I'm working on different fields. One of my next books Insha'Allah will be a novel because it's important to explore the heart and imagination, the spiritual side. I've been working for twenty five years in the legal field and now I'm reaching what I want, which is an Islamic applied ethics and I'm also dealing with Muslims in the West.

The very essence of the Sufi spiritual tradition requires you to purify your heart, to liberate yourself from your ego and to be courageous in facing any corrupt power, injustice and oppression. Unfortunately, colonial powers pushed an agenda by using Sufism against resistance, and some ulama played that game in the past and in the present.

I don't buy anything which is Islamization of knowledge. I don't understand what it means in fact.

We have to reconcile ourselves with philosophical questions in every field. Every field should be open to inquiry and knowledge.

You can be a very charitable capitalist. Like [Nicola] Sarkozy was saying, we have to 'moralise capitalism', which for me is a contradiction in terms.

Life is not black and white when it comes to perception.

Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.