“…today also, the message of Islam is a threat to the Pharaohs and Emperors of the modern age…Worship no one but Allah, serve your fellow human beings and care for our common living environment with love and devotion until the end of your days.”
“Just being a good person inside yourself is not enough. Verbal shahadah is not enough. You must actively forbid evil and promote what is good…”
EM Eid khutbah 2011
“…when we do good, we must always try to be conscious of the fact that we are doing it for God. Talk to God as you are doing the good deed, ask Him to accept it from you, and to enable you to do more good…”
“We should always entertain the hope, the possibility that our worst enemies today could become our beloved brothers and sisters tomorrow…”
“None shall enter Allah’s Garden except those with a clean, sound heart…”
“Whenever we do something wrong, we are acting against our own innocent, primordial human nature…”
“By holding back the nafs from its activity and its sustenance, moments of stillness, of silence, are obtained – moments in which self-perception sharpens and deepens and spirit awakens and the (spiritual) form with which God created man begins to unfold itself.”
