Hamzah Yusuf
Hamzah Yusuf: “What is interesting about Central Asia is – he (Abu Mansur Al-Maturidi) came from a place that is a central of Buddhist learning and I find this deeply significant I actually wrote a paper called: ‘How the Buddhists saved Islam’. It is a paper in which I tried – and I’ve never seen this anywhere – … to show that the paradoxical formulas that are introduced by the Maturidis and Ash’aris are actually coming from Buddhist logic.”
Normally, it would be sufficient to merely quote such a statement to prove sheer misguidance and clearly going astray from the true essence of Islam. These days, it’s not that easy. Most Muslims know so little about so many aspects of Islam, big and small, that one would need to explain to many of them what needs no explanation.
I very much doubt that Abu Mansur Al-Maturidi or Ash`ari scholars would appreciate these words from HY, which accuse the Maturidi and Ash`ari aqeedah of -at least partially- originating from Buddhist logic. I too never saw this discovery before. Hamzah Yusuf never saw it before either. This is because it doesn’t exist. It is just a paradoxical illusion.