What is Your Mind Full Of? Mindfulness in Prophetic Practice (Live Event)

SubhanaAllah I always learn something whenever Shaykh Hamza speaks . MashAllah. Along with an Iman booster shot!! :)

Inchaallah i hope i will be able to visit zeytouna all the way from belgium

AllahuAkbar!!😭😭😭

That poem was incredibly powerful. That made me cry...

This lecture was mind blowing from star to finish the level and depth of thought and understanding from the sheikh is such an inspiration Allah willing may my only child become become a student of language 🤲🏽

Love him. Such a beautiful lecture. Thank you for this Zaytuna.

This has to be one of the most needed talks for today. We are entertaining ourselves to death in today's day and age.

Does anyone know the name of the pieces the young men performed at the beginning and end?

Thank you Naeema Faruq for encapsulating my very thoughts.
We are so blessed to avail of SheikhHamza’s brilliant mind.

If you're reading this please make dua that Allah makes a way out for me 🤲

Thanks.

Alhamdulilah!

أعوذ يالله من هذا الضلال

Sheikh Hamza, Ive been listening to your lectures from last Ramadan and being pregnant at the time decided to name my baby Hamza if it was a boy. alhamdulillah my little Hamza is two months old now and my hope is for him to spread this Deen with compassion and love like you do in sha Allah..

The sheikh at his best...

Lovely poem by sheikh Hamza Yusuf!

May be Muslim countries are supporting this noble endeavor. However,
countries like Kuwait, Qatar and S.A. can do much more for Zaytuna College. Be a fund raiser in your community wherever you live. Allah SWT will bless you with His mercy.

Beautiful poem No words.

I wish I could be there I’m …sending you love from Australia..Hamza Yusif one of the greatest teachers on the planet mashallah May Allah reward you sir

Absolutely awesome teacher what an amazing lecture Mashallah May Allah reward yous in the world and the hereafter ameen

I can’t get over how aswome and eye opening this session is like blew my mind wow

Masha Allah SubhnaAllah, SubhanAllah, SubhanAllah. That so beautiful poem of Shaykh Hamza shows the Blessing of Allah Subhanahu wa Ta'ala on this most Respected and Learned Scholar.

Practice 1000X

تبارك الله❤❤❤ صلى الله عليه وسلم مولد نبوي مبارك ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

My Allah bless you my Shaykh Hamza ❤

I Leave in Germany no communiy no no family no friends no 😭😭😭health no Support So alone for so many Years Meake for me Duaa 🙏🙏🙏

Sahal was asked - when will the human being finally be still?
He said - He will never be still until he knows that the only time he has is the moment that he is in!!!

beautiful from start to finish. my only observation is why not have seperation between men / women?

Distraction create mental distress

What give your attention to, is going to create your reality 🎉

متى يستريح الانسان ؟
لما يعرف ان ليس له الا الوقت الذي هو فيه .

May Allah SWT pour his blessings upon HAMZA YUSUF AND HIS FELLOWS

Seysak

loved it

Thanks for this another educational video shaykh!
I have a question, why did zaytuna changed so much, in its early time they observe complete Shariah rulings in classrooms and places which is segregation between men and women, why it is being finished?.. Shaikh hamza and this institution is inspiration for many, so if you will start endorsing things agaist Shariah then people will be misguided and misguide others using this college name... I just want to say that, if zaytuna call itself muslim college then please act like one!

I love the way he started his lecture " what a disappointment to take away that beautiful picture of Madina." Love it!

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

What a powerful reminder !

Moulid is a bida'h. These kinds of bida'h, grave worship, thavassul were those things which destroyed our Ummah in the past.
We are fighting against it with Towheed now this Ummah is changing.

What is the second thing Imam ash-Shafi’i r.a. learned from the sufis?

May Allah swt grant this ummah many more scholars like Sheikh Hamza who has deep knowledge and love about deen and our prophet pbuh in sha allah

Two of my favorite Quotes from the first half of this lecture:

“Die before you die” موتوا قبل ان تموتوا in other words come to attention before you are brought to attention.
Death permeates the Quran. There’s not a page that doesn’t have the perfume of death scented on it.

This lecture is very much appreciated. I always try to make notes so if anyone is interested this is what I've got so far:

What is your mind full of?
Who’s occupying your mind?

Now what you give your attention to will determine your reality.
What God is asking us is to give our attention to God.
What is Attention in Arabic? In English it has a lot of really interesting meanings: one of them is courtesy. 
like you say he was very attentive to me. Attention is what a lover gives to their beloved. Attention is also a word for devotion.
So your attention is your devotion. It’s what you’re attending to. It’s what you’re giving your time to. 
So in Arabic, one of the words for it is „ihtimaam“.

It’s what you’re concerned with. It’s your „Hamm“ it’s what preoccupies your mind. It’s what your mind is full of.
So the Prophet (sav.) said: „Whoever makes his concerns – in other words, gives his attention to one thing – Allah will take care of all of his other concerns. 
What’s that? The Akhira. So we’re living in a time where people’s concerns are completely fragmented. And so there’s all this mental derangement because people are so distracted. Now Imam Ali r.a. said and it’s often attributed to the prophet (sav.) „If they die they come to attention“. 
The prophet (sav.) said in one iteration. “Die before you die” موتوا قبل ان تموتوا in other words come to attention before you are brought to attention.

[…] In other words, wake up now. And this is what mindfulness is really about, it’s dhikr, […] it’s to be awake, to be aware. You’re attentive you’re aware, your mind is present.

So already by the 1880s Niche noted: One thinks with one’s watch in one’s hand he complained. Even as one eats one's midday meal while reading the latest news of the stock market this is a distraction. Everything is done with the clock. One of the most interesting things about time - and one of my favorite authors - Lewis Mumford said: that when the modern mindset came to dominate- this is what he wrote: eternity seized gradually to serve as the measure and focus of Human actions. In its place came the dictatorship of the clock.

Isn’t that interesting? People used to think about eternity their lives were actually determined by their understanding of eternity and one of the most common things about pre-modern people is they mention death a lot.

One of the most notable qualities of modern people and post-modern people is they never talk about death.

Why did the pre-modern people talk about death? When I was in the throne room of the former queen Elizabeth and now the throne room of King Charles – I was taken there by Baroness Uddin she was Muslim in the House of Lords – so they took me into the throne room I was getting a tour of the parliament. So they have this throne room and there was this massive clock given by the French king to the British monarch that had the Grim Reaper on top of it.

In other words, the angel of death was on top of it with his seif that takes the souls. In all of the premodern sundials, it will say things like carpe diem. Many Latin phrases things like „in one of these hours you’ll be seized.“

People saw time as a reminder of their finitude. As the reminder that they were finite beings in temporality.

Modern people think they’re going to live forever. They don’t think about death.

One of the main reasons for this desire for distractibility is because it preoccupies people from thinking about what is inevitable. That they will die.
The Prophet (sav.) said: „Do much remembrance of the destroyer of the lights/pleasures: death.“ Not in a morbid sense this is being onto death. 
This is embracing our mortality - being aware of it. 

Murabit al-Hajj every night did death meditation. He would recite poems about death.

Sheikh Ibn al-Habib in his Dīwān: „be prepared for death, it’s coming“. 
And they used to sing this on a regular basis.

To think about death.

The prophet (sav.) was completely aware of the presence of death.

Death permeates the Quran. There’s not a page that doesn’t have the perfume of death scented on it.
And this is not morbidity this is not some kind of morbid or morbidness […], it’s actually to make you aware of the preciousness of the time that you been given.

This is the preciousness of life itself. It’s a great gift of Allah (swt.) And we waste it away with all of this insignificant concern.

I listen this every Friday because i love ya hanna nasheed part so much !! i play on speaker in my room on repeat!! Allah huma barik!

Sometimes I just come back to this video to listen to the young men in the beginning sing their praises and prayers upon the Prophet (pbuh) ❤

My message to other channels is to NOT upload the whole lecture of someone elses channel, not even if you provide a link in your video description. There is one channel who uploaded this lecture of Shaykh Hamza Yusuf and has more views than the origal video on the official channel. And even though it might be legal due to so called Fair Policy Use but that is not an excuse. The credits should go to the original, the owner of the video.
If you want to do spread the message, if you want to reach a bigger audience, then why not upload some highlights/snippets of the original video? Then if people want to hear more they can visit the link you provided in your video description and/or pinned comment.
This way the official channel can benefit and grow and ultimately make more videos.