The Prophetic Approach to the End of Times -Mufti Abu Layth

do you find any part of the apocalyptic narrative of prophecies in Orthodox Islam compelling and definitely connected to the prophetic tradition you see these are some very fascinating questions I do I find that I think that the a lot of the prophetic sorry a lot of the apocalyptic things I don't think they authentic generally speaking I think they're more kind of they're more in line with what human beings generally

carry as a narrative of the Apocalypse I think some of them are there I do find that but I'm sure that some of these things were definitely had some substance to them they were genuine they were words of the Prophet some of them like things like that you know that a time will come when there will be confusion or they will be stuff like this which I would say pretty much we've we live in it regardless today but and just general things but I really find fascinating you see the problem with apocalyptic narratives is they're pessimistic they kind of doom and gloom

they kind of like Dostoyevsky they kind of like all very you know you just want to slit your wrists and a bit death metal kind of like just bleed and die and like what I find fascinating is what I find fascinating is the hadith about the apocalypse which I do feel are true that the Prophet said that the hour the final hour will come and one of you will

be planting a plant and he said that the hour will establish meaning the apocalypse will be upon him the end of time and he said Phileas Robb let him continue to plant and he said that one of you will be eating a morsel of food eating some food and the owl will be upon him and he said and let him continue eating you see I find those things very because they're very positive they are like they are all about positivity and about moving forward

like do what you have to do in this world see it through they're not like doom and gloom and all about this you know oh the world's gonna end and everybody's just crying and you know all Muslims are gonna and I think we inherited a lot of that from Christians from Jewish from the Jewish community and some from other narrow to other people as well so that's as far as that is to the description in the Quran about when the world comes to an end that how let's say planets will collide and stuff like this I mean that kind of stuff is when let's say the universe has collapsed in on itself and this destruction that kind of stuff is true

but that's not to take away from human being who would probably be all cease to exist by that point but the point is that how do we move like do you know I watch this clip recently of Cher Hamza Yusuf I think it's an old clip but it was surface I mean it was doing the rounds recently where he was saying that he was speaking of like sci-fi and he said that in the Muslim world there is no sci-fi like there is no Star Wars or stuff like this because Muslims are have become almost incapable of thinking of a future like we are just stuck in a nostalgic past a Bollywood that's my

word a Bollywood version a highly romanticized version of the past like Oh our past was so epic Oh our past was so epic what pass was that peak I mean the people who say that usually don't have not studied history but we're so stuck in this that we don't we're not a people of the future we're not a people that think of like sci-fi or think of things like this and and that's why I'm the Yusef was saying that you know it's impossible for things like Star Wars and these things to fly in the Muslim world because our minds are so shot off like we think but

the world's gonna end off the point and [Music] right so let's take a look