Hamza Yusuf Quotes - Page 2

People of the world will reject your reminders, because it reminds them that this world is temporary.

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

Everything that we do has a spiritual essence. There is a spiritual dimension in everything. All of life has meaning and everything that you do in life is in preparation for your great meeting. This great meeting is your meeting with your Lord, which is absolutely inevitable.

If you don't wake up for Fajr, then don't wake up at all

Desire is an attempt to feel the void.

People can't think when their minds are clouded with fear.

Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.

Whatever is for the sake of Allah will go on and continue. Whatever is for other than Allah, it will end and be severed

In our inherent contradictions as humans, and in order to validate our own pain, we deny the pain of others. But it is in acknowledging the pain of others that we achieve fully our humanity.

What comes to a person in his or her life, however difficult it may be, perhaps will help a person move closer to God. The response to tribulation is abr, which is patience, perseverance, steadfastness, and resolve. Allāh loves the patient; part of the reason the tribulation comes is to draw the quality of patience out of them - He loves this quality.

I don't have any control over what other people do, and they don't represent me or my faith.

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.

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.

I can't - and won't - impose my beliefs on others, either verbally or otherwise. I'm not going to judge people.

We are in a waking dream... We see worlds where others scheme.

Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses his heart. But if the heart is sound, the condition of the tongue follows suit. We are commanded to be upright in speech, which is a gauge of the heart's state.

When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.

The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

Muslims are peace-loving people generally. Among the young, yes, there are some militant attitudes. But a lot of it arises out of chivalry.

There are 20,000 Muslim physicians in the United States, Americans putting their lives in the hands of Muslims every day.

Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book

America has an immense amount of power, but it doesn't use it in any benevolent way. It uses it to maintain a status quo.

Muhammad Ali put an end to the idea that you can't be an American and a Muslim.

I think that's deeply rooted in Muslim consciousness, the idea of not submitting to anything other than God. "You can abuse me, but you're not going to win me over. But if you treat me with respect and dignity, I'm going to fall in love with you. I'm going to sing your praises all over the world because you're powerful and you treated me with human dignity."

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.