Quotes About Yusuf Islam

#1. Disagreement based on LEGITIMATE IJTIHAD which does not create DISCORD or DISUNITY is a BLESSING for the UMMAH and an enrichment of ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE. Objective disagreement in itself poses no threat if it is coupled with TOLERANCE and is free of FANATICISM, ACCUSATIONS, and NARROW-MINDEDNESS.

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

#2. Say what you think; think what you mean.

Yusuf Islam

#3. When I was first starting out as a kid, I tried to pad my resume with everything I had ever done - ice-skate, carry a tune. I can't dance for my life, but I can learn, so I'll tell people I can dance. I play the piano - I'm a really good pianist, actually.

Alexandra Daddario

#4. (God) gives the weak a weapon for self-defense that the strong, despite his military and nuclear arsenals, can do nothing against. There are clerics who condemn this and even say that these are suicide operations that are not allowed in Islam.

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

#5. I never wanted to be a star, I never wanted to travel far / I only wanted a little bit of love so I could put a little love in my heart / I never wanted to be la-de-da, go to parties 'avec le bourgeois' / I only wanted to sing my song well so I could ring a small bell in your heart

Yusuf Islam

#6. If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

Yusuf Islam

#7. Isn't it interesting, that a black man, who is a Muslim, and has the name 'Muhammad', is the most beloved athlete in the world?

Hamza Yusuf

#8. Life is like a maze of doors and then all open on the side you're on.
Just keep on pushing hard, boy, try as you may ... you're going to wind up where you started from.

Yusuf Islam

#9. If Islam is not making you happy, then something is wrong with your Islam

Hamza Yusuf

#10. It makes it seem as though there's no door between us at all. The sound of water gathering, cascading, trailing along the planes, ridges, and hollows of his naked body feels more intimate than if he were standing in front of me wearing nothing at all.

Carrie Ryan

#11. Allah knows exactly what to give you to help you return to Him. The events in your life are purposeful, appropriate & non-random.

Hamza Yusuf

#12. Come what may and love it.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#13. If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment Islam wouldn't exist today.

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

#14. First off, what the hell kind of name is that?
Wow, her parents were pretentious naming their daughter Temperance!
What the actual fuck?

Joanne McClean

#15. Food is not to enjoy. That's not the reason why you're eating it. That's why the Glutton eats. But someone who's serious about maintaining their health - they eat for health. We're literally digging our graves with our teeth.

Hamza Yusuf

#16. I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

Yusuf Islam

#17. To be calm when you've found something going on

Yusuf Islam

#18. People have to be exposed to Muslims, just experience Muslims; talk to them. Reach out, read about Islam, try to find out about it.

Hamza Yusuf

#19. The desired Islamic state might be likened to an orchard planted with olive and palm trees that will take a relatively long time to produce fruit.

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

#20. And we think that our citizens and yours would be very angry if they thought that we hadn't taken every possible step for prevention and then for joint action in the likelihood of those who threaten our lives and our well- being, taking action at the same time.

David Blunkett

#21. When two hearts are meant for each other no distance is so far, no time is so long and no other love can break them apart.

Yusuf Islam

#22. Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part.

George Washington

#23. I always knew looking back on the tears would make me laugh, but I never knew looking back on the laughs would make me cry.

Yusuf Islam

#24. I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul
Where I end up, well, I think only God really knows

Yusuf Islam

#25. Happy will be those who take a lesson and warning from the mistakes and misfortunes of others and seek, nevertheless, to adopt the good they offer. Wisdom, wherever he finds it, it's a believer's goal, because he is more worthy of it than anyone else.

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

#26. You may still be here tomorrow ... but your dreams may not.

Yusuf Islam