Lecture: The Power of Powerlessness
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Lecture Details
| Event Date | 6/4/2019 |
| Event Location | California, USA |
| Event Description | Ramadan Speech about Laylatul Qadr and other nights of Baraka. |
SHY Book Recommendations made at this Event
Quotes Made at this Event
| King Lear - "Read Shakespeare" -Shaikh Hamza Yusuf |
| King Lear - Note: King Lear had a jester |
| Muhammad and the Jews - " 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." " -Shaikh Hamza Yusuf |
| The Temperament God Gave You - Note: Someone asked a question about Temperment, and was told to read this book. |
| King Lear - " 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 " -Shaikh Hamza Yusuf |
| Muhammad and the Jews - " 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. " -Shaikh Hamza Yusuf |
| Muhammad The Prophet of Peace - " 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. " -Shaikh Hamza Yusuf |
| The Temperament God Gave You - Note: Shaykh Hamza believes in the temperment tradition, and talks about it alot. He recommends this book, which includes a temperment test. |
I swear by the temperament tradition -Shaikh Hamza Yusuf |
I've been with the poorest people on the planet and I've been with the richest people on the planet. I've seen the inside of palaces and I've lived in the huts of some of the poorest people on the planet and some of the most extraordinary people I've ever met are the poorest people -Shaikh Hamza Yusuf |