People of the world will reject your reminders, because it reminds them that this world is temporary.

I don't have the power to issue papal decrees.

Muhammad Ali put an end to the idea that you can't be an American and a Muslim.

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.

After that one fitnah, every time it calms down in one place, it starts somewhere else.

We are in a waking dream... We see worlds where others scheme.

We live in the age of Noah (a.s.) in the sense that a flood of distraction accosts us. It is a slow and subtle drowning. For those who notice it, they engage in the remembrance of God. The rites of worship and devotion to God's remembrance (dhikr) are planks of the ark. When Noah (a.s.) started to build his ark, his people mocked him and considered him a fool. But he kept building. He knew what was coming. And we know too.