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23 answers in 14 recordings, 2018 to 2022. 14 with a checked position in his own words.
Indexed so far: 259 of 1,859 recordings (1,904 answers, 2014 to 2025). Anything below may change as the rest are indexed. Limits of the data
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· Magic in the Quran: Musa and Pharaoh's magicians, an illusion
Mufti Abu Layth says the claim of any fantasy magic is absolutely absurd.
“so this is what magic in essence was and how it was now the claim for any fantasy magic is absolutely absurd”
10:13TranscriptCite 2018-04-15b-S03corrected
· Did Musa's staff really turn into a snake?
Mufti Abu Layth says that in his understanding the staff of Musa was not an actual snake but was described as though it were one.
“now in my understanding that it was not a snake okay when he threw the thing it was not a snake but it was described as though it was a snake”
1:17TranscriptCite 2018-04-20-S01corrected
· Did Musa beat Pharaoh's magicians with stronger magic?
Mufti Abu Layth says that Musa exposing the magicians' trickery, rather than outperforming their magic, sits better with his understanding.
“liars they have no connections with the gods that they speak of that they gods do not help them it is a lie that to me sits more right with my understanding”
11:19TranscriptCite 2018-04-20-S02corrected
· Did the journey of Musa and Khidr really happen, or was it a vision?
Mufti Abu Layth says that he feels earlier scholars overlooked that everything after Musa and his companion fell asleep at the rock happened in a vision.
“this is where a lot of I feel the scholars in the past for whatever reasons overlooked this the rest of everything that happens Happ happens whilst they were asleep it was a vision”
5:31TranscriptCite 2018-12-24-S02corrected
· Why did Khidr kill the boy in Surah al-Kahf?
Mufti Abu Layth says the boy was not killed in reality, since God would never allow anybody to murder a child.
“the fact that murders this this child he didn't murder him in real life God would never allow anybody to murder a child that would be absurd”
12:39TranscriptCite 2018-12-24-S03corrected
· Was the story of Musa and al-Khidr a dream?
Mufti Abu Layth says that he feels earlier scholars overlooked that everything after Musa and his companion fell asleep at the rock happened in a vision.
“the rest of everything that happens happens whilst they were asleep it was a vision”
8:22TranscriptCite 2019-01-14-S03corrected
· Is al-Khidr a real person who is still alive?
Mufti Abu Layth says al-Khidr was part of Musa's vision and not actually a real person who roams among us.
“he was part of that vision he was not actually a real person and he's not actually somebody who roams around amongst us”
27:48TranscriptCite 2019-01-14-S05corrected
· How do I answer Christians who say the Quran could be corrupted like the Bible?
Mufti Abu Layth says Muslims wrongly assume that earlier revelation was like the revelation they have, the Quran.
“you see we as Muslims assume that revelation in the past reflected revelation that we have which is Quran that's not true not true at all”
0:39TranscriptCite 2019-09-14-S01corrected
· Why did the Israelites ask Moses for an idol after leaving Egypt?
Mufti Abu Layth says the Israelites emerging from Egypt carried a huge cultural baggage.
“this was the Israelites as they were emerging from Egypt they had a huge baggage a huge culture”
12:37TranscriptCite 2019-12-29-S03corrected
· Why did Moses carry a staff?
Mufti Abu Layth says he thinks part of Moses' staff was the culture of the Pharaohs he grew up in, where the pine-cone staff symbolised Osiris.
“I actually think part of this stick thing was the culture in which Moses grew up with the Pharaohs see the Pharaohs this stick and especially the pine cone staff was symbolic of Osiris”
15:45TranscriptCite 2019-12-29-S04corrected
· What is the Ark of the Covenant in Islam?
Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran briefly mentions the Ark of the Covenant but it is not clear what the things in it were.
“there's a brief in mention of uh this kind of Arc of the Covenant in the Quran but it's not clear what these things are”
1:06:12TranscriptCite 2021-01-19-S17corrected
· Why did Moses have to strike the sea with his staff for it to part?
Mufti Abu Layth says the sea did not just part; it took a long while.
“the general description is that the sea didn't just part it took a long while”
2:43:20TranscriptCite 2021-01-19-S36corrected
· Was the Prophet Moses actually the pharaoh Akhenaten?
Mufti Abu Layth says he is inclined towards the theory that Moses was Akhenaten, though his research is still ongoing and he cannot say it as a fact.
“do check that out i go into it i am inclined towards the the theory that moses is was a canarton”
37:14TranscriptCite 2021-03-02-S07corrected
· What do you think of the rational readings of the Quran on the Marvelous Quran channel?
Mufti Abu Layth says he personally does not agree with the view, if he has understood it correctly, that Zakariya married Mary and was the father of Jesus.
“i mean i don't agree with that in personally if that is the view”
5:05TranscriptCite 2022-02-19-S01corrected
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