The self-sabotaging self: A reality | Mufti Abu Layth

all right what are you musti are drugs bad yeah drugs are bad drugs are very very bad you know drugs very bad now definitely drugs are horrible wrong many of which are haram some may not be harams but things like heroin categorically haram crack all these things ruin lives you know may allah make things easy for people but honestly i think those things devastate lives as does as well potentially not always but with people things like

alcoholism destroys lives if people get hooked on it i mean it's shocking you know you watch these movies where people are alcoholics this one different you know but uh yeah so people are it destroys lives then there's different things cannabis um i don't think it's haram and i've got a whole video on it although i don't advocate cannabis per se i think cannabis should

just be legalized and regulated by the state so they make sure there's clean products for people who want to take it you know at the end of the day look it's not good for you but people want to do things which are slightly self-destructive you know you have to understand people there is a an inherent drive within human beings to be self-destructive um and it lies it has its roots if you look at any of the world's major philosophies major religions major they all touch upon this it's very fascinating when you think about it you know um that

that a person if you look at whether it's going to be from the psychoanalytic view that the id the ego the superego how you know how this this it is going to be destroying the person whether from some of the islamic discourse this nafs that people claim i don't necessarily always go with those descriptions that people say but still how the the shaitaan that is within the human you know they'll say yejali majira goes through is in the veins of the human um whether you look at things like um other philosophies i mean if you look at

hinduism it's an interesting thing that the the trio you know the the main three the the creator brahma then you have uh the preserver vishnu but you have the destroyer the destructive element and i feel that we as human beings whatever philosophy people ascribe to they have a self-destructive element you know and and it's evident that you you see it people hence they drink themselves to death or they do these there's a there's this

self-destructive there's an inner struggle going on you know in the words of maybe bus in the words of john ilia he says that look how strange i am that i'm strange to that extent that i have destroyed and ruined myself and yet it doesn't bother me you know that's uh or in i'm pretty sure is it in the words of charles bukowski where

he says find your passion and then let it kill you la la so i feel that yeah you know these things people have that self-destructive element and some not all self-destructiveness is categorically like imminently destructive like sugars fats fatty food you know these kind of things aren't self-destructive but they're not imminently self-destructive you're not going to say fatty foods are haram you're not going to say sugary drinks or haram but these things are self-destructive but not imminently and and these things in small

quantities the human body can you know it can survive so if people wanted those kind of things i just feel the government should regulate them but they because this way you have a culture of crime of you know of criminality of all kinds of stuff going on but yeah but that's not really my thing to be honest i'm you know i don't find i've never been a fan of this stoned thing you know this culture of being stoned i don't it's never appealed to me and i never liked the thought of not being conscious um

i you know as a person i always you know like i can't understand when people you know they want to be so drunk that they're out of it and i can never understand that kind of uh because i would want to enjoy every moment of things i wouldn't want to be kind of semi-conscious i would want to be entirely conscious and it's a strange i just don't relate to that mindset yeah but i have had released my detailed video on um on entheogens on psychedelics now that's different you don't that's not in intoxication but that's more a

an opening so that i do support