The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.

I used to hate religion, I loathed it in my angry days.

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do.

When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world.

We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.

Here in America, religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. They've lost the Axial Age vision of concern for everybody.

Often when religious leaders come together, they talk about a particular sexual ethic, or an abstruse doctrine, as though this, rather than compassion, was the test of spiritual life.