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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.

Hamza Yusuf

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Hamza Yusuf
Age: 67
Born: 1958
Born: January 1
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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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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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People of the world will reject your reminders, because it reminds them that this world is temporary.
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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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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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Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.
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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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Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen
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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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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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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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Intelligent people surround themselves with people who challenge them, not yes people.
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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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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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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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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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If you had one word to describe the root of all this rage, it's humiliation.
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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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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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