Shaykh Yasir Qadhi on "A Vision for Muslim Americans"

[Salahadeen]

Excellent speech, Masha-Allah.

http://www.halaltube.com/towards-for...erah-icna-2007

[Rakan]

may Allah protect the youth from his likes ...

[ckt_bkr]

isnt Yasir Qadhi of the view that there is no physical jihad anywhere in this world today?
coz I remembered him saying that in peace conference held in Mumbai in november 2007 organized by peace tv and IRF

[Intoodeep]

In reality he has no vision for anywhere.

PPl like hamza Yusuf are much more visionary. Right now they are setting up what will no doubt be the leading islamic seminary in the USA. Also i have noticed that a lot of african american muslims are now on that 'traditional islam' bandwagon and they are the real future of islam in the USA.

[Abu Maysara]

I guess his speech and views are in line with those dreaming of a church wedding, may Allah swt disgrace them both

[Daniel]

What does he say in this lecture, good or bad?

[Abu Sabaya]

What gets me about him giving this lecture (and he has given it dozens of times around the West) is that he forgets the concept of li kulli maqamin maqal (for every situation, there is a proper thing to say).

For example, he goes around stressing that "Muslims should remain in the West" to audiences that don't want to leave the West in the first place, and that "Muslims should integrate and be proud of being American Muslims" to audiences that are already in love with the West and have gone over and above in integrating into Western society. Without having known who he was speaking to, one would think that he was giving this speech at an airport ticket counter crowded with American Muslims desperately boarding planes to move back to Muslim countries.

From a psychological perspective, I get the impression that he is trying to reassure himself more than he is trying to teach the audience something that they weren't already doing in the first place.

He is right about one thing, though: 9/11 radically changed everyone.

[Abu Ma'mar]

2 types people. Those who tells the people what they need to hear and those who tell people what they want to here.

[Logic lover]

What gets me about him giving this lecture (and he has given it dozens of times around the West) is that he forgets the concept of li kulli maqamin maqal (for every situation, there is a proper thing to say).

For example, he goes around stressing that "Muslims should remain in the West" to audiences that don't want to leave the West in the first place, and that "Muslims should integrate and be proud of being American Muslims" to audiences that are already in love with the West and have gone over and above in integrating into Western society. Without having known who he was speaking to, one would think that he was giving this speech at an airport ticket counter crowded with American Muslims desperately boarding planes to move back to Muslim countries.

From a psychological perspective, I get the impression that he is trying to reassure himself more than he is trying to teach the audience something that they weren't already doing in the first place.

He is right about one thing, though: 9/11 radically changed everyone.

A very careful watchful eyes and mind are required for the listeners. JazakAllah brother for your thoughts.

[Salahadeen]

I guess his speech and views are in line with those dreaming of a church wedding, may Allah swt disgrace them both

"May Allah disgrace them"? Don't you fear Allah [swt]? You *do* know that it is haram to curse fellow Muslims? Or has your takfeer gun gone off again ?

What happened to the idea that we shouldn't hate or love someone entirely? Surely you aren't cursing someone you love? What hypocrisy on the part of you khawaarij!