Jay's "UltraCrepidarian" Response to Yasir Qadhi

Just before midnight, on November 24th, Yasir Qadhi gave a "Chat" where he decided to "smackdown" myself and David Wood, because we had "illegally used his name", which was an "evil tactic", proving that we were not "real academics", "without integrity", "untrained", "unqualified", "vulgar", "vial", "noxious", "uncouth", and "not men of God"...whew! What a 'smackdown'.

He then went into a diatribe against me, followed by one against David, and then against Daniel Brubaker (whom he called "David").

His introduced 3 problems from 2 of my videos, though they had nothing to do with him, or his interview, or even the material concerning the Qira'at and Ahruf, the very discussion which I have talked about now for 'umpteen' times since his infamous interview on the subject in June 8!

He laughed at my usage of the name 'Baghdad' for the 7th century, since that name was only applied in the mid-8th century; while my use of the name Cairo, a city given that name in the 10th century, suggests I was out of my league.

What he didn't realize is that whenever I'm referring to ancient cities, I use only their modern names, so that people today will know what cities I'm referring to, and be able to locate them on a map.

What's more, he suggested that the name for Cairo I should have used was 'Kahira', which is simply the Arabic pronunciation for Cairo, not realizing that it also only came into existence in the 10th century; yet, the 7th century Arabic name was 'Al Fustat', something he didn't know, proving the last laugh's on him!

He assumed that when I referred to the 1924 dumping into the Nile of 29 differing Qira'at Qur'ans, that I believed these included every Qur'an in the world at that time. Where he got that notion I don't know?

In the video he "glanced at", we only suggest (jokingly) that by simply dumping the 29 Qur'ans into the Nile won't get rid of all the Qu'rans which were in the high schools there in Cairo at that time, which was the reason in the first place that one of them had to be chosen as the standard text. Yasir should have watched the whole segment to get the context before throwing aspersions against us.

His view that I believed someone had gone to all the oldest Qur'anic manuscripts in all the museums around the world and changed them all since 1924 was a valid criticism, as I did suggest that back in May of 2019.

I no longer say that, however, and now suggest that these 4,000+ consonantal changes to the earliest Qur'anic Manuscripts, probably occured during the Ottoman empire (i.e. since 1299 AD), when they would have been under their jurisdiction.

I'm going to let David Wood and Dan Brubaker respond to the criticisms Yasir leveled at them, though I would love to know where Dr Qadhi believes Daniel looked at 10,000 manuscripts for his research into the consonantal text? Dan only researched around 10 for his PhD thesis, and a handful more since then. 10,000 is incredulously inaccurate, the very example of what Qadhi claims we have done in our own statements against him.

At the end of my response I turned to Dr Qadhi and asked him 5 questions, which I hope he will respond to:

1) Which of the 30 official Qira'at Qur'ans is the one in heaven, or the one revealed to Muhammad by Jibril, or the one which was written down by Uthman in 652 AD? This is the same question Mohammed Hijab kept asking him in the final 25 minutes of his interview on June 8th.

2) He mentioned the "corruption of Yale" in this video. What does he mean by that, and was he corrupted in Yale, leading to his "Crisis of Knowledge" which he referred to in the interview?

3) He said in his 'smackdown' video that he shouldn't have used certain words, such as his reference to "holes in the standard narrative", and that was why he had to delete that interview. What then did he mean by the "holes in the narrative", and what other phrase or words would he now choose to explain these very real problems with the Qira'ats, which have now existed for over 1,000 years?

4) Does Dr Qadhi still believe that the Qur'an we have today is the same "word for word, letter for letter" as that which was revealed to Muhammad in 632, or remains in heaven eternally?

5) Finally, Where is this ubiquitous Uthmanic Qur'an he keeps talking about, and when can he show us the first complete Qur'anic manuscript (i.e. all 114 Surahs) which is exactly "word for word, letter for letter" like the Hafs Qur'an we have today?

Yasir Qadhi ended his "chat" by saying he didn't want anything more to do with us, and walked away from any further discussion, including stopping all comments from his video. Yet, he called us all kinds of names, mis-quoted what we said, set up arguments against us which didn't even exist, and now refuses to respond.

Let's see if he can at least answer these 5 questions above. Hold this space!

Dr Qadhi's "Chat" can be viewed here:    • Library Chats #10: Responding to Jay ...  

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