Articles of Faith - Part 2 of 2 - By Hamza Yusuf (Foundations of Islam Series: Session 3)

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This video is part 5 of a complete series of 7 lectures entitled "Foundations of Islam":
1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICu3ITHnBoM
2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SA9An07MVSk
3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtNg0x0hkLA
4) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVKLqyFZgl0
5) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kLL3Gf-La4
6) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLhogmk-Wug
7) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in5kC5qFjm4

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An in-depth exploration into the concept of "iman" (or faith) in Islam, and its application and implication for human beings in general and for those who call themselves Muslims. This near three-hour session is an intense survey of the human condition in the world today and what the human being must believe, from the Islamic perspective, in order to have hope for security and peace in this life and the hereafter. These objects of belief, which are known as the "articles of faith" in Islam, are what's at the core of this highly stimulating lecture. These six articles are: belief in the one God, the revealed books, the prophets and messengers, the angels, predestination, and the Day of Judgment. An amazing session that also makes many comparisons to the Judeo-Christian understanding of God's imminence, salvation, and other very relevant issues pertaining to faith. (Recorded at the Dar al Islam Teachers' Institute seminar). Other topics discussed: the fitrah (the natural desire to believe in one God), the human intellect, faith vs. disbelief, deja-vu, heedlessness, the transcendence and imminence of God, negation and affirmation within the human psyche, the nafs (the commanding self, the regretful self, and the peaceful self), the philosophical problem of evil in the world, Salmon Rushdie and capital punishment, the five objectives of the Islamic law, inheritance laws, homosexuality, the desire for massive stimulation, the stages of life, the after-death experience, God's mercy and wrath, suicide, slandering prophets, and Muslim countries today implementing Islamic law.