September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

Hamza Yusuf
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  2. Hate the sin, love the sinner. - Mahatma Gandhi

  3. The opposite of love is not hate, its apathy, when you simply don't bother about that person! - Amish Tripathi

  4. Hate is... It's too easy. Love. Love takes courage. - Hannah Harrington

  5. Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make. - Euripides

More Quotes By Hamza Yusuf
  1. The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.

  2. 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,...

  3. 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?

  4. Muslims pursued knowledge to the edges of the earth. Al-Biruni, the central Asian polymath, is arguably the world's first anthropologist. The great linguists of Iraq and Persia laid the foundations a thousand years ago for subjects only now coming to the forefront in language studies....

  5. 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.

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