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> [Change, development and progress, according to the Islamic viewpoint, refer to the return to the genuine Islam enunciated and practised by the Holy Prophet (may God bless and give him Peace!) and his noble Companions and their Followers (blessing and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/change-development-and-progress-according-to-the-islamic-viewpoint/)

[Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/)

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## More by Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

> [“Sejarah telah mengajar bahawa semakin indah dan rumit gaya senirupa, maka semakin menandakan kemerosotan budi dan akal; Acropolis Yunani, Persepolis Iran, dan Piramid-piramid Mesir…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/sejarah-telah-mengajar-bahawa-semakin-indah-dan-rumit-gaya-senirupa/)

[Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/)

> [“The secularizing 'values' and events that have been predicted would happen in the Muslim world have now begun to unfold with increasing momentum and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/the-secularizing-values-and-events-that-have-been-predicted-would/)

[Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/)

> [Change, development and progress, according to the Islamic viewpoint, refer to the return to the genuine Islam enunciated and practised by the Holy Prophet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/change-development-and-progress-according-to-the-islamic-viewpoint/)

[Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/)

> [“When the man, by means if 'ibadat, succeeded in curbing his animal and canal passions and has thereby rendered submissive his animal soul,making it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/when-the-man-by-means-if-ibadat-succeeded-in-curbing-his-animal-and/)

[Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/)

> [“The International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)... to establish a superior library reflecting the religious and intellectual traditions both of the Islamic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/the-international-institute-of-islamic-thought-and-civilization-istac/)

[Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/)

> [ “An Islamic university...structure is different from a Western University; \[its\] conception of what constitutes knowledge is different from what Western philosophers set forth as… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/an-islamic-university-structure-is-different-from-a-western/)

[Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/)

> [Today I meet with Dr. Syamsuddin Arif. He said Prof. al-Attas says, "I don't read much but I think a lot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/today-i-meet-with-dr-syamsuddin-arif-he-said-prof-al-attas-says-i-don/)

[Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/)

> [“The common understanding among Muslims, no doubt indoctrinated by Western notions, is that a secular state is a state that is not governed by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/the-common-understanding-among-muslims-no-doubt-indoctrinated-by/)

[Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/)

> [To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/to-know-how-to-put-what-knowledge-in-which-place-is-wisdom-hikmah/)

[Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/)

> [Seeing that he owns absolutely nothing to ‘repay’ his debt, ‘his own consciousness’ of the fact ‘that he is himself the very substance’ of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/seeing-that-he-owns-absolutely-nothing-to-repay-his-debt-his-own/)

[Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/)

> [“Injustice, being the opposite of justice, is the putting a thing in a place not its own; it is to misplace a thing; it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/injustice-being-the-opposite-of-justice-is-the-putting-a-thing-in-a/)

[Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/)

> [“Muslims must be warned that plagiarists and pretenders as well as ignorant imitators affect great mischief by debasing values, imposing upon the ignorant, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/muslims-must-be-warned-that-plagiarists-and-pretenders-as-well-as/)

[Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/)

> [Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/man-is-like-an-island-set-in-isolation-in-a-fathomless-sea-enveloped/)

[Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/)

> [But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature; the desacralization…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/but-the-philosophical-and-scientific-process-which-i-call/)

[Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/)

> [“The greatest challenge that has surreptitiously arisen in our age is the challenge of knowledge, indeed, not as against ignorance; but knowledge as conceived…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/the-greatest-challenge-that-has-surreptitiously-arisen-in-our-age-is/)

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