If you want to live a happy life, don’t teach your wife how to drive a car or a motorcycle.

Wealth is something that is closer to the heart.

Allah (swt) by His grace has given you some ni'ma (blessing), some bounty. So, the best way to be thankful to Allah (swt) is to use that bounty and ni'ma to bring the people of Allah (swt) close to Allah (swt).

Making music, creating lyrics comes very naturally to me.

My wife obviously would like to have her husband right next to her. I keep telling her inshaAllah we will be together in paradise.

I make sure the events I do have the element of entertainment that Allah (swt) and his Prophet (pbuh) permit. Having said that, I would also like to make sure they are contemporary and our children can actually relate to them.

In the UK, most of the nasheeds that I did were in my native language, Urdu. Youngsters who could not understand the language came up to me... [and] said it was a great experience to just listen. That was actually very heart warming for me.