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People of the world will reject your reminders, because it reminds them that this world is temporary.
Opinion is not knowledge. You're entitled to your own opinion but you're not entitled to your own facts.
The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.
Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent.
My experience on this planet is that if you treat people with respect, they tend to treat you with respect.
You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.
Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads.
I can't - and won't - impose my beliefs on others, either verbally or otherwise. I'm not going to judge people.
When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.
Muslims are not ashamed of their Prophet's teaching about war. On the contrary, for us it is a great source of pride.
For young people, if someone tells you: you are the future - say No! I'm the present. You have things to do right now.
Whatever is for the sake of Allah will go on and continue. Whatever is for other than Allah, it will end and be severed
There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong.
There are 20,000 Muslim physicians in the United States, Americans putting their lives in the hands of Muslims every day.
America has an immense amount of power, but it doesn't use it in any benevolent way. It uses it to maintain a status quo.
We want to counter the idea that Muslims and non-Muslims can't live together. This is not who we are or who we want to be.
I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.
Religion is here to unite us. It's not here to divide us. If it's dividing us, it's not God's religion, it's something else.
I definitely have sympathy for people who are struggling. I've met with young Muslims who have told me about their struggles.
The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.
Allah knows exactly what to give you to help you return to Him. The events in your life are purposeful, appropriate & non-random.
Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.
Ideas must counter ideas. You can drop all the bombs you want, but if you don't pull up weeds by their roots, they just grow back.
The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.
People have to be exposed to Muslims, just experience Muslims; talk to them. Reach out, read about Islam, try to find out about it.
There are many ways to be hungry. One can hunger for love, or fame or social justice, but hunger for food seems to curb all other cravings.
Muslims are peace-loving people generally. Among the young, yes, there are some militant attitudes. But a lot of it arises out of chivalry.
We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
I really believe that carpet-bombing, bombing civilian populations, is a form of terror - it's state terror as opposed to vigilante terrorism.
The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.
To be aware of others' accomplishments and the indebtedness we have to so many people is to appreciate and begin to respect all members of the human family.
Americans are generally decent and fair people with a commitment to sense, but some of us, swept up by our passions, wade too far into a sea of sensibility.
Call on your Lord when your heart is brittle, that is a time when it's in pieces and the Light of Allah can fill the gaps. That is why Allāh is with the broken hearted.
I think the Hajj tends to reflect the state of the Ummah. That's one of the things about the Hajj is that you get to see the Ummah. It's a microcosm of the Ummah's condition.
I would rather live as a Muslim in the West than in most of the Muslim countries, because I think the way Muslims are allowed to live in the West is closer to the Muslim way.
The thing I love most about going to a book store is the self-help section is the biggest section because Americans know we're screwed up. We know it. But we want to get better.
We Muslims in the West, like Jews before us, grapple with the same issues that Jews of the past did: integration or isolation, tradition or reform, intermarriage or intra-marriage.
My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it's with the Muslims, then I'm with the Muslims, if it's with the West then I'm with the West. It's about justice and fairness.
A democracy is predicated on an educated citizenry. You cannot have a democracy with people that are more interested in what Nicole Kidman is doing or whoever the latest fashion model is.
And that is the secret of this world. If you remove love of dunya from your heart, the dunya is yours for the taking. You can have the dunya because it's in your hand and not in your heart
In our inherent contradictions as humans, and in order to validate our own pain, we deny the pain of others. But it is in acknowledging the pain of others that we achieve fully our humanity.
Corruption is rife in the Muslim world, and when it is coupled with the marginalization of religion, it manifests itself as frustration and becomes a fertile recruiting ground for extremism.
God is with the broken-hearted. When your heart breaks, it’s a good thing – the breaking of the heart is what opens it up to the light of Allah. The dunya is designed to break your heart, to crush it.
A lot of our leadership has become acutely aware of speaking more fairly, of speaking more balanced, of recognizing that hate speech in any form, even if it comes out of emotional anger, is dangerous.
Much to the chagrin of the staunchly secular among us, religion shows no sign of going away. Predictions of the demise of religion, faith, tradition - and even God - have consistently been proven wrong.
ISIS is very similar to the Kharijites, who were a toxic off-shoot of Islam. It's not Islam; it's a perversion of Islam, and to label these militant externalities as Islam is to legitimize their actions.
As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.