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

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.

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

There will be an answer. Let it be.

I ask myself, If I knew all the answers, would it help? I lie awake and wonder why I don’t have parents and wonder what will become of my brother and me.

Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is,

There is no promise God cannot keep, no prayer God will not answer, and no problem too hard for Him to solve.

Our prayers run along one road and God’s answers by another, and by and by they meet.

God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.

Knowing the ‘right answers’ does not mean we believe them. To believe them means to act as though they’re true.

So how can a poet-an intelligent, serious poet-write mystical verse now?