Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.

We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.

People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.

Compromise has a negative connotation.

In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.

In many of the things that people do, they themselves are the centre of attention, but they inscribe some other name on their banner.

We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.

The clergy earns its living from religion. If your interests are secured through religion, then you will defend your interests first, and religion will become secondary.

Islam, or any religion, will become totalitarian if it is made into an ideology, because that is the nature of ideologies.

When you mess up-fix it, when you fail-fall forward and learn, when you suffer loss-heal and always pay it forward

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

Don’t kill yourself just because you think and feel you are empty. God needs empty vessels to fill!

Oh God! that bread should be so dear And flesh and blood so cheap!

Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited.

How old are you? Sixteen? S-seventeen? [asks security guard] Is seventeen legal?

Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.

Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.

Small minds just like light winds can never create giant waves.

I know I can't change the past, but I change the future. I can change, too. And I will.