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Religion is here to unite us. It's not here to divide us. If it's dividing us, it's not God's religion, it's something else.
Hamza Yusuf
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Hamza Yusuf
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 1
Islamic Scholar
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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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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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After that one fitnah, every time it calms down in one place, it starts somewhere else.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you had one word to describe the root of all this rage, it's humiliation.
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If Islam is not making you happy, then something is wrong with your Islam
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Intelligent people surround themselves with people who challenge them, not yes people.
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The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.
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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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For young people, if someone tells you: you are the future - say No! I'm the present. You have things to do right now.
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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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Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.
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Opinion is not knowledge. You're entitled to your own opinion but you're not entitled to your own facts.
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There's a statement in the Quran: There should be absolutely no compulsion in religion.
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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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Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen
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Every civilization: Hindu, Buddhist, Confucianist, Christian, Jewish and Muslim, all of them understood that LEARNING was to make a BETTER HUMAN BEING, LEARNING was NOT to MAKE MORE MONEY It was to make a BETTER HUMAN BEING.
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