Lecture: The Power of Powerlessness

We need to have our own banks. Banks are not hard to start. Its very easy to start. Its so easy to start, the Bank robbers, they used to rob the banks.

They realized, "We can just start our own banks...why rob them and risk going to jail? Let's just open up our own banks and then we can rob all the people."

King Lear: There's a wonderful scene at the end of King Lear, where he tells Cordelia,  We're gonna be free now from who's in and who's out at the court.  We can live life now without having to worry about these things

Bani Nadir - Which is clearly an exaggerated number and the the book that Barakat Ahmed wrote "Muhammad and the Jews", is I think a really important book that that really shows that the numbers were grossly exaggerated much later.

If you haven't read Juan Cole's book, "Mohammad: The Prophet of Peace, Amid the Clash of Empires, It's an excellent book. 

I mean I recently read it and I actually had a meeting with the author and I was just so impressed with how he showed clearly that the Prophet SAW was far from a warmonger which we know that he really was constantly looking for avenues of peace.

Shaykh Hamza believes in the temperment tradition, and talks about it alot.  He recommends this book, which includes a temperment test.

About how the Prophet(SAW)'s political stance changed in Medina

A beautiful book that just came out recently by Juan Cole, who's a brilliant scholar of Islam in the United States...he makes a very compelling argument that the prophet said and did everything to avoid war.  That he was not somebody that was a war monger by any stretch.