After that one fitnah, every time it calms down in one place, it starts somewhere else.

For young people, if someone tells you: you are the future - say No! I'm the present. You have things to do right now.

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.

Reality of things is hidden in the realm of the unseen

There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong.

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.