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**Qrhzbadu** · 07-06-2012, 07:18 PM

Please look up issues relating to the niqab and touching the ghayr mahram. He is on record saying that he is "opposed" to the niqab, which is not a valid position of any madhhab. This became known when France banned the niqab. What was the purpose for bringing up his personal opinion at that time when he is trying to show that France is wrong and that this is a marginalization of Muslims? If we are asked to defend Muslims on some topic, we don't start by saying we are opposed to what these Muslims are doing, especially when it is an issue of Fiqh and our opinion is something that isn't found in Shari'ah. For the latter issue, there are videos available.

He has taken relatively progressive positions in fiqh and sometimes even verbalized similar liberal ideas when talking about aqeedah, such as during his interviews after 9/11 with the Western press. His later lectures appear to be yielding to the West at the expense of Muslims. He may be playing it safe or play it cunningly in an effort to make Islam more appealing to non-Muslims, but this ends up confusing a lot of Muslims. Another example was his appearance in Oxford, where he suddenly started to bring up extreme minority opinions just to make Islam appear less rigid (for example, the issue about women leading men in prayer). That may or may not be his opinion but it gives a regular Muslim the idea that such a thing is permissible. Also, there is almost always a call for self-blame or blaming the "terrorists" or blaming the ulama or blaming Muslims in general. He has for example called for Muslim nations to give up their arms. Islam is not anti-war because sometimes, war is necessary and it is a great jihaad to fight in the way of Allah

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One of the key differentiating features between the Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah is our taqleed to one of the four madhahib - the level of this taqleed varies, but generally, people stick to the majority opinion of a madhhab. To introduce extreme minority opinions as valid or even to mention them without qualifying their validity or to adopt them and display said adoption publicly - all these things are more in tune with those who have problems with taqleed. Traditionalism is that we stick to the majority. Shaykh Hamza Yusuf and Zaytuna Institute claim to be traditional and they are but some of the positions they take are anything but traditional, which causes a lot of confusion.

So, he does have good lectures and he does have lectures that leave you scratching your head.

07-06-2012, 07:18 PM	#20
Qrhzbadu Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 444 Senior Member	Please look up issues relating to the niqab and touching the ghayr mahram. He is on record saying that he is "opposed" to the niqab, which is not a valid position of any madhhab. This became known when France banned the niqab. What was the purpose for bringing up his personal opinion at that time when he is trying to show that France is wrong and that this is a marginalization of Muslims? If we are asked to defend Muslims on some topic, we don't start by saying we are opposed to what these Muslims are doing, especially when it is an issue of Fiqh and our opinion is something that isn't found in Shari'ah. For the latter issue, there are videos available. He has taken relatively progressive positions in fiqh and sometimes even verbalized similar liberal ideas when talking about aqeedah, such as during his interviews after 9/11 with the Western press. His later lectures appear to be yielding to the West at the expense of Muslims. He may be playing it safe or play it cunningly in an effort to make Islam more appealing to non-Muslims, but this ends up confusing a lot of Muslims. Another example was his appearance in Oxford, where he suddenly started to bring up extreme minority opinions just to make Islam appear less rigid (for example, the issue about women leading men in prayer). That may or may not be his opinion but it gives a regular Muslim the idea that such a thing is permissible. Also, there is almost always a call for self-blame or blaming the "terrorists" or blaming the ulama or blaming Muslims in general. He has for example called for Muslim nations to give up their arms. Islam is not anti-war because sometimes, war is necessary and it is a great jihaad to fight in the way of Allah . One of the key differentiating features between the Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama'ah is our taqleed to one of the four madhahib - the level of this taqleed varies, but generally, people stick to the majority opinion of a madhhab. To introduce extreme minority opinions as valid or even to mention them without qualifying their validity or to adopt them and display said adoption publicly - all these things are more in tune with those who have problems with taqleed. Traditionalism is that we stick to the majority. Shaykh Hamza Yusuf and Zaytuna Institute claim to be traditional and they are but some of the positions they take are anything but traditional, which causes a lot of confusion. So, he does have good lectures and he does have lectures that leave you scratching your head.
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