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Can We Choose Non Existence In The Afterlife? | Mufti Abu Layth

muftis akhirah akhira aakhirah akhirat hereafter aya ayat ayaat aayah aayat

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Zainab Jaffari, can we choose non-existence in the afterlife? Allah. Zainab, if only you knew what lies in store. Allah. Ah. That being is a transcendental state of bliss.

0:34

Unimaginable generally by our current standards. Um. I don't think anybody experiencing that would ever choose non-existence over it. Um.

0:56

It's interesting. I was watching um I can't remember which it was some It's just like a little brief clip about some atheists and as in Who was it? This As in it was a celeb- well-known atheist. And he asks him that, you know, you said um afterlife after death there's nothing.

1:21

And he said, "Does that trouble you?" And the guy said, "No." He said, "You know, I just I I consider it like sleep. Like there's just nothing. Like a dreamless sleep." And then he says, "But I But he said, 'But I am troubled by the fact that it will be nothing forever.'" Allah. Allah.

1:51

Has there come a time upon insan that he was not a thing of mention? Allah. See, one way of looking at this ayah is that what if it's negating that? As in there never was a time. And maybe we there was some continuity right from the origin of the soul.

2:21

But we just don't recall it. [Laughter] That's one way of looking at that verse. Ah.

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2022, February 4). Can We Choose Non Existence In The Afterlife? | Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/peugammlx2y/
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BibTeX 
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  title = {{Can We Choose Non Existence In The Afterlife? | Mufti Abu Layth}},
  year = {2022},
  month = {2},
  date = {2022-02-04},
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  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/peugammlx2y/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
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