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

For young people, if someone tells you: you are the future - say No! I'm the present. You have things to do right now.

There's no specific punishment in the books of fiqh (Islamic laws) that relate to homosexuality per se. They apply to any illicit sexual relations, including prohibited heterosexual acts like adultery. And the punishments are strong, but they are legal fictions because they are impossible to prove. You need four witnesses to say they witnessed (sexual) penetration. In what circumstances are you going to find someone to testify to that?

I don't have any control over what other people do, and they don't represent me or my faith.

Whatever is for the sake of Allah will go on and continue. Whatever is for other than Allah, it will end and be severed

I can't - and won't - impose my beliefs on others, either verbally or otherwise. I'm not going to judge people.

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.