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Cited in 8 segments across 7 recordings · 2018 to 2021 · person/person:socrates

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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

24 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Are psychedelics like DMT haram in Islam? Mufti Abu Layth does not consider psychedelics such as DMT haram or intoxicants, and advocates them as entheogens for spiritual discovery rather than recreation. Question from live chatposition checkedDMTentheogenayahuascaPlato machine9 min 54 s30:58on YouTube

14 Jul 2020live stream If Turkey can reconvert the Hagia Sophia, can Israel or India reconvert mosques too? By the 'might is right' logic behind the reconversion, Israel could reclaim al-Aqsa and India's Hindus the Babri Masjid, so Muslims who celebrate cannot then complain. Lessonposition checkedThrasymachusSocratesmight is right (the law of Thrasymachus), rejectedal-Masjid al-Aqsa machine3 min 50 s1:33:19on YouTube

10 Jul 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Is Western culture uniquely shallow? Mufti Abu Layth says the pull of glitter and the thirst for knowledge are human, not Western, and that people now seek meaning more than ever. Discussionguest speechShaykh Omar BalochMuhammad IqbalSocratesMax Weber machine4 min 33 s1:16:33on YouTube

21 Aug 2019BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari Why did medieval scholars like al-Nawawi write that boys are prettier than women? Mufti Abu Layth says al-Nawawi voiced a sentiment of his age, shared by many medieval Muslims and by the Greeks, in which attraction to adolescent boys was assumed; reporting this is not mockery. A Saudi critic's reply that many women are ugly, he says, proves the point. Lessonposition checkedal-NawawiSocratesPlatoAristotle machine3 min 55 s16:59on YouTube

4 Aug 2019From the Mind of a Mufti Ethics evolve: slavery, human agency and the genetic fallacy Mufti Abu Layth argues that if ethics do not develop over time and only seventh-century ethics count, one would have to say slavery is fine, since the Quran acknowledged its ubiquity without abolishing it at the time, which he calls ridiculous. He says people hold liberal attitudes without having read Locke or Rousseau, being capable agents, not automatons. By the lecture's logic, he says, everything in Islam first championed by others would belong to them, as Socrates and Plato spoke of God and the soul first, which he calls an infantilising theory. He gives his own opposition to capital punishment, shared by most people in Europe, as an example of a view held without allegiance to Rousseau, Locke, Bentham or Bertrand Russell. Discussionposition checkedMohammed HijabJohn LockeJean-Jacques RousseauSocrates machine5 min 06 s24:46on YouTube

20 Apr 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran Did Musa beat Pharaoh's magicians with stronger magic? No: Mufti Abu Layth prefers the reading that Musa's staff exposed the magicians' trickery, since out-doing their magic would only teach that might is right. Lessonposition checkedIbn Arabi (Muhyi al-Din) [?]Musa (Moses)ThrasymachusSocrates machine7 min 16 s6:16on YouTube