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

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

You have a lot of children that come up to you... and their parents tell you, and sometimes even [the children themselves] tell you how much they love singing your nasheeds. It is a great source of satisfaction that even now you can make a difference in the lives of people.

One of the greatest tazkiya (purification) of the nafs (self) is to part with your money and to give it to people who deserve it.

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.

This world is not a place where people can be together forever.

I read the lifestyles of our Rasul (pbuh) and the Sahabah (companions of the Prophet) a lot. I read the lifestyles of people who have done a lot for the people - of Muslims and non-Muslims [working] together.