Everything that we do has a spiritual essence. There is a spiritual dimension in everything. All of life has meaning and everything that you do in life is in preparation for your great meeting. This great meeting is your meeting with your Lord, which is absolutely inevitable.

The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.

Everyone’s a believer when things are going fine. The real faith is when one becomes patient with tribulations.

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.

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.

There's a statement in the Quran: There should be "absolutely no compulsion in religion."