Hamza Yusuf

We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing…

— Hamza Yusuf

September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I…

— Hamza Yusuf

Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads.

— Hamza Yusuf

The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.

— Hamza Yusuf

Our duty is to be patient.

— Hamza Yusuf

“In essence, what is forbidden to do is likewise forbidden as an object of reflection. Included in this is thinking about the…

— Hamza Yusuf

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

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…

— Hamza Yusuf

For young people, if someone tells you: you are the future - say No! I'm the present. You have things to do…

— Hamza Yusuf

I would rather live as a Muslim in the West than in most of the Muslim countries, because I think the way…

— Hamza Yusuf

America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.

— Hamza Yusuf

We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow…

— Hamza Yusuf

“Everybody wants to change the world yet no one wants to change themselves.”

— Hamza Yusuf

“Desire is an attempt to fill the void”

— Hamza Yusuf

Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent.

— Hamza Yusuf

I know that people can live celibate lives. I did it myself for many years.

— Hamza Yusuf

Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.

— Hamza Yusuf

I don't have any control over what other people do, and they don't represent me or my faith.

— Hamza Yusuf

Katrina did much more damage than anything the terrorists could ever put together.

— Hamza Yusuf

To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect…

— Hamza Yusuf

If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.

— Hamza Yusuf

ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it's a perversion of Islam,…

— Hamza Yusuf

We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or…

— Hamza Yusuf

There are 20,000 Muslim physicians in the United States, Americans putting their lives in the hands of Muslims every day.

— Hamza Yusuf

People can't think when their minds are clouded with fear.

— Hamza Yusuf