If you are looking for happiness in this world (dunya), you're in the wrong place.

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

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

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

Opinion is not knowledge. You're entitled to your own opinion but you're not entitled to your own facts.

I think that's deeply rooted in Muslim consciousness, the idea of not submitting to anything other than God. "You can abuse me, but you're not going to win me over. But if you treat me with respect and dignity, I'm going to fall in love with you. I'm going to sing your praises all over the world because you're powerful and you treated me with human dignity."

Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book