We are looking at expanding the channel - Support us now / islamreward We are looking at expanding the channel - Support us now / islamreward We are looking at expanding the channel - Support us now / islamreward Shaykh Hamza Yusuf speaks about this father reading the Quran for the first time with the help of notes. His father has libaries of books over the years and is well versed in comparing books to other books. What he took from the Quran prohibiting when looking from the outside, was the fact how sectarianism is prohibited.
Sectarianism is a form of bigotry, discrimination, or hatred arising from attaching relations of inferiority and superiority to differences between subdivisions within a group.
Please keep Shaykh Hamza Yusufs father in your duas, following statement by the Shaykh.
My father, David Hanson, passed away at 8:00 p.m. on the 16th of April, 2016 at the age of 89. He left the world in a good state. He was born into great wealth and advantage, and was afforded an excellent education. At the age of 17, he volunteered to join the Air Force at the height of World War II and served for four years.
He was a good father, and the single most well-read person in the Western canon I have ever met. The Huntington Library gave him a small cubicle, where he carried on his work on Elizabethan manuscripts. My last conversations with him were about the Liberal Arts, of which he was a life-long student. He lived with me on and off for the last few years and remained independent until the last few weeks of his life.
During his stay with us, he always joined in prayer with my family. A few weeks ago, he said the shahadah with his physician, Dr. Asad Tarsin, and requested that he be buried as a Muslim. I washed his body with my son and two close friends yesterday. We will bury him this morning. I want to thank everyone who has extended condolences to me and my family. I would ask simply for a prayer for his salvation.
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