Those who criticize the most typically end up solving the least.
Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.
It is not arrogance to appreciate what Allah has blessed you with; arrogance is to ascribe those blessings to yourself.
Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.
No human is perfect; we all have our hidden sins. Hypocrisy is to delude yourself into denying your own sins and allow arrogance to grow within you.
Sincerity causes the smallest of good deeds to become the largest.
Strive for the Hereafter according to how long you shall remain there, and strive for this world according to how long you shall remain here.
One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.
All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.
No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'
The sweetness of this life is found in remembering Allah; the sweetness of the next life will be found in seeing Him.
Love of Allah gives us spiritual life; hope in His Reward is the greatest incentive to do good; and fear of His Wrath stops us from evil.
Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life - but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?
Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.
Every time I travel, government TSA officials seem to recognize that I'm a Muslim and 'randomly' pull me aside for 'special treatment'. My sincere hope and prayer is that, on the Day of Judgment, my Lord's angels also recognize me as a Muslim and pull me aside for special treatment
Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.
Author details
Yasir Qadhi: Biography and Life Work
Yasir Qadhi was a notable American Muslim scholar and theologian. The story of Yasir Qadhi began on January 30, 1975 in Houston, Texas.
Yasir Qadhi (formerly known by his kunya Abu Ammaar Yasir Qadhi ) (born January 30, 1975) is an American Muslim scholar and theologian. He is dean of The Islamic Seminary of America and resident scholar of the East Plano Islamic Center in Plano, Texas . He was formerly the dean of Al Maghrib Institute and taught in the religious studies department at Rhodes College . He currently serves as chairman of the Fiqh Council of North America .
Legacy and Personal Influence
Academic foundations were established at Yale University, MPhil, PhD, Islamic University of Madinah, University of Houston.
Philosophical Views and Reflections
On June 8, 2020, Qadhi had posited that the "standard narrative" in light of different Qira'at and Ahruf "has holes in it. That's what I'm gonna say. The standard narrative does not answer some very pressing questions." In 2024, he had published his views in the eighth chapter of Redhwan Karim's History of the Quran, referring to the "Standard Narrative" as the dictation model, the description of which was followed by contentions referring to Hadiths that Qadhi found incompatible with the model, with Qadhi then going on to posit an alternative model he referred to as the "Divine Permission Model" which he claimed to deal with these "holes" much better. He wrote that this alternative model was posited by At-Tahawi and Al-Shafi'i .
On July 9, 2025, an interview on the Real Talk Podcast was published, where Qadhi stated that Western academia did not consider the traditional Islamic methodology of verifying the historical reliability of hadith using isnad to be credible or compatible with the historical-critical method . Qadhi said, "Nobody in the academy affirms the Muslim Sunni science of hadith. It is considered to be completely discredited. I'm just being factual." His comments received significant blowback from Muslim scholars and laymen, and were frequently compared to his 2020 "holes in the narrative" controversy. A week after the interview was published, Qadhi made a statement defending and clarifying his comments, insisting that, while traditional Sunni hadith science isn't convincing to Western academics that rely on historical skepticism, he nevertheless considered the isnad system to be "one of the most precise and rigorous tools of academic verification in human history" and that Muslims "don't need 'the academy' to validate our religion."
