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. Hamza Yusuf More Quotes by Hamza Yusuf More Quotes From Hamza Yusuf God is with the broken-hearted. When your heart breaks, it’s a good thing – the breaking of the heart is what opens it up to the light of Allah. The dunya is designed to break your heart, to crush it. Hamza Yusuf broken-heart crush god Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent. Hamza Yusuf wrong-things practice perfect The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego. Hamza Yusuf intelligent struggle wise Every civilization: Hamza Yusuf buddhist christian civilization If you take a child and you throw the child up there is a point where you see this, they go into this state of complete panic and then when they come back to your arms they are laughing. That is dunya, I guarantee you, that moment, that is your life, you came from God and you are going back to God and there is just a moment when you are in a complete state of panic but just relax, you are in good hands. Just relax. Hamza Yusuf laughing children hands 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 islam inspiration giving People say to you, 'you've changed', or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God, that you have changed, because I don't want to be the same person all my life. I want to be growing, I want to be expanding. I want to be changing. Because animate things change, inanimate things don&'t change. Dead things don't change. And the heart should be alive, it should be changing, it should be moving, it should be growing, its knowledge should be expanding. Hamza Yusuf heart people moving Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant. Hamza Yusuf islamic religious humble You will find yourself in the Quran, I guarantee you. Hamza Yusuf finding-yourself quran guarantees Intelligent people surround themselves with people who Hamza Yusuf intelligent challenges people 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 divides dividing ifs If Islam is not making you happy, then something is wrong with your Islam Hamza Yusuf islam ifs Why do we need to justify God's existence? He exists. We need to justify our own existence. Hamza Yusuf justify existence needs 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 pride heart giving 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 things-to-do young people Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations. Hamza Yusuf fine patient real We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle drowning. For those who notice it, they engage in the remembrance of God. The rites of worship and devotion to God's remembrance (dhikr) are planks of the ark. When Noah (a.s.) started to build his ark, his people mocked him and considered him a fool. But he kept building. He knew what was coming. And we know too. Hamza Yusuf dhikr islamic religious Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads. Hamza Yusuf intellect islam people My experience on this planet is that if you treat people with respect, they tend to treat you with respect. Hamza Yusuf treats planets people Opinion is not knowledge. You're entitled to your own opinion but you're not entitled to your own facts. Hamza Yusuf entitled opinion facts
