The best measure of a successful life is the way we turn away, we renounce, and even by the way we depart it.
Never forget your dialogue with God, it is your strength.
While criticism of Israel is legitimate and justifiable, it cannot be an excuse – in any way, shape or form – for anti-Semitism.
Tell me what you are doing with your suffering, and I will tell you who you are.
If you do not have boundaries, you do not have a path.
I believe my religion is the truth, but I am not the truth and the truth doesn’t belong to me I’m trying to belong to the truth.
Don’t treat people the way they treat you. Treat them better.
Clarity and consistency are not enough: the quest for truth requires humility and effort.
Wisdom is always connected to beauty. When you see someone acting by their principles, their wisdom makes them beautiful.
We integrate the good wherever we find it.
In Ramadan, you should eat less and think more.
We fail when we try to give simple answers to complicated problems.
Humility is knowing that you can get an answer from anybody: be it a child, another person, or nature.
Cherish your tears and their reasons, they will be the light of your smile, your inner peace and reconciliation.
The Truth does not belong to you, you belong to the Truth.
Islam can only be modernized from within. If I state that I condemn the practice of stoning, that this punishment is despicable, it changes nothing. My fellow Muslims will say: Brother Tariq, you became a European, a Swiss citizen, so you are no longer one of us.
We need to realize that we should be on the side of any human being who is oppressed.
The more I know, the better I believe. The more I know, the better I’m worshiping Him. Because, in the end, Allah knows best.
We must master our egoism, and through this mastery, step outside ourselves and educate ourselves in giving. Fasting requires that we rediscover all that is alive around us, and reconcile ourselves with our environment.
Pray in the night so that you can change the world in the day.