Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent.
Hamza YusufWhen paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.
Hamza YusufFor young people, if someone tells you: you are the future - say No! I'm the present. You have things to do right now.
Hamza YusufGod is with the broken-hearted. When your heart breaks, itโs a good thing โ 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 YusufPeople of the world will reject your reminders, because it reminds them that this world is temporary.
Hamza YusufIf 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