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

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

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

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

What comes to a person in his or her life, however difficult it may be, perhaps will help a person move closer to God. The response to tribulation is abr, which is patience, perseverance, steadfastness, and resolve. Allāh loves the patient; part of the reason the tribulation comes is to draw the quality of patience out of them - He loves this quality.

Muhammad Ali put an end to the idea that you can't be an American and a Muslim.

Religion is here to unite us. It's not here to divide us. If it's dividing us, it's not God's religion, it's something else.