Muhammad Ali put an end to the idea that you can't be an American and a Muslim. — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
The human family is a great one, and the Muslim branch is certainly worth knowing. — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
There's a statement in the Quran: There should be "absolutely no compulsion in religion." — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
If Islam is not making you happy, then something is wrong with your Islam — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Allah knows exactly what to give you to help you return to Him. The events in your life are purposeful, appropriate & non-random. — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
I would rather live as a Muslim in the West than in most of the Muslim countries, because I think the way… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
People have to be exposed to Muslims, just experience Muslims; talk to them. Reach out, read about Islam, try to find out… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads. — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims. — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
We want to counter the idea that Muslims and non-Muslims can't live together. This is not who we are or who we… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Every civilization: Hindu, Buddhist, Confucianist, Christian, Jewish and Muslim, all of them understood that LEARNING was to make a BETTER HUMAN BEING,… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
The vast majority of Muslims would never accept the lawfulness of an active homosexual lifestyle. I don't see that happening. But there… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it's with the Muslims, then I'm with the Muslims, if… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
“The onus is on us as a community to really put forward a different face for our religion, for our community, and… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
“Exercise 1: Guarding the Prayer Once we are performing the five obligatory prayers with regularity, then it is certainly worth our efforts… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Language is the crowning achievement of human beings, and that is something Muslims have always known and revered. We are a literate… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Muslims have been an almost entirely benevolent force in the 20th century. They did not wreak the havoc the Western powers wreaked… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
There's no specific punishment in the books of fiqh (Islamic laws) that relate to homosexuality per se. They apply to any illicit… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
“It is of the extraordinary insights of Imam Malik that the first section of his Muwatta', which precedes even the section on… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
“This is the difference between someone whose heart is purified and sound and one whose heart is impure and corrupt. Impure people… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
I definitely have sympathy for people who are struggling. I've met with young Muslims who have told me about their struggles. — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
There are 20,000 Muslim physicians in the United States, Americans putting their lives in the hands of Muslims every day. — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Muslims are peace-loving people generally. Among the young, yes, there are some militant attitudes. But a lot of it arises out of… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Muslims are not ashamed of their Prophet's teaching about war. On the contrary, for us it is a great source of pride. — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Call on your Lord when your heart is brittle, that is a time when it's in pieces and the Light of Allah… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Whatever is for the sake of Allah will go on and continue. Whatever is for other than Allah, it will end and… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
I think that's deeply rooted in Muslim consciousness, the idea of not submitting to anything other than God. "You can abuse me,… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share
September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share
Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads. — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share
The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims. — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share
“In essence, what is forbidden to do is likewise forbidden as an object of reflection. Included in this is thinking about the weaknesses or… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share
I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share
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 Copy Share
For young people, if someone tells you: you are the future - say No! I'm the present. You have things to do right now. — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share
I would rather live as a Muslim in the West than in most of the Muslim countries, because I think the way Muslims are… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share
We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share
“Everybody wants to change the world yet no one wants to change themselves.” — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share
Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent. — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share
