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.

Oh my heart, there is another way to love. Do not love the gift for what the gift is. Love the gift for Who it came from.

My value as a woman is not measured by the size of my waist or the number of men who like me. My worth as a human being is measured on a higher scale: a scale of righteousness and piety. And my purpose in life-despite what fashion magazines say-is something more sublime than just looking good for men.

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.

Let your former selves teach you, but never limit or define you

There will come a day when a person would be willing to give everything they ever loved, everything they ever owned, everything they ever chased in this life, everything between the heavens and earth...just for the chance to come back here and make just one sajdah (prostration). Just one.

Sometimes this world comes between us and what we love. But if we are patient, when this world passes away, there will be no more separation.