Hamza Yusuf – Western Ailments: Islamic Medicine

Hamza YusufNovember 26, 201188 min0 comments

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In this wide-ranging lecture delivered in Toronto, Sheikh Hamza Yusuf diagnoses the spiritual and social ailments of modern Western society through the lens of Islamic teaching, framing kufr not as a political category but as a disease of the heart rooted in the illusion of independence from Allah. Drawing on Quranic ayahs, prophetic hadith, and historical examples from the Sahaba, he prescribes a holistic Islamic medicine — grounded in humility, the embodiment of Quran and Sunnah, economic sovereignty, proper Islamic education, the revival of Arabic, and outreach to the oppressed — as the path toward restoring balance to a deeply imbalanced world.

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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