The Prophet & Jibreel: Faith & Intellect | Mufti Abu Layth

I mean how did reason lead you to oh wow so that just see Allahu Akbar see how the souls are connected that you asked a question about reason and I didn't even read your question and yet I spoke on reason Allah how did reason lead you to choose Islam over the other world religions or even New Age spirituality

nah uh much love from the region between the cyanosphere a love may Allah bless you and and that region I mean right I feel that faith is not this is the thing that faith is not chosen

by reason faith is chosen or pursued is a better word by the phenomenon of the Sacred or the holy so it is more something it is though it is something experiential but reason then guides in what that is not to be

so reason guides in filtering what is not to be the sacred but in and of itself I feel it cannot truly in an experiential way arrive at the heart of the Sacred it can guide you to it by excluding what is not from it but then you must there must come a point

where you must taste it if you don't I feel that you couldn't you know it's in some ways some Mystics they they use the Hadith I think it's an apt analogy metaphorical analogy to use here even if you know it may not be um right it's they speak of the the events of the Mirage and what they say is you know the famous Hadith that jibril Ali salaam is with the prophet

and they reach a point of lamakan of no further point to be this infinite and the prophet is to step forward and he looks at jibril to step forward with him and jibril says

if I pass this barrier I will be set Ablaze and burn I will perish but you can and many Mystics they saw as a metaphor that jibril Ali salaam like this the Archangel representing the highest of intellect and reason

that it guided to God right up until that very point and the prophet sallallahu alaihi wasallam as a metaphor being the embodiment of ultimate spirituality that to that point they were there and it was guided but then reason it was not to be a reason realization it was to be an experiential a tasted I lived realization I think that is so profound as a

metaphor um yeah obviously that's for people who understand or like these um this kind of discourse I've got some people joining on let me I come right okay move this all right so somebody said mufti's go around maybe Naruto what about you see the meeting of ibna rust and IBN Arabi

is that not the more I reflect on that the more it makes sense to me that they were not you know as ibna rushed he is so pleased when he asks IBN Arabi that he just says to he just looks at him doesn't even ask the question but it's understood that do these and he says Nam that that do that are they congruent the paths and then he says la

and then he says and between that yes and no the souls are dissipated Allah I feel that that's um I've got a clip on that to watch that