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Cited in 3 segments across 2 recordings · 2021 · person/person:buddha

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9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Why does every spiritual awakening story have a time of withdrawal? Mufti Abu Layth agrees that the ascetic phase in awakening stories is an archetype, like Tolstoy's two plots. Question from live chatposition checkedMusa (Moses)Isa (Jesus)the BuddhaLeo Tolstoy machine1 min 20 s2:04:12on YouTube
12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Why can't there be any prophets after Muhammad? Mufti Abu Layth says no new prophet or world religion will come after Muhammad; the statement about his son Ibrahim, if true, was hyperbole. Question from live chatposition checkedIbrahim, the son of the Prophetreport: if ibrahim had lived he would have been a prophetKarl Popper (as named on air)the Buddha machine6 min 09 s1:06:52on YouTube
12 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Could Socrates or the Buddha have been prophets? Mufti Abu Layth believes figures such as the Buddha, Socrates and Zarathustra could have been prophets, though we cannot know since Islam does not mention them. Question from live chatposition checkedSocratesPlatothe BuddhaConfucius machine1 min 16 s1:50:22on YouTube