No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.
It is important that the Muslim leaders, scholars, and intellectuals are much more vocal and explain what Islam is.
Muslims must speak out and explain who they are, what they believe in, what they stand for, what is the meaning of their life. They must have the courage to denounce what is said and done by certain Muslims in the name of their religion.
Saying that Islam is in heart, is similar to giving back the exam's paper completely white and saying : knowledge is in brain.
If you want to have a good life, never forget that you are going to die
Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.
The philosophy of fasting calls upon us to know ourselves, to master ourselves, and to discipline ourselves the better to free ourselves. To fast is to identify our dependencies, and free ourselves from them.
The only thing I have to lose going into this fight is anxiety, fear, worry; all those kinds of negativity.
If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.
All know that the drop merges into the ocean but few know that the ocean merges into the drop.
To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.