I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation, So he instructed me to abandon disobedience; He informed me that knowledge is a light, And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.

Knowledge is not what is memorised. Knowledge is what benefits.

Be hard on yourself, easy on others.

My sin burdened me heavily. But when I measured it against Your Grace, O Lord, Your forgiveness came out greater.

You say that you are just a body, but inside of you is something greater than the Universe.

How strange! You seek guidance, yet you do not tread its path, surely a boat does not sail on land.

Wealth remains behind on earth while ibadaah accompanies you into the grave.

To admonish your brother in private is to advise him and improve him. But to admonish him publicly is to disgrace and shame him.

To be able to thank Allah for a blessing is a blessing within itself.

Only someone who is sincere recognizes what showing off is.

The loftiest in status are those who do not know their own status, and the most virtuous of them are those who do not know their own virtue.

There comes a time when you just have to say, “No!” – to the requests and to the system.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.

It is in the country's best interest that Tony Blair rather than Michael Howard should form the next government.

What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.

Genetic theories, I gather, have been cherished academically with detachment.

Hard to find a better drug than a song you love.

I'm thinking only of my illness and my health, though both, the first as well as the second, are you.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

The majority of my photos are taken while traveling, because everything feels new and exciting initially. Taking photos is like a way to make sense of the overwhelming.