Yusuf Islam

**khair** · 03-06-2006, 12:50 AM

Originally Posted by OneLife

I'm sure many people in the UK have encountered him at various occasions. I am pretty sure he is more geared towards traditional Sunni Islam, so I was wondering if anyone know what Madhab he follows? Or who're some of his Shaykhs?

Also, he's releasing another CD via major label I believe. Should be interesting to see if he uses or doesnt use instruments....

I saw him on google or youtube the other night. He was participating in a darfur benefit concert of sorts (from what I got). Just looked too....tooo...tooo...hippiesh!

What is it with Caucasian muslim personalities these days?

Yusuf Islam was such an inspiration to me and many others in the 80s and 90's.

Ya Allah!

**Noor ul Islam** · 03-06-2006, 06:31 AM

AssalaamuAlaikum
I dont know about others but being a Hanafi I cannot imagine a Shaykh with a guitar.And i dont want to imagine Cat Stevens as a star. Islamic rap Ya Allah. I am sad. Wassalaam

**OneLife** · 03-06-2006, 06:41 AM

Originally Posted by Noor ul Islam

AssalaamuAlaikum
I dont know about others but being a Hanafi I cannot imagine a Shaykh with a guitar.And i dont want to imagine Cat Stevens as a star. Islamic rap Ya Allah. I am sad. Wassalaam

Yusuf Islam is not a Shaykh sis. Also, I understand the opinion he is using is a very minor one, but it still upsets me since the majority opinion with in the 4 madhabs is that musical instruments (sans daff) are prohibited.

I can see it being a good dawah tool to the west (and this his sole motivation I believe), but then this goes back to the fact of doing dawah in a legit way. For example, the Sufis in India, though they used musical instruments, they did convert 1000's upon 1000's of Hindus from being pantheists to monotheists, regardless of whether they jammed some qavvali or not. Is this the right way, AllahuAlim. But I'd rather have Muslims who believe and worship Allah who sin a little, as opposed to having more people be in the hellfire for eternity... the bigger picture.

AllahuAlim