Because ethics is fundamentally about questioning the ends, the goals and aims of our actions, we must come back to the rules and ask why. So we must return to the philosophy of law, the raison d'etre and the point of what we're asked to do. It's not easy, it's very demanding and it needs intellectual courage.

Having traveled a lot and met people from different horizons it makes you more humble and ready to listen.

True Sufism is resistance: spiritual, intellectual, social, cultural, political and economic resistance. It cannot be, for sure, supporting dictators.

Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction.

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

Arabic is the language of the Qur'an, but Arab culture is not the culture of Islam.

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