Memorable Quotes from RIS
Published by Haseeb January 4th, 2006 in Current News, Islam, Zaid ShakirThese are some quotes I have jotted down from the RIS Conference/Knowledge Retreat last week. For all of those who have also were there, feel free to add to the list in a comment responding to this post!
Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (the way u understand the texts). Some people just have the texts - we call them naql-heads. - Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
These people just need some humility and to seriously do some dhikr. - Imam Zaid Shakir on power-hungry people.
No father can give his son a more precious gift than good manners. - Shaykh Sulaiman Mulla
Instead of Rock and Roll, it should be called ‘Moroccan Roll’ - Shaykh Hamza Yusuf (On the Muslim origins of the basic beat of rock and roll music; the basic 4-2-4 beat is based on La-ilaha-il-Allah 
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If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there - Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
(Translation): I don’t play the piano well at all. - Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah - in response to Shaykh Hamza Yusuf giving the analogy of the basic fiqh questions being asked to Shaykh Abdullah Bin Bayyah (in the Q and A session) to asking a master pianist how to play ‘twinkle twinkle little star’.
i gotta show u the video of shaykh hamza saying ‘naql heads’
“Yes I am an extremist. I am extermely just, extremely kind…..”
-Dr. Zakir Naik
“In a advertisement of a BMW car…in front a woman in a bikini is standing…it says “Test drive her”. Test drive the car or the woman?”
-Dr. Zakir Naik
“UNITY NOT UNFORMITY”- shaykh hamza yusuf
93% of a speech is your presentation skills, and only 7% is what you actually say- Dr. Zakir Naik
“People who worry that nuclear weaponry will one day fall in the hands of the Arabs, fail to realize that the Islamic bomb has been dropped already. It fell the day MUHAMMED (PBUH) was born”.
–Zakir Naik quoting Dr. Joseph Adam Pearson
Mujahideen Ryder … u were not allowed video cameras in the conference hall… (shakes head) ..
Don’t give a woman a telephone and a man a microphone cause they will never stop talking. ( not exact words but approx. meaning) Shaykh Hamza Yusuf quoting someone
I loved this part Shaikh Hamza Yusuf said about woman:
Woman are fragile, and we must treat them as if they are glass. They have hearts and feelings. So treat them in a soft tender way. (not exact words)
lol..people getting away with video cameras..i volunteered this yr..and had to deal with all the flashes frm cameras..and caught a row full of people eating biryani.
niiiiice! i really like these. thanks for posting them