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**Filmania** · 07-06-2012, 05:34 PM

This guys lectures, the earlier and later ones, is one reason, probably a major reason i am muslim today.
To all those who say he is not making valid points i wonder why they are shy to point the non-valid points out yet still have a dig at him ?
Thats like asking "Do you beat your wife" ?
Youve already made your intention clear, by stating your opinion.
Not a single opinion of his seen as wrong in the Thousands of Hours of lectures hes given ? But still people say the man is not Islamic enough ?
I think it reveals more about the person who criticises Mr Yusuf, than Mr Yusuf himself, may God bless him.
Let say the guy made a 100 mistakes. He probably told a million truths in that time too.
When youve put in the hours he has, then you can criticise him, other than that you are just a fool.

This is problematic reasoning. A person can make one mistake that can override all the good he has done.

Shaykh Hamza

has done a lot of good but he is not without fault - as in publicly displayed faults. He has said controversial things before and has committed mistakes. That is why you're not going to find many people here who are going to outright lambast Shaykh Hamza. It is just that there are better scholars out there who may or may not be as well spoken and popular as he is and who may or may not have committed as many mistakes in both speech and action publicly.

@brother SASLAMS:

You can get an idea about Shaykh Hamza Yusuf and problems people have with him by doing a search of the forum. I don't wish to unearth and revisit the faults he has. No one has for a second (at least to my knowledge) faulted him for wearing Western clothing, even though it can be seen as a minor fault. The fault lies in things he has said (and this is not in regards to Tasawwuf, but general beliefs), things he has commented on where he does not have the right to comment as he is not a Mufti, and actions he has publicly committed that can be used to exempt people who are lax in their following of the deen from feeling guilty.

07-06-2012, 05:34 PM	#11
Filmania Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 478 Senior Member	This guys lectures, the earlier and later ones, is one reason, probably a major reason i am muslim today. To all those who say he is not making valid points i wonder why they are shy to point the non-valid points out yet still have a dig at him ? Thats like asking "Do you beat your wife" ? Youve already made your intention clear, by stating your opinion. Not a single opinion of his seen as wrong in the Thousands of Hours of lectures hes given ? But still people say the man is not Islamic enough ? I think it reveals more about the person who criticises Mr Yusuf, than Mr Yusuf himself, may God bless him. Let say the guy made a 100 mistakes. He probably told a million truths in that time too. When youve put in the hours he has, then you can criticise him, other than that you are just a fool. This is problematic reasoning. A person can make one mistake that can override all the good he has done. Shaykh Hamza has done a lot of good but he is not without fault - as in publicly displayed faults. He has said controversial things before and has committed mistakes. That is why you're not going to find many people here who are going to outright lambast Shaykh Hamza. It is just that there are better scholars out there who may or may not be as well spoken and popular as he is and who may or may not have committed as many mistakes in both speech and action publicly. @brother SASLAMS: You can get an idea about Shaykh Hamza Yusuf and problems people have with him by doing a search of the forum. I don't wish to unearth and revisit the faults he has. No one has for a second (at least to my knowledge) faulted him for wearing Western clothing, even though it can be seen as a minor fault. The fault lies in things he has said (and this is not in regards to Tasawwuf, but general beliefs), things he has commented on where he does not have the right to comment as he is not a Mufti, and actions he has publicly committed that can be used to exempt people who are lax in their following of the deen from feeling guilty.
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