I'm seeking to make sense of life, looking for its meaning and how we can have a better humanity.

The great task of our time is to build a global society, where people can live together in peace

We constantly have ideas and experiences that go beyond what we can say or know. Most often these are expressed in art, in painting, in music. Music, everyday confronts us with a form of knowing that doesn't depend on words.

Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.

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

My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.