People have to be exposed to Muslims, just experience Muslims; talk to them. Reach out, read about Islam, try to find out about it.

Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.

I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.

Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book

If you had one word to describe the root of all this rage, it's humiliation.

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.

Language is the crowning achievement of human beings, and that is something Muslims have always known and revered. We are a literate people whose miracle is a Book from an unlettered man, peace and blessings be upon him, who was the most articulate and eloquent human being who ever lived. We honor our Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, in honoring language that he loved so much and used so well.