Hamza Yusuf – In The Footsteps of The Prophet (s)

Hamza YusufFebruary 28, 20080 comments

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Guarding the Tongue Media & Modern Challenges Seerah Aqeedah Tazkiyah Ikhlas & Riya Dua Character & Akhlaq

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In this wide-ranging lecture, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf delivers an urgent call to the Muslim Ummah to awaken from spiritual heedlessness, examining the twin threats of mass media and moral decay while offering a practical, heart-centered program for personal and communal revival. Drawing on the methodology of Qadi Abu Bakr ibn al-'Arabi, he outlines the essential steps to purifying the heart — from sound belief and sincere ikhlas to guarding the tongue against lying, backbiting, argumentation, and excessive jesting — grounding everything in the prophetic mission to perfect noble character.

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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