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

You cannot honour the prophet by dishonouring his teaching.

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

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.

Religion is here to unite us. It's not here to divide us. If it's dividing us, it's not God's religion, it's something else.

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

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