Top 30 Hamza Yusuf Quotes

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Ideas must counter ideas. You can drop all the bombs yo

Ideas must counter ideas. You can drop all the bombs you want, but if you don’t pull up weeds by their roots, they just grow back.
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We don’t have any power other than our intellect and our hearts.
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Every day, my love for Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, increases.
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All of the people are the dependents of Allah.
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America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.
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If you don’t have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.
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Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration and becomes a fertile recruiting ground for extremism.
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Where you don’t have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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There are many ways to be hungry. One can hunger for love, or fame or social justice, but hunger for food seems to curb all other cravings.
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Live your lives. Go out; take walks amongst trees.
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I’ve said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.
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You don’t fight ideas with bombs.
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I think all this Facebook stuff should just stop!
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Stop taking pictures and start experiencing life.
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We want to counter the idea that Muslims and non-Muslims can’t live together. This is not who we are or who we want to be.
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We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition or reform, intermarriage or intra-marriage.
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Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.
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Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
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The acquisition of knowledge – knowledge of both the world and of their own religion – will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
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The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.
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I know that people can live celibate lives. I did it myself for many years.
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I think that the idea of a war on an abstract noun is unacceptable.
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God is much greater than anything we can imagine.
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Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to examine who we are as a people. It provides us with the opportunity to get back to our foundational ideals, which have always stood as a beacon for the rest of the world.
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A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
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Certainly, hunger can bring out the worst in us. But it can also bring out the best.
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As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.
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Our duty is to be patient.
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