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

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

Desire is an attempt to feel the void.

Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen

If you had one word to describe the root of all this rage, it's humiliation.

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.

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.