Hasan Ali - Why Do Muslims Sin? How To Stop Sinning?

Hasan AliJanuary 24, 20190 comments

About this lecture

In this wide-ranging lecture, Sheikh Hasan Ali challenges the popular but dangerous tendency among Muslims to view the world through a simplistic black-and-white lens — dividing humanity into "believers" and "disbelievers" with no nuance in between. Drawing on dozens of Quranic verses in their proper historical and textual context, he demonstrates that Allah Himself distinguishes between different types of believers, non-believers, and hypocrites, and that Allah's promised help and victory are tied specifically to those Muslims who genuinely live up to the Quran's detailed definition of a true believer. The lecture serves as both a scholarly corrective to extremist misreadings of verses like those in Surah At-Tawbah, and a sincere, practical call for Muslims to look honestly at the gap between the label of "Muslim" and the reality of their daily lives.

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