Hamza Yusuf Quotes
We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
Yusuf, Hamza. Scattered Pictures: Reflections of an American Muslim. Zaytuna Institute, 2004.
Most Muslims when asked what they are will say “A Muslim” whereas most members of every other religion will give his/her nationality first and his/her occupation or profession second. Very few answer with their religion.
Judge Moore was trying to justify oaths to God or other state references to a Judeo-Christian God as not violating the 1st Amendment stricture about the government endorsing a particular religion. Note however his {33827} quotation.
This is a common perception of many Islamic authorities—that the ancient Jews and early Christians would have clearly become Muslims had they but been exposed to the teaching of the Prophet. As egocentric as this sounds, Martin Luther believed that all reasonable Jews would become Christians.
It is often said that Judaism, Christianity and Islam share the origin in Abraham. However, orthodox Muslims use this passage of the Koran to arguer that Abraham had nothing to do with Judaism or Christianity. The time line of Abraham—according to biblical time c. 4000 BC argues more for his Judaic origins, but Western religion has his sons splitting into the great faiths. Muhammed uttered these lines roughly 600 years after the birth of Christ.
The people of the Book refers to Jews and Muslims. This passage of the Koran is used to justify ecumenism with Muslims integrated with Jews and Christians. The Koran consists of Muhammed’s sayings, and he himself had opinions about Jews and Christians that differed from time to time. So although this passage signals a tolerant religion, in other places Muhammed preached violence against the people of the Book. At first Muhammed and his followers expected to see the people of the Book adopt Islam as their religion. When they did not, relations deteriorated somewhat.
Hamza Yusuf (born Mark Hanson; 1958) is an American neo-traditionalist Islamic scholar and co-founder of Zaytuna College. He is a proponent of classical learning in Islam and has promoted Islamic sciences and classical teaching methodologies throughout the world.
