Allah knows exactly what to give you to help you return to Him. The events in your life are purposeful, appropriate & non-random.

I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.

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.

Islam is based on naql (texts) and ‘aql (intellect). Some people just have the texts – we call them naql-heads.

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

Hypocrisy is wretched because the hypocrite says with his tongue what is not in his heart. He wrongs his tongue and oppresses his heart. But if the heart is sound, the condition of the tongue follows suit. We are commanded to be upright in speech, which is a gauge of the heart's state.

If you had one word to describe the root of all this rage, it's humiliation.