“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.”

My sincere hope and prayer is that, on the Day of Judgment, my Lord’s angels also recognize me as a Muslim and pull me aside for special treatment

The sweetness of this life is found in remembering Allah; the sweetness of the next life will be found in seeing Him.

It is not arrogance to appreciate what Allah has blessed you with; arrogance is to ascribe those blessings to yourself.

Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.

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

Sincerity causes the smallest of good deeds to become the largest.

Arrogance is despised by God because no one has the right to feel superior to another when all are equally dependent on Him for everything.

All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.

Love of Allah gives us spiritual life; hope in His Reward is the greatest incentive to do good; and fear of His Wrath stops us from evil.

Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.

No human is perfect; we all have our hidden sins. Hypocrisy is to delude yourself into denying your own sins and allow arrogance to grow within you.

One of the bitterest ironies of life is that one truly appreciates a blessing only after having been deprived of it or imagining that.

Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life – but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?

Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.

Those who criticize the most typically end up solving the least.

No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, ‘I’m bored’

I’m used to people kind of knowing me in the community.

Less I. more We. For the good of the community.

I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That’s the important thing.

We have a political culture of intimidation, of favoring, of patronage, and of fear, and that is no way for a community to be governed.

Community is first of all a quality of the heart. It grows from the spiritual knowledge that we are alive not for ourselves but for one another.

I’m smiling on the inside. I feel I have a responsibility to the fashion community.

The position of the Muslim community in the face of all provocations seems to be: Islam is a religion of peace, and if you say that it isn’t, we will kill you.

What an opportunity we have to be a community….A community where there are models.