Junaid Jamshed Quotes

If you want to live a happy life, don’t teach your wife how to drive a car or a motorcycle.

This world is not a place where people can be together forever.

One of the greatest tazkiya (purification) of the nafs (self) is to part with your money and to give it to people who deserve it.

My wife obviously would like to have her husband right next to her. I keep telling her inshaAllah we will be together in paradise.

Whoever will give sadaqa, his wealth will increase.

I have never seen a generous man go bankrupt.

Now the canvas is not just my country Pakistan, but now the canvas is the entire world. Now the canvas is the entire ummah (Muslim nation).

Generosity always pays.

Wealth is something that is closer to the heart.

I am a little boy but I am going to do something really big in times to come.

My aim in times to come is not to just work with Muslims but to actually sing songs for everyone and sing songs in which people all over the world can relate to.

I come across children who sometimes come up and say such nice things and it motivates you so much. They look up to you and they would sometimes say something so nice, something so beautiful.

Because I move around among people I get inspired by the people.

Initially, when I was first starting as a musician, I was a very nationalistic figure and I used to believe in doing a lot of national songs. I would always have a national song in the albums I did.

Making music, creating lyrics comes very naturally to me.

Why should I just limit myself to the Urdu language? Why not sing in different languages?

The nasheeds I do are for children, the youth, and for the older people.

I get to meet people from all walks of life, from all different countries, from different backgrounds.

I read nasheeds (Islamic songs) in English, in Arabic. I read nasheeds even in Bangla language. Now I don't just travel to meet people from my own country but people from the entire ummah.

I have traveled a lot around the world and have seen a lot of people come to my programs... [and it made me realize] that people of all ages - from little children to elders - listen to my nasheeds.