Being Human Centric | Mufti Abu Layth

no amazing that it quran talks in this way like this hits a course so deep with me because one of the problems that you have with many religious philosophies and including the way medieval islamic philosophy has developed it is so human-centric everything is made for muhammad really like a person living on planet earth and you mean to you you want to tell me that all the universe everything you all these galaxies are made because of muhammad jesus seriously like seriously you're gonna get a fatwa or two of kufar coming when people watch this they're gonna be like this doctor meer fazel

kafir the problem is the problem in central mankind is that if you take profits as moral you know your moral anchors as the you know as lamps in the your somehow of dunya this is beautiful but if you take them like you know if you place them as best examples for humankind i can see that but you know if if you try to demonize them and blow them out of proportion then then it doesn't make sense to me i mean you have to understand that there are alien lives out there for which we are really we have self-consciousness so we are worth something but there might be species which are

way advanced than us and to say that they were created because of us just it i mean i always feel this way it's like somebody sitting in a small village and saying you know what america is making this policy and we say in the cold war and fighting with russia because of because they want to get because of what i have done here to in my garden this would seem absurd they would be like serious you have no idea

there's a story there's in arabic there's a story that this uh one of the caliphs was he was going past and he sees uh you know they have these uh people who clean the sewers they call him monkeys you know like so basically people clean the toilets and sewers and stuff so this kanna finn in arabic enough and he he's going past the caliph is and he's on this kind of uh in this uh you know whatever he's going in his thing but he overhears this conversation of these two kind of sewer right so one of them says to the other

he says you know he says have you heard the recent politics between the caliph and you know his wazir and this and that he says you know what since the caliph has said this he's lost all respect in my eyes like he's dropped from my like he says he's like dropped from my you know the status has dropped and this is a guy who's working in the sewers so the caleb looks at it and he says it became a proper

proverbial statement that he says i'm his nose is submerged in water he yeah his ass is floating in the sky you know it says like this guy like like how can i have dropped from his you know the way he's saying it just look at him

like we have to be careful like you know one of my like i met once people from hari krishna moment who were trying to argue that god is a planet living on god is a human living on some planet i told him like you know and after we after a while he got convinced like he was talking once and said i told him you know what just next time you pray just go out in the garden and turn to turn to the sky and say god you're a you are great and i'm just an ape remember that remember who you are don't like don't blow yourself out of proportion you are an ape who has been destroyed with a picture of intelligence

you have been given but a little something so we're basically elevated apes as opposed to fallen angels huh that's what you're yeah that's a nice way and it's important that humans go out and i think this is a really nice prayer whenever you get this delusion about who you are turn to sky god you're great i'm just an ape that's a nice prayer to make so that you remember your humble origins

i mean humans have this problem of ego it irritates me like seriously like they blow things out of proportion they forget who they are