Hamza Yusuf – Muslim Youth

Hamza YusufAugust 3, 20070 comments

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In this powerful opening address, Hamza Yusuf examines the spiritual and psychological dangers of consumerism, television, and Western monoculture on Muslim youth. Drawing on Islamic scholarship, neuroscience, and historical examples — from the conquest of Spain to the prophecies about Constantinople and Rome — he calls young Muslims to protect their minds and hearts, abandon passive consumption, and invest their time and energy into meaningful spiritual and intellectual pursuit. A wake-up call for a generation shaped more by screens than by the Quran.

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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