Top 100 Yusuf Quotes
#1. Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
#2. People who want to remember me as Cat Stevens - welcome. Those who want me as Yusuf, you're here.
Cat Stevens
#3. ARTHUR: (indicates rain) Couldn't you have peed before we went under?
YUSUF: Sorry.
The front door OPENS and Eames climbs in, soaked.
EAMES: Bit too much free champagne before takeoff, Yusuf?
YUSUF: Ha bloody ha.
Christopher J. Nolan
#4. When people are completely immersed in the material world, believing that this world is all that matters and all that exists and that they are not accountable for their actions, they affect a spiritual death of their hearts.
Hamza Yusuf
#5. Without discipline, Religion would be impossible
Hamza Yusuf
#6. People of the world will reject your reminders, because it reminds them that this world is temporary.
Hamza Yusuf
#7. Muslims are peace-loving people generally. Among the young, yes, there are some militant attitudes. But a lot of it arises out of chivalry.
Hamza Yusuf
#8. Those who believe (in the Qur'an), and those who follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the Christians and the Sabians - any who believe in Allah and the Last Day, and work righteousness, shall have their reward with their Lord; on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
#9. When one is content, little will suffice. But without contentment, nothing suffices.
Hamza Yusuf
#10. A hadith states, "Anxiety is half of aging." Another hadith states, "Righteousness will lengthen your life.
Hamza Yusuf
#11. In our inherent contradictions as humans, and in order to validate our own pain, we deny the pain of others. But it is in acknowledging the pain of others that we achieve fully our humanity
Hamza Yusuf
#12. You will find yourself in the Quran, I guarantee you.
Hamza Yusuf
#13. A group simply announcing a caliphate, is not enough to establish a caliphate,
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
#14. 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
#15. AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.
Yusuf Hamied
#17. We must all realise that the Israeli society is a military society - men and women. We cannot describe the society as civilian ... they are not civilians or innocent.
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
#18. 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.
Hamza Yusuf
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
Hamza Yusuf
#22. 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.
Hamza Yusuf
#23. To be calm when you've found something going on
Yusuf Islam
#24. If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.
Yusuf Hamied
#25. If one is to have fear, it should be of God, who has revealed, "And whoever fears God, He will make for him a way out. And He will provide for him in a way he never expected. And whoever trusts in God, He is sufficient for him" (QUR'AN , 65:2
Hamza Yusuf
#26. An Israeli woman is not like women in our societies, because she is a soldier.
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
#27. Every country has the right to determine its own laws. And India can't afford monopolies.
Yusuf Hamied
#28. Life is a constant process of change with which views and values must keep up.
Yusuf Idris
#29. Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'
Yusuf Hamied
#30. If you don't wake up for Fajr, then don't wake up at all
Hamza Yusuf
#31. 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
#32. I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.
Yusuf Hamied
#33. People must ask themselves why this earthquake occurred in this area and not in others ... These areas were notorious because of this type of modern tourism, which has become known as "sex tourism" ... Don't they deserve punishment from Allah?!
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
#34. Ignore and avoid the negative. Just don't waste your time. Keep committed to the positive. Seek Allah's mercy & guidance.
Yusuf Badat
#35. You don't need a million dollar to start a business.
You just need a simple idea to make Billions
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
#36. I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.
Yusuf Hamied
#37. India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can't afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can't allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.
Yusuf Hamied
#38. Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never cared for India's healthcare. There are 23 million cases of cancer every year and India has a fair share of that.
Yusuf Hamied
#39. If Islam is not making you happy, then something is wrong with your Islam
Hamza Yusuf
#40. After that one fitnah, every time it calms down in one place, it starts somewhere else.
Hamza Yusuf
#41. Every civilization:
Hindu, Buddhist, Confucianist, Christian, Jewish and Muslim, all of them understood that LEARNING was to make a BETTER HUMAN BEING, LEARNING was NOT to MAKE MORE MONEY;
It was to make a BETTER HUMAN BEING.
Hamza Yusuf
#42. 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
#43. The Israelis have nuclear bombs but we have the children bomb and these human bombs must continue until liberation.
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
#44. Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.
Hamza Yusuf
#45. If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment Islam wouldn't exist today.
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
#46. The Prophet also said that the affair of believers is all good. Even if something unpleasant occurs, there is good in it.
Hamza Yusuf
#48. Freedom has real meaning when, for example, a situation of temptation arises and one remains God-fearing, steadfast, and in control of one's actions.
Hamza Yusuf
#49. It has been determined by Islamic law that the blood and property of people of Dar Al-Harb (non Muslims) is not protected. Because they fight against and are hostile towards the Muslims, they annulled the protection of his blood and his property.
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
#51. Don't be sad by what you see
It's true life has it's miseries
But one thing's always worked for me
Worry ends when faith begins.
Sami Yusuf
#52. Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.
Hamza Yusuf
#53. Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book
Hamza Yusuf
#54. Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen
Hamza Yusuf
#55. My father never forced me, but chemistry was my best subject.
Yusuf Hamied
#56. The real tragedy is that we're all human beings, and human beings have a sense of dignity. Any domination by one human over another leads to a loss of some part of his dignity. Is one's dignity that big it can be crumbled away like that?
Yusuf Idris
#57. One aspect of traditional medicine related to a spiritual cosmology - whether this tradition was Greek, Chinese, or Arab - is the belief that too much food harms the spiritual heart and, in fact, could kill it. It was commonly believed that people who eat in abundance become hardhearted.
Hamza Yusuf
#58. 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
#59. Everybody wants to change the world yet no one wants to change themselves.
Hamza Yusuf
#60. I listen to the wind, to the wind of my soul
Where I end up, well, I think only God really knows
Yusuf Islam
#61. People may claim to be "free," yet they cannot control themselves from gluttony in the presence of food or from illicit sexual relations when the opportunity presents itself. Such a notion of freedom is devoid of substance.
Hamza Yusuf
#62. 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
#63. Where is your heart? Is your heart with God? Is it with your own ego or your lust? Is it with your greed, your pride, envy, or your resentment? This is a time where you can go into yourself and ask: Where is my heart? Ramadan is a time to give the heart back to the One who possesses the hearts.
Hamza Yusuf
#64. If you are looking for happiness in this world (dunya), you're in the wrong place.
Hamza Yusuf
#65. Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses his heart. But if the heart is sound, the condition of the tongue follows suit. We are commanded to be upright in speech, which is a gauge of the heart's state.
Hamza Yusuf
#66. There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong.
Hamza Yusuf
#67. My experience on this planet is that if you treat people with respect, they tend to treat you with respect.
Hamza Yusuf
#68. If we want to change our world, we do not begin by rectifying the outward. Instead, we must change the condition of our inward.
Hamza Yusuf
#69. Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence.
Hamza Yusuf
#70. You may still be here tomorrow ... but your dreams may not.
Yusuf Islam
#71. People can't think when their minds are clouded with fear.
Hamza Yusuf
#72. The Iraqis have a country that inherited cultures thousands of years old while the Americans have a culture only two hundred years old. Two hundred years will teach thousands of years!? Oh Americans, leave Iraq for its people.
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
#73. Our words must count. Hunger will not wait for promises we made.
Sami Yusuf
#74. There are many democracies in our Arab and Islamic countries, but unfortunately, they are all false democracies.
Yusuf Al-Qaradawi
#75. Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973.
Yusuf Hamied
#76. The heart also needs to breathe, and the breath of the heart is none other than the remembrance of God.
Hamza Yusuf
#77. We live in a fast-food culture, in which we are led to believe that we need to have everything now; it is a culture that causes people to lose a sense of a future worth waiting for.
Hamza Yusuf
#78. Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
Yusuf Hamied
#79. 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
#80. The Prophet said, Contentment is a treasure that is never exhausted.
Hamza Yusuf
#81. Thinking about the weaknesses or faults of others is forbidden, whether they are present or not. The Prophet said, There is a tree in Paradise reserved for one whose own faults preoccupied him from considering the faults of others.
Hamza Yusuf
#82. Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent.
Hamza Yusuf
#83. Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.
Yusuf Hamied
#84. When the Prophet says "brother," we should interpret this as universal brotherhood, which includes Muslims and non-Muslims.
Hamza Yusuf
#85. Anything that we see in creation is due to reflected light. And all light comes from God.
Hamza Yusuf
#86. I don't have a life of my own. I've put myself and my life at the service of the people. If necessity dictates I run, I run.. go to jail, I go to jail.. die, I die.My private aspirations are exactly the general aspirations of the people.
Yusuf Idris
#87. I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.
Hamza Yusuf
#88. Fear of poverty. Scholars have said that nurturing this fear is tantamount to harboring a negative opinion about God, the Exalted, who has revealed, "Satan threatens you with poverty, and he commands you to immorality. But God promises you His forgiveness and bounty" (QUR'AN , 2:268).
Hamza Yusuf
#89. 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
#90. As long as I can contribute, I'll continue working.
Yusuf Hamied
#91. Meanwhile, life passes on and time runs out. The culture of wanting more simply for the sake of more can occupy a person for an entire lifetime. But in the end, life is over. It terminates for the beggar and the affluent just the same, whether one is old or young, rich or poor, happy or sad.
Hamza Yusuf
#92. This implies that purification is a lifelong process, not something that is applied once and then forgotten. Purity of heart never survives a passive relationship. One must always guard his or her heart.
Hamza Yusuf
#93. In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from the middle class and the educated. And empathy is a very powerful emotion.
Hamza Yusuf
#94. For young people, if someone tells you: you are the future - say No! I'm the present. You have things to do right now.
Hamza Yusuf
#95. The Imam posits that the treatment of wantonness is to intentionally experience hunger and to reflect seriously on death and the Hereafter.
Hamza Yusuf
#96. Whatever is for the sake of Allah will go on and continue. Whatever is for other than Allah, it will end and be severed
Hamza Yusuf
#97. 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
#98. God shall not forgive that person until he forgives his brother, for rancor is a serious affliction that festers in one's heart and blocks good things from coming to one.
Hamza Yusuf
#99. We are in a waking dream ... We see worlds where others scheme ...
Hamza Yusuf
#100. The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.
Hamza Yusuf
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