Hamza Yusuf - Why The Righteous Will Cry When This Ramadan Ends

Hamza YusufMay 17, 20190 comments

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Ramadan Gratitude Quran Tafsir Zakat Patience Tawbah Fasting

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In this Ramadan lecture, Hamza Yusuf explores the profound spiritual wisdom behind fasting, centering on the theme of gratitude (shukr) as the secret heart of the blessed month. Drawing from Quranic verses, hadith, and the example of the Prophet ﷺ, he explains why the truly righteous weep when Ramadan ends — because they recognize it as an irreplaceable season of divine gifts, forgiveness, and nearness to Allah. The lecture also addresses the destructive nature of ingratitude and complaining in modern life, and concludes with a reminder about Zakat al-Fitr.

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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