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36 answers in 13 recordings, 2018 to 2021. 19 with a checked position in his own words.
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· What about the Dajjal? Doesn't Jesus have to return to kill him?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Dajjal is definitely not a man: the reports are fabricated in meaning or defective, refer to the devil or at best to a future illusion, and the Dajjal is not mentioned in the Quran.
“in my understanding that the gel is definitely not a man 100% not a man he's in the hadith the hadith are either wrong and fabricated or Mis related”
1:09:30TranscriptCite 2018-03-13-S18corrected
· Three conditions for accepting a hadith; Ibn Uthaymin and the Jassasa report
Mufti Abu Layth holds that a hadith is accepted only if it does not go against reason, does not contradict the Quran and established Sunnah, and does not uproot a principle of Islam, and that the hadith of Jesus's return fail these tests.
“when you start getting hadith that say Jesus will force people to become Muslim that's not acceptable that goes up roots it goes against the Quran the Sunna and the principles of Islam”
1:20:24TranscriptCite 2018-03-13-S21corrected
· Ibn Ashur, al-Shatibi and Ibn Khaldun on the Mahdi: a discussion within Islam
Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Mahdi and the return of Jesus are matters of Islamic information open to discussion within Islam, not creed, as Ibn Ashur and al-Sha'rawi held.
“my whole thing of putting this out there is to say look people this is a discussion within Islam”
2:02:24TranscriptCite 2018-03-13-S32corrected
· Why would Jesus need to come back at all?
Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims seem to try hard to invent a reason for Jesus to return, and that the tasks the reports give him contradict the love and compassion of his life.
“so it seems that Muslims are almost trying really hard to make up a reason for why Jesus has to come back because oh he has to kill the Jews”
2:17:02TranscriptCite 2018-03-13-S37corrected
· Does Quran 43:61 say Jesus is the sign of the hour?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that 43:61 does not state that Jesus is the sign of the hour, that the critics contradict themselves by invoking mutawatir and consensus claims they reject elsewhere, and that the second-coming narrative reads exactly from the Gospels.
“I wanted people to understand where I'm coming from why I feel this is because it reads exactly from the Gospels”
12:47TranscriptCite 2018-03-15-S05corrected
· Why would Jesus need to come back at all?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that the reasons given for Jesus's return, killing the Dajjal who simply melts, killing the Jews, and killing pigs, conflict with each other and with Jesus's own message, and that a report in Malik has Jesus peaceful towards pigs.
“Jesus is a Jew by the way Jesus a Jewish you know it doesn't make any sense and Jesus spent his whole life speaking about love and compassion and turn the other cheek”
14:07TranscriptCite 2018-03-15-S06corrected
· Why do almost all the hadith about Jesus returning come through Abu Hurayra?
Mufti Abu Layth says he does not believe the Prophet said the hadith about Jesus coming back, since almost eighty percent of them come through Abu Hurayra alone, who learned from Ka'b al-Ahbar and Abdullah ibn Salam, some of his reports appear elsewhere as Ka'b's words from the Torah, and none comes from Abu Bakr, Umar, Ali or Uthman.
“I don't believe the Prophet said these things about Jesus coming back I honestly don't”
10:26TranscriptCite 2018-04-01-S04corrected
· Does the Dajjal (Antichrist) exist in Islam?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that the Dajjal as an Antichrist figure is a myth that does not exist in Islam, that the hadith linking the Dajjal with the second coming of Jesus and the Mahdi are unacceptable because a God who tested people with a miracle-working devil child would be unreasonable and clash with al-Rahman and al-Rahim, and that the Dajjal reports refer either to Shaytan or, on his tentative reading, to an age in which the virtual becomes indistinguishable from the real.
“I've told people before that gel as the Antichrist is a myth does not exist in Islam”
0:39TranscriptCite 2018-04-09b-S01corrected
· What does the Quran say about the beast of the earth?
Mufti Abu Layth says verses 83 and 84 of Surah al-Naml are clearly speaking about the Day of Judgment.
“did you deny my verses and what was it that you you know we're doing so 83 and 84 are clearly speaking about the day of judgment”
6:25TranscriptCite 2018-05-29-S02corrected
· Will a beast really appear at the end of times?
Mufti Abu Layth says everything to do with the end of times is Islamic information to be taken with a pinch of salt, not as literal events.
“this is just Islamic information is to be taken with a pinch of salt it's like stories they give you some understanding but they're not to be taken as like literal events”
9:02TranscriptCite 2018-05-29-S03corrected
· Do the signs of the Hour have to come before the Hour?
Mufti Abu Layth accepts as a valid difference of opinion the view that the signs of the Hour can occur together with the Hour itself.
“so in that sense I accept this esta laughs in saying the signs of the hour they because they can happen with the hour”
10:19TranscriptCite 2018-05-29-S04corrected
· Does Ibn Ashur say the beast comes before the Day of Judgment?
Mufti Abu Layth says that, in his understanding, Ibn Ashur's remark about nearness does not mean the creature emerges close to the Day of Judgment rather than on it.
“he means that it has it won't happen on the day of judgment it'll happen close to they could take that but he's not I know you know he's not saying that in my understanding”
14:13TranscriptCite 2018-05-29-S05corrected
· What are Ya'juj and Ma'juj (Gog and Magog), and could they be zombies?
Mufti Abu Layth says he has said in the past that the colonial phenomenon holds a very strong interpretation of Ya'juj and Ma'juj for him.
“I've said as well in the past that that does hold a very strong interpretation for me for being the kind of colonial phenomenon that humans went through”
10:07TranscriptCite 2019-11-03b-S03corrected
· Were the hadith about the black flags against the Abbasids?
Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith that the Mahdi's army will come with black flags were, if anything, part and parcel of Abbasid propaganda rather than directed against the Abbasids.
“the mahdi's army will be coming with the black flags so i don't think they would have served auntie uh if anything they were part and parcel of the abbasid propaganda”
25:41TranscriptCite 2020-08-24-S07corrected
· Is the hadith that nobody will believe in Allah at the end of time authentic?
Mufti Abu Layth says that most hadith to do with the end of times are usually made up.
“You see most hadith to do with the end of times these es um you know apocalyptic hadith most of them are usually made up.”
1:31:01TranscriptCite 2021-02-02b-S16corrected
· Is the hadith of Aisha about Jesus and the Dajjal reliable?
Mufti Abu Layth says only one transmitter relates from Aisha the report with Jesus in it.
“he transmits this hadith of jesus he's the only one to transmit it from aisha check this out people i want you to grasp this”
3:07:30TranscriptCite 2021-03-02-S39corrected
· Is the hadith of Aisha about Jesus and the Dajjal reliable?
Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith of Aisha on Jesus's return rests on a lone transmitter, an undervalued narrator who dictated some forty-one thousand reports from memory in Isbahan with at least a thousand errors and whose version alone has the Dajjal emerging from the Jews of Isbahan, which he finds suspicious.
“he's the only person to have ever said that and that's where he was massively undervalued now you tell me is that not suspicious”
2:07:05TranscriptCite 2021-03-14-S27corrected
· Did the Prophet really spy on a boy he thought was the Dajjal?
Mufti Abu Layth says the reports in which the Prophet spies on the child Ibn Sayyad suspecting him to be the Dajjal, and related reports in Sahih Muslim and Bukhari, are absurd and insulting to the Prophet's dignity, and that their contradictory accounts of the Dajjal's identity and location show they are not revelation.
“The prophet had an immensely dignified character. He didn't used to run around hiding behind trees, spying on children”
2:35:49TranscriptCite 2021-04-06-S26corrected
· Where does the belief in the Mahdi come from?
Mufti Abu Layth says the belief in a Mahdi is disrespectful to the Prophet, who was the rightly guided saviour, and that it entered Sunni Islam from early Shia political movements, the Mahdi hadith being fabricated descriptions of figures of that time.
“I find this concept disrespectful to the prophet because there the rightly guided person for this um was the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam”
2:44:43TranscriptCite 2021-04-06-S27corrected
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