As you can taste a pot full of food with a spoon likewise someone's tounge can tell you about his heart.

If a heart becomes attached to anything other than Allah, Allah makes him dependent on what he is attached to. And he will be betrayed by it.

This wordly life is like a shadow. If you try to catch it, you will never be able to do so. If you turn your back towards it, it has no choice but to follow you.

A person’s tongue can give you the taste of his heart.

When Allah tests you it is never to destroy you. When He removes something in your possession it is only in order to empty your hands for an even greater gift.

Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.

Women are one half of society which gives birth to the other half so it is as if they are the entire society.

A real man is one who fears the death of his heart, not of his body.

Be sincere in your aim and you will find the support of Allaah surrounding you.

As long as you are performing prayer, you are knocking at the door of Allah, and whoever is knocking at the door of Allah, Allah will open it for him.

If you knew the true value of yourself, you will never allow yourself to be humiliated by committing sins.

True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers, But found in the soul within.

We've been speaking English as a second language so long that we've forgotten it as our first.

The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.

To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to happiness?

Doing nothing is very hard to do... you never know when you're finished.

There's no greater city between Memorial Day and Labor Day than Chicago. It's the single best summer city in America.

I established my bank in 1988.

I never thought I'd be a role model at this age. I just have to be myself.

In order to change our mode of action, we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us.

The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way.