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Sufism and tasawwuf
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28 Feb 2024Shorts
LatestA fate worse than death: each of us is a mirror for divine potential
Each person mirrors a divine potential given by Allah; do not let it go to waste and live to mourn the person you could have become.
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2021 · 7
30 Aug 2021Shorts
LatestIs a DMT ego death the same as the Sufi idea of fana?
Mufti Abu Layth says the ego death reported with 5-MeO-DMT is, he believes, what Ibn Arabi meant by fana fillah.
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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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16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
What does the Mufti think of the Naqshbandi Sufi order?
Mufti Abu Layth says many Sufi orders have become institutionalised and dogmatic, the very thing mysticism set out to defy.
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9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Was al-Ghazali against science and philosophy?
Mufti Abu Layth says al-Ghazali was not against reason at first, but after a crisis of faith he turned to ascetic mysticism, and through later Sufism this indirectly harmed the voice of reason.
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26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
What does the Mufti think of Pir Naseeruddin Naseer?
Mufti Abu Layth says Pir Naseeruddin Naseer was a widely respected authority across the spectrum of Sunnis.
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26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
What does the Mufti think of Dr Umar Faruq Abdullah?
Mufti Abu Layth calls Dr Umar Faruq Abdullah exceptionally talented, with remarkable Arabic, but says his later turn to a pir-style spiritual role wastes that talent.
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5 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
What miracle do you have as a saint?
Mufti Abu Layth answers with a joke about Sufi hagiographies rather than claiming any karama.
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2020 · 4
17 Oct 2020video
Did the Sufi saints have psychedelic experiences without knowing it?
Many of Islam's great mystics, such as Junayd, al-Hallaj and Ibn Arabi, most likely had psychedelic experiences without knowing it, as initiates at Eleusis and communities eating ergotised grain did.
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3 Jul 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Did revelation end with the Prophet, or does inspiration continue?
The guest says that for Shi'is, Sufis and arguably jurists some form of revelatory inspiration continues; Mufti Abu Layth says the Quran will always continue to mean different things to different people over time.
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3 Jul 2020MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Is love one of God's attributes in Islam?
The guest says Sufi traditions understand God's mercy as love even though Kalam rarely speaks of it, and rejects the polemic that the God of Islam is not loving.
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6 Apr 2020video
What does Mufti Abu Layth think of Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi?
Mufti Abu Layth regards Shaykh al-Yaqoubi as a level-headed scholar who has spoken against extremism and would point someone set on joining a Sufi order to a figure like him, while thinking his admirers overdo it. He himself once took issue with al-Yaqoubi's statements on Bukhari.
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2019 · 2
17 Aug 2019From the Mind of a Mufti
What does Mufti Abu Layth think of Shaykh Saqib Shaami?
Mufti Abu Layth respects Saqib Shaami for turning people lost to drugs and crime into good human beings and finds his influence in the East unique for a Western-raised shaykh. He sees him as focused on spirituality and tasawwuf rather than academic or contemporary intellectual issues.
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14 Jan 2019Ponderings on the Holy Quran
Is al-Khidr a prophet, and is he still alive?
Classical scholars disagreed on whether al-Khidr was a prophet or a saint, and many held he is still alive while others denied it. Mufti Abu Layth likens the stories of his appearances to saint legends in other religions.
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