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Cited in 9 segments across 7 recordings · 2018 to 2020 · term/term:jannah

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11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Are paradise and hell in the Quran meant literally? The guest, following Ibn Rushd against al-Ghazali, says belief requires accepting the afterlife, not literal readings of its details; Mufti Abu Layth agrees the afterlife is symbolic but says the prophets' stories are of this world. Discussionguest speechDr Javad T. Hashmi (guest)al-GhazaliTahafut al-Falasifa (The Incoherence of the Philosophers)Ibn Rushd (Averroes) machine4 min 28 s1:15:55on 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. Question from live chatposition checkedAdamjannah machine3 min 16 s28:36on YouTube
22 Sep 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth LatestCan we appreciate good in paradise if there is no evil there? Mufti Abu Layth says nobody knows how appreciation will work in the afterlife, because it is beyond what the human mind can comprehend. Question from live chatposition checkedjannahImmanuel Kant machine2 min 31 s38:48on YouTube
10 Jul 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Does the Quran motivate people through self-interest? Mufti Abu Layth suggests, tentatively, that even the Quran motivates through self-interest; the guest distinguishes healthy from harmful selfishness. Discussionguest speechShaykh Omar Balochjannahzakat machine5 min 09 s1:59:04on YouTube
10 Jul 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth Are the descriptions of paradise in the Quran literal? Mufti Abu Layth says he takes the Quran's imagery of paradise as symbolic, a motivation for people, rather than literal. Discussionguest speechShaykh Omar BalochMalcolm Xjannahreport: ma la aynun raat wa la udhunun samiat wa la khatara ala qalbi bashar machine1 min 58 s2:04:13on YouTube
3 Mar 2020From the Mind of a Mufti What does the Mufti think of Shaykh Ramadan al-Buti? Mufti Abu Layth regards al-Buti as a great scholar of his time whose books, especially Ma'a al-Nas, he benefited from. He says it is a shame al-Buti got caught up in Syrian politics. Question source not recordedSa'id Ramadan al-ButiMa'a al-Nas (al-Buti's question-and-answer books) [?]Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubijannah (Paradise) machine1 min 24 s0:00on YouTube
18 Jul 2019From the Mind of a Mufti What is al-Suyuti's book about sex? Al-Suyuti wrote about sex, including a section on names for the penis, and endorsed a saying that the two greatest worldly pleasures are horse riding and sex. Mufti Abu Layth agrees with al-Ghazali that orgasm is the closest worldly pleasure to those of paradise. Question from live chatposition checkedal-Suyutial-Ghazalijannah (Paradise) machine2 min 32 s0:00on YouTube
8 Oct 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran Do Muslims really get 72 virgins in Paradise? The number 72 or 73 has no basis and comes from a fabricated or very weak report that became an old wives' tale. The Quran does mention women and virgins in Paradise in modest terms, and some non-sahih reports speak of sexual relations there. Question source not recordedposition checkedreport: seventy two virgins in paradise (number called fabricated or extremely weak)report: will we have intercourse in paradise dahman dahman [?]jannah (Paradise) machine4 min 49 s0:00on YouTube
2 Jul 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran Are the descriptions of paradise in the Quran meant literally? The afterlife is real, but he believes the Quran's imagery of paradise was an encouragement suited to its first audience rather than a literal description. Anyone who takes it literally is free to do so. Question source not recordedposition checkedjannah (Paradise)report: no human can ever conceptualise jannahQuran 3:7 (clear and ambiguous verses)mutashabihat (ambiguous texts) machine5 min 03 s0:00on YouTube