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.

Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.

If you want to have a good life, never forget that you are going to die

Don't treat people the way they treat you. Treat them better.

I focus on Islamic applied ethics in many fields, and here I am saying that coming back to the Qu'ran and the sunnah as our reference point does not mean that we depend for our ethics on 'Islam as opposed to the others'.

Pray in the night so that you can change the world in the day

A time will come when you're going to be numerous but your impact in the world will be like nothing