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Psychedelics

14 segments in 8 recordings · 2020 to 2021 · 0 verified · 11 checked positions · fiqh/intoxicants-and-substances/psychedelics · Feed

Most recent statement · 30 Aug 2021Is a DMT ego death the same as the Sufi idea of fana?Older segments link here so no earlier explanation is read as the last word.

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Latest answer · 30 Aug 2021

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. Lessonposition checked5-MeO-DMTMike TysonJoe RoganIbn Arabi machine1 min0:00on YouTube

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2021 · 5

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. Discussionguest speechLupe Fiasco (guest)haram machine4 min 31 s58:24on YouTube
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. Lessonquoted view, not his positionguest speechShaykh Asrar Rashid [?]DMTDMT: The Spirit Moleculeghayb (the unseen) machine6 min2:59:48on YouTube
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. Lessonposition checkedDMTpsilocybinLSD machine2 min 36 s3:08:23on YouTube
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. Question from live chatposition checkedQuran 50:19 (the stupor of death brings the truth)Quran 50:22 (your sight this day is sharp)Quran 41:53 (We will show them Our signs until it becomes clear that it is the truth)DMT (dimethyltryptamine) machine6 min 15 s1:01:31on YouTube
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. OtherRashid Ridajinn machine2 min 37 s2:25:08on YouTube

2020 · 8

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. Lessonposition checkedharamentheogenpsilocybin machine4 min 28 s0:00on YouTube
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. Lessonposition checkedJunayd al-BaghdadiMansur al-Hallaj [?]Ibn ArabiJoe Rogan machine4 min 15 s7:26on YouTube
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. Lessonposition checkedharmala (Peganum harmala, Syrian rue)DMT (dimethyltryptamine)MAO inhibitorney (reed flute) machine6 min 43 s11:41on YouTube
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. Lessonposition checkedQuran 24:35 (the verse of light)Abdullah Yusuf AliAbdullah ibn Mas'udRumi machine6 min 13 s29:48on YouTube
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. Lessonposition checkedharampsilocybinDMT (dimethyltryptamine)Boris Johnson machine3 min 43 s36:01on YouTube
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. Question from live chatposition checkedDMTentheogenayahuascaPlato machine9 min 54 s30:58on YouTube
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. Question from live chatposition checkedQuran 16:89 (a clarification of all things)qiyas (analogy)DMTHasan Farhan al-Maliki machine1 min 49 s39:51on YouTube
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. Question from live chatposition checkedDMTentheogenpsilocybinruh (soul) as consciousness machine2 min 56 s0:00on YouTube