If you don't wake up for Fajr, then don't wake up at all

My experience on this planet is that if you treat people with respect, they tend to treat you with respect.

In our inherent contradictions as humans, and in order to validate our own pain, we deny the pain of others. But it is in acknowledging the pain of others that we achieve fully our humanity.

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

The fear tactic is a tactic that's used by people who want to maintain control, and it's very effective.

People say to you, 'you've changed', or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God, that you have changed, because I don't want to be the same person all my life. I want to be growing, I want to be expanding. I want to be changing. Because animate things change, inanimate things don&'t change. Dead things don't change. And the heart should be alive, it should be changing, it should be moving, it should be growing, its knowledge should be expanding.

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.