Favorite Islamic Scholar?

[Colorblind Genius]

So I am a young man beginning to expand on the topic of religion. So far I have listened to a few lectures from Sheikh Imran Hosein, Nouman Ali Khan, Hamza Yousuf and Bilal Phillips. Some others who are not scholars such as Zaid Ghazzawi. Any reccomendations on who to listen to fully comprehend the economic, political, and social consciousness of Islam?

Dr. Muhammad Abutaleb

He is an MIT graduate and speaks with great content.

IMO,
Islam is primarily a guidance on how to live a peaceful and morally conspicuous life.

It draws the boundary lines and identifies the do’s and donts.
It’s then up to the practitioner as to how honestly he tries his best without going into extremes.

The ibadaats, starting with the 5 times daily prayers, and then erecting a building on top of it is “living with honesty in our day to day interaction with others and in our work and business”. And this starts with paying zakaat, have good manners, achieve cleanliness and be respectful to one’s parents.
Then, from the examples of the life of our prophet (saw), we notice that
being patient,
being forgiving,
being generous
and being kind to kids, the females and the elderly

are a few great personality traits to have. And we should try to develop and live by these great characteristics, till our time ends, the final bell rings, and it’s time to go.


We can all go into the nitty gritty details of Islamic scholarship and split the hair and find deep philosophical meaning of Islamic studies but frankly speaking, it’s not really needed for general Muslim population.

How have you lived your practical life under the Islamic guideline is what matters.

 

[The_KING]

Zakir Naik
Ahmed Deedat
Jonathan Brown
Mufti Menk

 

[Justcrazy]

You do realise multiple times he's quoted wrong verses from the Quran and Ahadith but nobody bats an eye because he says it so confidently. He is everything any sane Muslim should never aspire to be.

I have not seen him quote too many times wrong verses or hadeeth. Yes sometimes the opinion he gives may seem wrong , but that is what he must have read from some classical scholar book, and said that without researching.

If you come across any of those , kindly share that , so that I can have a look as well.

 

[Justcrazy]

Don't agree with satan etc thing but


Did Prophet Pbuh celebrate the birthday of Prophet Jesus As or any of his relatives/companions ? Did the companions or wives celebrate birthday of Prophet Pbuh ?

Any Hadith from Bukhari or Muslim ?

Mufti Menk celebrates birthday of prophet ? I have not heard him much , my thinking was he spoke about superficial issues , rather than any controvertial topics.

 

[Justcrazy]

Well he is called Mujaddid Alf Thani, and was a great sufi and Scholar of Hanafi Fiqh so he is one of the bazurgane deen.

He made that claim himself

 

[Justcrazy]

Few examples:
I am a sunni. Even before listening to Ghamdi, I had similar views to Ghamidi on Apostasy and blasphemy. It just requires common sense and you dont necessarily have to follow someone. Apostasy: As a teenager I used to think that Muslims have the luxury to preach people and convert people to Muslim and then brag that Subhan Allah we have converted 50 Non Muslims to Muslims but on the opposite Non Muslims dont have this luxury in Muslim majority countries and anyone who converts is an apostate and the mainstream view is punishment of Apostasy is death. Certainly this doesnt sound fair. From there I made my own understanding. Didnt need Ghamdi or some other to tell me. Then I read Quran myself on the topic of Apostasy and didnt find anywhere in Quran that the punishment of apostasy is death. This is just one example. There are many many other examples. So in a nutshell you dont always require someone to make your thinking.

So , you will believe in things which are only in Quran ?