Comments on: Shaykh Hamza Yusuf on Hijab

By: Ghaus

Ghaus — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:43:39 +0000

Shaykh Hamza YUsuf is totally right… Reformation is a growth process, and a growth process takes time.

By: Aneesah

Aneesah — Wed, 27 May 2009 16:40:52 +0000

I Think Hamza Yusuf Is The Best By Far Everything he says has a great impact on me and i also agree to alot of his words mashallah may Allah reward him.

By: Amna

Amna — Sun, 24 May 2009 09:47:08 +0000

Also, if what is said about Umar is true, I think we are living in better times, not worst. I do not think that women wearing Hijab face so much discrimination in the West (except perhaps France or Denmark) but they have this freedom to choose. The bad times are on the Muslims women being oppressed in Muslim countries or was on olden times when women were taken as slaves and not allowed to wear hijab?

By: Amna

Amna — Sun, 24 May 2009 09:41:03 +0000

In response to Hosham’s comment about Shiekh Hamza’s style of speech here, I have seen a few of his videos and I think he has this strategy for talking very quietly and logically in small discussions or interviews but is more provocative in speeches to bigger audiences, perhaps, male audiences.
The only problem with this is that when you are being provocative in speech your rhetoric may not be so intellectual and polished. Like he says “Look at those people” in reference to the naked western people. Well, that is in direct opposition to lower your gaze. I think that we will save our time and innocence by not looking at either the naked westerners or the muslims — let’s not judge anyone and save our nerves for something more important. Wearing revealing clothes is meant to distract people and distraction is only a waste of time — why let those people succeed in their idle goals.

In response to Adil, if women could not walk around bare-breasted or part naked in Arabia than why do you think there were the ayah in Surah Nur was revealed to specifically instruct Muslim women to cover their bossoms?

By: Noor

Noor — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 00:07:23 +0000

I just admire this person. Yet, I heard his answer to this question in person, and there’s a part at the beginning that’s omitted here. He mentioned clearly first that hijab is a wajib on muslim women. And refusing to wear it is considered a “ma’siya” in Islam, and then he commented that it’s not the only ma’siya. Men also commit lots of ma’siya’s in their lives. And he continued with the above quoted speech. Just though I would add that to be fair to the man. God bless.

By: from_amongts the muslims

from_amongts the muslims — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:19:38 +0000

O believers salaam. Be careul of what you say about your scholars…fore, at its best, if you say something that is negative but true (due to differing opinions in our faith) there is little benefit in it for you, for it is considered a valid difference of opinion.

Islam is a broad gate…ask Allah to expand yourselves and then you shall see as Jesus pbuh saw. He saw a dead dog, and the companions commented on the bad smell departing from the dog, but Jesus pbuh said how beautiful its teeth. The other is a projection of our internal state???

I read much here…and I advise, as the Prophet advised us, Say somehting beautiful…

By: Abu Abbas Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Maliki

Abu Abbas Ahmad ibn Yusuf al-Maliki — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:31:25 +0000

Salam `alaykum Sidi Hamza Mohammed:

If you would like to contact Shaykh al-Irshad Imam Hamza Yusuf (hafiDhahullah), you may email at

hamza.yusuf@zaytuna.org

Wa salamu `alaykum wa rahmatullah

By: KG

KG — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:23:10 +0000

It would have been better if he said that we should just advise them and then leave them be as it’s not our decision.

However, if anyone must be pressuring, it should be no one other than a woman’s father, husband, or brother. And even then, really, just the husband. He has legitimate concerns about the example the wife sets for the children. But this is something that should be discussed as I’m pretty certain just the very idea would be enough pressure for women who take their children very, very, seriously.

And to the women, stop worrying so much. The pressure from Muslims to cover up is not nearly as much as the pressure from other cultures to take OFF your clothes and yet I hear so few sisters complaining to them (to them and about them is not the same) the way they complain to other Muslims about enforcing hijab. So long as YOU are comfortable with how you live your life, so long as you’re confident that when you eventually meet the angel of death on your deathbed, that you did what Allah had asked of you, then what business is it of anyone else’s?

By: hamzah mohammed

hamzah mohammed — Thu, 29 May 2008 12:31:43 +0000

hello mr hamza. how are u doing? i hope you are fine. well i am also called hamza and i would like to be ur friend and i want you to know that i a in ghana now i want to know more about u. well i want you to email me back

By: Mo

Mo — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 04:32:03 +0000

Any nation that treats women poorly will remain a poor country.