Yusuf / Cat Stevens
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Yusuf Islam the Artist also known as Cat Stevens
Joined November 2010
I'm just thinking back to the first time I nervously walked up to a microphone in a small folk club in Soho, in 1965. And now walking onto the great Pyramid Stage of Glastonbury. What a journey. @glastonbury #PyramidStage #Peace
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Sad to hear of the passing of sister Shuhada Sadaqat, also known as Sinéad O'Connor. She was a tender soul, may God, Most Merciful, grant her everlasting peace. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajioon - Verily we belong to God, and verily to Him do we return. 2:156
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Pakistan has for years been allowing corruption to flourish in the shadows. Imran Khan has risen to speak out against it and we are forced to watch the charade continue as he is locked up. Set him free. #imrankhan #pakistan #ImranKhanArrest
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I once wrote a song called ‘Where Do The Children Play?’ meaningful to many of us perhaps, but totally meaningless to the poor children of Palestine. They are just asking for a place to sleep, some food to eat, a night without fear of being bombed or losing their limbs, a chance
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Oh, Imran! Our hearts are weeping for you. Please God, grant him light and the sweet air of freedom, again. He's been illegally held for over a year, and now they have put him in solitary confinement for 3 weeks, in darkness, without permission to even take a walk. @ImranKhanPTI
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A baby has survived after 128 hours under the rubble of his home in Hatay, Turkiye. #Turkiye #Syria #TurkeySyriaEarthquake
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Thanks so much for the beautiful reunion. For sure the best show I have done in UK since my return. An unforgettable moment on my life's journey. Peace. #Glastonbury #PyramidStage #thanks #peace
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We are devastated. A young student in our boys' school has just lost fourteen members of his family in Gaza, murdered during the Israeli bombings. Oh my God! How heartless! They don't even know what or who they're killing. If they could face the souls of those they're
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We are seeing a genocide being livestreamed around the world, and despite this, the guns and bombs are still being supplied by the International front for Western democracy for it to continue. Madness. Instead of putting the fire out they're making it bigger. #Gaza #Palestine
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Morning Has Broken! I don't think we can ever look at Israel the same again. People have finally woken up to the long years of injustice inflicted upon the Palestinian people. The media's complicit silence has now been shattered by the blaring arrival of social media. After
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Imran Khan has been arrested and imprisoned! Its a dark day for Pakistan. #ImranKhan #freeimrankhan #Pakistan
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King of Trees: the man who started to plant 10 billion trees in Pakistan is being forcibly cut down. But he still has faith. May God support him and the future generations of the Clean Earth (literally the meaning of Pakistan). #ImranKhan #pakistan #imrankhanarrest #kingoftrees
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WILD WORLD NEWS.This current terrible situation in Pakistan brings to mind the story of Joseph who was thrown into jail even though he was known to be innocent because it suited the agenda of those with corrupt power. Joseph was loved so much by Zulaikah, that her husband (and
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"I once wrote a song called Peace Train, and I still believe in it. I have come here to be with you, to join together for the cause of Peace and humanity, and a Free Palestine". Yusuf spoke at a rally of over 500,000 people today in Istanbul, calling for a cease fire and stopping
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The arrest of Imran Khan on charges of corruption is so clearly unjustified. The majority of balance-minded Muslims know that the politics of Pakistan has for years been allowing corruption to flourish in the shadows, behind party doors. Now someone has risen who speaks out.
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Blessed with another month of Ramadan. A time to get closer to our true nature as mindful beings… time to reconnect. #Ramadan #RamadanMubarak
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Before singing Peace Train, Yusuf thanked President of Turkiye for his work in trying to open blockages between Russia and Ukraine, and pleaded not give up looking for a peaceful solution to his fatherland Cyprus, and support Peace for all in the Holy Land. @RTErdogan #peace
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"Please give peace a chance. Cease-fire, so that we can learn to live together again" #Ceasefire #Peace #Palestine #Gaza
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This birthday I would like to turn attention to all those who are suffering all over the world, out of sight of the media. My wish is for peace for all, everywhere, especially in the Holy Lands. Sorry to say, but everyday for the seventy-six years I have been living on this earth
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What's happening in #Pakistan? Do judges still have a say are they being muffled? Their voices are vital to the health of a nation. Telling the truth is not sedition: using the law as a political stick to beat down lawful criticism is the work of rogues, not the work of judges.
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After he lost his granddaughter in an Israeli attack, Khaled spent a year spreading hope, helping those in need, handing out food to starving kids & kittens, & cherishing every moment he could with his mum. He was a man of faith and peace; full of love and trust in God’s will.
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First gig was this one behind me. 1965, Rathbone Place, London. #peace #london #1960s #swingingsixties #nostalgia #livemusic
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The first mosque I ever prayed in was Al Aqsa, Jerusalem. I am gutted, seeing the brutal attack on worshippers in the Holy month of Ramadan, on the days of Passover. Do they not have hearts?
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God has made succession guaranteed, another grandson born on my birthdate! Praise to Him, and congratulations to Muhammad my son, and his lovely wife. “And as for the favours of your Lord, proclaim it!’ Q (93:11)
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And whoever saveth the life of one, it shall be as if he had saved the life of all mankind. (Q 5:32) #Turkiye #Syria #TurkeySyriaEarthquake #WhiteHelmets
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And now I found my hard-headed woman, I know the rest of my life will be blessed. #weddinganniversary #marriage #hardheadedwoman
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"Mom, I'm fine." The last words of six-year old boy, Wadea after being stabbed by an Islamophobe 26 times. A landlord in the US was so distressed by the Pro-Israel, hateful anti-Muslim news reports, he unleashed his anger upon an innocent Palestinian family who lived in his
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Grandfather and grandson about to enjoy a nice 'peace' of cake on their joint birthday! #HappyBirthday #PeaceTrain #Cake @adams_cakes
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So sad to see another disaster fall upon the Turkish and Syrian people. Many refugees are in those areas. May God grant ease and security and receive the souls of those killed into eternal peace. #Turkiye #Syria #earthquake .#Turkey
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The revolutionary spirit of Freedom and Peace often burns brightest in young hearts, as shown by the students of Columbia University. I was about their age when I wrote Peace Train and know the feeling well. Praying for a just and peaceful end to their struggle - and those
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It’s not scary, there's no one here. oh! I took the wrong turn. #glastonbury2023 #music #summer #livemusic #peace
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Peaceful new year to all my friendly souls and kindred spirits who visit this virtual abode, cheers. Hope you'll like the sound of some new music in 2023. #NewYear #HappyNewYear #NewYearsEve #peace
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My first surprise when reading the Qur'an for the first time, was to find out that Muslims believed in God! Call me ignorant, but that was the first big lesson and quite the opposite of what I expected. I had some kind of idea that, maybe like Christianity, they worshipped
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At this time of shared celebration and goodwill, as families and friends come together around the world, let's not forget the birthplace of baby Jesus is under the rubble of enmity and gross injustice. #Christmas #Gaza #Palestine #Peace
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Happy 41st Wedding Anniversary to Yusuf and Fawziah!. Team Yusuf / Cat Stevens
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“I carried her because she couldn’t walk.”. With Sumaya in need of treatment and unable to walk, Qamar slung her younger sister over her shoulders and carried her to the hospital. With no ambulances to take them home, Qamar picked her sister up again and walked barefoot in the
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Oh Allah! have mercy on my mother like she had mercy on me when I was born. Oh Allah! make my mother happy like she tried to make me happy and protect me from the evil surrounding us. Oh Allah! accept from my mother her deeds, the small ones and the big ones. Oh Allah! make my
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Our 45th wedding anniversary, but our thoughts turn to all those unions and families that have been ripped apart in the Holy Lands and every other part of God's earth. May God reunite them all for eternity in the Gardens of the Hereafter . #Peace #Anniversary
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"Oh Lord! How they play and play.For that happy day, for that happy day!".Celebrating our 44th wedding anniversary.#marriage #love #peace #anniversary
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Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rāji'ūn, oh, my brother Samir! How good you were and soft of heart, we began the school with your children and mine. May Allah grant you everlasting reward for the best of who you were and what you did. Amīn
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A tribute to Jeff Beck from my friend and former Yardbird, Paul Samwell-Smith: "What a genius. We wrote Shapes of Things together and Jeff had a blank 16 bars for a solo. He not only played an extraordinary solo, but changed the nature of guitar playing ever after." #JeffBeck
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“We’re not one-sided. We believe that peace belongs to all, and every child has a right to live.” . #Peace #StandUpForPalestine #Palestine #Unity
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Incursions into the West Bank were entirely predictable for those who dare to see clearly. How could anyone not realise that this is conquest disguised as defence?. #Peace #WestBank #Palestine
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'Will you tell us when to live. will you tell us when to die?'. Have you any idea. what it must feel like to be pushed out of your own home? A home which was in your family for generations. You used to run and play in that home; outside it was a familiar street, with friends
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Just visited the first eco-friendly mosque in Europe, established by British Muslim convert, Prof. Tim Winter, in Cambridge. We were joined by Paul Keeler, another brilliant star of knowledge and esteemed British Muslim. It was an enriching meeting which presents a more
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George Harrison influenced me from the beginning. We both understood music was the key to something much higher. Here Comes The Sun represents the returning of light & hope to a dark & broken world. Its message could not be more suited. #GeorgeHarrison
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So glad I was able to be a songwriter (among other things) and put my effort into helping and inspiring people, rather than a politician because they seem to miss the plot most of the time. #music #sundayvibes #Peace
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When I see the ceasefire voted by the UN security Council implemented and all hostages released, my faith in humanity will be partially restored. Please Lord, help the poor victims of this catastrophe rise out of the ashes to start afresh, in the earth once called Holy.
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Thank you Mr President @RT_Erdogan for providing shelter to over 3 million homeless refugees, no other country matches your generosity
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Leaders who dare to dream will always face hardship. @jacindaardern – a supporter of the Peace Train who kept New Zealanders together following the terror attack in Christchurch – saw her nation as one, but people can't wait to smash it up again. #NewZealand #Unity #Peace
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Peace and oneness at the House of God built by Prophet Abraham, Father of the Prophets of the Jews, Christians and Muslims. #Islam #Judaism #Christianity #Abraham #Mecca #oneness #monotheism #unity #peace
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Eid Mubarak. The end of Ramadan brings the return of ease after difficulty, praying for the whole world to find its way back to peace after the eclipse of war. #Ramadan #EidMubarak #Islam #Peace
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"it's great to be with the crowd that is with the truth… God willing the peace train will be running down that track one day!". #palestine #peacetrain #peace
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Happy 40th Wedding Anniversary to Yusuf and Fawziah!. From Team Yusuf / Cat Stevens
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An historic moment at Glastonbury happened when Yusuf invited the 100,000 strong audience to join with him, sending a loud message of PEACE to the pilgrims performing Hajj in Makkah, then he sang 'Highness'. Blessings of Eid be upon all the world. #Eid #Glastonbury #Hajj #Peace
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Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything. (Ali Ibn Abi Talib) #Friday #JummahMubarak #patience #attitude
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Without wanting to get too politically stained, we’re all aware that there are elections coming up - ominously, in the axis of hypocrisy… sorry, democracy: UK, USA, France and Germany. The choices, frankly, are as bad as it gets. But thankfully, through the help of social media
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Sometimes you have to fight yourself, because your soul or your desires are pulling you one way. In spiritual terms, you have three different identities to your soul. One is the one which is going for everything, trying to grab everything, whatever it wants. The other one is
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The way the World and America are headed is terrifying. Politics careering over the edge of darkness, meanwhile, over a hundred thousand lives are wiped out in the Holy Land. We just want peace. #Peace #America #Trump #Gaza #Palestine
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Just pondering the undefeatable power of the human spirit of those who are enduring one of the darkest of episodes possible in this world. Though the world has turned away, these poor hungry souls are teaching us that even in the harshest of times, hope is not lost. The arrival
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All around the world people are enjoying firework displays to see in the new year. Yet for some the fireworks in the sky are much scarier. May the new year bring peace to the people of Gaza and surrounding lands. #Peace #Gaza #Palestine #NewYear
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Poor little Hind deserved better protection from the grown ups of this gruesome, land-grabbing war. But, she'll be forever young where she is going, and far, far away from darkness or death; never to experience those things ever again. #Palestine #Gaza #HindRajab #Peace .Read:
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A Palestinian woman whose son was killed by a bomb in front of her, said she saw her son in her dream, in Jannah (Paradise). She asked him: “Ya mama. Oh, my beloved son, what happened to you? Are you okay? Did it hurt you?”. The boy said, “I don't know what happened to me, mummy.
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Our thoughts are with the families who have lost loved ones and the brave men and women helping with the rescue effort. 🇹🇷. #TurkeyEarthquake
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Aghast at a world that allows there to be "two sides" to a G***cide. #Peace #Ceasefire #Palestine #Gaza
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Happy Birthday Yusuf / Cat Stevens. May your message of peace and songs of praise forever fill our hearts. Love from your family, friends and fans
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Good news that the Supreme Court of Pakistan has overturned the arrest of Imran Khan. Now back up your words with actions and set him free. #ImranKhanArrest #imranKhanPTI #FreeImranKhan #Pakistan.
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Salam Alaikum (Peace Be Upon You). 'Peace be upon you' is the greeting of Abraham, inherited by his children. As well as Muhammad (Arabic), Jesus repeated it (Aramaic) and Jews continue to do so up till today (Hebrew). #salam #peace #JummahMubarak
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Where do you go?.To find happiness,.In a world filled with hatred,.And tears. Oh, where do you go?.If no one cares.And everybody’s lost,.Looking for theirs. #Searching #Happiness #Peace
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Looking forward to the 1st new year of my life. if only there will be a ceasefire - God willing. #ceasefireNowPermanently #Gaza #Palestine #NewYear2024 #Peace
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Blessed He has made me wherever I may be & He has enjoined me to prayer & to give alms, so long as I live, & likewise to cherish my mother. He has not made me arrogant & wicked. Peace be upon me the day I was born & the day I die & the day that I am raised up to live. Quran 19:33
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