Just bought online Curing Extremism from Zaytuna. Its 3 speeches including one by Hamza Yusuf. Cost $15. I'm happy that lots of Islamic multimedia are now downloadable as this is a digital world. From this point it can then be disseminated on local TV so that more minds are affected...hopefully for the better. So kudos to Zaytuna for making this available at a cost. Yes, at a cost! Muslims should not want EVERYTHING free. To produce multimedia costs a lot of money.
Our job is not to make the world safe to live in, honourable though that objective is, but to make all systems divine. From education to politics. From business to family. Dialogue can only be meaningful if Muslims are fired up...pushing the envelope. Allah articulated knowledge to Adam (peace)...taught him. Illiteracy haunts the Muslims. Even simple folk should be able to reason at a decent level. Let us take the Quranic injunction "for those who reflect" to heart. Let's just not "pray." Prayer is NOT accepted if you don't understand. A thoughtful study of the Quran creates a particular worldview giving birth to a particular behaviour. If we penetrate a bit deeper we realize that the Quran is the fountainhead of life. Study the histories of nations and their rise and fall. History or, in the language of the Quran, the days of God, is the third source of human knowledge. It is one of the most essential teachings that nations are COLLECTIVELY judged, and suffer their misdeeds here and now. Let's make our part of the world Divine. Push yourself to learn...for this is a world of testing our mettle...no struggle, no gain. Be the best you can be.
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