The West hasn't been naïve, it has been patronizing the South by imposing its own views on what should be done - ironically after having been so close and so supportive of dictators who were not respecting the people.

If you read the Qur'an with your head, you find repetition. If you read it with your heart, you find depth.

Prayer is better than to sleep. Wake up. Wake up & pray. This is the way you free yourself.

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.

The more I know, the best I believe. The more I know, the best I'm worshiping Him. Because, in the end Allah knows the best.

We need modesty not only in the way we dress; we need intellectual modesty.

The more you look into and understand yourself, the less judgmental you become towards others.