I hope I’m not doing wrong by naming people but most speakers for Islam on YouTube that I’ve seen, are in error. One key area is Gog and Magog. Nobody has seen them, yet they outnumber the rest of mankind by a huge factor. Modern preachers find this a bit embarrassing to discuss!
So, speakers will use modernist, materialist explanations to dismiss what they don’t understand.
Such speakers are:
Shabir Ally - Qur’anist that says nobody stays in hell forever, despite the Qur’an repeatedly showing so, and that the severe punishment of cutting hands / feet off for repeated thefts, no longer applies because hands can be stitched back on with med tech etc etc He rejects the hadith arbitrarily (the narrations are not infallible, admittedly), in violation of the Qur’an
Yasir Qadhi - as l recall, he has an alarming tendency to explain away supernatural aspects of Islam as allegory
Imran Hossein - claims Gog and Magog are Ashkenazi Jews, who are descended from Turkic Khazars, who in turn came from Gog and Magog etc. - but Gog and Magog are hairy northern trolls and goblins, not bankers, and the Khazars were nomadic warriors, not bespectacled Yeshiva types, plus they were partly Mongoloid, partly Finno-Turkic, some converted to Judaism but most became Muslim and Xtian. Ashkenazi Jews are actually, as they appear to be, German merchants that converted to Judaism and traded with Silk Road Jews. Imran Hossein tends to do a lot of allegorising like this on many subjects. They all do.
Daniel Haqiqatjou - This man is very Jewish (no, not a crime in itself, most of our named Prophets, peace be upon them, were Biblical and some Jews were among the first Muslims), his surname even appears to mean “Really Jou” so it seems like someone is having a laugh. He engaged in one debate where he was clearly in league with his “Christian” opponent (another Jewish person) -
In that debate his opponent Andrew Wilson tells Muslims they are at the mercy of Christians who can nuke Muslims and are wealthier than Muslims, and he says Muslims are inbred and low IQ, especially in Africa. Daniel Haqiqatjou agrees but claims AI will help us be as clever as Christians and perhaps even as clever as Jews. All this, instead of just telling his opponent that is a hateful and un-Christian way to argue, and IQ doesn’t matter in the scheme of God anyway, as we can’t have one higher than God. etc etc. He throws Islam under the bus. He also goes into politics way too much, and even repeatedly uses the term “Blue Haired Libtard” which is ableist and is party strife. Talking religion should suffice.
- There are many more speakers l could mention but you get the picture, they tend to re-interpret Islam in materialistic ways.
CONCLUSION:
The best sources for Islam are its Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and the Qur’an, and following that, classical Islamic scholars from the Golden Age. Just avoid Ibn Taymiyyah, he was, like Christians and Jews, an anthropomorphist. He was jailed for it in his lifetime, but today? Muslims almost universally laud him as nearly a prophet, and he is frequently mentioned in sermons. Despite being roundly cursed by his contemporaries as a materialist anthropomorphist blasphemer (this is not my fatwa, this is what he was accused of). All you really need is the Qur’an and Sunnah (body of hadith literature) and follow your heart my friend!
I think that wraps it up. Peace!