Guarding the Tongue by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf

The power of words is a central insight in Islam. Four words spoken sincerely suffice to mark that someone is a believer. Our tongues are a great blessing from our Lord, but their power can set us on the path of good or of harm. In this khutbah, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, president of Zaytuna College, provides important and timeless advice for how to guard ourselves from the pitfalls of excessive and malevolent speech.
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[@syedabarka1986]

I don't usually comment, but I've read somewhere that when you have positive thoughts about someone, let them know right then. You speak so beautifully, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf. I always pray to Allah that I have a pure, truthful tongue, one that doesn't hurt someone, and you have that. You speak so beautifully, Shaykh. You'll be remembered in my prayers for quite a long time now ❤

[@rkhan9506]

Back in high school, I read an essay by Somerset Maugham where he expressed those same sentiments, about letting people know if they were good or helpful to you…

[@mohammedahamed9927]

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[@khanrafia]

My son is 3 year old and I pray everyday that he goes to zaytuna college one day and become a light of wisdom.Insha Allah.

[@alexanderv7702]

​@@khanrafiawhat is your real motive for wanting YOUR son to participate in Zaytuna?

[@imrannoor2232]

There is nothing like Shaykh’s lectures which reminds me of what kind of person should I be. Allah is my witness I love you Shaykh.

[@user-no7ht5em9q]

SubhanAllah, I love this sheikh. Salam from Russia❤

[@th5384]

Shaykh Hamza is the Al Ghazli of this generation. Truly. No one explains it better than him I feel like. He's a special special man. Much love from New Zealand 🇳🇿

[@abdulhafizmuayeed3708]

Sheikh hamza yusuf I just wanna say jazzakalahu kayiran I thank my lord almighty that gives us you 🙏 ❤❤

[@hardcoregym7316]

Alhamdullillah for the great gift of Islam and it's well intended scholars.

[@wildwhitelionking]

May Allah give you blessing! Elhamdulillah, there are people like you, dear Shaikh!

[@ishqnoor]

Allah bless Shaykh Hamza Yusuf and may Allah SWT facilitate our journey to Ihsan, aamin ya Rab 🤲

[@syayayayaya]

Fantastic reminder may Allah grant Jannah to Sh Yusuf and his team

[@davidalaba3171]

Mashallah i appreciated my shiekh may allah guide you and protect you and give you more healthy and long life,,my name is muhammed from senegal

[@agesey0412]

my greatest honor would be to sit with you shaykh. however reads this make this dua for me. please

[@kerimbugrayildirim]

Beautifully put. 💯 May Allah make us precise and mindful of our tongues.

[@suhailvarachia584]

امين

[@AMAli-ct5df]

Amiin

[@arabianseagull]

السَّلاَمُ عَلَيْكُمْ وَرَحْمَةُ اللهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ

[@nadiaabdulrahman7091]

Allahuma salli wasalem wa barik ala habibana wa rasoulina Mohammad❤

[@Lloydy786]

Subhanallah I needed to hear this today

[@IkemenDanshi]

May Allah preserve you for the ummah, our dear Shaykh.

[@remindersonlyro9647]

Subhanallah cutting off from the vain and that which does not concern one, is so beautiful and so peaceful - and this is our Deen Al-Islaam. Unfortunately many many are confused between knowledge (Deen and Dunya) and gossip (backbiting, slandering, private matters...) And they have not brakes and are self deluded, boastful and vainglorious! Oh Allah protect us all from these prohibitions and give more taqwa and tawfeeq. Ameen

[@abeliever6823]

Very powerful reminder. Maashaa-Allah. May Allah bless Sheikh Hamza with good health, baraka in his life, family, da'wah and in all his efforts. This is indeed a reminder we all need. Much of what we do in our socializing is backbiting. May Allah save us all

[@coldtreasure]

May Allah protect us! jazākum Allāhu khayran

[@BruvahSulaiman]

May Allāh have mercy on those believers who only listen to debates and speakers with sharp tongues who do not warn the listeners against the dangers of what they say or of the fact that what they type is equal to what they say. May the ones who lead the listeners into this fitnah have the collective sins of those affected by their words placed solely on them until they repent sincerely. Then, may Allāh forgive them as well. Ameen.

[@joelsook2140]

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf is always making my deen stronger! Thank you for sharing your knowledge Shaykh

[@a_leaf]

Alhamdulilah for a new video from our noble scholar

[@thedunyadoneya2628]

I needed this reminder, JazakAllah 🙏

[@yasmindeedat8113]

Subghanallah. What a soothing voice. It’s calls u to listen and learn. How grateful must one be. Allah brings forth these amazing learned scholars to remind us of our valuable Deen of Islam. Nothing was left out. We were gifted with these humble scholars Algamdolilah. MaybAllah open our minds and guard or tongues. Inhsa Allah 💕

[@nadiaabdulrahman7091]

Mashallah God bless you❤

[@medaeael-challouf2310]

Such an insightful lecture! Love it

[@nazuddin6346]

May Allah bless you And family Dear shiekh And May Allah protect our tongue Ameen

[@quantumo2099]

Alhamdulilah

[@NasirAhmedApu]

Beautiful Khutbah.

[@afnankhan43001]

May Allah bless u sheikh

[@kashifahmed3752]

God bless you Sheikh.

[@zamaryshaker6650]

May Allah give you Janah! And guide all of us to follow what u said.

[@ijkhanman43]

Beautiful words

[@laraandrews9710]

And give good tidings to those who believe and do righteous deeds that they will have gardens [in Paradise] beneath which rivers flow. Whenever they are provided with a provision of fruit therefrom, they will say, ‘This is what we were provided with before.’ And it is given to them in likeness. And they will have therein purified spouses, and they will abide therein eternally.” (Q. 2:25)

[@LamaTheLama]

Excellent Khutbah. JazaakumAllah Khayr.

[@sistersembellishments949]

Ameen Ya Rabb. Jazakallahu Khairan.

[@abdurrahman1213]

Mashallah This is a Must bayan to listen SubhanAllah such ways among many Allah reminds us and Teach us to be a good Muslim MashAllah may Allah bless shayk hamza yusuf for his position as a teacher for The ummah in these times of great fitnah

[@ismaileasy2118]

❤

[@hushabyehum4805]

something to listen to throughout, every part is important, if someone doesn't have time to listen carefully in one go, come back to it again and again. it's so important.

[@alexanderv7702]

As-Salāmu alaykum Shaykh Hamza.

[@user-ne7cf6nr6y]

Mashaa ALLAH Tabaaraka ARRAHMAAN. Jazak ALLAH Khairan for your amazing reminders 🤲 I love you for the sake of ALLAH 🤍🤍🤍

[@user-cn2oy6wq1d]

Shukran sheigh. Beautiful explanation. May Allah preserve you for many more years so that the ummah can benefit. Love you for sake of Allah.

[@sistersembellishments949]

Asalam Waliakum Waramotullahi Wabarakatu, Jummat Mubarak. Thanks so much for sharing knowledge abd wake up call with us. May Allah SWT increase our Eeman and protect us from diseases of the hearts Ameen Ya Rabb . In the Noble Quran Allah SWT says: in Surah Al-Hujurat-Aya 12:O you who have believed, avoid much [negative] assumption. Indeed, some assumption is sin. And do not spy or backbite each other. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his brother when dead? May Allah SWT bless Shaykh and everyone propagating our beautiful Deen Islam positively in this world and most especially Hereafter Ameen Ya Rabb. Jazakallahu Khairan

[@hiwaali2613]

A very wonderful lecture, thanks god for everything ,

[@MushtaqAhmad-vj2dc]

He is the sheikh for people of reason

[@TonyTony-on5zl]

Words alone is enough for the wise

[@hamzafayyaz2666]

true but for ignorant they need explanation so thats why he explained

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[@ALoneWolfJPC]

Astaghfirulla May Allah bless the ummah of Muhammad pbuh, aameen

[@RIMJANESSOHMALOOG]

My in-laws actually do a lot of these sins but they seem ok. Sometimes a doubt comes in my mind regarding these sins. They can destroy someone's reputation very easily and looking at how they act seems there is no retribution for these actions. But I know it's a doubt

[@thedunyadoneya2628]

*{Verily, to Us will be their return, then verily, for Us will be their Reckoning}* (Al-Ghashiyah 88:25-26) You're right, its waswas. Retribution or reward is only given TRULY on the day we are all held to account.

[@MkMk-nx6tn]

If we wrong someone, and it may cause more harm than good to seek forgiveness from this act with the individual we wronged, can we do tawbah to Allah and ask for forgiveness with Allah and it be accepted? Ask for Allah to increase those we wronged in all good ways?

[@MkMk-nx6tn]

Shaykh Hamza did tell us what we can do in end of video. Alhamdulillah.

[@safysaeed8324]

The book he mentioned at 23:05 can someone please share the title coudnt find it?

[@showrundown479]

I ask Allah to see you one day in person I swear I have so much to tell you I just wanna kiss your hand and hug you, you have no idea how many times I listen to your voice on my PC my, phone, my FB, my KZbin, I feel like I have lost something the moment I don't hear your voice. Looking forward to seeing you one day in my life I would do whatever it takes to make that happen 🙏❤️😞

[@Zaytuna]

Ameen!

[@mariagarza1269]

When quoting Arabic, would it be possible to translate it for those of us who don't speak it?

[@johdoe2815]

Inshallah . He does here and there

[@yasminenazarine1629]

God bless you 🙏 Why not shown alive 🤨

[@PleaseGetReal]

If you believe him, you will believe anything !

[@divergent2thinker]

Collectively we moslim have the biggest problem when it comes to usage of proper or decent language.

[@mnwr4791]

20:17

[@Gain_Knowledge7]

Abu Umamah reported: The Messenger of Allah SAW said, “Whoever loves for the sake of Allah, hates for the sake of Allah, gives for the sake of Allah, and withholds for the sake of Allah has perfected the faith.” Sunan Abī Dāwūd 4681 Sahih _Al-Albani_

[@gazizbekmursali6145]

22:00

[@abuidris5139]

Name of text he suggested

[@safysaeed8324]

please share with me as well if you find it, cant find it

[@aamir4691]

28:00

[@familywe8280]

23:49 what is it بولس؟ I didn’t find the hadeeth

[@yasminenazarine1629]

What's bols 🤨

[@familywe8280]

@@yasminenazarine1629 he talked about it check the minute 23 or around

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@@familywe8280 what 🤨

[@yislam786ify]

21:09, not that he did, just an excuse. This man knows what he's talking about

[@timothymohammedholland7197]

Guarding the finger shaykh people dont talk much nowdays.

[@jamilabdullah3913]

🥲😷❤️

[@faz3155]

05:15 Mahroof 😁

[@H4R88N]

Often *on 🌎🌍 E A R T H* *W E* _for_ 💖 💖 _get_ that we *Are* *A L L A H E A R T* *B E A T I N G* *If we don't understand* *Forgive Us* , We've been Told L i k e on A S P E C T R U M We're Autistic, or was it Art- istic, AmnesiaCs also for- got to Men shun Hard of Hearing So We will have to SPEAK up just a little, Greatest Thing Allah the Most Merciful Most Forgiving has blessed US with is *2 💖 / 2 💖 Vision* *Alhamdulillah*

[@writetube]

I sincerely apologize to you for falsely accusing you of something which you did not say or at least I did not hear from you

[@MelsedaStaro]

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