“If you do good in secret, Allah will shower His good on you in public.”

A man will never fear something besides Allah unless it be due to a disease in his heart.

Don’t depend too much on anyone.

Among the principles of the Ahlus Sunnah wal Jama’ah lie the attitude of peace and purity of their heart and tongue towards the Sahaba(Companions) of the Prophet (saw).

Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.

The entire religion revolves around acknowledging the truth and then acting upon it.

Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions.

Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause.

Through patience and certainty, leadership in the religion is obtained.

A believer to another believer is like two hands, one washes the other (correcting each other).

In this world there is a paradise, whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise of the Hereafter.

The one who is [truly] imprisoned is the one whose heart is imprisoned from Allah and the captivated one is the one whose desires have enslaved him.

Make tawba not just for sins you’ve committed, but also for obligations you haven’t fulfilled.

Dhikr (remembrance of Allah) is to the heart as water is to a fish; see what happens to a fish when it is taken out of water.

When someone offends me, I think it’s a gift from Allah (god). He (Allah) is teaching me humility.

Imprisoned is he whose heart is imprisoned from Allâh. Captured is he who is captured by his desires.

Everyone experiences bouts of jealousy; but the dignified person conceals it, while the vulgar one acts upon it

Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance.

I have indeed – praise be to God – attained my desire in this world, which was to travel through the earth, and i have attained in this respect what no other person has attained to my knowledge.

When I do eventually drop, I pray to God that it will happen in one of three ways. Firstly, on stage or leaving the stage, then secondly in my sleep. And the third way? You’ll have to figure that out for yourself!

The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.

Suicide is man’s way of telling God, ‘You can’t fire me – I quit.’

I haven’t had that many weird encounters with fans, thank God.

Don’t dwell on your insufficiency, but dwell on God’s all-sufficiency.

I thought, ‘My God, this is like Buddy Guy on acid.’