“We can increase our scope of selflessness beyond our family by serving our community, city or even nation.”

Meditation is like a plane: It first takes you high, then far away and then further away imperceptibly.

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

Anyone can find the dirt in someone. Be the one that finds the gold.

One’s ability to appreciate beauty is related to one’s ability to make moral judgments.

At work we tend to compare and compete with others, instead of comparing and competing with ourselves.

Even more strange is that they have the same effect if not handled properly.

Everyone wants to get ahead of each other, and when they cannot, they get angry.

Offering gifts and accepting gifts, opening one’s mind and inquiring in confidence, sharing food, and receiving food are the six exchanges that develop loving relationships.

Familiarity breeds contempt, I replied. When we are overly familiar with people, we forget how important they are to us and the correct way to behave with them.

The first step in selflessness is to practise it with our family.

It is strange that sword and words have the same letters.

Feeling peaceful, happy and content is not about avoiding challenges in our life, but about how we navigate through these challenges to reach the type of life we want to live.

Our association is powerful: it can uplift us or bring us down.

Always seeing the best in people and choosing to avoid their faults.

The sands of time slow for no man. Things change for better and for worse, but what we choose to perceive is up to us.

Stop and reflect on your life regularly. Pressing the pause button to practise gratitude is the way to make it a constant in your life.

The revolution should not be an individual one but a collective one.

To protect any community, we need intelligence and to nourish it we need humility.

Strive for the Hereafter according to how long you shall remain there, and strive for this world according to how long you shall remain here.

We have shown that Islam can rule the world perfectly for 14 centuries, and during this time of Muslim power we did not borrow ideas like democracy from others, so why do we need to learn democracy from them now?

Every time I travel, government TSA officials seem to recognize that I’m a Muslim and ‘randomly’ pull me aside for ‘special treatment’.

It is impossible, Bible in hand, to limit Christ’s Church to one’s own little community.

The goal of Islam is to rule the entire world and submit all of mankind to the faith of Islam.

Your life in every way should become a beacon of guidance and it should become a means for Dawah.