[idobestbuyonlinepp]

Assalamu Alaikum,

This is a genuine question, I don't know why he is so popular in the West. can someone please elaborate on his background, education, current affairs etc.

Jazak'Allah Khair

[QqJamxqP]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamza_Yusuf

Can't guarantee everything is reliable ^^

Just listen to some of his lectures.

[alecoplesosse]

Being a western person he knows how to communicate with his people-hence the popularity.
Wassalam

[rootoronpunty]

He is a good orator. And he has knowledge on not only Islam but also other non-religious subjects.

[MinisuipGaicai]

He is an 'Alim of Maliki madhhab.

http://sandala.org/

[gennickO]

Assalamu Alaikum,

This is a genuine question, I don't know why he is so popular in the West. can someone please elaborate on his background, education, current affairs etc.

Jazak'Allah Khair

See this link. Should answer all questions, Inshallah: http://sheikhhamza.com/biography/

[BaselBimbooooo]

Salam

jazakallah khayrun for posting the article/biography about shaykh hamza yusuf, i'm really happy to have seen this.

[Prererularl]

Sheikh Hamza Yusuf is a western revert, so he knows the west well and what it stands for.
He's also a very good orator, most of his lectures are brilliant.
The other thing is that he is very knowledgeable in other area's and not just religion.
I highly recommend the lectures by Sheikh Hamza Yususf: http://www.ilookisee.co.uk/Lectures/...20Lectures.htm
Especially his lecture called 'The vision of Islam'.

[Konidurase]

He is my favorite

[Ferkilort]

I love his old pre-2001 talks

its shocking how people can change so much

[BaselBimbooooo]

br. hussain maybe you shud read the biography link...and perhaps refrain from saying something that may be perceived as backbiting, just saying...

[lLianneForbess]

Sheikh Hamza Yusuf is a western revert, so he knows the west well and what it stands for.
He's also a very good orator, most of his lectures are brilliant.
The other thing is that he is very knowledgeable in other area's and not just religion.
I highly recommend the lectures by Sheikh Hamza Yususf: http://www.ilookisee.co.uk/Lectures/...20Lectures.htm
Especially his lecture called 'The vision of Islam'.

Thank you for posting this. Downloading some of the links right now.
I was very apprehensive about listening to him at first, but within 5 minutes of hearing him i was completely sold.
The first lecture i ever heard by him referenced Kierkegaarde. He is an existentialist philosopher, I had already encountered him and found existentialism to be very very interesting. The great thing about the Shaykh was, he utilised existentialist thought in that lecture and islamicised it so beautifully that i was immediately hooked. I mean how many scholars do we have that read non muslim philosophy and can take the good and leave the bad from their works with such ease as the Shaykh?

[PRengine]

I love his old pre-2001 talks

its shocking how people can change so much

I think he is just getting more matured and issues that muslims face in an american californian society are at a different level compared to a muslim living in Saudia Arabia and Pakistan.Allah knows best.

[lLianneForbess]

Asalamwalakum,

Right i've just watched the youtube video on 'lesbian islam'. I'm sorry after watching it, i don't feel the requirement to watch more links.
1) He is giving a descriptive account of Irshad Manji. Nowhere ONCE does he defend the movement. Talking about difficult topics does not make one supportive of those topics.
2) This is not a complete lecture. Context is important. i do not know what precedes this clip, and what proceeds after.
3) he explicitly mentions prophet Muhammed (sws) and his warnings against innovation in Islam.

[BaselBimbooooo]

i think your seeing what you want to see i.e. you're wearing your criticism binoculars.

he hasn't said anything that's not consistent with islam (i think) in the two bottom links. anyways you should know that the words of scholars can often be misconstrued especially when they speak in ambigous tones which are so common in the west. but as i said he didn't approve homosexuality...and i know a deobandi shaykh here who gave gave shahadat to a homosexual (one of the hardest things he did in his life he said) and then proceeded to having the guy go to therapy, detox, etc. to reform his nafs.

the point is homosexuality is wrong but so is zina, these crimes do not automatically make on a kafir or a subhuman (though at the moment one is engaged in these sins their emaan is technically not present)...sure it's a sign that there spiritual soul is basically dead i.e. they have given in to the nafs (and there are hukms which would be carried out in an islamic state).

honestly im confused as to what you dislike abt him in those two video clips?!?!?! there were times when i became suspicious abt him because some of his quotes, which were actually taken out of context and he responded to them and explained what he actually meant and the matter was settled.

[PRengine]

All he is saying is that muslims have to stop overreacting on these issues and know that these problems are very much there now in the society and we have to deal with them in a cultured manner.In no way is he promoting them.

[rootoronpunty]

Yea, clips taken out of context. He mentions the fate of the people of Lut in the lecture earlier. Some people just want to backbite and find faults.

[idobestbuyonlinepp]

See this link. Should answer all questions, Inshallah: http://sheikhhamza.com/biography/

Ok, I've glanced through the page, but I couldn't find where he studied fully and received sanad for tafseer or Hadith.

Did I miss this? If it's there in that page or somewhere else, can someone please point him out.

Or is he a scholar like Zakir Naik, who don't have sanad.

I'm asking these only because of my ignorance, so if anyone knows, please let me know.

[rootoronpunty]

Ok, I've glanced through the page, but I couldn't find where he studied fully and received sanad for tafseer or Hadith.

Did I miss this? If it's there in that page or somewhere else, can someone please point him out.

Or is he a scholar like Zakir Naik, who don't have sanad.

I'm asking these only because of my ignorance, so if anyone knows, please let me know.

Its an unofficial biography. Its taken from the info Hamza Yusuf mentioned in his lectures. So basically its incomplete.

[BaselBimbooooo]

he says very clearly that he studied by many great scholars even aside from shaykh murabit al hajj (db). i would think that he learned hadith from them, i highly doubt that he is a self taught person.