Yusuf Islam Interview - part 3 of 3...

[brunorio01]

Correcting... I'm not a Muslim, actually I don't have a definitive "religion" but I have a great faith in God (or rather my concept of God, since no two persons have the exact same no matter what religion they follow). I really enjoyed this interview. I love Cat Stevens songs and now admire Yusuf Islam for his wisdom and most of all for his coherence. I really feel he is a much underrated pacifist with a lot to contribute to a world peace debate. It doesn't matter which religion he follows, if

[brunorio01]

I'm not a Muslim, actually I don't have a definitive "religion" but I have a great faith in God (ra te

[iriemon207]

here is a prime example of one finding their path...a human being who has a musical gift within some of the greats. but he followed his heart and his heart lead him to muslim..me being catholic i see his story and cherish it. i hope this can open people's hearts- there are good and bad people within all religions, races, and economic statuses. Everyone should be the better/best versions of themself like Yusuf has found. Please keep performing though haha! Peace and love with all(noimnotahippie)

[eilertman]

well its a shame a greek cypriot man to be converted to islam!!!!

[ProRiko]

@eilertman

not shame be proud of it man Islam is Good religion man you will not understand it untill you don't try it !

try to be muslim ...

[PAULOcbi]

@ProRiko thats like saying 'try being a Nazi,you might like it." lol. Islam is Totalitarian in nature,basically its Fascism under the cloak of religion. And we all know Fascism,Communism,Theocracy(Ca­liphates) and other Totalitarian regimes are tyrannical human rights disasters,crumbling from within from nepotism,tribalism and infighting.

[SunniShiaUnity]

@PAULOcbi That's complete nonsense, and the person who uploaded this video didn't even delete your comment. If we were fascists which is what you're trying to accuse us of, we wouldn't be communicating with you, and your comment would have been deleted a month ago when you first made it.

We will actually debate with you and allow anybody to be a Muslim, regardless of their race and colour. So don't compare us to the Nazi's. As for extremism it exists amounts all groups.

[sahara7]

This lady speaks alot! i want to listen to yusuf!!

[fallingpearl]

Arabic writing is so pretty, i must say.

it just looks wonderful, very different to all the rest. It almost looks like art.

Yusuf \ Cat i think you belong in the skies above.....because you truely are a star!

Love 2 love my angel baby!

[afthefragile]

And the muslim world is going to continue to remain in its state of peril for it has bought this upon itself.

Nothing can happen until we once again destroy the idols we have created and have started worshipping.

Until we decide to burn down our ships and move towards glory.

Tiil then we'll continue to see each other as black, white, arab, american, persian, brit, pakistani etc and not as a person, as a muslim.

Islam's the only religion for the whole humanity.

Islam is the unity of mankind.

[8skmo8]

What of those who praise Allah by other names and in other ways, whose deeds are halal(?), but are not Muslim?

After all, there is only one God.

[afthefragile]

One cannot understand Islam until one plunges into the pages of history and takes a look at all the fine people Islam has created who had literally bought the world out of the dark ages.

Right now the world (Islamic world included) is heading back towards that very darkness our Prophet had pulled us out of.

We've once again filled our mosques and hearts with Idols. Idols of materialism and our ego. We have divided ourselves with knives and filled our rivers with blood.

We have forgotten God.

[afthefragile]

The Abbasid Caliphate which created the finest thinkers, philosophers, poets and writers the world has ever seen.

From Al-Ghazali to Attar and Rumi who explained Islamic spirituality in marvelous ways.

The Caliphate of Harun Rashid which was the envy of the whole world!

A period where scientists like Ibn Sina and Ibn Haytham revolutionized medicine and science while many other scientists revolutionized the agricultural system and how people lived.

This is Islam. Islam that has been lost!

[afthefragile]

If only one could go back to experience life under the great Islamic Rashidun Caliphate one wouldn't have a reason not to believe why Islam isn't the answer to all of the world's problems. The Caliphate of Umar which created the first welfare state of the world.

The Caliphate of Cordoba which became the center of scientific studies in the world, introducing most of the philosophical, medical, astronomical and scientific knowledge to Europe. The sole contributor to European Renaissance!

[afthefragile]

Islamic history has been erased from people's mind and the world.

This is the biggest problem with muslims today. We have forgotten our history. We have forgotten and abandoned the splendid civilization we created for this world.

A civilization like never before which united the world from China to the Atlantic.

A civilization which introduced the concept of equality, justice and freedom to the world.

A civilization which created the finest men. A civilization forgotten. I can only lament!!

[Skoda130]

But there's one problem: There ins't the slightest shred of evidence for a God at all.

[gkiapos]

Take off your clothes and stand before God as [he] created you both... Naked, vulnerable, natural, pure, innocent, frail, beautiful, loving, mortal, sexual, social, individual, dependent, understanding, confused, etc. etc. etc.....

[MARZOOGI]

Many ask, why Islam and not Christianity. Cat Steven was a Christian and he left it. Islam is the final religion chosen by God to all mankind no other will be accepted in the hereafter. Islam is away of life where everything is decreed as to what to do and how to do but Christianity has nothing except just believe in Jesus and you are saved. This is why millions revert to Islam because Islam answers every question but Christianity does not. Please go to this site:

islamalways OR thedeenshow

[anandreafish]

Marzoogi-how can you think there is only one way, that all must believe like you? That only you and yours are favored? Is this not the stumbling block of mankind? We are all children of the world, unique, different each making their mistakes. Just learn to love, see yourself in another. The healing you seek for another will be your own...seek healing...seek peace...seek love ~ you will find it

[Skoda130]

"Islam is away of life where everything is decreed as to what to do and how to do"

Yes, just like in North Korea it is.

It's totalitarian, and therefore it's horrible.

[carruscainamoto]

LA ILAHE ILLAALLAH MUHAMMED RESULULLAH ...PEACE FROM ISTANBUL .. may Allah bless you all

[dann4169]

u blokes are all blaming why he chose the wrong religion, its his bloody choice, every cunt has a right to pick which religion they believe in, i am not be Muslim but lets respect the blokes belief and plus he participates in World Peace Programme and it shows that ISLAM is a religion of PEACE!

[Skoda130]

Why should one respect an idea, instead of a person?

[954freshbacon]

blame Yousufs brother for his conversion to islam. He gave him a Quran as a gift when he was going through a confusinf time in his life. If he had given him the Holy Bible thing may have been different. I`m not saying Muslim is bad (like most americans think) but it is quite puzzling how out of all the religions he chose to be a Muslim. But the good thing about it is that he is back and maybe one day we`ll reLLy know what was behing his thinking.

[reazrj]

hmm its a point, but respectfully, i think he was already exposed to christianity and was actually not convinced that christianity explained everything.

He was searching for the truth and its probably incorrect to say that he would have looked for the truth in every religion other than christiianity. he admits to becoming a believer in islam cause of its credentials and what he found out about its teachings...

[sidensvans54]

There is more to our world than money.

Islam is the way...

[Skoda130]

This week's finest offer!

Buy the Koran on a discount!

[Passenger2960]

You don't have to. You get it for free from a mosque or a shop, you only have to sow your good will. I think this sounds a better offer :-)

Good Luck :-).

[Skoda130]

I think I'll pass.

[Passenger2960]

Yes. in any means you'll pass away.

[Skoda130]

Sure, some day everyone does.

I don't have a problem with that.

[Passenger2960]

Well you can go then on a discount.

[Skoda130]

Don't you have any hobbies to attend to?

[Passenger2960]

Yes but i see you need answers. so i help you. i'm not an ignorant.

[Skoda130]

You probably mean I need to convert, instead of answers.

Well, that's not going to happen.

Beïng an atheïst suits me very well.

Thank you very much indeed.

[Passenger2960]

being atheist is a half way. that means admitting there is no God

the second half way is: Except one God.

without religion (faith , spirituality) science is lame. without science religion is blind.

good luck in your life Skoda.

[Skoda130]

Science and faith have nothing to do with each other. Instead, faith usually pollutes science, because the conclusions are already there, and results should be "interpreted" (read: twisted) to fit into preassumptions in scripture.

That's exactly the opposite of science, in fact.

Truth is not to be defended by science: It is to be FOUND by science.

[Passenger2960]

without faith, which is hope there will be no science. and the science and shodaow atheist today found to live in is the shadow of religion and tolerance it spreads. may be you are right to turn atheist as former religions to islam knew human falsifications.

what i wrote in last comment about religion and science is from albert einstein.

your logic is very weak may be because of lack of knowledge.. because there is no science without patience and there is no patience without faith.

[Skoda130]

Before any further conversation, I would like to state there's a difference between "faith" and "religious faith".

Sure, I'll have "faith" my bus will ride in time, but I have no faith in a diëty for which there's no shred of evidence.

Einstein wasn't religous, and used the word "god" only to describe "everything".

The universe.

At "best" you could call Einstein a pantheïst.

But please, don't confuse the appearance's of faith.

It blurs any conversation.

On purpose?

[Passenger2960]

right. but there is a continuity between the two different faith stands. the one with the bus or any other material thing (certain or not certain) is the simplest case. about the evidence of God's existence.. everything is an evidence on His existence.

No one knows what Einstein called God. he just keep approaching Him.

Sometimes he was in deep concentration with his maths and suddenly a small fly (Gods creation) flew on his papers. he said he get impression as the fly tell him: Allahu Akbar.

[Skoda130]

Don't tell me no one knows what Einstein called god. Scientists of all stripes know what he talked about!

"everything is an evidence on His existence."

A true example of circular reasoning.

"God made everything, so everything is proof of His existance"

"I say it's true, because if was not true, I wouldn't say so!"

I think you're smart enough to figure out the elementary logical mistake you just made.

Very unscientific by the way.

But let me know if you need some explaination..

[Passenger2960]

science and spirituality are two different things. you can add them as you add tomatoes to potatoes to cook a good meal. i hope you get it.

but if you have a problem with one of them you become as you know the battle field.

watch this (two parts) to know what i'm talking about:

/watch?v=p7a7ywCJ65Y

we talk tommorow :-) long life youtube ;-)

[Skoda130]

"science and spirituality are two different things" Well, I'm glad we are that far.

Actually, this is the point I was trying to make all the time, so why would you try to mix two things that have nothing to do with each other?

You can't add spirituality to science, because science is only pure and true when it's based on logic.

Preassumptions would just mess op the results.

It violates scientific integrity, and defies logic.

it's completely useless for science.

[Passenger2960]

what you should understand. you are not only a machine or a scientific subject. you are a human.

the addition operator for science and spirituality is the operator to add two digits. that's why i talked about the analogy to tomatoes and potatoes. it's about the addition of two systems. similar to matrices addition. it's like you add the time dimension to space dimensions, such kind of addition. not easy at all that's what people spent years to achieve, each one and his faculties.

[Skoda130]

"what you should understand. you are not only a machine or a scientific subject. you are a human." Now thát's a moral statement.

But moral statements and facts are different things.

Some things are consideren "right" or "wrong", but that's something different then "true" or "false".

I can morally agree with you on this point, but scientifically I disagree. Morality is about the world as it should be, and science about the world that IS.

[Passenger2960]

exactly.

at the beginning there is: Truth and Reality.

Reality is only looking at things how good, bad, right, wrong, true or false they are at a time period. Truth is more about willing to live on the right true good side of life.

Islam talks about righteous way to live. both Reality and Truth are composed harmonically in a word called:  الحقيقة . its a mature state of combining real and true. i could recommend you some philosophical studies about islam if interested.

[Skoda130]

I think there are no "righteous" ways to live, but i do believe there are many good ways to live. i don't need to be a muslim to be a good human beïng. I deliver my part to charity, and I try to help others, regardless of their ideology. I try to remember people of the fact that good people are everywhere, and that kindness is no privilege of one certain "chosen' gruop of people.

[Passenger2960]

well maybe that's being a good muslim on your own :-)

[Skoda130]

I meant "group".. There's not much "philosophical" to religion, with all due respect. Religion doesn't invite to ask questions, nor does it give explainations. (An answer is not necessarily an explaination).. "Good" and "bad" is something like "prodictive" and "contraproductive" to me.

The most horrible thing about religion is the hatred towards homosexual people,

There's no rational explaination for the hatred, but only: "befehl ist befelh".

[Passenger2960]

well hate against homosexuals has never been a commun religious belief. it's only a pretext. however encouraging homosexuality is forbiden in islam. homosexuality is bad because it's not productive but contraproductive.

[Skoda130]

There's a difference between not encouraging something, and intolerance.

"homosexuality is bad because it's not productive but contraproductive."

Can you rationally explain to me why, without directly referring to the Koran?

[Passenger2960]

well i see the intolerance in regard of homosexuals purely male nature and has nothing to do with religion. as you know homosexuals has acceptance problems all around the globe. (and i'm not going to talk about christianity and homosexuality)

you can't produce kids with homosexuality.

i never heard about homosexual animals. they are all in their right way except the confused human. this shows that islam may be the righteous way that prohibit such a confusion of homosexuality.

[Skoda130]

An infertile woman can't produce children either, so should they be an object of intolerance too? Are they CONTRAproductive?

Why, in the first place, is birthrate to be encouraged in a world of overpopulation?

I agree with you that the problem of intolerance is worldwide.

Ans so are drug problems, and problems with domestic violence.

Does this, by any means, legitimize it?

At best that would be an "argumentum ad populum".

(to be continued)

[Passenger2960]

i just have to repeat what i said before.

intolerance is not from religion. it's stupid human nature. many infertile women are exposed unfortunetly to intolerance.. sometimes the man is infertile and accused his wife to infertility.. well we all know these things.. primitive thaughts. that has no thing to do with the modern religion of islam.

but who's guilty in all this ? the simple minded immigrant ? the dumbs of european societies ? or the stupid european immigration politic ?

[Skoda130]

Every single stupid bigot, regardless of his/her signature!

Well, at least we seem to agree that people shouldn't be punished barbaricly for just being who they are. :-)

Encouraging.

Not that you stated otherwise, but I can be somewhat suspicious.

[Passenger2960]

don't worry. only pay attention to intolerant NON muslims.

[Skoda130]

I'll pay attention to each appearance of intolerance, regardless of the signature from the person preaching it.

[Skoda130]

And yes, in fact there ARE homosexual animals.

But even if there were NO homosexual animals: So what?

Why should we use nature as an example to direct our moral behaviour?

There are also cannibalistic animals, and we don't use THEM to make a moral statement, now do we?

Animals can't reason. Humans can.

At least: that's what I like to believe.

[Passenger2960]

may be.

[87Philips]

@Skoda130 The Quran claims in 7:80 that there was no homosexuality before Sodom 5000 years ago. How can anyone believe that?

[Skoda130]

@87Philips So? What has it got to do with anything I said?

[87Philips]

@Skoda130 Nothing directly. You say one couldnt compare homosexual animals and humans, because animals are also cannibals or something incomprehensible like that. I just wanted to point out that the Quran is in total error regarding homosexuality in general

[Skoda130]

I'm a heterosexual, but i do have homosexual neighbours.

They are very kind and decent people, and they don't deserve to be approached like they are by many religous people, They do NOT harm anyone. But still, religious people state that they should be "cured", "punished" or even "killed".

Let me tell you something: Touch "my" homosexuals, and you'll touch me.

It's not easy to get me mad, but harassing decent people is one way to get it done.

[Skoda130]

But please, approach me by PM.

[Passenger2960]

I was pleased to talk to you.

[Passenger2960]

/watch?v=SmwMyfKHF_s

minute: 3:20

Allah ist gross means Allah is great.

Atheists are just lost in materialism. nothing new.

even a great mind as einstein couldn't come near to the greatness of god until a small fly cross his desk when being in big concentration. einsteins mind vs. simplest god's creation.

[Skoda130]

"Atheists are just lost in materialism. nothing new."

Well, I'd rather be lost in something that exist then being lost in an imaginary friend, I must say.

Believing in something without evidence is no achievement whatsoever.

But feel free to do so, as long as you let other people do their own things..

I really hate it when other people's imaginary friends sart to tell me what to do.

[Passenger2960]

well people should break the stereotypes because they lead only to misunderstandings.

muslim individuals are also in different degrees in their faith, some "muslim" unbelievers are even worse than worse unbelievers.

Islam says:

"If you kill one person is like you kill the whole humanity. if you save one person's life is like you save the whole humanity"

is that not beautifull, do you still think that this spirituality has no sens. logically 1 person is different than 3 or 5000000000 people.

[Skoda130]

"If you kill one person is like you kill the whole humanity. if you save one person's life is like you save the whole humanity"

But are we talking about Muslim-lives, or are we talking about "kafir"-lives as well?

I still remember the Britisch Chaudry saying: "Only Muslims are to be considered as innocent people". There are many ways to interpret this single quote. But when you point this out, the accuse you of a lack of knowledge.

But faith has nothing to do with knowledge.

[Skoda130]

"1 person is different than 3 or 5000000000 people."

5000000000 interpretations, are

[Skoda130]

5000000000 misinterpretations.

Sorry, my computer is fucked, i quess.

[Passenger2960]

well i don't understand why you misinterpret the citation.

but well, here i can tell you that islam is supposed to be for the whole humanity. and its teachings and faith are the basics of any modern civilization. i mean we want it or not we all live in islam. this is what the polymath Goethe said once to his people.

[rahman212294617]

Interesting-----but like to know more about Cat Stevens---in particular that what is lacking ,spiritually , in other religions ----that ---- why he really should choose the spirituality of "ISLAM" -------why not the spirituality of christianity or other faiths. What is special about "ISLAM" ----after all the faith "ISLAM" is totally hated in the West ------and "ISLAM" does not seem to be compatible with modern western life.

[daisy26000]

Islam has already been comdemn by the west, that Islam is religion of the East, I wonder why nobody thinks about christianity which also started at the exact same place islam started. christianity did not start in north america or england

[khalid503628451]

Allah bless you yusuf you sell all the live for Islam which is the right way