Hamza Yusuf

You don't fight ideas with bombs.

— Hamza Yusuf

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

— Hamza Yusuf

Live your lives. Go out; take walks amongst trees.

— Hamza Yusuf

Stop taking pictures and start experiencing life.

— Hamza Yusuf

God is much greater than anything we can imagine.

— Hamza Yusuf

Our duty is to be patient.

— Hamza Yusuf

All of the people are the dependents of Allah.

— Hamza Yusuf

I think all this Facebook stuff should just stop!

— Hamza Yusuf

If you had one word to describe the root of all this rage, it's humiliation.

— Hamza Yusuf

Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.

— Hamza Yusuf

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

— Hamza Yusuf

The human family is a great one, and the Muslim branch is certainly worth knowing.

— Hamza Yusuf

Every day, my love for Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, increases.

— Hamza Yusuf

Certainly, hunger can bring out the worst in us. But it can also bring out the best.

— Hamza Yusuf

Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.

— Hamza Yusuf

To the solace of his name, simply saying 'Muhammad' has an incredibly soothing effect on me.

— Hamza Yusuf

Ideas must counter ideas. You can drop all the bombs you want, but if you don't pull up weeds by their roots,…

— Hamza Yusuf

Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade…

— Hamza Yusuf

And that is the secret of this world. If you remove love of dunya from your heart, the dunya is yours for…

— Hamza Yusuf

A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole…

— Hamza Yusuf

Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and…

— Hamza Yusuf

I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.

— Hamza Yusuf

When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.

— Hamza Yusuf

Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration…

— 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

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

Every civilization: Hindu, Buddhist, Confucianist, Christian, Jewish and Muslim, all of them understood that LEARNING was to make a BETTER HUMAN BEING,…

— 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

Language is the crowning achievement of human beings, and that is something Muslims have always known and revered. We are a literate…

— Hamza Yusuf

Everything that we do has a spiritual essence. There is a spiritual dimension in everything. All of life has meaning and everything…

— Hamza Yusuf

Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses…

— Hamza Yusuf

My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with…

— 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

“Exercise 1: Guarding the Prayer Once we are performing the five obligatory prayers with regularity, then it is certainly worth our efforts…

— 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

“This is the difference between someone whose heart is purified and sound and one whose heart is impure and corrupt. Impure people…

— Hamza Yusuf

“The cure for hatred is straightforward. One should pray for the person toward whom he feels hatred; make specific supplication mentioning this…

— Hamza Yusuf

“It is of the extraordinary insights of Imam Malik that the first section of his Muwatta', which precedes even the section on…

— Hamza Yusuf

If you take a child and you throw the child up there is a point where you see this, they go into…

— Hamza Yusuf

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