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.

My experience on this planet is that if you treat people with respect, they tend to treat you with respect.

Desire is an attempt to feel the void.

When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.

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

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.

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