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19 Jan 2022video
LatestWhere do Neanderthals fit in the Islamic story of Adam?
Islam is not a science manual and says nothing directly about them, but he says the Quran hints that other hominins came before Adam, who was the final 'successor' in that line.
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2021 · 2
13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Are the stories in the Quran true but not historical, like the story of Adam?
Mufti Abu Layth says Adam was the father of humans with modern cognition, and that the tree, which the Quran never calls a fruit or apple, may have been a psychedelic plant that sparked the cognitive revolution.
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16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Does the Quran really say Jesus had no father?
Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran's elliptical text leaves readers to fill gaps, and that 3:59 on Jesus and Adam allows many readings; he does not believe in the virgin birth.
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2020 · 9
11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Do animals have morality, and does that mean morality just evolved?
Mufti Abu Layth sees a sense of justice in primates as evidence of a raw moral fitrah that humans develop further; the guest warns this can suggest morality is merely evolved and says rooting it in God is the necessary step.
machine4 min 06 s49:52on YouTube
11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Can I accept evolution and still take the Quran's stories as true?
The guest calls for reading the Quran wholesale as sacred literature, accepting evolution as scientific fact while holding that religion's symbolic truths, not science, ground human rights and meaning.
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11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Is the story of Adam in the Quran a myth?
The guest reads the Adam story as sacred myth whose point is human dignity, improving on the Babylonian and biblical accounts by removing original sin and blame of the woman; Mufti Abu Layth holds the figures and events were real but told to appeal to listeners.
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11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Why does the guest criticise Yasir Qadhi's views on jinn and evolution?
The guest criticises Yasir Qadhi's dogmatic style and his literal readings of Dhul Qarnayn, evolution and jinn, offering a medical explanation for exorcism accounts; Mufti Abu Layth jokes about the zombie theory and calls Brubaker courteous.
machine7 min 56 s2:33:08on YouTube
13 Oct 2020video
Does evolution contradict the Quran's account of Adam?
No: he says evolution does not clash with Islam, reading 23:12-14 as Adam passing through a womb and Adam as the first human with full consciousness.
machine9 min 37 s21:39on YouTube
13 Oct 2020video
If God made the laws of nature, can He break them?
God is not stuck with the laws of nature; He created them by choice and keeps to them, just as He keeps His promises about salvation.
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13 Oct 2020video
If humans evolved, why are there still chimpanzees?
Nobody claims humans came from chimpanzees; both share a common ancestor, and evolution is now shown through genetics, which he says poses no problem for Islam.
machine5 min 46 s37:20on YouTube
13 Oct 2020video
Why do some Muslims struggle to accept that Adam might have had parents?
Mufti Abu Layth says nothing in Islam falls apart if Adam had parents, so the resistance must come from something other than Islam, and God keeping His own rules is no limitation.
machine7 min 30 s43:06on YouTube
13 Oct 2020video
Does the Quran say Adam was made from clay or from a drop of sperm?
Taking 23:12-14 entirely literally leaves one stuck, since the same insan made from clay is then a drop of sperm; the clay may refer to something like DNA.
machine4 min 24 s50:36on YouTube
2018 · 5
6 Dec 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Does the Quran support human evolution?
Mufti Abu Layth reads several verses as arguing for evolution and says Eve is not named in the Quran. No one has to accept evolution, but those who do should not be called heretics.
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10 Nov 2018From the Mind of a Mufti
Did Adam come from Neanderthals?
No: Neanderthals were cousins of Homo sapiens, not ancestors. He believes Adam was the father of the cognitive revolution about 70,000 years ago.
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20 Oct 2018Responding to Refutations
Is evolution compatible with the Quran?
The Quran's verses on creation in stages, growth from the earth, the single self and the couple of 7:189 are reconcilable with evolution, which Mufti Abu Layth calls a scientific fact established through genetics. Hawwa is not named in the Quran, and those who accept evolution should not be called deviants.
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9 Apr 2018The Voice of Reason in Islam
Was Zakir Naik right to dismiss evolution as 'just a theory'?
No: Mufti Abu Layth says Naik's mocking reply to an ex-Muslim did Islam a disservice, and that in science a theory can be an established fact, as with gravity, not merely a hypothesis.
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9 Apr 2018The Voice of Reason in Islam
Does the Quran have to mention something for it to be true?
No: the Quran tells people to explore how creation began and never claimed to exhaust knowledge; its statement that everything is created in pairs is a general truth, not a taxonomy that rules out creatures which reproduce without a male.
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