# Can we appreciate good in paradise if there is no evil there?

*Could we appreciate good without evil? The afterlife is beyond our comprehension*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/6/
- Date: 2020-09-22 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #183 | Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (38:10–40:41)
- Status: latest answer on its topic; general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYEM-eEe78&t=2290s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/

**Topics:** Paradise and hell; Evil and suffering

**Question as asked:** Could we appreciate the good without evil on earth, and what is going to happen to this appreciation in jannah where there is no evil?

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth says nobody knows how appreciation will work in the afterlife, because it is beyond what the human mind can comprehend.

**Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says we do not know how the afterlife will work, because it is not within our current comprehension.

**Evidence, his words at 38:47:** “the truth is we don't know what's how it's going to work because you're asking us to conceptualize something which is not our current state of conscientious comprehension” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYEM-eEe78&t=2327s)

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth warns that nonsense in the chat will be deleted, then takes a super chat asking whether we could appreciate good without evil, and what happens to that appreciation in jannah where there is no evil. Mufti calls it a good question and says the truth is we do not know how the afterlife will work, because it lies outside our present comprehension, like trying to think in four, five or ten dimensions. He cites Kant's point that the human mind is trapped within time and space. Answering a follow-up about planning one's afterlife, Mufti says its qualitative fabric is beyond us and anyone's assessment is as good as another's.

## Sources and names cited

- jannah
- Immanuel Kant

## Transcript (machine tier, 38:10–40:41)

[37:30] trained yourself to cope so you've actually increased so and then what would happen is as you've increased when you would have children you would pass on that ability to to them so there is this epigenesis this kind of uh epigenetical factor that takes place as well so it's not doom and gloom but some people may be kind of more predisposed to a better or a worse handicapped situation but they can also remedy it through their own interventions in life so yeah

[38:09] i hope that helps right so what is going on hassan too much nonsense on chats like stupid school kids people any kind of nonsense um you know will be deleted so and you could be blocked probably doing it with the super chat much love much love could we appreciate the good without evil on earth and what's going to happen to this appreciation

[38:47] in jannah where there is no evil bad that's a good thought that a good question that look what's going to happen in the afterlife the truth is we don't know what's how it's going to work because you're asking us to conceptualize something which is not our current state of conscientious comprehension [Laughter] we don't truly comprehend it's like trying to think in different dimensions trying to think in 4d 5d

[39:27] you know 10 dimensions we can't it's not we are restricted the you know it's how kant and other people centuries ago explained that the human mind is trapped within time and space we cannot out think even when we try to out think space we just think of it inside another space [Laughter] that's human are you human that's human capacity

[40:00] right so all right uh zebra how do you do just plan your future afterlife here yeah sure i mean look the afterlife is something that is to happen it's qualitative fabric or real feel or we just won't understand and the truth is your assessment is as good as mine which is as good as somebody else's

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment jTYEM-eEe78/s/6. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/jtyem-eee78/s/6/

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