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Is laughing excessively bad for the soul? | Mufti Abu Layth
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machineauto-transcribed, may contain errors · source: youtube auto · click a time to seek · dotted terms open the glossarymostly is it true that laughing excessively is bad for the Soul hell no I'm tell if anything it is it is nourishment for the Soul I tell you seriously I think that humor just think about it God created humor you know there is humor in this world what would this world be like without humor just it's so amazing that you know have you ever thought that we can't even in psychology I remember once going through this whole
kind of research on humor and laughter and Freud has you know some writing on it and this obviously several of the people that have written on humor we don't we still can't comprehend humor like we don't understand it's beyond our current human comprehension like why do we I mean we've got theories I'm not saying we haven't got theories but they it's not a clear understanding why do we actually find certain things funny you know why is the punchline funny for us why is it if we see something somebody fall over
we just uncontrollably laugh like especially if you're watching let's say you're watching a meme of somebody jumping and he you know it's something unexpected happens now people say oh that's a nerve that's the the mind kind of coping it's a coping mechanism and it's a kind of nervous reaction to kind of calm you down but you know it's not really a compelling answer is it some people is it shot in Frida is it what worries go I think humor things like humor things like love are actually you know you take these kind of two
sentiments or these two phenomena they are beyond human comprehension and I feel in many ways they are the therefore that they are kind of like a sublime gift that we have as human beings right so what is right Jojo you're starting to look more and more like a Bollywood star right so
what about the hadith where it says laughing hardens the heart you see this is my point exactly the hadith in a castrato bike tongue beaten ethic that it produces hypocrisy or it hardens the heart by Eve by Eve hadith by Eve bring me sorry had you know if you want to bring hadith bring its I know that's what I say bring me the voice of reason or bring me something that cannot be critiqued then we can talk [Laughter]
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