Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi
"It's the sacrifice of the Sahaba that made Islam spread in the East and in the West. It's the Sacrifice of Bilal (ra) that made him ascend over Al-Ka'ba to make his Adhan and call the prayer 'Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar' upon the consquest of Makkah. It was the sacrifice of the early Sahaba (ra) that established Islam in Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Persia. It is the sacrifice of our ancestors and early generators that established Islam in Africa and the Far East. It is the sacrifice of those men of Allah and champions of truth that made Islam enter China and the Far Eastern countries like Indonesia and Malaysia. Their sacrifice brought the world in front of them and the way to triumph... the way to paradise is not paved by roses, it's a thorny way..."
Imam Zaid Shakir
"Allah hasn't made for you any difficulty in your Deen.. and to do more than that, which we might consider if we don't understand this Deen, a sacrifice, if we understand this Deen it's not a sacrifice... Ibrahim in the scriptures is the embodiment of sacrifice. He is the one chosen by Allah to be remembered throughout history as the one who was willing to sacrifice his son... prepare yourselves for the sacrifices ahead because now we have reached critical mass, we have reached a stage now where it is time to begin the serious work of implementing Islam in this country and this is going to require the most gut wrenching sacrifice. We can muster it and be up to the challenge... if we sacrifice we will receive a tremendous gift from Allah, a gift that will alter the course of history just as it has occurred in the past."
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf
"You have to sacrifice your Nafs. That's what this Deen is about... we make our souls sacred for the sake of Allah... sacrifice is about making sacred the mundane... and those who exalt the sacred symbols of Allah it is from the Taqwah in their hearts, it is from the consciousness of God and the consciousness of the heavens in the hearts of heavenly people living and tarrying on the earth for a short time only to return to the heavens... that is what sacrifice is about..."
Imam Siraj Wahhaj
"Everybody's playing a game: football, baseball, tennis, hockey, bowling: everything to occupy our mind with this game... and yet the reality is real, in front of us, and you miss it... you achieved the American dream. You go after what these people are going after. You play the game and you make millions and millions of dollars, then what? You're running after stuff that doesn't mean anything, it's not going to get you anywhere..."
Shaykh Abdullah Adhami
"This Ummah has seen many of its great works of scholarship suffer, be lotted, be burned, and be thrown in the Euphrates and other rivers and still the Deen continued and flourished... what you sacrfice for Him is nothing but an outer manifestation of inner clarity and truthfulness... so, the first lesson from the Sunnah of our Beolved (saw) is the more you have, the more you have to calculate what you are going to lose as opposed to what you are about to gain by sacrificing for the sake of Allah. You start to manage things as if you own them, you start to invest things and the more possessions that you have the more they make you heavy to the ground..."