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

Making music, creating lyrics comes very naturally to me.

Why should I just limit myself to the Urdu language? Why not sing in different languages?

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.

Because I move around among people I get inspired by the people.

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.

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.