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

When you’re going through something hard and you start wondering where Allah is, just remember, the Teacher is always quiet during a test.

Sabr is not remaining quiet and allowing anger to build up inside you. Sabr is to talk about what's bothering you without losing control of your emotions.

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

There is nothing wrong with having a good job, there is nothing wrong with having a nice house, there is nothing wrong with that. There is something wrong when that is your goal.

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

If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then YOU have an EGO problem

If shaytan has entered into your heart - evil will look beautiful to you and good will seem tiring and exhausting.

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.

Every relationship has tough days. Don't let the grudge last. Be the first to try to make things right and stop waiting for an apology.

No one has the right to enter literature without fresh new ideas. We’ve got too many dexterous drudges as it is.

I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

Words should be weighed and not counted.

There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.

I think that former leaders are best seen occasionally and not too often heard - particularly on the subject of their successors!

On every level of human life, compassion is the key thing.

Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline.

Always wanted to be an actress or work with animals and now I get to do both.

The fifth century BC historian Herodotus called Egypt ‘the gift of the Nile’. The Egyptians themselves went a lot further. They claimed that their sacred river had its source among the stars.

Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.