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Oh God! If you save me I will work for you.

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Cat Stevens
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 21
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Steven Demetre Georgiou
Yusuf Islam
Yusuf
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After embracing Islam in 1977, I considered the majority of underprivileged dark-skinned people of the so-called Third World brothers and sisters in humanity.
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Music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
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I'm not the best of you, but I'm not the worst either.
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Yesterday I was on the edge Hoping everything was going to work itself out A good honest man doing the work of God Trying to make things better for Him A lover of life in a school for fools Trying to find another way to survive
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The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But there's also an incredible passion connected to it it's not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs.
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Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.
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Now I've been crying lately, Thinking about the world as it is. Why must we go on hating? Why can't we live in bliss?
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I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul Where I end up, well, I think only God really knows.
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Knowledge is a thing you can carry around with you, but you may not apply it. Some knowledge is indiscriminate, and it can be damaging. I recently found a wonderful definition of wisdom: It is that thing which results in the maximum good and the least harm.
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At Jerusalem, I went to the mosque and sat down. A man asked me what I wanted. I told him I was a Muslim. Now I realize I can get direct contact with God, unlike Christianity or any other religion.
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My career is there for everyone to see and delve into.
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Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.
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I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.
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The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.
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They have hijacked my religion.
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The harm done is often difficult to repair.
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The sexual act - separating that from love itself - is centered solely in the body, whereas spirituality is connected to the whole self. Whether it's a female, a taste, or a sound, all these beautiful things affect our self. We are the perceivers of beauty, and that's why sex doesn't quite go far enough. You can go much further with the spiritual.
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And though you want to last forever, You know you never will, You know you never will, And the good-bye makes the journey harder still.
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There is a social need within our lives as human beings to have harmony.
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Lord, my body has been a good friend But I won't need it when I reach the end Miles from nowhere, Guess I'll take my time Oh yeah, to reach there
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