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33 answers in 18 recordings, 2016 to 2021. 24 with a checked position in his own words.
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· How can I help someone stop drinking without pushing them away?
Mufti Abu Layth says that with someone who drinks there has to be wisdom and encouragement to good, giving them an alternative rather than only telling them to stop.
“there has to be wisdom there has to be more than wisdom encouragement to good don't focus on the bad give people an alternative”
1:08:52TranscriptCite 2016-12-21-S10corrected
· If I drank alcohol, are my prayers and fasts rejected for 40 days?
Mufti Abu Layth says the salah and fast of someone who has drunk alcohol or taken drugs remain valid.
“so the fasts the Salah is valid still and if once again things like alcohol and drugs are bad they are wrong”
10:16TranscriptCite 2019-05-24-S01corrected
· Does a nicotine patch or vaping break my fast?
Mufti Abu Layth says wearing a nicotine patch does not violate the fast.
“patch is fine people it does not violate the fast right so this has been discussed by the grande Maliki mufti of his era”
1:17TranscriptCite 2019-05-25-S01corrected
Mufti Abu Layth says his own advice and ruling is for a fasting smoker to resort to nicotine patches rather than smoke.
“I would advise people my own advice my own ruling is to resort to patches but these fatwas do exist and people have given them”
7:06TranscriptCite 2019-05-25-S02corrected
Mufti Abu Layth says he does not think DMT is haram.
“things like DMT may be the hidden cheats in this world a gateway into the realm of consciousness I'm very intrigued by these things I don't think they're Haram”
0:38TranscriptCite 2020-01-14-S01corrected
· Can I wear perfume that contains alcohol?
Mufti Abu Layth says perfume with an alcohol base is pure and there is nothing to worry about.
“is it pure or is it nudges it's pure absolutely there's nothing to worry about”
1:50:34TranscriptCite 2020-07-14-S31corrected
· Is it haram to sit at a table where people are drinking alcohol?
Mufti Abu Layth says there is no sin in sitting at a table where there is alcohol.
“there is no sin in sitting at a table with is alcohol. But this hadith uh if true is part of a series a systematized approach to distance people from alcohol”
16:58TranscriptCite 2020-08-04-S05corrected
Mufti Abu Layth says the Deobandi school, for example, is not really a reflection of Imam Abu Hanifa at all.
“Like the Diabundi school for example isn't really a reflection of Imam Abu Hanifh at all.”
2:25:25TranscriptCite 2020-08-04-S28corrected
· Are psychedelics like DMT haram in Islam?
Mufti Abu Layth says he does not feel psychedelics are haram.
“reality so i'm a huge advocate of that i don't feel it's haram and yes it does alter certain your states of mind”
36:44TranscriptCite 2020-08-24-S10corrected
· If alcohol is haram, aren't drugs like DMT haram too?
Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran and the Sunnah do not say that things like mushrooms or DMT are haram.
“things like mushrooms or things like um dmt's haram you show me where it says that it doesn't say that in the quran doesn't say that in the sunnah”
40:29TranscriptCite 2020-08-24-S11corrected
· Are psychedelics haram in Islam?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that psychedelics are not haram because they are not intoxicants in the way alcohol is but entheogens that connect a person with God and expand consciousness.
“that they're not haram. They are not an intoxicant. Okay? They do not intoxicate the brain in the way alcohol does or anything like that.”
0:39TranscriptCite 2020-10-17-S01corrected
· Did the Sufi saints have psychedelic experiences without knowing it?
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.”
7:26TranscriptCite 2020-10-17-S03corrected
· Did Rumi use harmala seed and a DMT-containing reed flute?
Mufti Abu Layth says it is very likely that Rumi had psychedelic experiences, pointing to Mathnawi passages that mention the harmala seed, an MAO inhibitor, and to Rumi's constant addressing of his ney, a flute made from a reed that contains DMT.
“So I actually do feel that you see this is something that it's very likely that he would have had this psychedelic experience uh just like many other people”
17:10TranscriptCite 2020-10-17-S04corrected
· Does the verse of light describe an expanded state of consciousness?
Mufti Abu Layth says the parable of light in 24:35 is an approximation that resonates with people whose consciousness has expanded, and that entheogenic experience was part and parcel of the Islamic tradition without having a name.
“What I'm trying to show is that I feel that this has been part and parcel of the tradition but it's just it didn't have a name.”
35:01TranscriptCite 2020-10-17-S07corrected
· Does the Quran or Sunnah say anything against psychedelics?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that nothing in the Quran or Sunnah forbids psychedelics, that Allah could have forbidden these natural substances had he wished, and that they are non-addictive and therapeutic, unlike alcohol, which causes deaths yet is not banned.
“if Allah wanted to make them haram he could have made them haram they they are part of nature”
36:01TranscriptCite 2020-10-17-S08corrected
· If a lot of anything can intoxicate, does that make tiny amounts of alcohol haram?
Mufti Abu Layth says the hadith refers to drinks that intoxicate in the amounts normally drunk, so even a small amount of such a drink is haram, while foods with trace alcohol that cannot intoxicate in normal consumption are not covered.
“that drink which much of intoxicates a small amount of it is equally haram but here when it says much of what does that mean that means what it much of in terms of what is casually drunk”
47:30TranscriptCite 2021-01-26b-S12corrected
· What counts as khamr, and is a drink with a little alcohol haram?
Mufti Abu Layth says that in Quranic terminology khamr was just wine.
“in the quranic terminology hammer was just wine other drinks that came about are the kind of beers that were around”
25:05TranscriptCite 2021-02-09-S04corrected
· Is the Quran's verse about the stupor of death talking about DMT?
Mufti Abu Layth says he does not think the verse is talking about DMT specifically, but that the DMT death experience could also relate to it.
“do i think it's talking about dmt i don't think it's talking about dmt specifically but could i feel that the dmt death experience could also relate to that verse of course”
1:01:30TranscriptCite 2021-02-09-S12corrected
· What is Birmingham really like for Muslims?
Mufti Abu Layth says he thinks several drugs should be legalised, especially things like cannabis.
“drugs should be legalized i i do feel that you know especially things like cannabis and stuff like because it would just cut out this entire market and then it could be regulated”
1:33:35TranscriptCite 2021-02-09-S18corrected
Mufti Abu Layth says that once a person's brain has developed, usually around 25, it would not be haram for them to take marijuana, though Islam does not encourage it.
“after that i've said that it's not something islam encourages in fact you know it doesn't encourage it at all how but it would not be haram if a person was to be to take marijuana”
3:07:04TranscriptCite 2021-02-16-S53corrected
· Are DMT and magic mushrooms haram?
Mufti Abu Layth says DMT is definitely not haram, nor is psilocybin, though these are issues of legality.
“so that is the understanding as to dmt that is definitely not haram um neither is psilocybin and stuff like that mushrooms but these things are issues of legality”
3:08:23TranscriptCite 2021-02-16-S54corrected
· Is drinking poison haram in Islam?
Mufti Abu Layth says drinking poison is categorically haram in Islam, with no ifs or buts.
“drinking poison is categorically haram in islam it is there's no ifs no but”
3:10:59TranscriptCite 2021-02-16-S55corrected
· What counts as khamr, and is a drink with very little alcohol haram?
Mufti Abu Layth says that in Quranic usage khamr is wine, that other drinks are haram when they intoxicate in a similar way, and that drinks with alcohol so weak that an average consumption does not intoxicate are not haram, which is the ruling Abu Hanifa defended.
“of that drink would not intoxicate you then in that case they were not haram so if it was a small percentage um you know one two percent”
1:16TranscriptCite 2021-03-05-S01corrected
· Is a DMT ego death the same as the Sufi idea of fana?
Mufti Abu Layth says he believes the ego death reported with 5-MeO-DMT is what great scholars like Ibn Arabi meant by fana fillah.
“i believe this is what the great scholars like ibn arabi meant when they said fanafilla the ego death”
0:00TranscriptCite 2021-08-30-S01corrected
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