Hamza Yusuf Quotes
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Muslims have been an almost entirely benevolent force in the 20th century. They did not wreak the havoc the Western powers wreaked on the world. They have not come anywhere near to the environmental degradation that we've done to the planet. So I think Muslims need to be seen in the proper light. They're mostly decent, hardworking people, people with deep family values, and they want to live in peace.
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In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from the middle class and the educated. And empathy is a very powerful emotion.
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Allah knows exactly what to give you to help you return to Him. The events in your life are purposeful, appropriate & non-random.
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Muslims are peace-loving people generally. Among the young, yes, there are some militant attitudes. But a lot of it arises out of chivalry.
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There's no specific punishment in the books of fiqh (Islamic laws) that relate to homosexuality per se. They apply to any illicit sexual relations, including prohibited heterosexual acts like adultery. And the punishments are strong, but they are legal fictions because they are impossible to prove. You need four witnesses to say they witnessed (sexual) penetration. In what circumstances are you going to find someone to testify to that?
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Without discipline, Religion would be impossible
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We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle drowning. For those who notice it, they engage in the remembrance of God. The rites of worship and devotion to God's remembrance (dhikr) are planks of the ark. When Noah (a.s.) started to build his ark, his people mocked him and considered him a fool. But he kept building. He knew what was coming. And we know too.
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There are 20,000 Muslim physicians in the United States, Americans putting their lives in the hands of Muslims every day.
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A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.
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Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.
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If you don't wake up for Fajr, then don't wake up at all
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My experience on this planet is that if you treat people with respect, they tend to treat you with respect.
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There's a statement in the Quran: There should be "absolutely no compulsion in religion."
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People say to you, 'you've changed', or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God, that you have changed, because I don't want to be the same person all my life. I want to be growing, I want to be expanding. I want to be changing. Because animate things change, inanimate things don&'t change. Dead things don't change. And the heart should be alive, it should be changing, it should be moving, it should be growing, its knowledge should be expanding.
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You cannot honour the prophet by dishonouring his teaching.
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And that is the secret of this world. If you remove love of dunya from your heart, the dunya is yours for the taking. You can have the dunya because it's in your hand and not in your heart
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Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent.
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Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen
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The vast majority of Muslims would never accept the lawfulness of an active homosexual lifestyle. I don't see that happening. But there is also no authority in the tradition for any individual to take things into his own hands and impose their version of the religion on someone else.
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Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.
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Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.
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Language is the crowning achievement of human beings, and that is something Muslims have always known and revered. We are a literate people whose miracle is a Book from an unlettered man, peace and blessings be upon him, who was the most articulate and eloquent human being who ever lived. We honor our Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, in honoring language that he loved so much and used so well.
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Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book
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If you had one word to describe the root of all this rage, it's humiliation.
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I can't - and won't - impose my beliefs on others, either verbally or otherwise. I'm not going to judge people.
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I don't have any control over what other people do, and they don't represent me or my faith.
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Call on your Lord when your heart is brittle, that is a time when it's in pieces and the Light of Allah can fill the gaps. That is why Allāh is with the broken hearted.
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After that one fitnah, every time it calms down in one place, it starts somewhere else.
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People of the world will reject your reminders, because it reminds them that this world is temporary.
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I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.
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