Stop Pretending Start Practicing

by Hamza Yusuf

Buku ini memaparkan sikap Nabi dalam menghadapi berbagai keadaan dikaitkan dengan masalah umat Islam masa kini, agar kita dapat becermin, apakah kita telah meneladani Nabi Saw. atau malah sebaliknya. Bagaimanapun Nabi menegaskan dalam sebuah sabdanya, “Aku diutus untuk menyempurnakan akhlak yang mulia.”

Genres: Nonfiction

376 pages, Paperback

Published June 1, 2018

About the author

Hamza Yusuf is a co-founder of Zaytuna College, located in Berkeley, California. He is an advisor to Stanford University’s Program in Islamic Studies and the Center for Islamic Studies at Berkeley’s Graduate Theological Union. He also serves as a member of the board of advisors of George Russell’s One Nation, a national philanthropic initiative that promotes pluralism and inclusion in America. In addition, he serves as vice-president for the Global Center for Guidance and Renewal, which was founded and is currently presided over by Shaykh Abdallah bin Bayyah, one of the top jurists and masters of Islamic sciences in the world. Recently, Hamza Yusuf was ranked as “the Western world’s most influential Islamic scholar” by The 500 Most Influential Muslims, edited by John Esposito and Ibrahim Kalin, (2009).

Hamza Yusuf is one of the leading proponents of classical learning in Islam. He has promoted Islamic sciences and classical teaching methodologies throughout the world. He has also been a strong advocate for social justice, peace, and conviviality among peoples and places. For several years, he has argued that the “them versus us” problem is fundamentally flawed, as he considers himself one of “them” as well as one of “us.”

Hamza Yusuf has served as an advisor to many organizations, leaders, and heads of state. He has been an innovator in modern Islamic education, founding the highly imitated Deen Intensives, and with Shaykh Ibrahim Osi-Afa, he started the first Rihla program in England, which has been running for over fifteen years. Dozens of young Muslims who were influenced by his call to reviving traditional Islamic studies in the West went to the Muslim lands in the nineties and early part of the current decade to study, many of who are now teachers in their own right.

With Eissa Bougari, Hamza Yusuf initiated a media challenge to the Arab world that resulted in a highly successful cultural religious program that he hosted for three years and was one of the most watched programs in the Arab world during Ramadan. Cambridge Media Studies stated that this program had a profound influence on subsequent religious programming in the Arab world. He has also been interviewed on BBC several times and was the subject of a BBC documentary segment The Faces of Islam, ushering in the new millennium, as it aired at 11:30pm on Dec. 31st 1999.

Hamza Yusuf has been a passionate and outspoken critic of American foreign policy as well as Islamic extremist responses to those policies. He has drawn criticism from both the extreme right in the West and Muslim extremists in the East. Ed Hussain has written that Hamza Yusuf’s teachings were instrumental to his abandoning extremism.

Hamza Yusuf has also authored several encyclopedia articles and research papers. His published books include The Burda (2003), Purification of the Heart (2004), The Content of Character (2004), The Creed of Imam al-Tahawi (2007), Agenda to Change our Condition (2007), Walking on Water (2010), and the Prayer of the Oppressed (2010).

Reviews

[Atique euqita · Rating 4 out of 5]

Baca paragraf-paragraf awal bahasan membawa kita berpikir kritis soal krisis muslim diberbagai belahan dunia dan bagaimana mestinya kita bisa menjadi muslim yang berkualitas ditengah krisis masyarakat.

Membaca topik-topik awal membuat saya yakin memberi bintang 5 pada buku ini, selanjutnya..bukan karena topik bahasan yang kurang menarik, tapi gaya bahasa pada buku ini sempat membuat saya kembali ke paragraf sebelumnya seperti ada kalimat yang tertinggal sehingga ada yang kurang dalam memahami paragraf berikutnya. Terkadamg seperti melompat2 membahas apa tiba2 jadi bahas lainnya..itu dari segi gaya bahasa atau karena ini terjemahan maka feelnya kurang pas.

Setelah beberapa topik, baru paham kalau buku ini memang umumnya membahas bagaimana bersikap sebagai muslim di benua amerika di tengah berbagai issue ataupun konflik. Hamza yusuf merupakan seorang ulama yang cukup berpengaruh di sana.

Namun karena bahasan utama juga adalah bagaimana bersikap sebagai muslim sesuai Al Quran dan sunnah Nabi Sallallahualaihiwassalam, maka buku ini sangat layak untuk menambah wawasan dan keimanan kita di tengah zaman android dimana adab sebagai sesama muslim sering terlupakan karena fanatik golongan. *pengalaman melihat komen pada postingan2 dakwah dimana saling hujat dan kadang caci mencaci 😑mencari pembenaran sendiri meskipun ayat dan hadist telah dipaparkan.

Hamza yusuf mengajak kita berislam yang klasik sebagaimana sikap2 para sahabat terdahulu, namun
Klasik ini tidaklah kuno atau ketinggalan, karena sejatinya masa keemasan berislam ada pada zaman Rasulullah Sallallahualaihiwassalam sebagai teladan kita dan Rasulullah Sallallahualaihiwassalam diutus untuk menyempurnakan akhlak yang mulia.

[Ziyy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Buku ini sepertinya adalah kumpulan khutbah atau lecture Syekh Hamza Yusuf yang semuanya punya benang merah tema urgensi agar muslim bangkit dengan cara kembali kepada Allah dan apa yang diperintahkan sesuai Qur'an dan sunnah. Nah, lectures di sini memang disampaikan Syekh kepada audience American muslim, jadi konteks dan latar issue-nya adalah apa yang terjadi di America sana yang kita sebagai outsider bisa jadi ga familiar -ya meski pada akhirnya pesan Syekh bisa dinikmati semua pembacanya.