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26 Apr 2021MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
LatestIs the soul the same thing as consciousness?
The guest describes storytelling as a syncing of minds; Mufti Abu Layth says he feels consciousness is synonymous with the ruh and links people weakly at a distance.
machine3 min 14 s35:08on YouTube
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26 Apr 2021MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
LatestWhat inspired the story of Lupe Fiasco's album The Cool?
Mufti Abu Layth describes a classical tale of a poet's journey through paradise; the guest explains the resurrection story behind his album The Cool and the slave-ship myth of Drogas Wave.
machine7 min 47 s1:17:52on YouTube
9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Why does every spiritual awakening story have a time of withdrawal?
Mufti Abu Layth agrees that the ascetic phase in awakening stories is an archetype, like Tolstoy's two plots.
machine1 min 20 s2:04:12on YouTube
2019 · 1
8 Jan 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran
How should Muslims read the stories in the Quran?
Quranic stories can be read as narrative and for lessons, but where they suggest the supernatural we must ask how to read them, unlike myths we never take as real.
machine9 min 32 s1:57on YouTube