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Hasanah, a daughter, is born to Yusuf and his wife.Yusuf makes the Hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to the holy city of Makkah to the House of God built by Prophet Abraham. He auctions his musical instruments and gold records, the proceeds divided between Help The Aged and Capital Radio’s Help A London Child campaign. Over the next decade he will help found and support numerous other charities.
Cat Stevens was no more. “Sometimes I had to close my mind to everything else in order to achieve my goal,” Yusuf explains. “I did that when I was a songwriter. I almost didn’t listen to anybody else’s music, because I thought it might influence me, and I’d end up copying them. And I did it when I entered my spiritual discovery of Islam. It made me think only about just that, and I didn’t want to think about anything else.”
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