For those of you that use YOLO to justify sin: YOLO, you only live once, but then you burn in hell forever.

The most important investment of our time is in our people and in our youth.

Self restraint in speech, food, entertainment and vanity are the most essential fundamental of spiritual growth.

I should be grateful for the tough times because Allah chose me, thought I was good enough to go through it.

The question is grateful to who? You would think grateful to Allah, but Allah didn’t mention Himself. So it could be grateful to Allah, grateful to your parents, grateful to your teachers, grateful for your health, grateful to friends. Grateful to anyone who’s done anything for you. Grateful to your employer for giving you a job. Appreciative. Grateful is not just an act of saying Alhamdulilah. Grateful is an attitude, it’s a lifestyle, it’s a way of thinking. You’re constantly grateful.

When you’re going through something hard and you start wondering where Allah is, just remember, the Teacher is always quiet during a test.

I look back and half of Ramadan is over in the blink of an eye. Before I know I'll be saying that about my entire life