# Is it normal for faith to keep changing over a lifetime?

*Faith as a lifelong journey, not a fixed mould*

- URL: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/9/
- Date: 2021-04-26 · Kind: discussion · Transcript tier: machine · Recording: Lupe Fiasco | Stardom, Semiotics & Soul-searching | MindTrap#56 | Mufti Abu Layth al-Maliki MALM (42:17–43:35)
- Status: general teaching
- Watch from the start of the segment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYiiPEhuiHA&t=2537s
- Recording page: https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/

**Topics:** Motivation and purpose; Reason and revelation

**Summary (not a quotation; machine-made, unchecked):** Mufti Abu Layth says faith is a lifelong journey and iman an organic process, not a fixed mould to be fitted onto everyone.

## Longer summary

Mufti Abu Layth responds that being on a journey and still absorbing things is what faith and life ought to be. He says people expect that adhering to a religion means fixed codes with little room to move, whereas it is the journey of a human being to discover God. He says he sees iman not as a static mould that people want to fit onto everybody but as an organic journey that will go here and there, including times of not knowing.

## Sources and names cited

- Lupe Fiasco (guest)
- iman

## Transcript (machine tier, 42:17–43:35)

[42:17] you know what you said this state of flow this kind of journey being on a journey like i'm still um you know like i'm still absorbing things i'm kind of just just just going through and developing is that i mean isn't that really just faith and life that's and how it ought to be i mean that it's because it's not faith really just ultimately a lifelong journey i mean i don't know you because there is this expectation from people that you know if you adhere to a religion you have these set codes these parameters you're done you know we've boxed you and that's it

[42:56] and you can't never you know there's no very little room to maneuver and you know that's what you are where really it is a journey of humans of man to discover god it's you know you're going through life you're developing i mean isn't because that's how i see iman really i see iman not as this kind of static this kind of mold that people want to you know super fit onto everybody but it's an organic journey and it's going to you know it's going to go here there there's going to be like you said you know like at one point i don't know you know i i don't know what i am

## Cite

Mufti Abu Layth Archive, segment oYiiPEhuiHA/s/9. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/oyiipehuiha/s/9/

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