“What can you do with me? My jannah is in my heart! If you take me to jail, I will make zikr of Allah. If you exile me out of my land, I will make takaffur. If you execute me, I would be a shaheed. What can you do with me? Because I am not limited to this dunya. I am living for al-akhira!”

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

A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you then a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah

The sincere hearts and the pious supplications are soldiers which can never be defeated.

When people help one another in sin and transgression, they finish by hating each other.

What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings.

Contentment is the greatest door that one enters to Allah, it is the source of tranquility for the worshiper and paradise on earth. Whoever does not enter it will not enter the Paradise in the Hereafter.

The disease that knowledge brings is arrogance, and the disease that worship brings is showing off

What can my enemies do to me? My paradise is in my heart, it is with me wherever I go. To imprison me is to provide me with seclusion. To send me into exile is to send me away in the Path of Allah. And to kill me is to make me a martyr.

Guidance is not attained except with knowledge and correct direction is not attained except with patience.

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

No marriage is “too dead” for the Lord to restore.

The hunger to win must not die. The appetite has to remain big.

We can’t stop our parents from dying, but we use the fear to remind us to spend more time with them.

Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in life and honoured in death, when all questions of colour are swept away and when in a free country free citizens shall meet on equal grounds.

Life’s too short to live without purpose, to lose our chance to serve, to let our dreams and aspirations die with us.

A friendship built on business can be glorious, while a business built on friendship can be murder.

The warm sun is failing, the bleak wind is wailing, The bare boughs are sighing, the pale flowers are dying, And the Year On the earth her death-bed, in a shroud of leaves dead, Is lying.

Make a list of twenty-five things you want to experience before you die. Carry it in your wallet or purse and refer to it often.