# Is life just a dream in the mind of God?

*Is life a dream? The guest on the material world and the supernatural*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/25/
- Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (2:01:29–2:04:44)
- Status: a view quoted in order to be discussed, not a position held
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYiiPEhuiHA&t=7289s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/

**Topics:** The afterlife; Philosophy and ideas

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** The guest says life is real and material, the unseen is part of nature, and ordinary people do not need the supernatural.

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth asks whether the guest ever feels life is a dream, and the guest recalls Mufti's own question whether we are a dream in the mind of God. He says he thinks we are real and material and have consequences, that he does not think we are coming back the way we think, if at all, and that some questions he will simply ask God when he meets him. He says unseen forces such as the electromagnetic spectrum are real but natural, that nature is awe-inspiring enough without the supernatural, and that superstition originally meant giving too much power to things, so for the common person interfacing with the supernatural does not matter.

## Sources and names cited

- Lupe Fiasco (guest)

## Transcript (machine tier, 2:01:29–2:04:44)

[2:01:29] [Laughter] you know but lupe with your life do you feel ever that life is just is is it just a dream do you feel that sometimes i don't do you feel that is this just all a dream and i'm still somewhere back at the age of 18 and no man i don't i think that uh i remember you mentioned something recently um where you're saying you know it we we could be i don't know if you were standing on this statement but you mentioned it it was like uh are we just a dream in the mind of god right oh right yes

[2:02:06] which is which is profound in the mind of god um and i i don't i don't think that i think we're real i think we're material i think we're here i think we have consequence i don't think we're coming back you know i don't i don't think we're coming back in the way that we think that we're coming back um if we come back at all um i think that there's you know the moment is now um and you got to make do with what you have uh and create things that you see fit as they are now um not not to not to kind of critique after life and all of that stuff you know those are those are

[2:02:45] there's questions now where i don't even i'm not gonna ask you because it's just like i'm gonna just wait till i see god you know at this point i'm just wait til i get go see the man upstairs and then it's like hey can you please explain can you please explain the arc please like is that like what's going on with that youtube failed me i couldn't have no idea certain things was like i don't even worry about it you know so for me it's just like you know it's it's now here and now it's the consequences are now the material world is here and we have to navigate and deal with it you know the invisible is there too those unseen forces and things are there

[2:03:25] as well how do we navigate through those the electromagnetic spectrum and all that stuff i think all that stuff is real and i don't think it requires fantasy or dreams or anything above and beyond or supernatural right i believe it's just natural right that is nature nature is this awe-inspiring fantastic amazing situation it doesn't need to be super yeah right i think super does us super does us a disservice again if you look at superstition and what that really means and superstitio and what was the goal of that um it was actually like to give to give too much power two things right it was the egotistical move where it was like if you do this

[2:04:04] the gods will serve you right that wasn't the point right that was like what's super that's why they called the christian superstitious right because it's like god that's your whim you can do this and pray and god will forgive you it's like how dare you say that like god could do whatever you want right um and the definitions kind of change so when you think of supernatural you know it puts it it puts it in a space that we can't comprehend and i don't think life is meant to be like that you know maybe for monks or maybe for super spiritual ascetics who practice that level but for the common person i don't i don't think interfacing with the supernatural matters i think nature and there's enough beauty and

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment oYiiPEhuiHA/s/25. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/25/

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