“People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.”

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.

In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.

Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

Compromise has a negative connotation.

In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

And the BMA sent a writ my wayWith the very first leper I cured.

Well, I think just the fact that you are making your first film is a huge step.

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.

I do my best to tell a story whenever I write music because I want to paint the most vivid picture that tells a story whether a person is falling in love for the first time or going through a painful heartbreak.

The first two months were painful and they really tested my manhood because there were times I didn’t want to get up because I was in pain.

In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.

My whole life, I’ve been responding in a positive way and keeping a positive mind, keeping God first in my heart, in my mind.

For the first time I was flying by jet propulsion.