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If I make a mark in time, I can't say the mark is mine.

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Cat Stevens
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: July 21
Composer
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Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
Steven Demetre Georgiou
Yusuf Islam
Yusuf
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I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money.
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Say what you think think what you mean.
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You can argue with a philosopher, but you can’t argue with a good song. And I think I’ve got a few good songs.
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I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.
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I remember when I was a kid, when I just used to love listening to something again and again and over and over. You know, everybody else got sick of it, but I loved that discovery of music and what it did to my world, to my imagination. And so I started really considering, Yeah, I've got to do more, for kids, particularly.
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I tried Zen and Ching, numerology, tarot cards and astrology. I tried to look back into the Bible, and could not find anything. At this time I did not know anything about Islam, and then, what I regarded as a miracle occurred. My brother had visited the mosque in Jerusalem, and was greatly impressed that while on the one hand it throbbed with life.
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Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.
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They have hijacked my religion.
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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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Take your time, think a lot, Why, think of everything you've got. For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not. From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen. Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away. I know I have to go.
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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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I always stood for the elimination of conflict and wars, and any of those causes that ignite them.
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Life is a journey, you know and a lot of journeys, you go out, you come back.
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Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.
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Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities.
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Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light.
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I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.
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And if my mind breaks up In all so many ways I know the meaning of The words, I love you
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Can't keep it in, Gotta let it out.
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I've studied various schools of thought ... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I've found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times ...
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