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19 Feb 2022video
LatestWhat do you think of the rational readings of the Quran on the Marvelous Quran channel?
Mufti Abu Layth welcomes his fresh, reason-based approach to the Quran but does not agree with some readings he understood from him, such as Zakariya being the father of Jesus.
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2021 · 7
13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
LatestAre there answers to the hardest ethical questions about stories in the Quran?
Mufti Abu Layth says he has answered every hard question on his 2016 list, such as the killing of the boy in Moses' story, by research true to the text, and others can build on it.
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6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Did the parting of the sea have a natural explanation?
God acts through the laws of nature, so the parting of the sea can have a natural explanation such as a strong wind, and Moses exposed the magicians' tricks rather than outdoing them with magic.
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6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Was the murdered man in the story of the cow brought back to life?
The verse of the heifer does not say the dead man was revived; like 'in retaliation there is life', it refers to lives saved when a ritual of justice averted tribal war.
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2 Mar 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Was the Prophet Moses actually the pharaoh Akhenaten?
Mufti Abu Layth leans towards the theory that Moses was Akhenaten but says his research is ongoing and it is not established; he notes that the Levites bore Egyptian names.
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26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Is Prophet Shu'ayb the same as Jethro in the Bible?
At face value they seem to be the same person, since Moses goes to the priest of Midian in both accounts, but he says he has not researched it.
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19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
What is the Ark of the Covenant in Islam?
The Quran mentions the Ark (tabut) without saying what was in it, Mufti Abu Layth says; one early Maliki linguist described the sakinah in a way that resembles the cherubim.
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19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Why did Moses have to strike the sea with his staff for it to part?
The sea did not part instantly but over a long while, Mufti Abu Layth says; striking it showed the Israelites the way would be through it.
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2020 · 3
11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Does God's morality change over time?
The guest says universal morality does not change, only ritual law: the Quran corrects the biblical conquest narrative by implying the Israelites inherited Egypt rather than slaughtering another people.
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26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Does the Quran say the Israelites were slaves in Egypt?
A chat question cites 26:22, where Moses says Pharaoh enslaved the Israelites; Mufti Abu Layth says historians describe them as outcast second-class citizens rather than slaves but grants the verse deserves a closer look.
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26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Why were the Israelites told to sacrifice a heifer, and what does it teach about religious detail?
The heifer was commanded to break the Israelites' lingering reverence for their Egyptian masters' cow worship, and the rabbis' frivolous questions about it exemplify the clerical obsession with detail. Mufti Abu Layth agrees and recalls arguing the same.
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2019 · 6
29 Dec 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Why did the Israelites ask Moses for an idol after leaving Egypt?
Mufti Abu Layth says the Israelites' request for an idol in 7:138 shows the Egyptian culture they carried, which explains them calling Osiris a son of God.
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29 Dec 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Why did Moses carry a staff?
Mufti Abu Layth says Moses' staff partly reflects the Pharaonic culture he grew up in, and that keeping cultural practices is fine without affiliating with paganism.
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14 Sep 2019video
How do I answer Christians who say the Quran could be corrupted like the Bible?
Earlier revelation was not like the Quran: the Quran is a recitation meant to be preserved word for word, while the Torah was a message and laws and the Injil was the good news Jesus preached.
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14 Jan 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran
What happened between Musa and al-Khidr in Surat al-Kahf?
Musa and his companion travel to the meeting of two seas, meet a servant of Allah who damages a ship, kills a boy and repairs a wall, and is rebuked by Musa each time. Al-Bukhari's hadith adds the detail that Musa had claimed to be the most knowledgeable of people.
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14 Jan 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Was the story of Musa and al-Khidr a dream?
Mufti Abu Layth reads everything after Musa and his companion fell asleep at the rock as a vision, which explains its strange details. Scholars who read it literally struggled to explain them.
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14 Jan 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Is al-Khidr a real person who is still alive?
No: he reads al-Khidr as part of a vision shown to Musa, whose three events mirrored Musa's own life and mission. The boy was not really killed, and al-Khidr does not roam the earth.
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2018 · 6
24 Dec 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran
The story of Musa and the servant of Allah in Surah al-Kahf and al-Bukhari
Mufti Abu Layth outlines the story of Musa and the servant of Allah from Surah al-Kahf 18:60 onwards and its fuller telling in al-Bukhari's hadith 4725.
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24 Dec 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Did the journey of Musa and Khidr really happen, or was it a vision?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that everything after Musa and Joshua slept at the rock happened in a vision, which explains the story's strange shifts.
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24 Dec 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Why did Khidr kill the boy in Surah al-Kahf?
Mufti Abu Layth reads the ship, the boy and the wall as a vision mirroring Musa's mission; no child was really killed, since God would never allow that.
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20 Apr 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Did Musa's staff really turn into a snake?
No: Mufti Abu Layth holds the staff was described as moving as though it were a snake, while the magicians' sticks moved by a chemical trick.
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20 Apr 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Did Musa beat Pharaoh's magicians with stronger magic?
No: Mufti Abu Layth prefers the reading that Musa's staff exposed the magicians' trickery, since out-doing their magic would only teach that might is right.
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15 Apr 2018Debunking Myths On: Jinns, Magic, the Evil Eye, and Superstitions
Magic in the Quran: Musa and Pharaoh's magicians, an illusion
In the Quran the magic of Pharaoh's magicians was only an illusion; Musa's fear was a natural human reaction, not proof that the magic was real.
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