Muslims have been an almost entirely benevolent force in the 20th century. They did not wreak the havoc the Western powers wreaked on the world. They have not come anywhere near to the environmental degradation that we've done to the planet. So I think Muslims need to be seen in the proper light. They're mostly decent, hardworking people, people with deep family values, and they want to live in peace.

Whatever is for the sake of Allah will go on and continue. Whatever is for other than Allah, it will end and be severed

When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.

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

There's a statement in the Quran: There should be "absolutely no compulsion in religion."

Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent.

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.