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Recordings › Prof. Edip Yuksel | Rejecting Hadith, Rashad Khalifa & Realizing '19' | MindTrap with Mufti #27 · 26 Jun 2020 › Segment 1 of 36

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Opening: introducing Edip Yuksel, who refuses titles and insists all are equal

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DiscussionRecorded 26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu LaythSegment 1 of 36 in the recording2020-06-26-S01

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The guest rejects titles such as professor, saying that in religion, philosophy and politics only the words count, not the name or rank of the person speaking.

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Mufti Abu Layth opens the MindTrap episode and introduces his guest, shown on screen as Professor Edip Yuksel, a philosopher from America, and after a technical delay brings him in. The guest protests at being introduced like a heavyweight boxing champion or a clergyman: he is just Edip, and he tells his students on the first day that each of them is an independent, equal human being and should call him by his first name, since everyone is in the same boat searching for the truth. He says clergymen of all sorts love long names a metre long, that all are children of Adam, and that in politics, philosophy and religion a person's name, title and age should be irrelevant, like the blindfolded statue of justice: only the words and statements are weighed against each other, and the better one is followed. Mufti agrees and begins to give viewers some background.

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[Music] all right people are in al hamdulillah vodka fair or salat wa salam o allah rasool allah mustafa ala i bad illidan October one be Hotel method will be authoritative our bad for Salam Allahu Alem asylum become people awry and an awesome episode insha'Allah of mine crap with multi tonight we have our esteemed guest whose profile picture I'm just about to bring before you right there

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you can see professor a deep yüksel a philosopher right there the picture itself speaks volumes people you can see that somebody hailing from let's let's hear it from the professor himself from America bringing him in assalamu aleikum professor I don't see myself the professor can only professor can only see me through Skype unless you've got

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another device that device you can okay now I I it is a delayed one but that's fine now I want to protest you and I don't like to be introduced like a heavyweight boxing champion is those kind of words or like a religious clergyman I am just a deep my first thing is a deep don't call me even professor I tell my students the rules ok I tell my students I say who is our

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thirty in this classroom the first day of something like that after giving them some information about the syllabus stuff and now everyone says of course you know it is you who are the authority each of you individually independent free human being equal to me in this classroom therefore call me my first name it I am one of you I made a little bit more experience a little bit more kind of having self-esteem but that's all we are in the same boat we are all searching the truth together therefore honestly I don't like any of

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those ostentatious name before and after especially clergyman of all sorts they like to be cold with long names you see their names in 1 meter long or fat the solo survival disease forget about those we are all equal we are all children of adam' specially in the context of politics from Asif II and religion my dear brother wish the name and the title of the person should be absolutely

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irrelevant how injustice the the eye of the do you know the statue is blind means doesn't see the person here the cases regardless of the person the same about these subjects whoever said the title the age of that person or however the Honorable person is not important the words the statements will be equal to each other of course and which where it is better we follow that just right more absolutely absolutely before our viewers who may not have come across

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professor at ebuy our brother a deep in Charlotte just for them a bit of background raining from originally from Turkey Kurdistan I believe but residing for many years in America Arizona the professor's is a leading professor in philosophy in Koran studies he has some amazing theories he's authored count innumerable works amongst them the reformists manifesto and also a reformist translation of the quran of the entire quran in addition to several

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Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2020-06-26-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/1/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2020, June 26). Opening: introducing Edip Yuksel, who refuses titles and insists all are equal [Video, segment 2020-06-26-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/1/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2020. "Opening: introducing Edip Yuksel, who refuses titles and insists all are equal." Video, segment 2020-06-26-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded June 26, 2020. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/1/
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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Opening: introducing Edip Yuksel, who refuses titles and insists all are equal}},
  year = {2020},
  month = {6},
  date = {2020-06-26},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/1/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/zmirskjob4o/s/1/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2020-06-26-S01, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}
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