Fear is just an idea in the mind that limits you. You cannot become enlightened if you are afraid, nor can you become happy.
As you can taste a pot full of food with a spoon likewise someone's tounge can tell you about his heart.
Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.
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.
Had Allah lifted the veil for his slave and shown him how He handles his affairs for him, and how Allah is more keen for the benefit of the slave than his own self, his heart would have melted out of the love for Allah and would have been torn to pieces out of thankfulness to Allah. Therefore if the pains of this world tire you, do not grieve. For it may be that Allah wishes to hear your voice by way of Dua'a. So pour out your desires in prostration and forget about it and know; that verily Allah does not forget 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.
A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.
The child from 9 to 12 interests me very much. And so, those were the years that I like to write about, when I'm writing.
Ceremony is an invention to take off the uneasy feeling which we derive from knowing ourselves to be less the object of love and esteem with a fellow-creature than some other person is. It endeavours to make up, by superior attentions in little points, for that invidious preference which it is forced to deny in the greater.
Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.