Guarding Against the Snare of Sloth

Eva Brann, the distinguished teacher, author, and philosopher and a cornerstone of St. John’s College, joins Hamza Yusuf for a conversation about sloth, perhaps a quieter evil than some others, but one that can slowly ensnare us if we are not on guard.
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[@shannonsaymaz7001]

God Bless this woman. She is so sweet. I am happy He spoke to her with patience respect and kindness for her position, wisdom, and age.

[@MaryamShamsWayMaryamShams]

Sheik Hamza Yusuf, I love all of your series. I enjoy your conversation. I have been your follower for a long time; I've been your seminar with silicon Valley Islamic school for some added reason, I thought you grew up in an Orthodox Christian home, and your father was a High Priest I believe someone told and something when you were young, you got in a car accident, something nature like that, and you saw a dream prophet Muhammad Sallallahu alaihi wasallam and rescue the reason you converted to Islam. I was shocked when you said you grew up in a Catholic church. I enjoy all your Khutbah Islamic teaching as well. What you said is so very true about evil people. Some people pierce your heart. You can feel it in your core. Thank you, JazkumAllsh Kare, ❤️☝🏼

[@fire.smok3]

He grew up with both catholicism and Greek orthodoxy because his father was an Irish catholic and his mother a Greek woman, I believe he mentioned he leaned more to orthodoxy but was not really very devout in general as a Christian. His father was a professor in a university I think,, not a priest. You are correct that he got into a car accident as a young man and nearly died however i don't think he had a dream of the prophet sawas, from what I remember he said that the shocking experience of near death just made him deeply question his existence and purpose and that's what made him start looking into many religions, and he ended up connecting the most to Islam. Hope I helped clear things :)

[@MaryamShamsWayMaryamShams]

@@fire.smok3 Wow, mashallah, thank you, jazakallah khair. it doesn't matter to me, to be perfectly honest; I love him for Allah swt his sake and have lots of respect for him

[@fire.smok3]

@@MaryamShamsWayMaryamShams np❤️ me too, may God protect the sheikh

[@MaryamShamsWayMaryamShams]

@@fire.smok3 Allahumma Ameen🤲🏼🤲🏼🤲🏼

[@minaansari3559]

Always love to listen Shaykh Hamza and I learn a lot thanks God bless him .

[@saimabashir7198]

Sometimes people mistake hidden disability as sloth too. I love your talks very informative.

[@rajon8771]

This was a really interesting conversation. Whereas the other talks in these series seems to have come from shared sentiment and values, this seemed really oppositional although friendly. And Sheikh Hamza held up his own and even more. May Allah guide us all. Ameen.

[@ahsanaslam9718]

Shout out to the production team and the editing team for making this whole conversation feel like a film! Good job!

[@colincarter7086]

Totally agree, a very engaging edit

[@ArshadAnsari37]

Love for the shaikh and for the guest.. I had no idea who the guest is and I feel like I’ve missed much since I didn’t know her. Looking up her work now :D

[@ebaamomani1221]

Hi-quality talk, thoughts & video art. Congratulations, and thanks for sharing this with the world.

[@ambience6769]

Courage To Be New A great poem by Robert Frost, I hear the world reciting The mistakes of ancient men, The brutality and fighting They will never have again. Heartbroken and disabled In body and in mind They renew talk of the fabled Federation of Mankind. But they're blessed with the acumen To suspect the human trait Was not the basest human That made them militate. They will tell you more as soon as You tell them what to do With their ever breaking newness And their courage to be new.

[@khandkersalahuddin5344]

We would like to hear more from madam Eva Brann please...

[@ambience6769]

Death and his scythe will mow us all, so why waste precious time on toiling? Instead, try to cultivate Sloth’s higher forms: if ‘sin’ is lounging by the poolside, let’s begin! Tell those who question what your idling’s for: no slothful person ever starts a war. D.A. Prince

[@citycentregreen]

Great talk Sheikh

[@chrisdude2675]

Beautiful discussion but it didn't help me with the discussion of sloth. How to overcome it ect ect

[@fw.3014]

Great series. It would be better if the speakers spoke to each other on large screen (news room style). It feels impersonal watching humans speaking to a computer.

[@ikramdjaoud3673]

الحمد لله

[@ahmeddaz10]

Isnt this a reup?

[@criterion9801]

It was uploaded on Renovatio first, I think.

[@saysomething2236]

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[@sarariassi2573]

What is the novel she recommended reading?

[@saf3152]

"The Raj Quartet" by Paul Scott

[@КанатДжакупов-у1ф]

🇰🇿🤲🏽👍

[@aishabaseema1599]

Were you ever in a rush where your doing a lot of movement but because your rushing your dropping things, tripping over your own feet lol..and so your doing things twice and by the time your done you have actually forgotten something important? so you havent really benefitted from all the movement, you put a lot of effort forward but you achieved little.. In the Quran it speaks of "the son of Adam, and him being in the constant state of haste" Excessive toil in the wrong direction and the opposite can be sloth ,not enough effort in the right direction? wasting time, effort or energy in a way that doesnt benefit because you waited to long or procrastinated your efforts..and even using sloth as the opposite of gluttony..waisting away to nothing, people that allow themselves to eat and throw it up to be skinny..or to force themselves to be a specific size ot of vanity, waisting away physically to nothing..

[@redihaderi8188]

"The opposite of sloth seems to be interest", best line in the conversation for me. One day I hope to explain that to my son. Lots of love Zaytuna, thank you for the content you provide for free!

[@sarrrfarrr]

Completely agreed

[@muhammadalijauhar3553]

Hello Zaituna College! If Zaituna can conduct lectures on Imam Fakrudheen Razi and Imam Nawawi by Sheikh Hamza Yusuf, it would be great asset to the global Muslim Community.

[@6CEO]

Indeed a conversation between Jordan Peterson & Hamza would certainly be epic.. or eckhart tolle!!

[@zakme5638]

Love this series about the cardinal since, very edifying ❤

[@zuairk]

Is it just me or the whole video was about the lady saying, " What's the point? "😅

[@MrStyle-sr1yv]

This was so lovely you could easily see the souls are connected..may allah bless them both

[@Anskurshaikh]

Its wonderful to see someone in their 90s still being so inquisitive and open minded like a young teenager

[@walidmariam1997]

Masha Allah she is so inquisitive May Allah swt bless her

[@Mastertist]

I would love to see a conversation of Hamza Yusuf and Jordan B Peterson.

[@DrRussell]

With all my heart YES

[@Ofmadinah]

Would be remarkable to have the conversation on a podium.

[@CE--SyedTanveer]

I can't tell which of them is which.

[@Eldildo2]

@@CE--SyedTanveer but you bloody should, you know? You really should. You also should clean your bloody room like a lobster!

[@CE--SyedTanveer]

@@Eldildo2 If you don't understand my point and the sense I used, you should better not get on your nerves with it, they both speak in the same and contribute to the good of the social structure.

[@maghmuda]

'one would hope'

[@sarrrfarrr]

This was a beautiful conversation

[@mozaikk5011]

Love this series although this episode in particular didn't go deep into sloth . It was more of a chit chat between sheikh Hamza and his friend.

[@6CEO]

Haha I thought the same, I did enjoy the video although.. I was honestly looking forward to this sin in particular

[@abdelaziz007]

I am explaining this to a friend right now, I hope there will be more substance in the future.

[@Ensaret1]

May Allah increase you in dunya and akhirah. I was filled with the conversation and happy now to remember it. Elhamdulilah

[@Growingcoinjar10]

I love this series, thank you Hamza! ❤

[@ebaamomani1221]

مين لغته الاولى عربي هون كمان؟

[@seasor7398]

The unknown poet of sloth reference: www.spectator.co.uk/article/competition-vice-verse

[@Zanzan8]

This discussion left me confused...it's way over my head.

[@mksyed]

Ah, Sloth! Delicious! Where’s the ‘sin’ in that? I model Sloth’s perfection on the cat who stretches out (herself, and days) aware only of downiest cushions, softest chair, happy that when she’s ready food arrives. The sun smiles equally on he who strives and he who idles through the longest day. No one gets bathed in glory, making hay. Grasshopper, ant will both (as Aesop knew but didn’t labour) last the winter through. Death and his scythe will mow us all, so why waste precious time on toiling? Instead, try to cultivate Sloth’s higher forms: if ‘sin’ is lounging by the poolside, let’s begin! Tell those who question what your idling’s for: no slothful person ever starts a war. D.A. Prince

[@AhmirNawaz]

Hamza Yusuf, “I once asked my father do you think we sign on the dotted line with the devil?” He said, “No it’s a long series of negotiations” What profound and wise words from his father.

[@Yu-nc7zk]

Great discussion, love both sides

[@fareshtak.touhami412]

Wow, to be so lucid at the age of 94 as Ms. Brann is truly amazing.

[@Tubayuno]

19:00- 21:00 acedia 28:00- 31:00 34:45- 36:30 kierkagaard

[@markmartin2853]

I admire her mind. Thanks brother yusf for the nourishment of this conversation.

[@SaintNektarios]

@45:55 Selfishness as a Virtue.

[@jfiazy]

@zaytuna - All of the other conversations in this series have been profoundly impactful and reality-shifting for me. this one however didn't quite hit the mark the same. I feel the professor comes from a place of scepticism from the very beginning. Her stated lack of belief also meant that there wasn't the shared platform of spiritual meaning and morality that gave the rest of the conversations so much depth. This was more a back and forth of curiosities, with tangential reference to the discussion at hand. I pray Dr Brann finds belief in the time she has left.

[@Mrplantedbrain]

❤❤👏👏👏

[@MuneyMan2022]

33:27

[@mksyed]

What an enriching conversation.

[@SaintNektarios]

Eva Brann @ 1:00:27 "It seems to me the residual wisdom in thinking about the sins which the opposites are not necessarily virtues (they could be vices) and that there is a complexity there speaking of vices and virtues and sins and purity that ...those virtues are not necessarily better than whichever one [vice] we start with."

[@saimabashir7198]

Asalamalikum Ramadan mubarak. Just wanted to be first to wish you happy ramadan. Would love it if you could visit uk too.

[@shakira31415]

thank God most of us aren't intellectuals

[@Halalaumai]

جَزَاكَ ٱللَّٰهُ خَيْرًا 🌿

[@syedsalam3199]

Brother translation is, May Allah reward you with goodness. I will break it down with word meaning. Jaza means reward. Khair means goodness.

[@farisahmedbhatti7423]

Very illuminating discussion.

[@curious9948]

سلام علیکم

[@syedsalam3199]

Translation is, "peace be to you".

[@saysomething2236]

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[@imaginedhistory2993]

Wonderful conversation.

[@valeriedeleon3578]

Love this 📚🥰💝☕️

[@sitishafi4092]

ALLAH bless u

[@fire.smok3]

Mashallah it's really nice how respectful Hamza Yusuf is

[@UmarKhan-su1vv]

She’s such a lovely lady