“People have no idea how true the promise of Allah is. Put your trust in Allah, and He will see you through.”

When Allah grants us the sense to ask Him for forgiveness, then He has granted us a huge favor. It’s a sign that He wants to forgive us.

If your parents are alive, be grateful at the opportunity to earn Jannah by serving them.

Humiliating people in the name of religion is the practice of someone deprived of the first fruit of religion, humility.

Our religion doesn’t demand perfection but instead a manageable strive to better ourselves.

When you find yourself in a position to help someone, be happy because Allah is answering that person’s prayer through you.

Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears.

If doctors are paid the same salary as bus drivers, community would not be crazy about making their children doctors.

Insulting the Prophet (Peace Be Upon Him) is like trying to spit at the sun, it will only come back in your face.

Iblis (satan) himself recognizes the Lordship of Allah, but wants the human being to forget it.

Change your ‘Nafs’, change the world.

You can’t just pretend that the things you watch, and the things you hear, and the places you go will not have an impact on your character. They will.

Guilt is a gift from Allah warning you that what you are doing is violating your soul.

What you desire is what YOU want, what you have is what ALLAH wants.

If you have friends or family who are not practicing, give them your company and not your judgment. They need your patience and your love. Allah is sufficient for judgment and He subhanahu wa ta’ala is a perfect Judge. We are not.

The people who test your patience are a blessing, Without them, you can’t practice patience.

Forgiving someone isn’t just about doing good to another. It’s also about healing a scar in your own heart.

It’s scary being in a room with producers and saying, ‘Here’s my idea,’ when I’m scared to get shot down.

The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.

The power to destroy the world by the use of nuclear weapons is a power that cannot be used – we cannot accept the idea of such monstrous immorality.

I generally have a real strong idea or a strong punchline, and I just try to get to it by rambling around, as I don’t like to memorize words.

If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.

You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong.

I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.