One-nity vs. Tri-nity?

Hamzah Yusuf: “…now, the Trinity, to be fair to the Christians, and I think this is important, because there are a lot of Muslims that think that Christians are mushrikoon, and there are statements, I mean Ibn Umar (raa) said ‘I can’t imagine anything more associative that to say that Allah had a son… that’s a statement by Ibn Umar…”.

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Maturidi and Ash’ari creeds came from Buddhist Logic!

Hamzah Yusuf says: “What is interesting about Central Asia is – he (Abu Mansur Al-Maturidi) came from a place that is a central of Buddhist learning and I find this deeply significant I actually wrote a paper called: ‘How the Buddhists saved Islam’. It is a paper in which I tried – and I’ve never seen this anywhere – … to show that the paradoxical formulas that are introduced by the Maturidis and Ash’aris are actually coming from Buddhist logic.”

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Is it Haraam for Allah to Say that He Has a Hand?

Hamzah Yusuf says: “In Judaism there is some anthropomorphism where you begin to describe God as human having hands and feet and limbs and things like that which is haraam to do that. … Leave it the way it is but we know it does not mean this with absolute certainty.”

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