If you are looking for happiness in this world (dunya), you're in the wrong place. — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
In being aware of others' hunger, we contribute to a more empathic world. — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
People of the world will reject your reminders, because it reminds them that this world is temporary. — 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
And that is the secret of this world. If you remove love of dunya from your heart, the dunya is yours for… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another. — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Whatever one thinks of the wisdom of building a mosque near Ground Zero, this controversy now affords us an immense opportunity to… — 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
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
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
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
