Story of Adam & The Forbidden Fruit (Revisited) | Mufti Abu Layth

right oh right so I I did say I was going to share some views about something I how some of my views have moved on on certain things and and it ties into a question that somebody had asked that what do I think about stories of the prophets now I know I had been asked previously about Adam alayhi Salaam and what do I feel was this tree of knowledge or this this kind of tree that this forbidden fruit what was it

now I don't know at this stage right design talks I'll get to your question in a moment right right now I've previously said about Adam ELISA Lam that look I have highlight here still you know there is a diversity of opinion I've gone I've even been intrigued by the view that was the ref was the reference the prohibition that don't do was it actually two things like

intercourse some scholars had highlighted that that it was about intercourse and so on and I said that that found that sounds quite intriguing and I've discussed that in the past however I feel now this is okay now I've kind of moved on I think I feel that Adam alehsalaam this tree of knowledge the forbidden fruit may have been a kind of psychoactive plant okay and I feel that that psycho active whether it was

something you know I don't know exactly what plant but something with psychoactive properties the way you have psilocybin in mushrooms or you have DMT and the ayahuasca kind of plant or but you have other kind of plants DMT is found in other plan other drugs similar kind of chemicals are found in other plants that are psychoactive I feel that I I've been kind of looking into some of these things saying some researchers who have said that they also feel that human consciousness may have been triggered by

psychoactive plants and I'm inclined that way so I feel that maybe because I have said before that I think that Adam aleihsalaam was the father of the cognitive revolution I've said that before on many occasions and this cog this kind of cognition arrives with consciousness so it could have been that this sugar to hold this tree of this kind of eternal fathoming and cognition was a psychoactive plant and by

consuming that it triggered consciousness and and maybe certain things were then represented as a story so they may have been so whether a snake so for example you have in some bit in the biblical version the snake in the Quranic version the Satan Shaitaan kind of guide not showing them to this plant and in the biblical version it's it's a serpent it shows them to me I mean these things could have been as an example

they could have been that a snake moving towards this part a plant is what guides them to it it guides their attention to this thing this is then later kind of personified in a story narrative form so which would mean that these are they're not necessarily metaphors they are kind of truths but they're kind of personifications or prevents if that makes any sense but yeah I mean this is an a slightly

interesting book food of the gods by Terence Mckenna a radical history of plant drugs and human evolution and he also has a section in here about the tree of knowledge and could this be these kind of psychoactive drugs and I think that that's quite I don't know I'm finding it quite intriguing at this moment in time Aloha maybe in time to come my thoughts will change again but at this stage yeah I didn't know what what I've said about

the whole Adam story I've not read that from here I don't know whether he says I have not actually read this year I've just got this but I know he has a section in the on the field of knowledge that's why I kind of ordered it but I this was just me thinking about it I was kind of thinking and I've read this certain researchers who have said that maybe human evolution as in scientists they've said that maybe human evolution of cognition of consciousness was triggered by psychoactive hallucinogenic properties in plants that humans kind of

start homing in started to eat these like Homo Sapien and it triggered like because you know as they tripped it triggered consciousness that is a theory within evolution and I was just looking at it kind of thinking about it tripping thinking about it and I was thinking well you know and it could be that a snake for example led them to it it could be that this is but and then this is later personified in this kind of story

I mean Allahu Alem that's my thoughts