Yasir Qadhi - In God We Trust: Contemporary Lessons from the Seerah

Yasir QadhiNovember 4, 20180 comments

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In this powerful lecture delivered at the 55th annual ISNA convention, Shaykh Yasir Qadhi draws direct parallels between key incidents from the Prophet's Seerah and pressing contemporary issues facing Muslims today — including refugee crises, family separations, unjust imprisonment, the Palestinian struggle, and the moral courage required to speak truth in the face of political pressure. He calls on Muslims to move beyond treating the Seerah as abstract history and instead apply its timeless lessons to confront modern injustices with conviction and integrity.

Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi is one of the most influential Islamic scholars and intellectuals in the Western world. Born in Houston to Pakistani parents, he earned a degree in chemical engineering before studying for ten years at the Islamic University of Madinah, where he completed degrees in hadith and Islamic theology, and later earned a PhD in Religious Studies from Yale University. He served for years as Dean of Academic Affairs at AlMaghrib Institute, taught at Rhodes College in Memphis, and now serves as Dean of the Islamic Seminary of America and resident scholar of the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) in Texas. His lecture series on the seerah, "Lives of the Sahaba," and Islamic theology are among the most comprehensive in the English language.

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