Zaid Shakir – The Spiritual Struggle

Zaid ShakirAugust 21, 20070 comments

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Materialism Ihsan Spirituality Family Self-Purification Quran Taqwa Tafsir

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In this khutbah, Imam Zaid Shakir explores the spiritual struggle against materialism, drawing on Quranic verses about taqwa (God-consciousness) and ihsan to show how attentiveness to Allah is the foundation of a meaningful spiritual life. He traces the roots of materialism back to the rebellion of Iblis, outlines a practical daily program for cultivating God-consciousness drawn from classical Islamic scholarship, and calls believers to embrace their role as a spiritually grounded, balanced community in the face of an increasingly materialistic world.

Imam Zaid Shakir is an American scholar and co-founder of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California, the first accredited Muslim liberal arts college in the United States. Born in Berkeley and raised in housing projects in Georgia and Connecticut, he embraced Islam in 1977 while serving in the United States Air Force. He earned degrees in international relations and political science, then studied Arabic and the Islamic sciences for years in Egypt, Syria, and Morocco. A former imam of Masjid Al-Islam in New Haven, he teaches at Zaytuna and lectures nationally on Islamic spirituality, social justice, and the Black American Muslim experience. He is regularly listed among the most influential Muslims in the world.

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