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Quick chat: LSD, paratha and nihari, and jinn as microbes

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OtherRecorded 26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu LaythSegment 29 of 36 in the recording2021-01-26b-S29

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In quick chat replies he refers to his video on psychedelics, jokes about food, and says reading jinn as microbes is one interpretation, held by Rashid Rida.

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Answering chat in quick succession, Mufti Abu Layth says LSD is halal and refers viewers to his video on psychedelics, then jokes about eating paratha with curry, tells a mock anecdote about Queen Victoria and paratha, and gives his view of nihari. Asked whether jinn might be viruses or microbes, he says that is one interpretation and that Rashid Rida describes them in that way in his tafsir.

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if other religions had even announced comparable to what we have in as you know as the legacy describing the profit if they even had an ounce of it they they would be over the moon i'm telling you they don't have anything like that dating back to the um you know figures of of faith so yeah but so yes by all means we clean things and we filter things but we don't you know it would be so it's so kind of reductionist and naive to say look let's bin

2:25:18

everything yeah so people mufti's lsd halal yeah lsd is halal you can watch my video on psychedelics [Laughter] can be good you know this uh you see but to me paratha those of you that know it's kind of like a chapati almost but it's kind of all very oily and made a bit i don't know how to describe it but you can just type it in uh but it you see people just eat it on

2:25:57

its own with tea and i find that so strange i have to eat it with salan like with curry but yeah that reminds me that this is it's an anecdote speaking of hadith there's an anecdote of queen victoria that in her time in india people are protesting so so she comes out of a mini palace thing and she goes she goes what the hell is going on here so they say oh queen they're protesting says why are they protesting so obviously poverty all this she goes so the person says you know they're protesting that they haven't got chapaties to eat rotiani you know

2:26:36

roti to eat so she goes so eat paratha [Laughter] ah your queen victoria you're doing it you're doing it right now let's move on right so just ordered mufti

2:27:07

i think by i prefer payover nihari nihari was something that was common in karachi i was like to me it was just okay i don't know what the hype was about but um mufti do you think jins are viruses microbes according to some people yeah that's one interpretation it could be it could be that you know i know um rasheed radha sheikh rasheed riddha he kind of in his tafsir takes that serum describes them as that that they are uh these viruses and jeddah theme

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Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment 2021-01-26b-S29, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/29/ (accessed 1 November 2026)

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, January 26). Quick chat: LSD, paratha and nihari, and jinn as microbes [Video, segment 2021-01-26b-S29, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/29/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2021. "Quick chat: LSD, paratha and nihari, and jinn as microbes." Video, segment 2021-01-26b-S29, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded January 26, 2021. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/29/
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  title = {{Quick chat: LSD, paratha and nihari, and jinn as microbes}},
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  date = {2021-01-26},
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  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/eokcnwggiba/s/29/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Segment 2021-01-26b-S29, auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
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