Intro
Met another young lady via public transit.
She was reading via her Amazon Kindle.
And, upon asking what she is reading she responded Koran.
I asked for other accessible voices and offered Shaykh Hamza Yusuf.
In the days and weeks ahead, I will share some of the videos I have taken in from him.
Videos
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- A Life Worth Living – Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
- Profile
- What is a life worth living? Shaykh Hamza presents, and discusses the question with Miroslav Volf, Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School.
- Videos
- Video #1
Channel:- Hamza Yusuf
Date Published:- 2016-April-8th
Link
- Video #1
- Profile
- Dr. Hamza Yusuf The poor to the rich mind 2016
- Many Lessons from the story of Adam – Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
- Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Emotional Q & A 2016 University session America
- BBC HardTalk | Shaykh Hamza Yusuf [Full Interview] [Enhanced VHS]
- A Life Worth Living – Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
In Depth
A Life Worth Living – Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
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- 50 years ago, Time came out with a question asking whether God is dead
- Atheist take a position that God is too great and it is impossible to believe in him
- We taught Allah the names
- Adam replied with the names
- And, God confirmed that yes, this is a learning creature
- Go down to the earth
- Go down to the earth, and knowledge will come
- Whomever follows that guidance will be well
- Breaking the desires
- Breaking the desire of lust and food
- Control desire for corruption
- Franz Rosenthal
- Quotes
- Know of no longer civilization that places the acquisition of knowledge at the center of ethos
- Books
- Knowledge Triumphant: The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam 1970 (reprinted 2007 with a Preface by Dimitri Gutas)
- Quotes
- Knowledge
- Read in the name of your Lord
- Be a student, be a lover of Knowledge
- If one can not be a student, then help and facilitate it
- Family Traits & Dedication
- Every Irish family, gave at least one of their children to priesthood
- Every Muslim family gave at least one of their children to Islamic Scholarship
- Non Scholars can participate, as well
- In Example
- A Bedouin in West Africa
- Whoever believes in Allah in the last days should honor his guests
- A Bedouin in West Africa
- In Example
- Two people
- Learners
- Some people are facilitated to learn
- The circumstances are right for it
- Whereas some are not
- Other people are deprived
- Those that have the gift should actively seek to spread it
- Honor for sake of our tradition and of our God
- Learners
- Signs of the latter days
- People will no longer learn for the sake of Allah, but for other ends
- Sign of depravity
- It is a sign of the improvised state of our community that people like me actually represent …
- Do not say so humbly, but based on knowledge of our tradition
- Why people choose not to believe
- Those who see knowledge
- But, yet fail to ascribe source to it
- Sees a beautiful written letter, yet state their is no writer
- Those who see knowledge
- Empathy
- Empathy is core of most religions
- Social-path
- So important that some people fake it just to be seen has having it
- Just to be part of quorum
- 1 out of 20 in US are suspected to be social-path
- So important that some people fake it just to be seen has having it
- lack compassion from our own adversity
- Some people
- To know God through secondary knowledge
- Not as Angels
- But, through difficulty the soul is expanded
- Fundamental Sin
- Distraction
- Easily distracted
- Boredom
- Noonday Devil
- Spiritual Sickness
- Seek distraction through Sex, Money, Pursuit of Money
- Distraction
- Atheist
- Koran states to the Atheist let us weigh it out
- God is too mighty to create all this
- Unrequited Love
- Questioned about Job
- My servant, Job, has spoken rightly of me
- Job insisted that he was not not in the wrong
- But, is it possible that someone spoke the truth, and yet still be wrong
- One can speak personal truth
- But, yet not speak God’s truth
- My servant, Job, has spoken rightly of me
- Is suffering a wound that will remain until clarity comes
- Abrahamic tradition did not fully develop the concept of Karma
- It speaks of it in a world to come
- Where is God
- Free will is a packaged deal
- We are caretakers of the children
- Where are God’s people
- We have moral responsibility
- Free will is a packaged deal
- Atheist is closer to God
- For Believers God sometimes becomes an errand boy
- Taking Responsibility
- Adam took responsibility
- Satan did not take responsibility
- Current TV
- Lamented that we have lost the pleasure derived from real beauty
- Father is an erudite
- Visited Sea World
- No longer nature based
- Stupid dresses on animal
- Whereas animals are by nature dignified
- Knowledge & Submission to God
- Knowledge
- One has to know self
- Soul
- Indivisible
- He who know himself comes his creator
- He who knows self know God
- From your tongues and complexities ( complexion )
- Language is a celestial thing
- Part of revelation is worth
- God taught him from the names of all the animals
- See the one in the many
- From the knowledge of all, comes knowledge of one
- Submission
- Abdullah
- Knowledge
- 50 years ago, Time came out with a question asking whether God is dead
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Dr Hamza Yusuf – The poor to the rich mind 2016
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- A re-emergence of family has the center
- Father has been taking out of fatherhood
- Father has been taking of motherhood
- Brother out of brotherhood
- Sister out of sisterhood
- And, all you have left is the hood
- Chris Hedges
- Book – Empire of Illusion
- Dissolve the Police Force in Camden
- Throwaway people
- The immigrant population has a moral responsibility they have not accepted. And, that responsibility is to adopt the indigenous people.
- A ethical and strategic mistake
- Clip – 30 minutes
- Inner City
- Giving victory by the weakest among you
- Dignify poverty
- Protestantism at his worst
- Matthew 19:21
- The lion has a natural limit
- He will not eat the whole flock
- A re-emergence of family has the center
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Many Lessons from the story of Adam – Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
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- Satan refused to bow them because of
- Superiority
- the fact that he felt he was created through fire, but Adam was created through the soil
- Material Superiority
- Sameness
- Both Satan and Adam have consciousness of God
- Casted down
- The presence of God is not the place to show show superiority
- Superiority
- Question gratitude
- I will come ahead of them
- I will come before them
- And, will show they are ingratitude
- Knowledge
- Above is revelation
- As long as you have connection to God, the Devil can not come overcome you
- Under is humility
- Satan does not accept humility to anyone
- Above is revelation
- Only Authority
- Only Authority Satan as is suggestion
- Satan lied
- He led them astray with guile
- Law
- Buyers Beware
- Roman Law
- Sellers Beware
- Islamic Law
- Buyers Beware
- Trick to it
- In Belgium there are squatters in there
- When they tasted the tree, there nakedness appeared to them
- Lessons Learned
- Oh Children of Adam learn this lesson for yourself
- The one who is felicitous is he one who does not have to learn that lessons for themselves
- Two Struggles
- The Struggles
- Your desire
- And, then there is this thing, that is tempting you
- And, the struggle is that you continue in it
- The Struggles
- Book
- Religion creates the problem that it solves
- It makes people feel bad
- And, then it tells them how to make amends
- Religion creates the problem that it solves
- Satan refused to bow them because of
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Shaikh Hamza Yusuf Emotional Q & A 2016 University session America
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- Terms
- Define terms before you enter them into dialogue
- Books
- The Creed of Imam al-Tahawi: Hamza Yusuf
- Book endorsed by Arch Bishop of Canterbury Dr.Rowan Williams
- The Creed of Imam al-Tahawi: Hamza Yusuf
- Faith
- Faith is without experience
- Faith increases with good acts
- Faith happens in the Heart
- Increases With
- Fasting
- Give Charity
- Purification
- Islam
- Piety
- relationship with Allah
- Direct and immediate
- Terms
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BBC HardTalk | Shaykh Hamza Yusuf [Full Interview] [Enhanced VHS]
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