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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
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I know that people can live celibate lives, I did it myself for many years.
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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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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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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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If you had one word to describe the root of all this rage, it's humiliation.
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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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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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Where is your heart? Is your heart with God? Is it with your own ego or your lust? Is it with your greed, your pride, envy, or your resentment? This is a time where you can go into yourself and ask: Where is my heart? Ramadan is a time to give the heart back to the One who possesses the hearts.
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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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Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.
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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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Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen
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There's a statement in the Quran: There should be absolutely no compulsion in religion.
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God is with the broken-hearted. When your heart breaks, it’s a good thing – the breaking of the heart is what opens it up to the light of Allah. The dunya is designed to break your heart, to crush it.
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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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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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People of the world will reject your reminders, because it reminds them that this world is temporary.
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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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I don't have any control over what other people do, and they don't represent me or my faith.
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Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses his heart. But if the heart is sound, the condition of the tongue follows suit. We are commanded to be upright in speech, which is a gauge of the heart's state.
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