Ghalib & The Reality Of Paradise: “Humko Maloom Hai Jannat Ki Haqeeqat Lekin… ” | Mufti Abu Layth

see now that could be understood in many ways i suppose from one perspective somebody could say he's denying the somebody could say that and i think some people have tried to say that that khalid was denying and janna and denying these things although in other poetry he says it see so that's one way of reading that that he's saying

we know the reality of paradise however that to keep the heart distracted this this this imagination khalib or this what he's trying to say yes this concept or this thought is is impressive so what he's saying is to distract or to keep you engaged and distracted this is a good idea that's what he's

kind of saying now so some people understood from that khalid is denying jannah and he's saying that you know jannah doesn't really exist but it's a good idea to keep us kind of like the opium of the masses that's how some people could interpret what khalid is saying another way of interpreting and i feel that's what he was actually saying that the true reality of jannah isn't this idea that people say you know it isn't about just wine and

milk and that it's something unfathomably profound but these concepts of being told that oh you're gonna get women and you're to get all this and it's a very um sensuous appeal so it's an appeal to sensuality and to like there's a sex appeal in it and there's a kind of um [Music] you know it's almost it's it's a legitimate appeal to controlled hedonism somebody might say that you're saying well you know there's just

while like you're just having sex and sex and it's just alcohol and just chilling and so this picture of this oasis that let's say some people have captured in their minds raleigh is saying that this is just a distraction but it's a okay it's a good distraction in this world because it seems to work that our guys thought especially for men i guess thinking about uh women and the and all of this stuff and i suppose alcohol used to love his alcohol so he's saying

that this you know what it works as an idea but really it's actually much more profound than this you know this uh this appeal to the sensuous that it's something truly uh metaphysical because this is still an appeal to the physical isn't it because it's an appeal to food an appeal to drink an appeal to bodily pleasures so it's all corporeal and physical but in essence jannah is what the afterlife is metaphysical it is beyond

and it is at a consciousness kind of level and this is why the hadith is saying that if mahatma that even if one of you tried to conceptualize any idea you come up with is wrong so yeah so that's one way that's how i see what he's saying