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"As long as we
do not respond to Allah's call and to the Messenger of Allah's
call we are dead people, our hearts are dead, our lives are dead,
and our society is a society of death. It's a society that celebrates
the death of the spirit... in giving life to the lowest pursuits
of humanity." -Hamza Yusuf
"The soul can
only be brought back to life by recognizing why it was created...
and then setting out and striving to achieve that goal recognizing
that we will have shortcomings, that we will make mistakes, that
those mistakes are part of our humanity. That Allah knows those
mistakes because He created us to make mistakes so that we could
turn to Him and He could, in turn, turn to us and forgive us!"
-Hamza Yusuf
"One of the greatest
miracles of the Prophet (S) is his name itself." -Hamza
Yusuf
"[The Prophet's]
glory was not that he was the master of creation. His glory?-
that he was the most perfected slave of the Creator of creation."
-Hamza Yusuf
"What's strange
is the world has yet to recognize who [Prophet Muhammad (S)]
was and what he offers humanity." -Hamza Yusuf
"The duty of the
mujadid... is that he is not to be pre-occupied with the faults
of other people. He assumes the best of people." -Muhammad
Shareef
"If you don't
call the people to the deen, if you stay here [in North America],
you're children will become what you secretly worship!... The
only way to save your family is that you have to go out and call
the people to the deen." -Muhammad Shareef
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A series of three
lectures at the University of Toronto celebrating the life of
Prophet Muhammad (P). In the first lecture "The Best of
Creation", Hamza Yusuf comments on the Burdah, a famous
poem eloquently praising the Prophet (P). Through this beautifully
written poem, Imam Hamza looks at the amazingly selfless and
noble qualities of the last messenger and makes clear why he
is revered as the best of all creation and why we should increase
our love and praise for him. Muhammad Shareef follows with "Reviving
the Deen", a lecture about the method of tajdeed (revival)
in Islam. He covers the significant aspects of this science
by analyzing the meaning of tajdeed, its principles and its purpose.
He also looks at the mujadid (reviver) and what the conditions
are for such a person and their ultimate responsibility. Imam
Hamza concludes with the keynote address in which he implores
the audience to consider the crisis of our time: the disillusion
of the human soul. He then presents a program based on the hadith
in which the Prophet (P) said, "I 
was sent to perfect noble character."
In this context, the imam outlines the two primary concerns
of the Muslim, the heart and the limbs, and the need to follow
in the footsteps of the Prophet (P) by utilizing his divinely-inspired
methodology to guard them. (Duration: 2 hours, 46 min)
