Ever since I became a Muslim ... I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes, concepts or sayings which I do not and would never wilfully subscribe to.

Cat Stevens

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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.

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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.

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Say what you think; think what you mean. by Cat Stevens

Say what you think; think what you mean.

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Take your time, think a lot, by Cat Stevens

Take your time, think a lot,

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Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

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'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.

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I've been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it's going to come.

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To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are. by Cat Stevens

To be what you want to be, you must give up being what you are.

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You may still be here tomorrow...but your dreams may not. by Cat Stevens

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

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This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.

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And though you want to last forever, by Cat Stevens

And though you want to last forever,

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If you want to be free be free by Cat Stevens

If you want to be free be free

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Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon... by Cat Stevens

Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile.

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It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.

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Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything. by Cat Stevens

Islam is not just a religion. Islam is everything.

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The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.

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I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

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The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the messa... by Cat Stevens

The very first lesson that I learnt from the Qur'an was the message of unity and peace.

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The verses talked about other Prophets as brothers preaching the same unifying script of mankind, showing every man and woman the way to Paradise. I saw the names of Jesus, of Moses, of Abraham, of Jacob, of Noah and of course, crucially, the name of this last messenger, the last Messenger of God, Muhammad.

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Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.

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