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Negative thoughts and mindset

4 segments in 3 recordings · 2018 to 2021 · 0 verified · 4 checked positions · wellbeing/negative-thoughts-and-mindset · Feed

Most recent statement · 5 Jan 2021How do I deal with toxic people and negativity around me?Older segments link here so no earlier explanation is read as the last word.

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Latest answer · 5 Jan 2021

5 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth LatestHow do I deal with toxic people and negativity around me? Leave toxic groups and block negativity, since people can never be pleased; he adds that he finds most religious circles toxic. Lessonposition checkedJuhareport: a man built a house and people said if only he had placed the door elsewhere machine5 min 22 s31:00on YouTube

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2021 · 1

5 Jan 2021Monday Nights with Mufti Abu Layth How can I make the new year a more positive one? His tips for the year: speak positively, smile, leave toxic circles and start something new, whether a skill or an investment. Lessonposition checked machine8 min 44 s1:35:51on YouTube

2019 · 1

18 Sep 2019From the Mind of a Mufti Why do people assume music must be haram before looking at any evidence? People come to Islam with a prior picture of what religion must be, which includes sacrifice, suffering and asceticism and excludes entertainment, and this backdrop rather than the texts drives their judgement that music is haram. Even with no hadith against it, music would be forbidden on that basis. Lessonposition checkedthe 'ontology of religion': preconceptions of what religion must be shape how Islam is readusul al-fiqhzuhd (asceticism) machine7 min 54 s52:08on YouTube

2018 · 1

9 Apr 2018The Voice of Reason in Islam Will using reason make me lose my faith? No, Mufti Abu Layth says: fearing that reason leads out of Islam betrays a lack of belief that Islam is true, and doubt that leads to a more certain understanding is legitimate, as Ibrahim's request to see how Allah revives the dead shows. Lessonposition checkedIbrahim (Abraham)Quran 2:260 (my Lord, show me how You give life to the dead; verse not numbered by him) [?]report: we are more deserving of doubt than ibrahim machine2 min 36 s58:44on YouTube