Hamza Yusuf Quotes

"Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace."

"All of the people are the dependents of Allah."

"There are many ways to be hungry. One can hunger for love, or fame or social justice, but hunger for food seems to curb all other cravings."

"Our duty is to be patient."

"The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective."

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

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

"We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe."

"We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition or reform, intermarriage or intra-marriage."

"I really believe that carpet-bombing, bombing civilian populations, is a form of terror - it's state terror as opposed to vigilante terrorism."

"I would rather live as a Muslim in the West than in most of the Muslim countries, because I think the way Muslims are allowed to live in the West is closer to the Muslim way."

"A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is."

"Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it."

"The greatest preventative to terrorism is Muslim religious literacy."

"All peoples have contributed to the overall progress and enhancement of human life."

"Hunger can bring out the worst in us."

"As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them."

"We don't have any power other than our intellect and our hearts."

"You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people."

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

"Stop taking pictures and start experiencing life."

"Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration and becomes a fertile recruiting ground for extremism."

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

"A tree grows. If you're staying the same, something is wrong. You're not alive."

"We want to counter the idea that Muslims and non-Muslims can't live together. This is not who we are or who we want to be."

"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, and to label these militant externalities as Islam is to legitimize their actions."

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

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

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

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