Why The Channel Has Changed | Mufti Abu Layth

one why are you not switching back monday nights with mufti was cozy well because this is a new platform get with the program it's a different different shell it's a different platform it's a different theme it's a different trajectory and it's actually quite um substantially a different audience checking by youtube analytics so yeah if you i appreciate that you did like the and i think people you want to switch things up in life anyway you want to change things to

i like the fact that you see people who are listening to me are only listening to me because of what i'm saying okay they're not listening to me under the pretense of let's say i've got so many books behind me even though that that's the books are mine my library's over there and when i initially did it was just a matter of i guess it was probably about four years ago so it was a long time no actually probably 2017 i began so it's probably about five years ago so it was

it was just it was comforting it was nice but it did get a bit uh you know after a while i think you need a change of you need to kind of like shift things up but in addition to that i do like the con the thought comforting that people who listen now are solely listening for what i have to say they're not listening under any false pretense um not that it's false but still i don't you know i i like it to me this idea is very um yeah heartwarming so i like that somebody said they miss

the masala and stuff well tough you know you have to a person has to be in line with where they find themselves in life so i where i find myself in life this is what i want to do so that's what i'm doing and people i one thing i don't want to do i'm actually fed up of it not now a while back is is entertaining i'm not here to entertain you if you do want me to entertain you

you're more than welcome to take private sessions and i'll entertain you all you want but i i think i don't know maybe its age a person realizes that this so much positive work to be done so many people in need of real work real effort and there's there's fun everywhere you see if you just want to hear jokes just watch comedy central well go online watch stand up i mean you you're gonna get really good jokes there you know you don't need to come to to a and if you want to watch the old

monday nights you can i do i feel that it's amazing you know um yeah it's amazing how your consciousness kind of it i don't know it kind of shifts i guess and you find yourself in life with a qualitative leap in consciousness plateau so it's different it's very different so i don't really to be honest i don't like

doing that now and it's it's interesting somebody sent me a clip uh maybe a few weeks back of an old clip of mine and i can't remember what i i don't know why they said they sent it because of i think they were talking about it or something and sent it to me and i and i just clicked on it and watched it they must have been about like three years old or maybe two three years old or something two years maybe so i clicked on it and [Laughter] i was like oh my god

yeah it was it was wild i think you know it's yeah now when i watch it it's it's interesting but i'm i'm glad that a person has to go through their journey in life and they have to see different stages and i was there i saw that stage and and it was fun i guess whilst it was happening and then you you kind of go through qualitative shifts in state of mind then you see to yourself that hmm you know what what is all of this what is it even doing what is it that why why am i like what

why do i want to be engaging people with in this manner why do i want to be like what does it actually provide like what does it actually do besides entertainment what does it actually do and i realized that you know also the audience were a people that many of them weren't interested in almost anything i had to say they were just interested in being entertained and then there was a bunch of them who were really not interested in any healing

they were just interested in i don't know i guess in in in a maybe like a a an iconic iconoclastic pursuit maybe like maybe there's certain people who were annoyed or peeved off or kind of with with stuff and maybe i'm not saying right or wrong but for whatever reason they were and so they're kind of hurting these people are hurting and and i guess they there was a group maybe that's a

a percentage a percentile of the people that were listening to me they were kind of using my stuff weaponizing it to kind of just maybe serve their own cause and i mean i'm not passing a value judgment but that's what it is they weren't necessarily interested in the healing they didn't want to heal they just i guess were angry for whatever reason about stuff and and they maybe found solace not solid saying the right word maybe they found ammunition in my content that allowed them to then pick a bone

with people based on it so it allowed them to create arguments because now you see they can't arrive at this so that so they kind of use my knowledge to arrive at a point where it's just it's for it's for a negative force like they're not a force for good they're a force for harm they just want to argue create dissent create negativity hatred and you know that but that's not what i'm about i'm not about that stuff you see i'm about positivity i'm about

hope compassion love and i think sometimes when you're going in the momentum of things you lose sight of what you're doing because the momentum is just driving you forward and to you you know it's like einstein's special relativity and his kind of general relativity you see to you if you're traveling with or just say under the speed of light to you things are still travel normal they appear normal they don't appear like things are going fast or slow or time is slowing down or you don't

notice that to you it appears normal because you're being carried by this velocity and but to the other person they can see that so you can see a variation in time like in general relativity you can see this so time is kind of slowing down but from the other perspective not from the person moving in it so in many ways as a parallel when when i was going i guess you can't see you're kind of just being driven and driven and you need a break and i think in many ways

um when there was that um horrible incident last year the whole attack on my house and then following that because i took maybe three months off in those months i really just focused on me and and that period that break became like a catalyst for many other many other things and events whether the mental events or psychosocial events or actual events and i really got to really just just observe like wow like

what is you know it's it's amazing it's like for me i think i must have um in three to five months so last year's summer kind of months going into autumn and late autumn must have i must have been through like as in just actual maybe about three years to maybe even four or five years like that much stuff was going on in a positive way in my life like that much stuff like so i must have just aged at a consciousness level

years with each month like it's it's phenomenal i can't even explain it to you but i think and at the end of all those months when i kind of looked hmm and it's it's good to to to come to a standstill to assess everything that right where does everything stand and yeah so that's really why this show is there to help people and it does and is bringing it has different and i noticed the people that come now are people who want to heal and i like that because that's who i'm trying to help

some people might miss the old show because you're the only person willing to fight bullies on their own level sure i mean that i guess i'm not saying that the old show was was bad i mean sure there were elements of it that now in hindsight i think uh weren't serving as a force for good but but there was a lot in there that was good and positive and definitely and and it was full of a lot of humor and i get that and i get the fact that people it's interesting that i see some people you know they now um you know they

i can see that they they they try to muster some courage now i think uh our good old uh i saw that there's uh somebody sent me a thumbnail that he's made i think he's having an attack on imam zaid shakir about something imam zaid is an amazing uh individual may allah bless him i have so much love for him um and he's so he's attacking him for whatever i don't really watch

danny boy's uh videos but for whatever reason he's attacking him um and then in the thumbnails i heard some people said and i saw one two one of the thumbnail anyway somebody sent it he's using my photo sitting with imam zaitshakir when he came to visit me and and i smiled you know when i saw it i thought you know this courage he's only having because i've kind of just taken

i've just kind of seated myself back that otherwise you know over a year and a half ago when i would openly challenge him he wouldn't dare even mention my name you know this if he did the avalanche that would have come in his direction and he would run a million miles from me at that time i had openly challenged him to debates and and he wouldn't be able to run these islamic rings around me because you know he is not qualified in india you know he hasn't studied

or the books of hadith or whether it's going to be he has he hasn't had an islamic training like that he's just studied in a modern university so he would debate atheists ex muslims other people but he would never uh publicly at least name me or try because he knew i i wouldn't i was just looking for that opportunity and i thought you know it's interesting [Laughter] i thought it's interesting ah cello let others be huh let him let him now i thought you know what let's see i

thought let him have his fun um because it's it's fascinating so yeah i get that that there was this speaking out but you know what this there's more one of the things i really focused on you know especially with mindfulness and a lot of this collecting yourself and then where consciousness goes on its own journey eventually leading to what is ego death

it is something else these things are you know when a person comes back from an ego death they this world and the things of it seem so just artificial and there's nothing there's no allure to them and a person you know you you just smile when you see these things when people do these you just let let people be let these let children and you know it's like child's play let

people play if they want but yeah and and my advice is that to people as well as difficult as it is that just focus on your own journey let them be you know um by the way if even though i've changed that my mind trap show is still going so if any of these people ever want to have a discussion on minecraft i still take guests and we have a very civil discussion they're more than welcome to appear on that right okay let's move on