# Is the Quran's verse about the stupor of death talking about DMT? *Could the verse on the stupor of death be about DMT? Psychedelics as a portal* - URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/12/ - Date: 2021-02-09 · Kind: question · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Monday Nights with Mufti #201| Q&A Unscripted & Unrestricted! 😉 | Mufti Abu Layth (1:00:54–1:07:09) - Status: general teaching - Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=3654s - Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/ **Topics:** Psychedelics; Spiritual experience and psychedelics **Question as asked:** Could this ayah be speaking about DMT: 'the intoxication of death will bring the truth; that is what you were trying to escape'? **Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth says the verse is not about DMT specifically, though the DMT death experience could relate to it; he sees psychedelics as a portal to the hereafter where legal. **Checked position (checked by two independent reviews, not by the channel):** Mufti Abu Layth says he does not think the verse is talking about DMT specifically, but that the DMT death experience could also relate to it. **Evidence, his words at 1:01:30:** “do i think it's talking about dmt i don't think it's talking about dmt specifically but could i feel that the dmt death experience could also relate to that verse of course” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4n4wD2jjps&t=3690s) ## Longer summary A chat question asks whether the verse 'the stupor of death will bring the truth; that is what you were trying to escape' could be speaking about DMT. Mufti Abu Layth calls it one of the most hard-hitting passages for him and says he does not think it is about DMT specifically, but that the DMT death experience could relate to it. Mufti says he feels breakthroughs with DMT or psilocybin are glimpses of and a portal to the hereafter, that the Muslim ummah missed the boat on art, music and psychedelics, and that in coming generations this portal will lead people back to God as institutional religion fails. He calls their main challenge that they are a shortcut, and closes with a disclaimer that he advocates them only where they are legal. ## Sources and names cited - Quran 50:19 (the stupor of death brings the truth): https://quran.com/50/19 - Quran 50:22 (your sight this day is sharp): https://quran.com/50/22 - Quran 41:53 (We will show them Our signs until it becomes clear that it is the truth): https://quran.com/41/53 - DMT (dimethyltryptamine) - psilocybin ## Transcript (machine tier, 1:00:54–1:07:09) [1:00:13] was somebody that's been vilified in his time he was not but likewise he was not this great imam that later people back projected onto him you know because he did something he became like this major imam and it's like hmm that's rather convenient so it doesn't you know he transmits this and it becomes later on a huge success it does not make him a major imam of his day and age you could say that you know thank god he did this so he's so [1:00:53] endeared and revered by me but to to to you know claim he was this major imam in the past is just it's misleading and it's simply not true mufti could this ayah be speaking about dmt and the intoxication of death will bring the truth that is what you are trying to escape [1:01:30] that has always been one of the most hard-hitting surah surah for me it just uh it just has such a rhythm to it um that it's just it grips you shakes your soul uh right so um do i think it's talking about dmt i don't think it's talking about dmt specifically but could i feel that the dmt death experience could also relate to that verse of course [1:02:08] certainly you know allah you know this now your sight has become so sharp and i feel that the kind of death breakthrough that one has with um dmt or psilocybin these things are really glances and glimpses and of themselves a portal into the world hereafter [1:02:45] i definitely feel that i feel that they it's a portal to that dimension um and it's a very the strange thing is when a person experiences it it's a very familiar dimension it's it's strange um but yeah and i and i feel that once again i say this on so many occasions that i feel it's a shame that there's several things which the muslim ummah um you know kind of lost out on they missed the boat with and amongst them were things like art [1:03:25] and even though muslims developed their own art but they kind of missed out on general art and painting and music they missed out on but they missed out on psychedelics and i feel that this is the the elixir the holy grail of this age and i'm telling you you can mark my words people allah that in the coming generations the the entity that will lead people back to god will be [1:04:05] this portal and psychedelics people it will be this the clergy have long failed an institutionalized religion is nothing but a new form of slavery this people want to free themselves of these shackles and that [1:04:32] that which will guide him to it will be what comes naturally from this earth what just grows out of the ground people um staring you know hidden in plain sight allah until it becomes clear that this was the truth we will show them [1:05:11] but the question is if one was to say where would have god hidden these portals he hid them in plain sight just thinking about that is so [Laughter] but yeah i i don't know this is so i definitely feel that yeah i value these kind of things uh dmt psilocybin all this kind of stuff i feel that they are [Music] the experience that they bring to someone is no short of an incredibly deep spiritual state [1:05:50] that the person experiences the only problem is i say problem the challenge sorry is that you see it's such a shortcut so people sometimes don't know what to do with all that profound spirituality that they've just stumbled upon [Laughter] you know it's like somebody just suddenly uh landing upon wealth so and and there can be also bad trips and things like this as well which i don't i don't know if there really is ever anything such as a bad trip or is it just another experience which one can really [1:06:29] learn from but still these are issues of legalities so disclaimer this disclaimer please to please to disclaim [Laughter] wait is that my is that my lawyer on the line he's like what are you doing [Laughter] right so yeah so uh i'm not i'm saying that these i advocate them in where they are legal legal legal legal people people some jackaroo some [1:07:08] jack at all right what is going on what is mufti's educational background [Music] you see one people expose me too quickly they catch me out they go yeah he doesn't even know anything so ## Cite Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment l4n4wD2jjps/s/12. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/l4n4wd2jjps/s/12/ Not a fatwa: these answers were given to specific people at specific times. 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