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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
"It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice."
"It's very difficult to ignore humanitarian disasters. The royalties from my albums continue to support my charity work."
"There was no division I could see between the essential teaching of all Prophets and wise men of religion."
"I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry."
"I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money."
"The spiritual quest was always the predominant aspect of my life. It's always been there. But there's also an incredible passion connected to it; it's not just a dry investigative process. I have been extremely emotional about it, and that comes out in the songs."
"Violence is almost an everyday occurrence in some Muslim lands: it should not be exacerbated by revenge attacks on more innocent families and communities."
"Moderation is part of faith, so those who accuse Muslim schools of fostering fanaticism should learn a bit more about Islam."
"It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood."
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"Home is anywhere that you know all your friends and all your enemies."
"Mars will not be our new home; it will be our new hotel! Because for a new place to be our own home, we need to see the things we used to see: An autumn lake, a bird singing in the misty morning or even desert camels walking in the sunset!"
"One is not to win the world, he has to win the home (family)."
"How people feel when they are returning home from an absence, long or short, I did not know: I had never experienced the sensation. I had known what it was to come back to Gateshead when a child after a long walk, to be scolded for looking cold or gloomy; and later, what it was to come back from church to Lowood, to long for a plenteous meal and a good fire, and to be unable to get either. Neither of these returnings was very pleasant or desirable: no magnet drew me to a given point, increasing in its strength of attraction the nearer I came. The return to Thornfield was yet to be tried."
"An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris."
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