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If we can increase the share of Islamic finance for the world, countries can benefit - and certainly, Malaysia can benefit from that.

Malaysia is a country unlike any other: Full of promise and fragility. Its history, cultural and religious diversity make it a rich, compelling and surprising land.

There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.

The vast majority of Malaysians are sensible people; they're moderates, they want peace, they want harmonious race relations at home. They look for national unity.

All my life... I believed in Malaysian merger and unity of the two territories. You know that we, as a people, are connected by geography, economics, by ties of kinship.

My priority is to ensure peace and harmony in Malaysia. That is uppermost in my mind.

In Indonesia, Malaysia, wherever Muslims are living, they don't want to live in harmony.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.

Today, the Muslim world is the poorest of the global powers.