“Exercise 1: Guarding the Prayer Once we are performing the five obligatory prayers with regularity, then it is certainly worth our efforts to begin increasing extra prayers- especially the late-night prayers (tahajjud). Late-night prayer is one of the defining qualities… — 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 Image
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 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
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Everybody wants to change the world yet no one wants to change themselves.” — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent. — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
