Sheikh Hamza Yusuf: NY Times Article (Earth, tradition, America, bible)

[Cordoba]

Shiekh Hamza Yusuf's lecture on Islamic inventions in history:

http://downloads1.nadeemdownloads.co...%202003%29.mp3

A summary of 1,000 years of Muslim Contributions to Science.

[Cordoba]

A new article on Sheikh Hamza Yusuf:

Convert Plays Leadership Role in Muslim Community

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=6057297

[Cordoba]

Ramadan Advice, by Hamza Yusuf
RealMedia: Listen

[Cordoba]

CESAREAN MOON BIRTHS
By Hamza Yusuf

Click below to read the full article
PART 1, PART 2

Article Abstract:

This paper will examine the issue of Muslims physically sighting the crescent moon as the basis for beginning the months that constitute their lunar calendar.
The argument posed here is especially relevant in the United States and Canada where the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and its allied Fiqh Council of North America are attempting to establish a norm of using calculations as the basis for determining the beginning of the lunar calendar, and the timing of associated devotional acts such as the Fast of Ramadan and the Hajj.

This paper advances several arguments and rebuts others in an effort to prove that the only acceptable basis for determining the lunar month is the actual sighting of the dawning crescent. ...
I argue that the actual naked-eye sighting is the standard demarcator for establishing the entrance of the Islamic lunar month based on the fact that the Qur’anic verse, They ask you about the crescent moons; say they are a means to measure your specific times and are also for the commencement of the Hajj (2:189), can only be interpreted literally.
This conclusion ensues because the verse is decisive in its evidentiary nature and unequivocal in meaning. As far as the fast of Ramadan, it is only validly begun on the basis of affirming the entrance of the month by sighting the crescent moon. I will present the textual and linguistic evidence to substantiate this position. In the eventuality of an obscure horizon on the twenty-ninth day of the month, the overwhelming majority of scholars argue that the month should be completed by fasting a thirtieth day. There are a few divergent opinions from this ruling. However, they do not establish the basis for standardizing a lunar calendar based on calculations, as I will show.

http://www.zaytuna.org/articleDetails.asp?articleID=100

[Cordoba]

Achieving Balance in a Troubled World



This keynote speech was delivered by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf during the 43rd ISNA Convention 2006. Shaykh Hamza reminds us to be courageous people and to uphold the qualities of courage and truth.

LISTEN: AUDIO - (5.6 MB | 15:48 min)

[Cordoba]

Sheikh Hamza Videocast: Episode 1

From The Zaytuna Institute in California

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtGYWnYSK7Q

[Laila]

I applaud Shaykh Hamza, thanks for sharing this Cordoba.
I love reading your threads.

[Cordoba]

Thanks sister

Sheikh Hamza is really amazing

Highly educated at the Jesuits before he became Muslim at the age of 18, and then he invested many years of his life learning Islam away from the US.

He has the best of Western education and the best of Muslim education, and as an American he loves his country and people and loves Islam.

Who can ask for more?

[Cordoba]

A Talk by Sheikh Hamza:

In the Footsteps of The Prophet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQhkxs4DP5k