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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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Earlier answers · 32 · newest first
2021 · 14
26 Apr 2021MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Are psychedelics like mushrooms and DMT haram?
Mufti Abu Layth says he has a video saying psychedelics are not haram; the guest says he has never drunk or used drugs and judges such substances by a medicinal line.
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5 Mar 2021video
What counts as khamr, and is a drink with very little alcohol haram?
In the Quran khamr is wine; other drinks are haram if they intoxicate similarly, but a drink so weak that normal consumption does not intoxicate is not haram. This was Abu Hanifa's ruling, for which the Hanafi school was attacked for centuries until later Hanafis grew embarrassed by it.
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16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Did Abu Hanifa allow nabidh only as medicine?
Mufti Abu Layth says the reports Abu Hanifa's school transmitted, of Umar and Ibn Mas'ud drinking and diluting nabidh, are about drinking with food, not medicine.
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16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Is cannabis an intoxicant like alcohol in Islam?
Mufti Abu Layth says marijuana is not an intoxicant in the way alcohol is, and accuses the preacher of not understanding the difference between psychoactive substances and intoxicants.
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16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
The preacher on DMT: 'no proof of the unseen', and tahajjud instead
Mufti Abu Layth ridicules the preacher's claim that there is no scientific proof DMT users reach the unseen, asking what such proof could even look like.
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16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Is smoking marijuana haram?
Marijuana is haram for the young because of the harm, he says, but not for an adult whose brain has developed, though Islam does not encourage it.
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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.
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16 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Is drinking poison haram in Islam?
Drinking poison is categorically haram, he says, so it is inconsistent to call DMT haram while justifying publicly drinking poison.
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9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
What counts as khamr, and is a drink with a little alcohol haram?
Mufti Abu Layth says khamr in the Quran meant wine; other drinks were haram only when they intoxicated like it, which was Abu Hanifa's position.
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9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Is the Quran's verse about the stupor of death talking about DMT?
Mufti Abu Layth says the verse is not about DMT specifically, though the DMT death experience could relate to it; he sees psychedelics as a portal to the hereafter where legal.
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9 Feb 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
What is Birmingham really like for Muslims?
Mufti Abu Layth defends Birmingham but calls drugs a cancer in its Muslim community, and says cannabis should be legalised and regulated.
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29 Jan 2021MindTrap with Mufti Abu Layth
Did Abu Hanifa allow drinks with a little alcohol?
The guest says Abu Hanifa's ruling that mildly fermented non-wine drinks are not haram shows he followed the Quran over reports; Mufti Abu Layth says the lesson is his way of thinking.
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26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
If a lot of anything can intoxicate, does that make tiny amounts of alcohol haram?
The hadith refers to drinks that intoxicate in the amount normally drunk, so a little of such a drink is haram; foods with trace alcohol that cannot intoxicate are not covered.
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26 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Quick chat: LSD, paratha and nihari, and jinn as microbes
In quick chat replies he refers to his video on psychedelics, jokes about food, and says reading jinn as microbes is one interpretation, held by Rashid Rida.
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2020 · 13
27 Oct 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Mufti Abu Layth's chat round: answering critics, soft drinks and Syrian rue
Mufti Abu Layth says he only answers persistent public critics, that non-alcoholic drinks are halal, and that he has not read the reports on Syrian rue.
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17 Oct 2020video
Are psychedelics haram in Islam?
Psychedelics are not haram because they are not intoxicants like alcohol but entheogens that connect a person with God. Mufti Abu Layth says the political label of drugs wrongly lumps them with substances of abuse.
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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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17 Oct 2020video
LatestDid Rumi use harmala seed and a DMT-containing reed flute?
Rumi drank preparations of harmala seed, an MAO inhibitor, and was devoted to his ney flute, made from a reed that contains DMT; Mufti Abu Layth says it is very likely Rumi had psychedelic experiences.
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17 Oct 2020video
Does the verse of light describe an expanded state of consciousness?
The verse of light, 24:35, is an approximation that resonates with those whose consciousness has expanded, and entheogenic experience was part and parcel of the tradition without having a name.
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17 Oct 2020video
Does the Quran or Sunnah say anything against psychedelics?
Nothing in the Quran or Sunnah forbids psychedelics, which existed for Allah to prohibit had he wished; Mufti Abu Layth says they are non-addictive and therapeutic, unlike alcohol, and are about connecting to God.
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24 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Are psychedelics like DMT haram in Islam?
Mufti Abu Layth does not consider psychedelics such as DMT haram or intoxicants, and advocates them as entheogens for spiritual discovery rather than recreation.
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24 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
If alcohol is haram, aren't drugs like DMT haram too?
Mufti Abu Layth agrees that what is haram cannot be changed, but says neither the Quran nor the Sunnah forbids substances like mushrooms or DMT.
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4 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Is it haram to sit at a table where people are drinking alcohol?
Mufti Abu Layth says it is not a sin to sit at a table where alcohol is served; the hadith was part of a gradual move away from alcohol.
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4 Aug 2020Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth
Do the Hanafis allow beer?
Mufti Abu Layth says the classical Hanafis restricted khamr to grape and date wine, and today's Deobandis do not reflect Abu Hanifa.
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14 Jul 2020live stream
Can I wear perfume that contains alcohol?
It is pure and nothing to worry about: alcohol is not impure for many scholars of Madinah, and perfume alcohol is not the drinking kind anyway.
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29 Jun 2020video
Is alcohol under forty percent permissible, as a Pakistani mufti reportedly said?
Mufti Abu Layth says he cannot tell what the mufti meant: forty percent strength would be ridiculous, a diluted drink might rest on the Hanafi view on nabidh, and the cigarette analogy made no sense to him. He wants to hear the mufti's explanation before judging.
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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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2019 · 3
25 May 2019video
Does a nicotine patch or vaping break my fast?
No: Mufti Abu Layth says a nicotine patch does not break the fast, and he feels vaping is the same, though neither is being encouraged.
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25 May 2019video
Does smoking break my fast?
Some scholars hold that smoking does not break the fast and those who follow them are not to blame, but Mufti Abu Layth's own advice is to use nicotine patches instead.
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24 May 2019Hadith Studies
If I drank alcohol, are my prayers and fasts rejected for 40 days?
No: the fast and prayer are valid. He calls the forty-days hadith an isolated, weak report that clashes with the Quran and reason, though alcohol stays haram.
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2018 · 1
5 Mar 2018On Love, Romance, and Relationships
Rapid-round replies: steroids, state control and prenuptial agreements
Steroids are a matter of legality rather than theology, prenuptial agreements are not legally binding in the UK, and Mufti Abu Layth says he is against state control and favours a hands-off approach to governing.
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2016 · 1
21 Dec 2016video
How can I help someone stop drinking without pushing them away?
Drinking is unacceptable, but like any addiction it needs wisdom: offer an alternative and help with the person's problems, as Abu Hanifa did with his drinking neighbour.
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