Hamza Yusuf Quotes

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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.
• If you don't wake up for Fajr, then don't wake up at all
• Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book
• Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.
• Without discipline, Religion would be impossible
• 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 drowning.…
• Desire is an attempt to feel the void.
• We are in a waking dream... We see worlds where others scheme...
• And that is the secret of this world. If you remove love of dunya from your heart, the dunya is yours for the taking. You…
• You cannot honour the prophet by dishonouring his teaching.
• 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…
• Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads.
• People say to you, 'you've changed', or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God, that you have changed, because I don't…
• Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.
• Call on your Lord when your heart is brittle, that is a time when it's in pieces and the Light of Allah can fill the…
• Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.
• If you take a child and you throw the child up there is a point where you see this, they go into this state of…
• Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence.
• 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.
• Whatever is for the sake of Allah will go on and continue. Whatever is for other than Allah, it will end and be severed

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