Yasir Qadhi Doubts in Islam

The story of how academia can destroy even a scholar's faith in Islam.

Yasir Qadhi has doubts in Islam regarding the preservation of the Quran and regarding evolution.

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Yasir Qadhi always struck me as a rational individual, a person of academic integrity. I always suspected that he may end up agnostic one day.

He has come out and said his faith has taken a major blow. That he has come close to a crisis of faith. This is an important development because it shows that even the most strong believers, ones who studied the religion in depth, are not immune to the problems in Islam.

The narrative of Islam we have been taught is false, and it falls apart under scrutiny.

Yasir Qadhi says:
"I am personally aware of around a dozen muslims in academia who had major crises of faith (and perhaps one who has left the faith) because of this issue, and i have also confessed on this list that my own personal crisis of knowledge (I wouldnt really call it a faith crisis, although perhaps it came close) was when I entered into this realm, during my first year at Yale, and felt my world come crashing down in front of me. I didn't know what to believe about the hifdh [preservation] of the Quran anymore, because there was no alternative.
You either had non-Muslim views, or these simplistic, standardized triumphalistic claims that a rational mind simply cannot acknowledge as true."

He also says ": the 'preservation' of the Quran cannot, then, be a 'letter for letter, tashkil for tashkil' narrative that later scholars verbalized and the Muslim Ummah is taught"

Sources:

Original emails posted by Yasir Qadhi leaked here:
  / transcription_of_the_leaked_yasir_qadhi_em...  

Our Future as Muslims in the West, Noman Ali Khan, October 2010:
   • Our Future as Muslims in the West - B...  

Theological Debate on Evolution, Yasir Qadhi, January 2013:
   • Theological Debate on Evolution - Yas...  

Inheriting a Complex World, Yasir Qadhi, May 2015:
   • Inheriting a Complex World with Sheik...