Hamza Yusuf

My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then. ”

Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility. ”

Live your lives. Go out; take walks amongst trees. ”

I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance with my principles - the principles that I live my life by which are universal principles and that are embodied in the religion of Islam. ”

Stop taking pictures and start experiencing life. ”

Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace. ”

Every day, my love for Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him, increases. ”

I know that people can live celibate lives. I did it myself for many years. ”

The true object of war fought for God should always be peace. ”

The greatest preventative to terrorism is Muslim religious literacy. ”