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19 Jan 2022video
LatestWhere do Neanderthals fit in the Islamic story of Adam?
Islam is not a science manual and says nothing directly about them, but he says the Quran hints that other hominins came before Adam, who was the final 'successor' in that line.
machine8 min 16 s0:39on YouTube
13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Are the stories in the Quran true but not historical, like the story of Adam?
Mufti Abu Layth says Adam was the father of humans with modern cognition, and that the tree, which the Quran never calls a fruit or apple, may have been a psychedelic plant that sparked the cognitive revolution.
machine2 min 36 s47:50on YouTube
13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
LatestCan the soul travel into the spiritual world through meditation or dhikr?
Mufti Abu Layth says such practices may work for the dedicated, and that the soul is not inside the body but a non-local consciousness the brain connects to, like a phone picking up a signal.
machine9 min 10 s2:24:10on YouTube
13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Was Adam a real person?
Yes: Mufti Abu Layth believes Adam was a literal person, the father of the cognitive revolution, though he accepts some read him as a metaphor.
machine2 min 38 s3:06:04on YouTube
16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Does the Quran really say Jesus had no father?
Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran's elliptical text leaves readers to fill gaps, and that 3:59 on Jesus and Adam allows many readings; he does not believe in the virgin birth.
machine5 min 38 s27:52on YouTube
16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Was Adam's garden on earth or in heaven?
Yes: the story of Adam took place on earth, he says; he was not beamed down from paradise.
machine39 s2:30:31on YouTube
2 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
What does the raven in the story of Cain and Abel mean?
Mufti Abu Layth reads the Cain and Abel verses as allowing more than one grammatical reading, and takes God to be the one teaching Cain.
machine8 min 43 s1:48:21on YouTube
26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Do creation myths in other cultures share a source with the Islamic account?
Mufti Abu Layth feels the world's creation myths probably share a common origin, and suggests the name Adam predates Arabic and Hebrew, possibly from Sanskrit, though he is not sure.
machine3 min 58 s52:59on YouTube
19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
A classical Arabic love poem on how the prophets' attributes are shared out
Mufti Abu Layth recites a classical Arabic love poem in which the beloved gets the prophets' beauty and the poet their sorrows.
machine3 min 46 s7:57on YouTube
5 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Who was Lilith in Jewish legend?
Mufti Abu Layth retells the Jewish legend of Lilith, Adam's first wife, who left him over equality and became a night demon.
machine7 min 07 s1:08:07on YouTube
5 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Is the story of Lilith in the Bible?
No: the story comes from Jewish commentary on Genesis; the Bible only names Lilith vaguely in Isaiah as an evil spirit.
machine2 min 15 s1:14:18on YouTube
11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Does the Quran speak in symbols and metaphors?
Mufti Abu Layth agrees with Ibn Rushd that the Quran speaks in symbols and that scripture is a kind of art, but asks whether the guest thinks the prophets and their stories are fictitious.
machine2 min 48 s1:13:07on YouTube
11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Is the story of Adam in the Quran a myth?
The guest reads the Adam story as sacred myth whose point is human dignity, improving on the Babylonian and biblical accounts by removing original sin and blame of the woman; Mufti Abu Layth holds the figures and events were real but told to appeal to listeners.
machine7 min 08 s1:45:37on YouTube
11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Why does the Quran give so little detail about some prophets?
The guest says the brief, repeated stories are archetypes recalled to console the Prophet, which audiences already knew; Mufti Abu Layth argues that following an archetype does not show a story was invented.
machine7 min 25 s2:25:43on YouTube
13 Oct 2020video
Was Iblis condemned for using his reason?
No: Iblis was condemned for arrogance and stubbornness, not reason, and much of what people picture about angels is imagination filling in the Quran's outline.
machine3 min 12 s4:34on YouTube
13 Oct 2020video
Why do most Muslims believe in the virgin birth?
Mufti Abu Layth says the belief spread through the dominance of the Christian narrative across the empires surrounding Arabia.
machine1 min 50 s19:49on YouTube
13 Oct 2020video
Does evolution contradict the Quran's account of Adam?
No: he says evolution does not clash with Islam, reading 23:12-14 as Adam passing through a womb and Adam as the first human with full consciousness.
machine9 min 37 s21:39on YouTube
13 Oct 2020video
If humans evolved, why are there still chimpanzees?
Nobody claims humans came from chimpanzees; both share a common ancestor, and evolution is now shown through genetics, which he says poses no problem for Islam.
machine5 min 46 s37:20on YouTube
13 Oct 2020video
Why do some Muslims struggle to accept that Adam might have had parents?
Mufti Abu Layth says nothing in Islam falls apart if Adam had parents, so the resistance must come from something other than Islam, and God keeping His own rules is no limitation.
machine7 min 30 s43:06on YouTube
13 Oct 2020video
Does the Quran say Adam was made from clay or from a drop of sperm?
Taking 23:12-14 entirely literally leaves one stuck, since the same insan made from clay is then a drop of sperm; the clay may refer to something like DNA.
machine4 min 24 s50:36on YouTube
22 Sep 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Was Adam's garden of Eden on earth?
Mufti Abu Layth says Adam lived on earth: jannah simply means garden, and Adam's Eden was somewhere in this world.
machine3 min 16 s28:36on YouTube
22 Sep 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Doesn't the Quran say Adam was created in heaven?
Mufti Abu Layth says Adam's garden was in this world, since the paradise of the afterlife has not happened yet, and the Quran speaks of placing him on the earth.
machine3 min 13 s41:20on YouTube
26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
What numerical patterns does the guest find in the Quran's word counts?
The guest lists word-frequency symmetries in the Quran, such as dunya and akhirah 115 times each, month twelve times and day 365 times, and says the number 19 is a test that most people fail.
machine5 min 11 s1:33:33on YouTube
8 Jan 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran
How should Muslims read the stories in the Quran?
Quranic stories can be read as narrative and for lessons, but where they suggest the supernatural we must ask how to read them, unlike myths we never take as real.
machine9 min 32 s1:57on YouTube
8 Jan 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran
If God can do anything, why not take the miracles in Quranic stories literally?
Reading the stories as suspensions of natural law means ditching reason, which leaves no ground to reject any myth; reason must be all in, though the prophets were real people.
machine6 min 26 s9:32on YouTube
6 Dec 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Does the Quran support human evolution?
Mufti Abu Layth reads several verses as arguing for evolution and says Eve is not named in the Quran. No one has to accept evolution, but those who do should not be called heretics.
machine9 min 49 s0:00on YouTube
10 Nov 2018From the Mind of a Mufti
Did Adam come from Neanderthals?
No: Neanderthals were cousins of Homo sapiens, not ancestors. He believes Adam was the father of the cognitive revolution about 70,000 years ago.
machine7 min 10 s0:01on YouTube
25 Oct 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Why does the Quran call Jesus the Word of God and mention the Holy Spirit with him?
The Quran uses terms of Jesus that it uses of no other prophet, the Word of God and the Holy Spirit, which Muslims do not take literally. He suggests this Christian rhetoric was perhaps meant to build bridges with Christians.
machine6 min 28 s0:05on YouTube