1. The universe will only strike you as perfect because the presence of the greater does not result in the absence of the lesser. St. Augustine

2. It seems we've forgotten that being saved is to be cured of sickness in our hearts.

3. Can we frame theology in terms of Muhammad's humility?

4. I need someone to pity me because I'm going for Friday prayers & will have to sit still & listen to flat quotes masquerading as a sermon!

5. JIMAS gave a box of gifts containing some essential items worth over £13 perbox to 25 of our homeless people, still we ran out of boxes!

6. Holocaust Memorial Day today. "What a waste! A country that cannot hold on to all its citizens!" -- Naim Kattan in 'Farewell Babylon', p.8

7. He who implants courage in the human soul is the best physician. -- Karl von Knebel

8. Made the point at Suffolk County Council today that many of our 'community leaders' are unelected, unrepresentative, and unaccountable men.

9. The world is old, but the future springs from the past.-- Mandingo proverb

10. Calling self-serving propaganda & jollies trying to rob common sense intelligence as Community Cohesion projects is unfair use of tax money.

11. Next Tuesday 1st of February at 7.45 a.m. we shall discuss polygamy in relation to Islam at the ICR 105.7 fm.

12. Life is full of surprises. Don't insist on everything being predictable. -- Anon.

13. The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.-- T.S.Eliot. If only the majority of our preachers were poets!

14. A ship in harbour is safe . . . but that is not what ships are for. -- Thomas Aquinas

15. A virtuous person is better then virtue and a vicious person is worse than vice. -- Caliph Ali

16. There is the institution of Islam & there is the culture of Islam; but its all about interpretation. So, who teaches & whom do you follow?

17. When teachers use embarrassing & vulgar words in public to show irritation they should know their patience & dignity have been compromised.

18. There is no blame where nature and neccessity predominate! -- St.Augustine

19. Respected imams, instead of always repeating the goals please tell us what values you affirm and how they will be used to reach those goals.

20. Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it. -- Winston Churchill

21. Today's Friday sermon copiously sprinkled with quotes from the Quran & sayings of the Prophet but nothing spoken in relation to our reality!

22. Every revolution is a transfer of property. - Napoleon

23. How shameless that those without magnificence should be treated as princes, when even in their triumphs they exhibit abject servility!

24. "Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings & farewells him with hootings only to welcome another with trumpetings again."

25. It was a priviledge and an enlightening experience to speak at the National Alliance of Women's Organisations' theological debate yesterday.

26. Attended the 2nd symposium on Contextualising Islam in Cambridge over Sat & Sun; inspired thinking is different to intellectual thought!

27. How do you talk with someone who knows everything but his own ignorance? You take part in a meeting with him in a group of people of course!

28. I was interviewed for File on 4 and it went well, but why weren't they aware more about so much loyalty and pride among Muslims for the UK?

29. Justice for Palestininans: Justice, fair and equal treatment for the Coptics in Egypt and all minorities in any Muslim majority country too!

30. To my colleague in Newmarket: If what you do & achieve is too big for some people in authority to even understand, they'll also dismiss you!

31. A student was rude while he claimed to have knowledge. I pray that one day that person will learn wisdom which will teach him humility.

32. Those who love wisdom must investigate many things. - Heraclitus

33. We're VERY excited that @manwarali, Julie Siddiqi from @BritIslam and Sonya Sier (www.freshlightfilms.com) will be speaking at Faith Sisters

34. When you want to justify rape, murder, mayhem and deceit, I don't want to know about your religion, God or politics. What is human in you?

35. A small group of volunteers are working their fingers to their bones, scrubbing, sanding, painting, cleaning, clearing at Ipswich Origo...

36. God has made us so that we will need each other... -- Emeritus Archbishop Desmond Tutu

37. No, I don't understand how you can be so shameless as to take vital tax-payers money to tell them why they should understand & respect you.

38. The following I've savoured in life & its so liberating; try it. "There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear..." 1 John4:18

39. Those who cannot do a good job can never be motivated by anyone to do a good job.

40. Extremists, fundamentalists and radicals are such people. Conscientious driver Mr. Michael Thompson is to be praised for his act of civic duty.

41. Speed traps do cause cars to brake harshly at times.

42. If it is truthful and helpful, we should wait for the right time to say it. Somehow, I still have a long way to go to get this always right.

43. Let us make 2011 a year of adventures but not due to bad planning!