Understanding Islamic Truth (Is Yasir Qadhi a hypocrite?)
Channel: Reasoned Answers
Date: 2020-12-31

As Pontius Pilate famously asked, "what is truth?"  When outsiders look at Muslim apologists, they may see dishonesty and deceit.  However, that it partially based on their understanding of "truth."  Islamic thought sees things very differently, however, based on a different understanding of truth.  I investigate the apparently contradictory stances of Yasir Qadhi as a means of illustrating this fundamental difference in epistemology.

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Video clips used:
* "Are the Parents of the Prophet in Heaven or Hell? | Ask Shaykh YQ #92" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9wGoNMJQRc
* "The Call and the Caller - Defending the Prophet" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aQoTuqs7iw
* "Why did Prophet Muhammad marry Aishah at a young age? - Q&A - Sh. Dr. Yasir Qadhi" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GMwR1gmZ6M
* "In the Hot Seat Muḥammad Hijāb Interviews Dr. Yasir Qadhi" - (removed from public view)
* "Yasir Qadhi Explains His 'Doubts'" - (removed from public view)

Other sources:
* Jami` at-Tirmidhi #2167: “Allah does not gather my Umma - or he said Mohamed's Umma PBUH - upon deviation and Allah's hand resides with the Jama'ah and whoever deviates he deviates to the Fire(Hell) ”
*Reliance of the Traveler:
-a7.2: "Unlawful knowledge includes: … anything that is a means to create doubts (n: in eternal truths)."
-b7.2: “When … consensus [exists], the ruling agreed upon is an authoritative part of Sacred Law that is obligatory to obey and not lawful to disobey. Nor can mujtahids of a succeeding era make the thing an object of new ijtihad, because the ruling on it, verified by scholarly consensus, is an absolute legal ruling which does not admit of being contravened or annulled. “
-b7.4: “there are many hadiths that have come from the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace), as well as quotes from the Companions, which indicate that the Community is divinely protected from error “
-f1.3: “Someone raised among Muslims who ... denies something else upon which there is scholarly consensus (ijma') and which is necessarily known as being of the religion (N: necessarily known meaning things that any Muslim would know about if asked) thereby becomes an unbeliever (kafir) and is executed for his unbelief”
*Sunan Ibn Majah, Book of Zuhd, Hadith 4268: The prophet said: “The dead person ends up in his grave … Then a window to Hell is opened for him, and he sees it, parts of it destroying others, and it is said to him: ‘This is your place. You were doubtful; in this state you died and in this state you will be resurrected’”
*"One type of disbelief (kufr) is disbelief because of doubt", IslamQA - https://islamqa.info/en/answers/243974/one-type-of-disbelief-kufr-is-disbelief-because-of-doubt

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