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Cited in 7 segments across 5 recordings · 2020 to 2021 · term/term:psilocybin

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16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth The preacher on DMT: 'no proof of the unseen', and tahajjud instead Mufti Abu Layth ridicules the preacher's claim that there is no scientific proof DMT users reach the unseen, asking what such proof could even look like. Lessonquoted view, not his positionguest speechShaykh Asrar Rashid [?]DMTDMT: The Spirit Moleculeghayb (the unseen) machine6 min2:59:48on YouTube
16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Are DMT and magic mushrooms haram? DMT and psilocybin are not haram, he says, though they raise legal issues; brain studies give abundant evidence of their effect on consciousness. Lessonposition checkedDMTpsilocybinLSD machine2 min 36 s3:08:23on YouTube
9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Is the Quran's verse about the stupor of death talking about DMT? Mufti Abu Layth says the verse is not about DMT specifically, though the DMT death experience could relate to it; he sees psychedelics as a portal to the hereafter where legal. Question from live chatposition checkedQuran 50:19 (the stupor of death brings the truth)Quran 50:22 (your sight this day is sharp)Quran 41:53 (We will show them Our signs until it becomes clear that it is the truth)DMT (dimethyltryptamine) machine6 min 15 s1:01:31on YouTube
2 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth Are near-death experiences real or just chemicals in the brain? Mufti Abu Layth feels near-death experiences are real portals, not just brain chemistry, pointing to cardiac-arrest studies. Question from live chatposition checkedConsciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death ExperienceDMTpsilocybin machine5 min 21 s26:49on YouTube
17 Oct 2020video Are psychedelics haram in Islam? Psychedelics are not haram because they are not intoxicants like alcohol but entheogens that connect a person with God. Mufti Abu Layth says the political label of drugs wrongly lumps them with substances of abuse. Lessonposition checkedharamentheogenpsilocybin machine4 min 28 s0:00on YouTube
17 Oct 2020video Does the Quran or Sunnah say anything against psychedelics? Nothing in the Quran or Sunnah forbids psychedelics, which existed for Allah to prohibit had he wished; Mufti Abu Layth says they are non-addictive and therapeutic, unlike alcohol, and are about connecting to God. Lessonposition checkedharampsilocybinDMT (dimethyltryptamine)Boris Johnson machine3 min 43 s36:01on YouTube
14 Jan 2020Quick Fiqh! Is DMT haram? Mufti Abu Layth says DMT is not haram and calls it an entheogen, though it is not for everyone; legality and health are separate questions. He holds the same for psilocybin. Question from live chatposition checkedDMTentheogenpsilocybinruh (soul) as consciousness machine2 min 56 s0:00on YouTube