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Intelligent people surround themselves with people who challenge them, not yes people.

Hamza Yusuf

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Hamza Yusuf
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: January 1
Islamic Scholar
Scholar
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Walla Walla
Washington
Hamza Hanson
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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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I know that people can live celibate lives, I did it myself for many years.
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Allah knows exactly what to give you to help you return to Him. The events in your life are purposeful, appropriate & non-random.
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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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If Islam is not making you happy, then something is wrong with your Islam
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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.
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Muslims are peace-loving people generally. Among the young, yes, there are some militant attitudes. But a lot of it arises out of chivalry.
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Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.
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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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Whatever is for the sake of Allah will go on and continue. Whatever is for other than Allah, it will end and be severed
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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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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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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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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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People have to be exposed to Muslims, just experience Muslims talk to them. Reach out, read about Islam, try to find out about it.
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When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.
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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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I don't have any control over what other people do, and they don't represent me or my faith.
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