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Soul, nafs and consciousness
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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.
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2021 · 12
26 Apr 2021MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
LatestWhat does Lupe Fiasco think the soul is?
The guest says exposure to many faiths has left him still searching, and that he thinks of the soul as a name for many functions of the body, holding his 'I don't know' comfortably.
machine5 min 50 s36:27on YouTube
13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
LatestCan the soul travel into the spiritual world through meditation or dhikr?
Mufti Abu Layth says such practices may work for the dedicated, and that the soul is not inside the body but a non-local consciousness the brain connects to, like a phone picking up a signal.
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13 Apr 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
LatestHow can I be sure my reason is not wrong?
Mufti Abu Layth says al-Ghazali answered his doubt by relying on God; today, he says, the very existence of a consciousness that can doubt is itself the sign of God.
machine5 min 13 s2:52:58on YouTube
14 Mar 2021video
Do those who deny Jesus's return reject the unseen, as Yasir Qadhi claims?
Mufti Abu Layth rejects Qadhi's charge that deniers of the return refuse the unseen: belief itself concerns the unseen God, and Mufti is preoccupied with consciousness, which science cannot explain and which he understands to be non-local. Qadhi's clip names Mufti among the heretics.
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2 Mar 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Can the revelation of the Quran be explained without the supernatural?
The words of revelation manifested in the Prophet's mind rather than being composed by him; whether that counts as supernatural depends on the definition, and trance experiences are only an approximation.
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2 Mar 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Do people who deny Jesus's return reject the unseen?
Mufti Abu Layth rejects Qadhi's charge that deniers of the return reject the unseen: belief itself is in the unseen God, and he is himself preoccupied with consciousness, which science cannot explain.
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16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Can atheism explain consciousness?
Mufti Abu Layth says atheists have strong points, but their case collapses at consciousness and quantum physics; atheism only works against Newtonian, institutional religion.
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16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Are DMT and magic mushrooms haram?
DMT and psilocybin are not haram, he says, though they raise legal issues; brain studies give abundant evidence of their effect on consciousness.
machine2 min 36 s3:08:23on YouTube
2 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Are near-death experiences real or just chemicals in the brain?
Mufti Abu Layth feels near-death experiences are real portals, not just brain chemistry, pointing to cardiac-arrest studies.
machine5 min 21 s26:49on YouTube
26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Could the hadith tradition evolve like a living organism?
As food for thought, he suggests that the hadith system, like other belief systems, behaves like an evolving organism that drives people to standardise and preserve it.
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19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Will you discuss reincarnation with a guest on Mind Trap?
Mufti Abu Layth is still looking for the right guest to discuss reincarnation on Mind Trap, and has only skimmed the Shia response a viewer mentions.
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19 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
How do I explain to someone why believing in God matters?
Mufti Abu Layth believes consciousness is the modern gateway back to God, and that following it will lead there.
machine1 min 21 s2:33:07on YouTube
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11 Dec 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
If we all recognise harm, why do people still do terrible things?
Mufti Abu Layth says empathy can be overridden by instincts such as power, and that a shared consciousness shapes the moral feel of an age; he notes the Quran commands justice without defining it, which the guest links to the Mu'tazila.
machine4 min 26 s53:58on YouTube
27 Oct 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Are jinn just archetypes in our unconscious mind?
Mufti Abu Layth thinks the jinn are beings in a dimension of consciousness we cannot normally reach, not mental archetypes.
machine8 min 11 s1:34:18on YouTube
17 Oct 2020video
How does Mufti Abu Layth explain what psychedelics do to consciousness?
Ordinary perception reaches only a sliver of what exists, as the eye sees only a small part of the electromagnetic spectrum; Mufti Abu Layth says consciousness has layers we normally cannot access.
machine2 min 58 s4:28on YouTube
22 Sep 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Do brain chemicals shape my personality?
Mufti Abu Layth says personality comes from DNA, environment and, in his personal view, the soul too, and that people can improve their predisposition through diet and training.
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10 Jul 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Is Western culture uniquely shallow?
Mufti Abu Layth says the pull of glitter and the thirst for knowledge are human, not Western, and that people now seek meaning more than ever.
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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.
machine7 min 51 s2:53:05on YouTube
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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14 Jan 2020Quick Fiqh!
Is DMT haram?
Mufti Abu Layth says DMT is not haram and calls it an entheogen, though it is not for everyone; legality and health are separate questions. He holds the same for psilocybin.
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