When you have friends, don’t expect your friends to fill your emptiness. When you get married, don’t expect your spouse to fulfill your every need. When you’re an activist, don’t put your hope in the results. When you’re in trouble don’t depend on yourself. Don’t depend on people. Depend on God.

Salah is the first thing we will be asked about on the Day of Judgment, and yet it is the last thing that is on our mind.

If you want to focus more on Allah in your prayers, focus more on Him outside your prayers.

In any nation, the hypocrites do not become apparent except during times of fitnah (severe tests and hardships).

We are two people. The person inside and the person outside. Sidq (truthfulness) is when they are the same.

I get it. Allah put me through it first so I could rise back up and help those around me. He trains you first. Then He sends the people to you and you to the people.

We cannot tolerate one mistake from others, and yet God tolerates a planet covered with His own creation that live their entire lives sinning and denying Him, and yet continues to feed, clothe and protect them.