Early version. Transcripts and tags are labelled by accuracy tier. A position is shown only after two independent reviews have found it in his own words.
14 answers in 12 recordings, 2019 to 2024. 6 with a checked position in his own words.
Indexed so far: 259 of 1,859 recordings (1,904 answers, 2014 to 2025). Anything below may change as the rest are indexed. Limits of the data
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Mufti Abu Layth says many of the great Muslim mystics, including Junayd, al-Hallaj and Ibn Arabi, most likely had psychedelic experiences without knowing it, in the way that initiates at Eleusis and people eating ergotised grain did.
“I actually feel that many of the great mystics of Islam were upon like they many of them were, if you want to use the term, tripping. many of them were. They probably just did not know it.”
Mufti Abu Layth says it is true that al-Ghazali's influence had a detrimental impact on the voice of reason, although he thinks it did so indirectly.
“hence i would say yes it is true that imam razali uh his influence had a detrimental impact on the voice of reason although i think it did so indirectly”
Mufti Abu Layth says many Sufi orders have become very institutionalised, the very monster they originally set out to defy.
“being able to practice out of the box because mysticism was very out of the box but what they've just become is the very monster that they originally had set out to defy”
Mufti Abu Layth says he understands the soul not as a ghost inside the body but as a non-local consciousness that the brain connects to, like a handset picking up a signal, and that collective consciousness shifts over time.
“i feel the soul is never in the body anyway in that sense that people think like people think the soul is a ghost kind of figure inside you”
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