The suffering of the world is spoken of in terms of wars, starvation, hatred, competition, and the struggle of the survival of the fittest. Yet all the suffering of the world originates in the human heart. Every crime committed, every act of oppression, every callous cruelty, and every injustice to the self or others emanates from the hearts of men. However, for every wrong wrought by the human heart, a thousand acts of mercy have issued forth: every mother’s love, every child’s forgiveness, every teacher’s care, and every father’s concern for the well-being of his progeny–all have their source in the core of the human being, the human heart. If we are to right the world, we must first rectify our hearts … This is a text that gives practical means and methods of transformation. Learn them, and use them, and then pass them on.
source: Sandala.org

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf is an American Islamic scholar, and is co-founder of Zaytuna College. He is a proponent of classical learning in Islam and has promoted Islamic sciences and classical teaching methodologies throughout the world. For almost a decade, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf was consecutively ranked as The Western word’s most influential Islamic scholar by The 500 Most Influential Muslims, edited by John Esposito and Ibrahim Kalin, (2009).