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Friday 1st January

New Year Dawning

Peace be with you, and may all of you enjoy a blessed and happy new year.
I hope this year will bring a more powerful light unto the world through belief in higher plateaus of understanding. Power can produce light, so why can’t humans direct their energies away from the grotesque darkness of war and bring about a brighter more peaceful world? Let’s try harder for this to happen, individually and collectively. Oh Sun, you know what I mean.

Yusuf

Birds flying high you know how I feel
Sun in the sky you know how I feel
Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel

It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day
It’s a new life – for me
And I’m feeling good…
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1. An Other Cup and Roadsinger albums are a real treat to add to my collection of your earlier music... can we expect to see another new album early in 2010? I hope so and thank you for coming back again. Your music accompanies me on my daily walk.
  26 Feb 2010 Roy Report Comment
2. I am 50 years-old and I just want to say how much it means that Mr. Islam is singing again, it has filled the emptiness in my heart , that was there from when he stopped signing. I play your music to my kids, and their friends and I try to make sure they listen to the words. I can not thank you enough for signing again, and making new music, and for your old music.... I support you, I praise you, and I thank you for all that you have done and are doing, you are thanked a million times from me. may your god bless you and your family, forever thank you, Peace
  21 Jan 2010 tom fecske Report Comment
3. Thank you Yusuf for being a shinning light in the world. As a kid growing up, I would listen to your music daily as your words and music have steadfastly been sown and continually inspired me through out the decades. There is still a beautiful light that still shines from your face. Thank you for helping to bridge the gap between east and west with your loving voice and kind endeavors. I believe the peace train is here!
  17 Jan 2010 ninth octave Report Comment
4. Dear Yusuf, thanks for this beautiful new years message. Best wishes for you and your family. Last year you made dreams come true, that seemed to stay dreams for almost three decades. Seeing you two times on stage in London and getting an amazing autograph at the RAH. So 2009 was one of the best years of my life. Now there only a few dreams left - seeing you playing the piano again, alwasy loved it, and shaking your hand and have some personal talk. PEACE and HAPPINESS
  12 Jan 2010 Gabi M. (G-One) Report Comment
5. Thank you, Yusuf, for the kind New Year's message. Happy New Year to you as well. Hopefully others will join as well in the light in the message of peace that you have given us all for so long, and the world will become a little brighter in 2010. Thank you for all of the inspiring, beautiful music!
  07 Jan 2010 Monica Botticello Report Comment
6. I am late commenting - I wrote a bunch on Facebook - but came to the site to look at your message again. The photograph is just simply beautiful. I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for coming back out to perform for us this year - and share your gift. I wish you, your family, your staff and your musicians a New Year filled with good health, good wishes and happiness. Lastly, I want to thank you for a billion to one shot dream come true - seeing you perform again live after 39 years in Dublin. There are no words that I can used to express how much your coming back to us has meant to so many. I know - if it feels right - you'll perform live more often. But right now - let's move out and make "Moonshadow", your dream, a reality....we're all wishing you the best of success. You help our dreams - and we want your dream to be true for you. Also - our gratitude to the wonderful webmaster on this site. Kind regards, Marge Griffith
  06 Jan 2010 Margaret Griffith Report Comment
7. I did make a wish for this upcoming year, it was all about earing your songs for the eternity, when I am happy as well as when I feel something else. Please let us be inspired by your communicative voice and lyrics and arrangements. And so on for the coming albums!
  06 Jan 2010 steven Report Comment
8. Assalmualaykum, brother Yusuf, entering year 2010, i hope the maqam peoject will be completed soon, and can spread the true information about islam. Salam
  06 Jan 2010 meigia Report Comment
9. Blessed be the day to you Yusuf~~ YOU are Confident Peace and You glisten and shine it wherever you go and leave it as a gift .it is Your inner child just like that Baby Yusuf photo :).. If we all did this on a Global Scale ahhhhhhhhhhh there would be Sun Shine always for everyone .where adversities could turn into Rays of Sun... We have lots of Sun to give each other dont we! xoxoxo Peace and Joy, Christina
  05 Jan 2010 Aurarisma Report Comment
10. Thank you for your lovely and inspiring and hopeful New Year wishes. You gave so many people renewed spirit and genuine happiness through your recent concerts; if only we could all unite to move political mountains and our wishes for a joyful and peaceful new year could be realized - what a wonderful world.
  04 Jan 2010 Anna Report Comment
11. Great idea Daniel. (Saying Hello to someone new). Also from the man in the mirror aspect...trying to stay calm, when others are not....so difficult! But it makes you feel better...eventually! Great message, Yusuf...you always make me feel better. Love and Peace to all for this New Year. Let's hope some of the really difficult problems, worldwide, get solved this year, or at least improved.xxxx
  04 Jan 2010 Cynthia Report Comment
12. Thank you for your New Year message Yusuf and Happy New Year to you and your family. Can I ask if you will be touring in the UK this year please? I live in Cornwall and you would love it here. The Eden Project or the Hall for Cornwall would be perfect for you (and me!). Every time I hear one of your wonderful songs I think of my late sister who was also one of your biggest fans from day one. Best wishes. 3.1.10 Gill Cornwall
  
  Webmaster's Reply: Yusuf currently has no plans for a UK tour in 2010, however please keep checking yusufislam.com (and register in the Redroom) to be first to receive any information about Yusuf's activities including potential concerts.
  03 Jan 2010 Gill Report Comment
13. Music i heard with you was more than music For it was my heart that you moved And i will always remember... (from Conrad Aiken's poem) For a new year with lots of music!!!!!!! Martina
  03 Jan 2010 damman Report Comment
14. O love, O pure deep love, be here, be now Be all - worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance, Frail living leaves burn with your brighter than cold stares Make me your servant, your breath, your core (by Rumi) May this new year bring more understanding, peace and quiet to this crazy world May we see you again this year on international scenes (including in France???) Loads of love to Yusuf Martina
  03 Jan 2010 damman Report Comment
15. Thank you for your beautiful New Year's message. A Happy New Year to you and your family as well, and may God's light shine on (and in) us all. Peace and smiles
  03 Jan 2010 Sunny Report Comment
16. Yusuf, que você tenha um feliz 2010 e que sua música possa ecoar em todas as nações. Mantenha a fé e a beleza de sua música e melodia. Heaven é a mais bela música que já vi.
  03 Jan 2010 Márcia Report Comment
17. Dear Yusuf, Thank you for your New Years wishes, and I would like to return them to you and your family. :) I would mostly like to thank you though, for the wonderful gift you gave us all when you returned to your music! I watched a video where you said that your son brought a guitar home, and it kinda went from there! :) Bless your son for helping you find your way back to music! Your music is as wonderful now as it ever was, and I am enjoying all your old as well as your new music. Ah if we only had ipods in the 70s hahhaa :) Truely, thank you for your lovely gift of music, and peace and love to you and yours in this New Year. :)
  03 Jan 2010 Rita Report Comment
18. Dear Yusuf,Happy New Year to you and your family. Olja
  02 Jan 2010 olja Report Comment
19. Buon Anno Yusuf, a Te e alla tua famiglia!
  02 Jan 2010 Gian Paolo Frongia Report Comment
20. Chronia Pola Yusuf ~~ Sou Efhome kali eftihia kai Neo Etos! I think what "Feeling Good" Song means to me is that we cant think like Humans .. We need to Fly High Like Birds and be the Sun in the Sky and be the Breeze Drifting High and take each other there ... Power can produce Light but only when one is not merely Human but goes upstairs in their inner Mansion and turns the light on ...rather puts it on .. Its the Soaring of Divine Nature... free flowing and soaring ... I pray that the elevator up is working for us all :) and We see clear and we reach reach up to the next level in our House .. it is only then getting out of that comfort zone of Human Stagnation that can ignite each other to excel and soar I can hear the Elevator saying "Transformation on the next floor" ..please step lightly :) :) Peace and Smiles and May we all get in touch with our inner child the pure love that can wipe out darkness in a millisecond with Joy xoxo Peace and 20:10 Vision to us all- xo Christina....... Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day It’s a new life – fo
  02 Jan 2010 Aurarisma Report Comment
21. Chronia Pola Yusuf ~~ Sou Efhome kali eftihia kai Neo Etos! I think what "Feeling Good" Song means to me is that we cant think like Humans .. We need to Fly High Like Birds and be the Sun in the Sky and be the Breeze Drifting High and take each other there .. ... Power can produce Light but only when one is not merely Human but goes upstairs in their inner Mansion and turns the light on ...rather puts it on .. Its the Soaring of Divine Nature... free flowing and soaring ... I pray that the elevator up is working for us all :) and We see clear and we reach reach up to the next level in our House .. it is only then getting out of that comfort zone of Human Stagnation that can ignite each other to excel and soar I can hear the Elevator saying "Transformation on the next floor" ..please watch your step :) :) Peace and Smiles and May we all get in touch with our inner child the pure love that can wipe out darkness in a millisecond with Joy xoxo Peace and 20:10 Vision to us all xo Christina....... ***************************************** Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel.... It
  02 Jan 2010 Aurarisma Report Comment
22. Dear Yusuf, Happy New Year to you and your family . Peace. Hoa
  02 Jan 2010 Hoa Report Comment
23. That "higher plateau of understanding"...how beautifully said, Yusuf. It seems that it was only yesterday that many of us reached that plateau. And for those who have not yet, the day will hopefully soon come...I can see the "peace train" at the station. George
  02 Jan 2010 George Stathakis Report Comment
24. Dear Yusuf thanks for the lovely New Year's message, and that you have a blessed new year full of good realizaçoes.Que peace be with you. Sol - 2/1/2010
  02 Jan 2010 solange vieira marques dias Report Comment
25. Dear Yusuf, Happy New Year to you too. I hope that this year we will see world becoming more tolerant and more peaceful and with people like you to remind us of our purpose and duties as human beings on this world, the sun of peace will never set. I pray to God for a wonderful year for everyone. Peace!
  01 Jan 2010 Khalid Siddiqui Report Comment
26. Excuse my bad English Hello Yusuf, for me you will always be Cat Stevens, who accompanied me in a great part of my life with unforgettable songs since 1966 and "Matthew and Son". I wish you a 2010 filled with happiness, joy and tenderness. Michel Schmalz (1945)
  01 Jan 2010 Michel Schmalz Report Comment
27. Each one of us can intitate change. It can begin as I did this morning with saying "Hello" to a stranger is my apartment building. Yusef, thanks for returning to music with great new music such as "The End." Peace and love will endure is we (all of us) want it.
  01 Jan 2010 Daniel Report Comment
28. Thankyou, these are inspiring words and i too hope that this year ushers in a peaceful change and one for the better of humanity. Happy New Year to all. Peace. Matt.
  01 Jan 2010 Matthew Report Comment
29. The picture reminds me of that dawn in Sikkim when I opened my eyes and saw illuminated Kanchenjunga framed in the window. I froze in awe and wonder at what heaven had painted! "Never did I imagine what a dawn could be Till I opened my eyes to see it was welcoming me" Happy New Year Yusuf! Thank you for the music, thank you for the inspiration. God Bless!
  01 Jan 2010 Incognita Report Comment
30. Thank you, Yusuf, for those uplifting words to start off a bright and shiny new year. Our world is certainly all the better for having you returned to us...I know you never really left us, but your work and presence among us are a blessing. Peace and happiness to you.
  01 Jan 2010 Elaine Chisholm Report Comment
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