Where is your heart? Is your heart with God? Is it with your own ego or your lust? Is it with your greed, your pride, envy, or your resentment? This is a time where you can go into yourself and ask: Where is my heart? Ramadan is a time to give the heart back to the One who possesses the hearts.

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

America is about choices, including those to live certain lifestyles.

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

Without discipline, Religion would be impossible

Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book

In our inherent contradictions as humans, and in order to validate our own pain, we deny the pain of others. But it is in acknowledging the pain of others that we achieve fully our humanity.