Hamza Yusuf – Be Great People!

Hamza YusufDecember 3, 200833 min0 comments

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In this lecture, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf reminds students and Muslims of the immense honor of belonging to the ummah of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, and the paramount importance of prioritizing fard 'ayn — the obligatory personal knowledge of prayer, purification, and Quran recitation — above all worldly pursuits. Drawing on stories of great scholars, classical poetry, and the works of Sidi Ahmed Zarruq, he calls his audience to aspire to greatness, cultivate humility in seeking knowledge, and embrace their role in preserving and transmitting the deen to the next generation.

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf is one of the most influential Islamic scholars in the Western world. Born Mark Hanson in Washington State in 1958, he embraced Islam in 1977 and spent over a decade studying the traditional Islamic sciences in the UAE, Algeria, Morocco, and Mauritania, most notably under the Mauritanian sage Murabit al-Hajj. He is the co-founder and president of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California — the first accredited Muslim liberal arts college in the United States — and has translated numerous classical texts, including "The Creed of Imam al-Tahawi" and "Purification of the Heart." His lectures on spirituality, classical scholarship, and the crisis of modernity have shaped a generation of Western Muslims.

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