Hamza Yusuf - Death, Life After Death, Reincarnation 

Happy to see Hamza Yusuf on this program.

Why is this guy getting so much hate? All of the other videos which address the same topic don't get this much hate? Is it because he is a Muslim?

I'd rather not play the lottery of being born on Earth again and end up in N. Korea

I had a near death experience too. The things I saw I swear if I was an atheist Christian or whatever I would have converted to islam, but Alhamdulillah I was already a muslim. I saw my whole life like a video in front of me then I was shown every major sin I had committed and so much more(can't share every detail) which is exactly what islam and the quran say.

If you don't believe in life after death then remember you did not exist before you came to this world. Wonderful Islamic insights from sheikh Yusuf

where is the full video? this was a four-hour interview.

Is it possible for one to enjoy their life to such an extent that when they think of the possibility of their death that their imagination really gets going and comes up with all kinds of scenarios to get around the concept of death? Would the potential God of this person believe this is a productive way for one to spend their life?

Islam is the only religion that doesn't contradict science

This is interesting. I do wish the guest had talked about his near-death experience, though. What did he experience, and how did that lead him to Islam?

Many comments on here showcase a dogmatic attachment to naturalism, that renders their ability to have a nuanced intellectual discussion.

Cool story bro.

He said "death of the soul".

Was it a good or a bad thing that Kuhn didn’t even ask one critical question? It did allow Hanson to finish his story and expose all these amazing ideas. It reminds me of the reason that Robert Crumb abandoned his idea to draw a parody of Genesis (he draw a literal version instead). He had discovered that the original text was completely ludicrous all by itself-no parody required. I’ve studied religions, and I still can’t understand that a grown up man can believe any of these baseless fantasies. With every detail that Hanson supplied his story became more unbelievable. Note also that a lot, perhaps most, of the details that Hanson gives here are only found in the Hadith, which are mostly convenient after the fact fabrications. Unsurprisingly, even among believers there are those that simply reject the Hadith, but the problem with that move is that most of the Qur'an is incomprehensible without those much more recent (sometimes conflicting) background stories and interpretations (as I understand it tafsir relies substantially on the hadith, and the two overlap to some extend, but ignoring that, my point is that all these stories and commentaries are much later than the Qur'an and with few exceptions cannot be relied upon to explain what the Qur'an actually tried to convey). I happen to own _The Study Quran_, so I have access to Hanson’s article. Here is a sample: > The traverse is mentioned only in a few Quranic verses, such as 36:65-66: > > > On that Day We shall seal their mouths. Their hands will speak to Us, and their feet will bear witness to that which they used to earn. And had We willed, We would have blotted out their eyes. Then they would race to the path (the traverse), yet how would they see? > > Other verses are understood as allusions to it (e.g., 19:66-73; 36:63). The discussion is, however, much clearer in the _Ḥadīth_, where it is said that it is “finer than a hair and sharper than a sword,”54 and people cross it like lightning, the wind, birds flying, or camels trotting, “until finally a man comes who is unable to walk but can barely crawl. On each side of the traverse are suspended metal hooks [in another narration, ‘only God knows the vastness of their dimensions’] that are programmed to snatch people from the traverse. Some will be wounded by them, but pass safely nonetheless. Others are thrown by them violently into the Hellfire.”55 Amazing.

Amazing what we humans will believe without performing due diligence.

Humbly i say that i do actually study and i've learned ancient methods of inquiry. To say something or make a claim too indirectly posits what hasn't been said or claimed. This is most important when is comes to the inquiry of Soul or medium. Persons with a lack of knowledge jest over the postulation and apprehension of soul. What they fail to acknowledge is 'what happens or occurs when the soul is denied? This fact indicates those persons of whom in denying soul neither have a grounded understanding of how all this works in precluding the soul. These nihilists think themselves intelligent too. They stand as if any such discussion is deemed religious therefore nonsensical. One can make an assertive and affirmative of a claim; too, by denying something, such as the soul, one is making indirectly a claim. Nihilists will say many things contrary to this truth of inquiry. Regardless, if one denies soul they place themselves in a most difficult position and most never care to reconcile themselves because they only adhere to their kin, as they caress one anothers ego making verbal love in reification.

I think this cut is not right, it had long video. If it just start here, it miss the story

This video paints a bad picture upon theology; some consider this Theology. They use stuff like this video as a way to defame theology, although in reality they only reveal their state of mind. Nothing is really known except through the modality of the knower, a Coomaraswamy quote. I could critize this man because he sounds silly, or i could consider from where does he actually come from with this information. Unfortunately, in a convenient way, theology without science veers off from the proper path, just as science without the acknowledgment of theology becomes rendered as pseudo. The most valiant and worthy of men considers not the questions posed by theology but regards the science concerning them; just as the wise man of intelligence considers not only particularly the data of certains science and methods but seeks to acknowledge how such emergences could have arisened and how they align with the stars and all things. Theology is this. Life is a school. We the children of God do learn at different paces. Some are consice, others precise, and then there's the peeudo. Even those who are not black belt in Theology are far more concise concerning the Ultimate than those whom are pseudo(nihilists/materialist) concerning truth. You see persons in the comments here take delight, entirely of delectation, mocking this man, yet are incapabale of seeing themselves, whom are even more silly. A quote from the bible: some will point out a stick in others eye while they themselves have a long in theirs. When it comes to real theology, mysticism, meyaphysics, and philosophia, such blackbelts of these high sciences will be seen as if speaking an alien langauage; it's because they really are. And it is known that The Divine only comes into he of the most true to heart and devotion and commitment. You have to burn with desire for the Divine, and without, is a grave unfortunate.

I pray that there is nothing after death....I just want to be done...non-existence....13 billion years...nothing....then I come along out of nowhere....for 60 years so far..then gone again...Peace!

"Life after Death" Physical Death is nothing to be so feared about because it only affects your temporary physical body but NOT your immortal soul which is your true being that remains intact and survives forever... ... and the reason why your spiritual existence is eternal because your soul is a free split of the Holy Spirit who has no beginning and no end... ... what you should be concerned about is your soul's eternal fate that solely relies on what you had freely chosen to believe, or not believe, regarding the existence of a loving Creator or GOD, before your physical death... .. your temporary physical body plays an important role as a shield to your past spiritual life so that you can freely chose to believe without knowing God.. ..again, we fell from Heaven because we lost faith in God's love, so, only by ragaining this faith that our souls can return Home... .. if you had chosen to believe in a loving God to live a life with God's grace, regardless whether you are a Muslim, Christian, Jewish, etc., then Heaven is where your immortal soul belongs to live genuinely happy ever after... ..but if you had chosen to believe in Darwin's IGUANA as your Original Mama, ie., had chosen a life without God's grace, then your wish is your command.... your soul will end up in a cold dark empty state (hell) - an absence of God's blessings.... God can not force you Home because your soul is free.... If you were unable to make a choice because of early death due to abortion, infantacide, etc., your lost soul could be given another chance to reborn or reincarnate...

These worldly realm@life are the lowest technology he@God has created and "he" wants to "shows" more because he has "infinite capacity". Peace be upon us all and assalamualaiqum wmt

Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “O humanity! If you are in doubt of my faith, then ˹know that˺ I do not worship those ˹idols˺ you worship instead of Allah. But I worship Allah, Who has the power to cause your death.... (Quran 10:104)

I believe that God who will have an accountability because many of us don’t know how to think and differentiate facts from myths. What this man said revolves around to be a good human being with morals and live a clean life God is watching and you will die! So think about death, if you think you know anything without God himself telling you about it because he created you. I never met anyone who came back from death, I know prophets of God who came with scripture can speak for God and what is death all about

Because even if it were not true, some people would create the conditions to make it true... And the behaviors of those people is already part of the Plan...

There is a great story of a young boy, 9/11 and the reincarnation of a New York City fire lieutenant who perished in The North Tower. The full story as told by the boy's mother on (and off) a popular Reincarnation Forum starting in 2007 up to the present day. The books full title, Fire in the Soul: Reincarnation from Antietam to Ground Zero. The author is a retired Asst. Fire Chief.

It's so hard to believe that more than a couple people have listened to this or read the book...and been like yea I'm down

God sounds quite nice. Very hands on… ?? Micromanaging a little. Primo Levi, Auschwitz survivor and a chemist wrote… “Chemistry led to the heart of Matter, and Matter was our ally precisely because the Spirit, dear to Fascists, was our enemy.” Perhaps in these wretched times a little more realism would be welcome.

Hilarious how all religions think they are the one and only true religion and if you don’t get behind that, then you are bound for eternal damnation😂 Just treat people and yourself the best you can, do not engage in mistruths, and recognize that there is a power higher than yourself, even though we might not know exactly what it is. These are the things that matter.

In Islamic Mystical Theology, when you die, you awake into hyper-consciousness, then “fall asleep” into the Imaginal World, precisely like we do at sleep in our normal lives here. In that Imaginal World, the Soul dreams of itself incarnate and sees a dream of its place in the afterlife, a kind of premonition, which is only realized at the moment of bodily resurrection when the body is recreated and the soul is reincarnated into an archetypal form it had before the Fall.

Dr Ian Stevenson (RIP) an American psychiatrist collected many accounts from children who claimed they remembered a previous life. Many of their memories have been validated, and are difficult to explain through conventional thinking. My conclusion is to keep an open mind.

I wonder how many human beings it took to come up with this conclusion? I'm fairly certain the other belief/faith in the world since time immemorial has had multitudes of different inputs that more than likely is still changing the outcomes of eternity...

How many contradictions in one sitting

Approximations

Wait! What movie is he talking about?!

“No eye hath seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those that love him” is a verse from the Bible not Hadith. 1 Corinthians 2:9

What happened to the religion when the real revealations of NAMES are not there. When real Names are not there, knowledge of soul also won t be there. Mind and false bodies, will be taken as trueself.. In reality our trueself is the soul only, we are not the thinking mind, not the 5 sensory perceptions, and not the physical body. Mind and false bodies were given to the spirit to have all types of EXPERIENCES only..but they are not our trueself

Why didn’t Sh Hamza mention that the Ash’arite school of theology (which he’s supposedly apart of) is mostly physicalist and that we are not advocates of the substance dualisms of Platonists and Imam Al-Ghazali RA which he advocated on behalf of in this video? The late school and the majority are overwhelmingly atomists and physicalists. To push what he said off as being representative of ‘Islamic theology’ in itself is deceitful at worst, and ignorant at best. It’s representative of a minority of scholars, and the Akbari/Sufi followers of Ibn Arabi RA but not the whole tradition. The soul is still what we would call a ‘jism’ or something composed of parts/particles despite it not being seen normally which would mean that it’s still what one would call physical. It is something known of through scripture and the Qur’an as he says himself says that we cannot know of its nature through reason hence there is valid disagreement on this matter. Why go so deeply into a matter that we admittedly know little about and without precision at that?

The only tool that is available in islam to take us to real God, with no Separation was the 100th NAME. but deeper revealations on this not there, in islam.. islam does not know that selected Sounds are actually God s manifested NAMES.. i think they shifted this to akhirat.. It s the rites of humans suppose to know this names, NOW

It's like listening to a child explain outer space or something equally fantastic. It's so riddled with "Someone made this up", it's comical.

Half of what he says is not to be found in the Holy Quran, it is taken from the writings of islamic scholars which largely are just opinions of academics. so i would take all of that with a pinch of salt

Resurrection..

ANGELS were lacking of free will, complete Names, grace or return love of God.. all this were given to humans Only. Revealations of Angels are very limited, they are more Specialist on Goodness n evils related topics, but deeper things on DEATHS they does not know.. They only know bout the 3 worlds of the Universal Mind only.. within the 3 worlds are stories related to heavens, hells and purgatories.. the real eternal MALAKUT or our true home from where we Originated is beyond the 3 worlds of the Universal Mind

Will Capitalists be in Communion with Communists and vice versa ?

The real Setan, was the MIND. it separates us from real God, and takes us in cycle of repeated births n deaths, always a slave to deaths

Hard to argue with the promise of 72 virgins.

Phenomenology is not fairytales. Obsessive blind following of Scientism is the current fairytale.

There is assurance for salvation in the Quran, feel free to check the references below. Quran 2:25, Quran 4:57, Quran 4:122, Quran 4:124, Quran 5:9, Quran 10:9, Quran 11:11, Quran 11:23, Quran 18:30, Quran 18:31, Quran 18:107, Quran 22:14, Quran 22:23, Quran 22:50, Quran 31:8, Quran 35:7, Quran 41:8, Quran 42:22, Quran 45:30, Quran 47:2, Quran 64:9, Quran 95:6, Quran 98:7, Quran 98:8.

I am born a Muslim and live in Iraq. I know all religions including Islam have truth in them, but Islam does not sit well with my heart and conscience. Nonetheless, I pray Islamic prayers and fast Ramadan. Jesus and the Bible are ingrained in my heart. I love Jesus to death, but I can not convert to Christianity because of my family and society and the danger it will cause me.

Hamza Yusuf needs to keep to the Quran and try to understand the self concept... he is confused... the Quran is very clear about death if we understand the human self... no soul business.

You all only ask schooled individuals about what ifs, when you'll never know truths beyond your reasoning since you're all only human., something that doesn't even exist!

I expected something less crazy.

Real revealations suppose to come directly from the real God, not the Universal Mind. Without the help of Angels. Tru Names that are tied to the 100th Name, that are unspoken and unwritten. This are not there in islam, the 100th NAME is left blank...this are Names that has no shapes n forms. Deeper Mystical meaning of selected Sounds.. Creation cosmology in islam is kun faya kun, be and become. This creation creativity is limited to time and space only, not beyond.. within the 3 worlds of the MIND only. Creation cosmology by Names not there in islam. Angels were tapping revealations from the universal mind... Universal Mind was taken as God by many. Universal mind, is a point where our 5 sensory perceptions that are scattered are united. Universality of Mind.. there is Universality of Mind, there is Universality of soul.. Angels were Specialist on goodness n evils related topics, but bout repeated deaths knowledge they does not know

Aw look at Bob being all serious with made up theories. It's really cute listening to religious people with interest. Makes them feel important for once.

So will the afterlife place eventually get Packed full of Souls?... and then breakdown....? ...there seems to be an endless and increasing amount of Souls coming...

As a veteran, I am glad I could help some "martyrs" find their way to... wherever they are. I find it hard to believe they are in heaven. But maybe I am biased... a bit.

Hell is the thinking ego mind, Heaven is the soul and when you meditate there you will find pure consciousness.

It would be fascinating to see a tete-a-tete of RLK interviewing His Holiness the Dalai Lama regarding this subject (TTBOTD).

Why can't we just not exist anymore? Just like we did for the billions of years beforehand. That's what id prefer, simply being switched off. Doesn't that sound more plausible? The theists idea of an afterlife sounds awful. In both cases. Hell =Eternal Torment, Heaven = Eternal enslavement and praising of a Narcissistic Super Intelligent Being, and your back to existing with the very people you so desperately tried to avoid your entire life because they were unbearably self righteous.

To say that one path is the only correct and acceptable path is total nonsense. What matters is how you treat people and go about life, including how you treat yourself. These are the things that matter, not the name of the God you pray to.

How is it that two intellectuals discuss the claims made by Hamza Yusuf without one of them posing the single most important question in a dialogue, asked by Greek philosophers, thousands of years ago, whose dialectical approach to questioning laid the foundations of science as we know it today. The question is: "Why is it so?" or "How do you know?" I mean anyone can make any outrageous claim and keep a straight face. I'm surprised how Mr. Hamza Yusuf talks about things that remind us of the Dark Ages marked by centuries of superstition and yet he presents these ideas as if they are jewels of philosophical thinking. What ever happened to the Age of Reason?

Incidentally I recalled reading about a mass suicide of 5 Chinese girls in which they left a note "We hope we're gonna be better-off in the next reincarnation." So keep trying until you're born as heir to some kingdom haha. Oh demmit! Proletariat again!

So much BS . . . and that's saying it softly. I really appreciate RLK's ability not to laugh out loud. He's a gentleman. And martyrs go to heaven directly . . . no wonder so many are ready to be martyrs!! Why didn't RLK talk about the 72? Will RU-vid allow this to be published or will it be censored?? That's the question.

I don't think he ever had experience of death. He may just want to oppose his belive and ideas through this big wide platform. Those who have n.d.e experience they are very closer and profound about knowledge of the death.

Hell is not a permanent place for believing Muslims, those who left Earth without ever seeking forgiveness from God may end up in the hell, however those souls will get out of the hell into paradise, when their purification time is done or expired. Those souls comes from Hindus, Buddhist, Sikhs, Christians will never ever enter paradise. Quran 4:116 Allah forgiveth not (The sin of) joining other gods with Him; but He forgiveth whom He pleaseth other sins than this: one who joins other gods with Allah, Hath strayed far, far away (from the right).

If he did have a NDE experience, for what Ive seen, the closest religion to the over 100 diferent testimonies that I have watched is induism. Like he said at the end, is all expeculations. First interview where I dont agree with anything that he said.

extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence- Carl Sagan

Jesus Christ of Nazareth..

The idea that anyone would buy into some religious b.s. on the "afterlife" is ridiculous. Complete nonsense.

This was painful to watch! For as long as humans keep denying this life/the real life and seek an afterlife and otherworldly goods, they won't find peace.

it's like listening to a little child

There are kids who take the Tooth Fairy pretty seriously, too.

LMAO!

The Buddhists taught more about death than Muhammad, aka Maha-Metteya, i e. Maitreya

talking about unknowable experiences with no evidence is NOT "closer to truth". If there is resurrection, then where are the examples? Where is this "book of deeds"? Who has seen it? Talking about supernatural things based only on belief as if they are real physical things is not "truth". utter bullshit.

Sad to see another smart person fooled by lunacy.

Bull hockey! Show me the proof of any of what’s being purported? Absolutely NONE! Moreover, contemplating any of this malarkey is enough to drive anyone crazy!

i had a near death experience.. im so speciall... just a clue for the dingalings out there its your brain being deprived of oxygen.. nothing more

Allah tells that HE forgives those who turn to HIM in below verses. Quran 4-149, Quran 7-199, Quran 22-60, Quran 24-22, Quran 42-40, Quran 2-286, Quran 3-155, Quran 4-99, Quran 4-153, Quran 5-13, Quran 5-101, Quran 9-43, Quran 42-25, Quran 42-30, Quran 42-34, Quran 58-2, Quran 64-14, Quran 2-157, Quran 2-163, Quran 2-173, Quran 2-175, Quran 2-178, Quran 2-182, Quran 2-187, Quran 2-192, Quran 2-199, Quran 2-218, Quran 2-225, Quran 2-226, Quran 2-235, Quran 2-263, Quran 2-268, Quran 2-271, Quran 2-284, Quran 2-285, Quran 2-286, Quran 3-8, Quran 3-16, Quran 3-17, Quran 3-31, Quran 3-89, Quran 3-129, Quran 3-134, Quran 3-135, Quran 3-136, Quran 3-147, Quran 3-152, Quran 3-155, Quran 3-157, Quran 3-159, Quran 3-193, Quran 4-23, Quran 4-25, Quran 4-43, Quran 4-48, Quran 4-64, Quran 4-96, Quran 4-99, Quran 4-100, Quran 4-106, Quran 4-110, Quran 4-116, Quran 4-129, Quran 4-137, Quran 4-149, Quran 4-152, Quran 4-168, Quran 5-3, Quran 5-9, Quran 5-18, Quran 5-34, Quran 5-39, Quran 5-40, Quran 5-74, Quran 5-95, Quran 5-98, Quran 5-101, Quran 5-118, Quran 6-54, Quran 6-145, Quran 6-165, Quran 7-23, Quran 7-149, Quran 7-151, Quran 7-153, Quran 7-155, Quran 7-161, Quran 7-167, Quran 7-169, Quran 8-4, Quran 8-29, Quran 8-33, Quran 8-38, Quran 8-43, Quran 8-53, Quran 8-69, Quran 8-70, Quran 8-74, Quran 9-5, Quran 9-27, Quran 9-66, Quran 9-80, Quran 9-91, Quran 9-99, Quran 9-102, , Quran 9-113, Quran 10-107, Quran 11-3, Quran 11-11, Quran 11-41, Quran 11-47, Quran 11-52, Quran 11-61, Quran 11-90, Quran 11-29, Quran 11-53, Quran 11-92, Quran 11-97, , Quran 11-98, Quran 13-6, Quran 14-10, Quran 14-36, Quran 14-41, Quran 15-49, Quran 16-18, Quran 16-110, Quran 16-115, Quran 16-119, Quran 17-25, Quran 17-44, Quran 18-55, Quran 18-58, Quran 19-47, Quran 19-50, Quran 20-73, Quran 20-82, Quran 22-50, Quran 22-60, Quran 23-109, Quran 23-118, Quran 24-5, Quran 24-22, Quran 24-26, Quran 24-33, Quran 24-62, Quran 25-6, Quran 25-70, Quran 26-82, Quran 26-86, Quran 27-11, Quran 27-46, Quran 28-16, Quran 33-5, Quran 33-24, Quran 33-35, Quran 33-50, Quran 33-59, , Quran 33-71, Quran 33-73, Quran 34-2, Quran 34-15, Quran 35-7, Quran 35-28, Quran 35-30, Quran 35-34, , Quran 35-41, Quran 36-11, Quran 36-27, Quran 38-9, Quran 38-24, Quran 38-25, Quran 38-35, Quran 38-43, Quran 38-66, Quran 39-5, Quran 39-53, Quran 40-3, Quran 40-42, Quran 41-32, Quran 42-5, Quran 42-23, Quran 42-37, Quran 42-43, Quran 45-14, Quran 46-8, Quran 46-31, Quran 47-2, Quran 48-2, Quran 48-5, Quran 48-14, Quran 49-5, Quran 49-14, Quran 57-28, Quran 58-2, Quran 58-12, Quran 59-10, Quran 60-4, Quran 60-5, Quran 60-7, Quran 60-12, Quran 61-12, Quran 63-5, Quran 64-14, Quran 64-17, Quran 66-1, Quran 66-8, Quran 67-2, Quran 67-12, Quran 71-4, Quran 71-7, Quran 71-10, Quran 71-28, Quran 73-28, Quran 74-56, Quran 78-36, Quran 85-14

Do remember before you are born? I don't. I won't remember when I die.

I thought his channel was supposed to about science.

Creating gods to validate a fiction of cultural superiority is the oldest game in the long history of mankind. Of course every god is just the musings of some misguided ancient societies. Well except for their particular misguided ancient society. Tradition and ritual has never made a god real. We have failed over 300,000 times so far. Yet they still hold onto this delusion that they are gifted with some special devinely inspired alternate reality.

Seriously?? Come on man, you're pushing me to stop watching one of my favourite channels ever. How did you allow yourself to waste your time and ours with such a "joke" ? 😠😡😖☹

blah, blah, blah

Absolute crap!

Mindblowing, how people believe in the most ridiculous fairytales and adjust them to there own situation.

Its time to grow up, Hamza.

Gobbley goop.

.... lol gross

We gotta stop with these fairytales.

It's all BS

IMHO this philosophy is wishful thinking based on fanciful opinions.

More reincarnated gibberish

Utter nonsense on a channel that is supposed to be about philosophy

Looks way out there.got to pass. 🥹👎

I had a near death experience too. The things I saw I swear if I was an atheist Christian or whatever I would have converted to islam, but Alhamdulillah I was already a muslim. I saw my whole life like a video in front of me then I was shown every major sin I had committed and so much more(can't share every detail) which is exactly what islam and the quran say.

I had a near death experience too. The things I saw I swear if I was an atheist Christian or whatever I would have converted to islam, but Alhamdulillah I was already a muslim. I saw my whole life like a video in front of me then I was every major sin I had committed and so much more(can't share every detail) which is exactly what islam and the quran say.

I had a near death experience too. The things I saw I swear if I was an atheist Christian or whatever I would have converted to islam, but Alhamdulillah I was already a muslim. I saw my whole life like a video in front of me then I was every major sin I had committed and so much more(can't share every detail) which is exactly what islam and the quran say.