Hamza Yusuf : Changing The Tide / Islam in America

Hamza Yusuf delivered the key note speech at the ICNA Why Islam? Symposium on March 18, 2006

Hamza Yusuf

Hamza Yusuf was born in Washington State and raised in Northern California. In 1977, he became Muslim and subsequently traveled to the Muslim world and studied for ten years in the U. A. E., Saudi Arabia, as well as North and West Africa. He received teaching licenses in various Islamic subjects from several well-known scholars in various countries. After ten years of studies abroad, he returned to the USA and took degrees in Religious Studies and Health Care. He has traveled all over the world giving talks on Islam. He also founded Zaytuna Institute which has established an international reputation for presenting a classical picture of Islam in the West and which is dedicated to the revival of traditional study methods and the sciences of Islam. Shaykh Hamza is the first American lecturer to teach in Morocco's prestigious and oldest University, the Karaouine in Fes. In addition, he has translated into modern English several classical Arabic traditional texts and poems. Shaykh Hamza currently resides in Northern California with his wife and five children.

links:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/MECCAONE?m=2
http://www.zikrcast.com/podcast/audio/SHY_ISNA06.mp3
http://64.246.204.2/~zaytuna/audio/khutba/120205.mp3
http://www.zaytuna.org/audio/ShaykhHamza_LoveHasConditions_062405.mp3

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[driaslow]

@harvey23: I'd take a look at clustur. com -> you can create and study flash cards

[786swe]

@mahmoudalgammal Thanks for the educational information.

[AmmarAvril1]

God bless you hamza yusuf, i hope will work on the problems between suna and shia.

[Itchy2000uk]

So admittance that wife beating wether it be light or not is clear evidence of gender apartheid, inequality. is it not?.

I rest my case, you are going round the houses trying to excuse it, i totally disagree with beatings in any shape or form especially beating of a women.

[mahmoudalgammal]

@Itchy2000uk I've already explained to you what "beating" means in the Quran as explained by the Prophet (PBUH) himself. You refuse to believe me, and instead, brought as evidence the claim of a woman who according to the hadith was lying about her husband. The sources of our understanding of Islam are the Quran, and the Sunnah (sayings and actions) of the Prophet (PBUH), not the actions of anybody else. The Prophet never beat his wives, nor did he approved any violence between spouses.

[mahmoudalgammal]

@Itchy2000uk Tunisia is actually the first country in the world to outlaw slavery. And I'm not claiming that over the long history of Islam Muslims have always acted according to its teachings. There were many mistakes, but that condemns them, not Islam. It's funny that you've mentioned France, because when Napoleon conquered Egypt, it was being ruled by the Mamluks, who were actually slaves. The view of slavery in early Islam is nothing like even the most recent western views.

[mahmoudalgammal]

@Itchy2000uk The verse limiting the number of wives to 4 was revealed after the Prophet (PBUH) had already married all his wives. Muslims who had more than 4 wives had to divorce some of their wives, but the Prophet was excepted from that because his wives are not allowed to marry anyone else after him, so if he divorced them, they wouldn't be able to remarry.

[Itchy2000uk]

@mahmoudalgammal

Hadith from Bukhari vol. 7, # 715.

I never said Muhammad beat his 11, or 13 wives or, that his companions did, I say, with confidence that wife beating is permitted in Islam, And that Muhammed didn't seem that bothered about it, taking place.

[Itchy2000uk]

Muhammad didn't limit his marriage to four wives.

The practise of POW women captives being given to soldiers as war booty came about simply because there were no holding places for them at that time.

When the slave population could't keep up with the demand of the muslims, new slaves were stolen from non muslim lands at great costs, including loss of life and great suffering.

And It was pressure from Britain and France after WW1 that put an end to slavery in muslim lands.

[mahmoudalgammal]

@Itchy2000uk Finally, as I told you before, when Aisha said that she wasn't complaining. She was correcting a companion who misunderstood the hadith. I challenge you to find a single tradition that says that the Prophet (PBUH), or even any of his companions beat their wives.

It's easy to deface any religion, not just Islam, and any people, not just Muslims. If you really want to form an educated opinion about Islam, rely on authentic sources.