The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.
There are 20,000 Muslim physicians in the United States, Americans putting their lives in the hands of Muslims every day.
The weak are dominated by their ego, the wise dominate their ego, and the intelligent are in a constant struggle against their ego.
God is with the broken-hearted. When your heart breaks, it’s a good thing – the breaking of the heart is what opens it up to the light of Allah. The dunya is designed to break your heart, to crush it.
Every civilization: Hindu, Buddhist, Confucianist, Christian, Jewish and Muslim, all of them understood that LEARNING was to make a BETTER HUMAN BEING, LEARNING was NOT to MAKE MORE MONEY; It was to make a BETTER HUMAN BEING.
Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent.
If you take a child and you throw the child up there is a point where you see this, they go into this state of complete panic and then when they come back to your arms they are laughing. That is dunya, I guarantee you, that moment, that is your life, you came from God and you are going back to God and there is just a moment when you are in a complete state of panic but just relax, you are in good hands. Just relax.
There's something really magical about having a child - it's like permission to begin again, start over, reevaluate some things, check yourself. Recognize yourself.
You say 'believe in your dreams', I say that I believe in YOU.
If God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles.
One of the points where the art world is at its most metaphysical is in this weird aspect of the power of the expert. There are experts who claim they cannot be fooled because they have an inner connection to an artist and can feel whether something is genuine or fake. I've heard experts say, on panels: When it comes to my period, or my painters, I cannot be fooled. And of course that's completely ridiculous.