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

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

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

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

Force yourself to be humble, until it becomes second nature. Then it will be an unconscious activity.

And that is the secret of this world. If you remove love of dunya from your heart, the dunya is yours for the taking. You can have the dunya because it's in your hand and not in your heart

People can't think when their minds are clouded with fear.