Islamic at either then this is an absolute you know - two out of ten because this is nothing to do with Islamic alida okay so you need to calm yourselves tranquilo tranquilo okay this is nothing just Shantou J now I'm going to explain

how to watch these people if you watch this from with an anthropological perspective a psychological perspective and a philosophical perspective you will love it I feel that this is an absolute must for all religion analysts honestly to me the irony is I would actually say this series is a godsend being called the Messiah I feel that it's an absolute

godsend for religion analysts or people who've ever considered the philosophy of religion so you know people would ask the question let me explain what I mean by that about the anthropological and the psychological philosophical perspective whilst watching this consider these questions many people have asked this you may have asked this yourself there's nothing wrong with these questions that people may have asked what if a prophet was to appear in the 21st century how would it be what if

a prophet was to appear in by the way he's not claiming to be a prophet but I'm just saying these questions you would have asked these questions I'm sure any person who's delved into the philosophy of religion would have asked these questions that how would a prophet engage with modern nation-states how would a prophet would he be embraced in the 21st century how would miracles be received in the 21st century where we have cameras everywhere where we have people are much more critical we have the internet we

have social media how would how would miracles be received by people would it not be would they not be caught out people if you've ever asked the question that we would people with today's mindset when we say that look religion is kind of dead in the 21st century and people are so much more critical would people believe if a religion arose in this day and age with these questions in mind you watch this and what you do is this the this is not a sci-fi remember

it's a drama so they're not trying to do sci-fi they're not trying to be sci-fi in it they're trying to be real so now whilst you watch it what you do is you shift perspective so this the you who's the obviously the objective view and then there's the spectator you so the spectator you is the one that like let's say you're watching Batman Superman you're thinking oh my god is this Batman go Batman's gonna come how is he gonna react Batman that spectator you is immersed in the movie obviously the the objective you knows this is just a

movie you know the you know the they've just enacted this so you need to kind of track kind of transcend into the spectator you which you quite easily will so your spectating you know when you're getting into the spectator you is the one that gets into the movie that kind of oh my god oh yeah I hope this happens oh don't turn around don't you know the one that gets involved that you then you kind of shift character or perspective into the recipients within the movie within the series how are they obviously as

characters how are they how would you respond if you were them hmm and it is absolutely fascinating honestly I think it is priceless and I'm not just saying this stuff because here is this person who arises from almost nowhere yeah and he's kind of very you know he speaks he speaks kind of wisely as as as I suppose the prophets of old would speak almost not in riddles but enigmatically like you won't answer very direct questions but

it'll kind of answer them wisely you know like you'll say things like you know if they say oh is this you is this person for example is this name you he'll be like I have been known by that name he won't be like yeah that's my knee he answers very wisely very kind of you know when they'll ask him why have you brought these people he'll say I haven't brought them they followed they they've chosen to follow me you know it's it's very enigmatic and this guy is so charismatic that the person playing the alum Asiya the Messiah in this I totally loved how he played the

character and really I I thought he you know suited and he was a complete fit or fall for that role and here at the same time this character he comes he is he seems to disappear and reappear in place is he seems to kind of save lives and any kind of disappears and he reappears on a different side of the globe and people are like and the CIA are kind of off for him because they're thinking well this is all BS how has he done this but some of the the things they you see the whole series doesn't it doesn't explain all the miracles but it explains

glimpses of some enough to tell you that they must be an explanation oh it's amazing like they're like well how do like they will uncover that oh so for example he appears and I don't think this wrecks the series in any way because they explain it pretty much as soon as you're into it like he'll appear all of a sudden in America and then they'll uncover oh there was a chartered a private flight and it's like but they won't uncover the other things so how does he like he seems to know so much

about the about the people interrogating him I mean is this information that's given to him by an agency is working for Oh is he just so sharp and perceptible that he can read people like when the lady the CIA operative is is quizzing him but then later she's like well how did he any and he says to her about her personal health but how she's suffering but it will come to pass now when she's like well how did how did he know these things and then or was it that she she had this hospital band on and he read that but that was kind of hidden far

back but woody was it because he was so sharp and so perceptible but he's so calm at the same time and then you know there's this concept of just being there in life like you just turn up you know they say like 98% of life is just turning up you just be the and things happen and I think that was a Woody Allen that said that uh but anyways right so that the point is that him just turning up and then how natural events transpire like like let's say a flood

or the kind of fish coming out of the sea now is this they they're almost biblical in description yet the kind of natural phenomenon because floods do happen anyway you know it's not that floods don't happen and the fish kind of emerging being cast out of the Seas that this happens but yet the coinciding of these events it's it's amazing how would you receive it as a person so the spectator you kind of wants him to be real you're like God you know but they trying to unearth these things and you're trying to think oh wow but how

does he do this and how social media then plays a role in in spreading amplifying his message you know this is a scene where the girl shares a picture of him and the moment she sees it he has 40 mm like straightaway like within a second and that is the power of social media and it's like wow like oh my god like all these questions that you know what if somebody tried to take a religion off in this day and age or how would miracles be it's amazing honestly

I just love from that perspective like human behavior like wouldn't people believe in this they would they like be honest true they would believe in it do I believe that this person would be come you know knock me would he be performing these miracles by breaking the laws of nature I don't think he would I think that they they would be a coinciding of natural and they would be an explanation but we don't know what some of these explanations were just like with miracles in the Quran just because we don't know some of the explanations it doesn't mean they weren't any

explanations so I felt that it was amazing watching that becoming intrigued trying to figure out that right how is he doing this because it's not a sci-fi you understand it's not a like a Superman flying kind of movie so it's like you know how does he do and you know how does he walk on water it's like what and then they're discussing look what other people have done this and they're showing in the movie the CIA are kind of you know showing this and how magicians have done things like this and is it I I thought it was amazing if you watch it from that

perspective of quizzing belief how belief arises and I think one of the the key things you can extract from this that I took away from it is that the understanding that people believe because there is a want to believe people actually you know we have within us a wanting to believe and it's it's it's like a a vacuum that it's almost so intrinsic within us that we find

ourselves wanting like desperately wanting to believe it's amazing Wow because you find yourself as the spectator wanting to believe even though the objective you knows that all this is just but you're thinking oh god what is he getting is he gonna do something how is he gonna respond oh wow I loved it I would say for people who you see now somebody says this there's a sci-fi part because he brings people back to life but does he or was it simply a

resuscitation of people who were beset the were actually alive you see like this is it just because one person describes it now just because the boy that the witness says oh my god he brought them back to life they were dead but were they did you see this is the question now you're just assuming they were dead this is why I'm saying it's so spectacular because it really you have to view it from all like a scientific perspective from an anthropological perspective that how would humans and belief constructs how do they arise how do

take off how do people is seeing believing you know when they ask him did you walk on water and he says he says what did you see oh it's amazing and see when the other guy says to him when they sit in a swimming pool he says go on walk across this it's amazing it's like you know in in the agent in the stories in in some of these literature books there's a saying of one of the

ha'la'tha the ancient kind of Abbasid caliphs some guy came to him and he says he says I'm a you know I'm a prophet and he says really if you're a prophet what's your miracle and he says I'll throw stones into water and they will disappear and evaporate and he says go on then so he throws some stones into this little pond that's there and they and they disappear and the kala says hey hang on a moment hang on a moment he says I'll give you some stones you throw them and so the man says ah he says but

tell me when Moses threw the stick to Pharaoh in front of Pharaoh Pharaoh didn't say ah I'll give you a stake you throw my stick so the Calif just starts laughing the point is that you see that there must be an explanation and this is what he says he says that you know he asks the people when the guy says he says but you they say I saw you walk on water you know did you actually walk on water and he says that are you saying what you

saw is a lie I tell you I loved it man because I thought that is so true that is so amazing that what is his perception you know like in in Spanish they say we're para crear you know like that seeing is believing the same thing but easy is the question that is it really because what about the art of Illusion I loved its art from me I saw a lot of

people giving a lot of you know Muslims giving it this super negative kind of review saying oh my god I wasted my life I think well these guys have got poor taste and they either insecure I saw some Muslim Imams writing that OH we as Muslims believe in the Mahdi that the gel is Kesari them that the gel is gonna come first or the the mati is gonna come first and that the gel is gonna come then Jesus is gonna come and now people watching this

might actually think that when the Dajjal comes that he is the Mahdi because they've watched the Messiah hmm [Laughter] this is the infantilization of Muslims like they wait like Muslims some some Muslim Imams treat Muslims like they they properly and handicapped like they've they've got the intelligence of a three-year-old

like oh no they gonna think oh I mean do you not think that people know what a TV series is a TV series and it's not even a sci-fi so just relax and the guy's not even the Antichrist in it he's not the Antichrist I mean unless you mean by the remote thing that every Messiah in Islam is at the jail then from that for angle you're calling him at the jail but otherwise he's not the Dajjal the the Antichrist per se you know the kind of tyrant that will go around spreading his

powers not that so I think for religion analyst it's for students of psychology of people who want to study human behavior who want to study how human societies are formed how religion is from how power and influence takes place in society people who who are interested in the philosophical discussion of science meeting mythology that how you know some things when we can't when we don't know the explanations to them and they seem to define science how do we come to terms with that people who find these

topics interesting will love this TV series so if you keep that in mind and you decide to watch it I'm pretty sure you will love it but if you if you're not interested in these things then maybe it's not for you but that was my it's definitely you know got my fault okay so alright cool people let's move on right every krauser has taken MS who's MS as they Messiah already oh is that Mohamed Salah or Salah sorry

or I don't know