Now that most of my work colleagues know that I am making the trip for Hajj and am starting to get curious questions and an opportunity to talk about the trip. Even the atheists are curiously interested in what it is all about, which reminds me of what Shaykh Hamza Yusuf once said in one of his lectures that he had never met an atheist who didn’t take God seriously. I have told everybody that when I come back that…
Imam Zaid Shakir answers the questions of a “Salafi” brother who was hounding him recently to “qualify his position”. The questions are: Q: What do you say about Ibn Taymiyya? Q: What does Tariqa mean? Q: What is your position of the Hadith of the Seventy-three sects? Q: What do you say about the Ash?aris? Imam Zaid writes: “Recently, while attending a gathering of Muslims that was otherwise characterized by brotherly love and goodwill, I was hounded by a ?Salafi?…
I took a load of photos of Imam Zaid at the GPU, here is one of our beloved Imam in full flow of his speech at the close of the event on Sunday. Click to see the full sized image. More pictures will be published on the Zaytuna site soon.