255. What We Can All Learn From Islam & The Quran | Hamza Yusuf

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🗓️ 23 May 2022

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This episode was recorded on December 28th, 2021. In this episode, Hamza Yusuf and I discuss the core beliefs of Islam, Hamza’s conversion, the importance of bridging religions, and the problem with our culture now. Hamza Yusuf is an American neo-traditionalist Islamic scholar, co-founder of Zaytuna College, and the author of seven books, including Purification of Heart: Signs, Symptoms, and Cures of the Spiritual Diseases of the Heart, Agenda to Change our Condition, and The Marvels of the Heart: Science of the Spirit. —Links— Follow Hamza on Instagram: https://instagram.com/shaykh_hamzayusuf Twitter: https://twitter.com/sh_hamzayusuf YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/user/SandalaMediaCenter Every other Hamza link: https://linktr.ee/HamzaYusuf —Chapters— 0:00 — Intro 1:01 — Religious upbringing 5:09 — Community & freethinking 7:03 — The glue that holds things together 9:59 — The problem with our culture 10:01 — Arabic word for disbeliever 13:00 — Gratitude despite suffering 17:02 — Jacques Lusseyran 20:53 — Repentance I 30:11 — Cleanliness, prayer, discernment 32:48 — Repentance II 33:55 — Hamza's conversion & near-death experience 40:24 — Preparing to die 45:38 — What drew Hamza to Islam 48:30 — Obedience to God—practically & conceptually 50:29 — Islam vs. collectivist philosophies 53:20 — Differentiating religious beliefs 54:48 — Aurel Kolnai 57:23 — The idea of evil 1:00:49 — Religiosity, atheism, values 1:07:04 — Creation, evolution, consciousness 1:09:26 — Islam in practice 1:16:44 — Importance of bridging religions 1:18:57 — Summary of Islam’s core beliefs 1:22:20 — Commonalities among religions #Islam #Atheism #Values #Gratitude #Religion

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 255 of the JPP Podcast. I'm Michaela Peterson.
0:06.1	In this episode, Dad spoke with Hamza Yusuf about Islam, world religions, and different
0:12.1	perspectives on sin. Hamza is an Islamic scholar, the co-founder of Zatuna College,
0:18.7	and the author of seven books, including The Marvels of the Heart, Science of the Spirit.
0:25.0	More specifically, they discussed the core beliefs of Islam.
0:27.8	Hamza's conversion and near-death experience, collectivist philosophy, the importance of
0:33.9	bridging between religions, repentance, and what they consider the most salient underlying
0:38.8	problems in today's culture. I hope you enjoy this episode.
0:59.2	Hello everyone. Today, I'm going to continue my discussions with Islamic thinkers,
1:05.2	or thinkers about Islam. I've had previous guests included, Ion Hershey Ali, Mustafa Aqyal,
1:13.5	and Muhammad Hizya, by my pleas to be speaking today with Hamza Yusuf Hansen, who serves as President
1:20.1	of Zatuna College, a Muslim liberal arts college in Berkeley, California. He's a strong advocate of
1:26.2	liberal education in the classical sense. He was raised in a religiously eclectic family,
1:31.7	attended Orthodox Christian services, and Catholic, parochial boarding schools. At the age of 18,
1:38.0	after studying the major religions of the world, he converted to Islam. He served as translator
1:43.4	for the chief Mufti of the UAE and the Mauritania, Sheikh Abdullah bin Bio.
1:49.8	I'm very pleased today to be talking to Hamza Yusuf Hansen. Welcome. Thanks for agreeing to
1:57.1	talk to me today. Yeah, thank you. So you had an eclectic upbringing as you're biodecated. You
2:04.9	went to Orthodox Christian services, were you were your family Orthodox Christian?
2:09.8	I have two sides of the family, one where Irish Catholics, and then my mother was half Irish
2:16.1	half Greek. So my Greek grandfather, who was an Archon in the Greek Orthodox Church,
2:20.6	he actually had that influence on us. So we were actually raised in his church.
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