Hamza Yusuf - Ramadan Message: "The Hearts Can Still Remain Connected"

Hamza YusufApril 24, 20200 comments

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In this Ramadan message recorded during the COVID-19 pandemic, Sheikh Hamza Yusuf of Zaytuna College reflects on how Muslims can embrace a spiritually rich Ramadan despite isolation, offering reminders about the blessings of home prayer, repentance, family connection, and gratitude. He draws on Quranic verses, hadith, and classical scholarship to frame the pandemic as a potential mercy and wake-up call, and closes with heartfelt supplications for Muslims around the world who are suffering.

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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