Quotes from Hamza Yusuf

Muslims are not ashamed of their Prophet's teaching about war. On the contrary, for us it is a great source of pride.

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

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

I think all this Facebook stuff should just stop!

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.

The Jews would have us believe that God had this bias to this little small tribe in the middle of the Sinai Desert, and all the rest of humanity is just rubbish. I mean, that is the basic doctrine of the Jewish religion, and that's why it is a most racist religion.

I think the Hajj tends to reflect the state of the Ummah. That's one of the things about the Hajj is that you get to see the Ummah. It's a microcosm of the Ummah's condition.

The greatest preventative to terrorism is Muslim religious literacy.

When a man wrote a political screed against the IRS and flew into its building, he was deemed mentally ill, even though it was clearly a political act. There's a double standard, which is: If his name is Muhammad, it's automatically terrorism.

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

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.

I definitely have sympathy for people who are struggling. I've met with young Muslims who have told me about their struggles.

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 gaps. That is why All?h is with the broken hearted.

Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.

After that one fitnah, every time it calms down in one place, it starts somewhere else.

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.

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 can have the dunya because it's in your hand and not in your heart

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

Hunger can bring out the worst in us.

In being aware of others' hunger, we contribute to a more empathic world.

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

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

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

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.