Self-Knowledge: Towards A Quranic Anthropology by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
What is the purpose of life? Why did God create us? Are we simply a result of thousands of random mutations that are meaningless or are we a reflection of the cosmos? In this series, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf explains a Quranic perspective on what it means to be human, but more importantly, it explicates the means to achieve our God-given potential to realize true humanity (insaniyyah) in this life. In a time when postmodernist and nihilistic ideas of the self confound many, Imam al-Raghib provides a much-needed antidote by grounding us in true Qur’anic knowledge of the self, which results in knowledge of the universe, and in the meeting place of those two knowledges, one arrives at certainty of the Creator of one’s self and one’s world.