I personally think he was a knowledgeable guy in Islamic Sciences up until he went to Yale, then he gone downhill and started propagating innovative ideas.
Yasir Qadhi - Thoughts?
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He has mistakes but overall he’s good. I’ve learned a lot from watching his videos and many people have learned from him, now I’m thinking about buying one of his books. Some of the “innovative” stuff people say he propagates are mostly over-exaggerated & taken out of context to try & defame him. For example, his opponents accused him of “normalizing shirk” when in reality he wasn’t, he was simply giving different opinions from classical scholars on a controversial subject or when they said he “doubted the Qurans’s preservation” when he actually didn’t, Islamophobes took his words out of context & Yasir Qadhi made a video refuting their lies & deception.
Overall, he’s a sincere scholar who makes mistakes but has benefited a lot to this Ummah, we should try to make excuses for our brothers before making harsh judgements, that’s just my thoughts on him.
Overall, he’s a sincere scholar who makes mistakes but has benefited a lot to this Ummah, we should try to make excuses for our brothers before making harsh judgements, that’s just my thoughts on him.
I like him a lot. He seems sincere and is very knowledgeable. What innovative ideas are you referring to? I heard a crazy stuff from people I know that he called Gog and Magog fabels. I wanted to hear it from the horse mouth and listened to his 2 hour lasting lecture on Gog and Magog. And he didn’t even say that at all. He went through the interpretations on early historians and scholars on the origines of Gog and Magog. Some even had racist interpretations, which they literally took from Israelite stories, that they were from Turkish ancestry. Some said that prophet Adam had a wet dream and they were created from his semen that touch the soil. He called those interpretations fabels because they’re not based on sunnah and Quran.
He focuses a lot on issues that face Muslims in the west, which requires ijtihad and are fuel for criticism. Those that criticize him don’t have an idea on the circumstances of the Muslims in west.
He focuses a lot on issues that face Muslims in the west, which requires ijtihad and are fuel for criticism. Those that criticize him don’t have an idea on the circumstances of the Muslims in west.
His views on Yajuj and Majuj are innovative in the sense that he insinuated they are metaphorical, and proceeded to list ways on how to interpret them when it is quite clear the prophet (saw) was being literal. I'm not entirely sure what video you're referring to when he goes through historical interpretations and so forth but that is what I got when I listened to his video.
But what I primarily dislike about him is how he tends to use western speaking points and more or less view things via an academic approach instead of an Islamic one. He does this when speaking of hudud punishments, he does this when speaking of the seerah, and so on. Also does not help how the people he and Al Maghreb institute as a whole are associated with questionable acts.
Yeah there are definitely educational content that he puts out and I wouldn't go as far as to call him a progressive muslim; but I think the influences America has had on him albeit Yale, Al-Maghreb, etc. hasn't been very beneficial.
You are making a lot of claims while presenting no examples to back them up. Islamic approach and academic are the same, because Islam is the truth.
Some random whatsapp messages that have nothing to do with the shaykh and inherently dont say anything wrong are supposed to prove what?
The smears against Yasir Qadhi have failed and are completely politically motivated. He is one of the most popular english speaking scholars in the world, and the scholars for dollars have been exposed and lost all credibility.
Be man enough and say it with your chest instead of insinuating stuff about the good sheikh by posting WhatsApp screenshots. You went from asking intellectual questions to posting screenshots to start and/or spread rumors.
He absolutely did not state that Yajuj wa Majuj are metaphorical. It’s exactly the same thing a salafi jadiid friend of mine said without listening to his lecture. He went through the widespread interpretation, the fact that you don’t know which interpretations I am talking about shows you didn’t watch the lecture. He talked about the baseless claim that Dhul Qarnayn is Alexander the Great, while the latter was a known polytheistic and Abdul Qarnayn is a monotheist, a muwahid. Go watch the 2 hour lasting lecture and come back to us. You based your opinion on hearsay.
Aa for his Seerah series, as Allah is my witness it was the best seerah lectures I’ve listened to it. I listened to the entire Seerah of the prophet, the 4 khalifs, Ahlu bait and between 10-20 other sahaba in great, balanced details. I listened to all of them during Ramadan 2020 and loved it.
Stop being defensive, he absolute did take a metaphorical position for Yajuj and Majuj. Multiple times throughout the lecture he stated he did not believe in the standard narrative, specifically at 54:58. He then decided to discuss two plausible "theories", as to Yajuj and Majuj's exitence; both of which having metaphorical elements to them such as the tribe not existing, them being dead, and his infamous claim that they are zombies. Of course he never actually stated directly he believed in any one of these theories , but I just assumed he did for the benefit of the doubt. If he did, however, not believe in them that would be much worse as he would be actively disregarding something said in the hadith and Qur'an.
In regards to the other things I've stated I wasn't trying to insinuate any rumours/bad will against him. I just found it questionable as to why he used the term "feminism in Islam" as that is literally an oxymoron, and how there shouldn't be any parents; but of course thats just my personal opnion.
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mr.overeasy
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I believe the same, too many just want to take down a good scholar who made some mistakes. On top of this we love to ignore years of helpful content because of a slipup or two.
Hes among the wise islamic scholars.
Brother, you clearly did not listen to the correct video, where he is explicitly saying Gog And magood is not possible..see this and you will know who is paying this Munafik.
Yes he is Grade A Kafiiiiir. Munafikoon mushrik. and anyone who sees this and do not declare him this are following him to the fire. Because Mohammed (saw) said. If you follow a nation, you are with this nation. the nation he follow is dar al harb. a country in war with Islam. so he is by concensus a kafir as he love that nation that fights Islam. He says in the video he is Proud patriotic muslim to the nation USA. It is like if the sahabas would say I am a proud quraishi, follower of the tribe that faught Mohammed (saw) and Islam. He lies and say it is from Sharia to follow the nation but in islam there is not such thing as asabiyyah (nationalism) we follow only La illaha ill Allah. Mohammed (saw) did not have the flag of Saudi or of any tribe, his flag was Black and white. So anyone following another flag than La illaha illallah, is following kufr and shirk.
May Allah guide us all.
May Allah revard you brother...
Omar del Sur
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I don't want to go so far as to make takfir on him even though I do think he is an undercover murtad- but he's definitely a sellout to the West pushing for the Westernization of Islam.
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