There are 20,000 Muslim physicians in the United States, Americans putting their lives in the hands of Muslims every day.

Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads.

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.

I can't - and won't - impose my beliefs on others, either verbally or otherwise. I'm not going to judge people.

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

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

If you take a child and you throw the child up there is a point where you see this, they go into this state of complete panic and then when they come back to your arms they are laughing. That is dunya, I guarantee you, that moment, that is your life, you came from God and you are going back to God and there is just a moment when you are in a complete state of panic but just relax, you are in good hands. Just relax.