We are in a waking dream... We see worlds where others scheme.

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.

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

In the Communist period, the revolutionaries, the leaders were almost always - Che Guevara, people like that - they were always from the middle class and the educated. And empathy is a very powerful emotion.

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.

Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book