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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.
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2021 · 3
26 Apr 2021MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Is life just a dream in the mind of God?
The guest says life is real and material, the unseen is part of nature, and ordinary people do not need the supernatural.
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6 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Is it haram to believe the universe will never end?
It is not haram: creation, including the afterlife, once brought into being remains forever in some form while still being other than God.
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19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
LatestWhy does Islam describe Paradise in such sensual terms?
Paradise is described sensually because that imagery works for people, Mufti Abu Layth says, meaning it functionally rather than cynically.
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2020 · 9
11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Are paradise and hell in the Quran meant literally?
The guest, following Ibn Rushd against al-Ghazali, says belief requires accepting the afterlife, not literal readings of its details; Mufti Abu Layth agrees the afterlife is symbolic but says the prophets' stories are of this world.
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13 Oct 2020video
Why do some Muslims struggle to accept that Adam might have had parents?
Mufti Abu Layth says nothing in Islam falls apart if Adam had parents, so the resistance must come from something other than Islam, and God keeping His own rules is no limitation.
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22 Sep 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
LatestCan we appreciate good in paradise if there is no evil there?
Mufti Abu Layth says nobody knows how appreciation will work in the afterlife, because it is beyond what the human mind can comprehend.
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19 Aug 2020video
Can non-Muslims be saved according to Sunni scholars?
Mufti Abu Layth says broad views on salvation for non-Muslims and on hell, while not necessarily right, are all part of the Sunni tradition.
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14 Jul 2020live stream
What do Illiyyin and Sijjin mean in the Quran?
They refer to a record or place of the righteous and the wicked; he takes afterlife imagery as symbolic and promises more next week.
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10 Jul 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Does the Quran motivate people through self-interest?
Mufti Abu Layth suggests, tentatively, that even the Quran motivates through self-interest; the guest distinguishes healthy from harmful selfishness.
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10 Jul 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Are the descriptions of paradise in the Quran literal?
Mufti Abu Layth says he takes the Quran's imagery of paradise as symbolic, a motivation for people, rather than literal.
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26 Jun 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Is consciousness in the brain, or is the brain a receiver for the soul?
Mufti Abu Layth holds that consciousness is non-local and the brain a receiver like a radio; the guest disagrees, describing a human as matter plus information that is backed up in God's record and restored to a new body at the resurrection.
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28 Feb 2020From the Mind of a Mufti
Do Muslims believe in reincarnation?
No: he does not believe in past lives in this world, though he feels souls are connected to each other and to God, which may explain the feeling of having lived before.
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2019 · 1
21 Aug 2019From the Mind of a Mufti
Is the Quran's description of paradise and hell literal or symbolic?
Mufti Abu Layth reads the Quran's imagery of the afterlife as symbolic, chosen to resonate with the people it was revealed to, while holding that life continues after this world. Allah also describes himself in imagery, and people are free to disagree.
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2018 · 4
8 Oct 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Do Muslims really get 72 virgins in Paradise?
The number 72 or 73 has no basis and comes from a fabricated or very weak report that became an old wives' tale. The Quran does mention women and virgins in Paradise in modest terms, and some non-sahih reports speak of sexual relations there.
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1 Sep 2018BukhariGate: Issues with Sahih al-Bukhari
What is the Bukhari report about the Prophet seeing a woman beside Umar's palace in paradise?
The Bukhari report in which the Prophet sees a woman beside Umar's palace in paradise and turns away because of Umar's jealousy casts the Prophet in a poor light, Mufti Abu Layth says.
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2 Jul 2018Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Are the descriptions of paradise in the Quran meant literally?
The afterlife is real, but he believes the Quran's imagery of paradise was an encouragement suited to its first audience rather than a literal description. Anyone who takes it literally is free to do so.
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9 Apr 2018The Voice of Reason in Islam
LatestDoes Islam stand the test of reason, and why should Muslims not fear examining it?
Mufti Abu Layth says he has certainty that Islam has stood the test of reason as well as time, that the hadith of the grave condemns faith that merely repeats what people say, and that Muslims must take reason back rather than shy away.
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