“The essence of all human rights is the equality of the entire human race, which the Qur’ān assumed, affirmed, and confirmed. It obliterated all distinctions among men except goodness and virtue (taqwā): The reason the Qur’ān emphasizes essential human equality… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
“This idea (Taqwa)can be effectively conveyed by the term "conscience," if the object of conscience transcends it. This is why it is proper to… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
“The Qur’ān definitely seems optimistic about the future, while rather grim about the past It is absolutely imperative for successor civilizations and their bearer… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
“Philologists assure us that żulm in Arabic originally meant "to put something out of its proper place," so that all wrong of any kind… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
“This struggle between good and evil, fresh and stale, new and decrepit, between the vigor of moral youth and the dotage of senility, is… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
“Nature exists for man to exploit for his own ends, while the end of man himself is nothing else but to serve God, to… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
“To hold that the Qur’ān believes in an absolute determinism of human behavior, denying free choice on man's part, is not only to deny… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
“↑ top up position down ↓ bottom “The corruption of religious leaders, who were expected to be the source of spiritual force and regeneration,… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
“The simple truth is that nowhere in human history is there another man who combined so uniquely and effectively in his person both the… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
“All evil, all injustice, all harm that one does to someone else—in sum, all deviation from man's normative nature—in a much more fundamental way… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
“If metaphysics enjoys the least freedom from assumed premises, man enjoys the least freedom from metaphysics in that metaphysical beliefs are the most ultimate… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
“The Qur’ān began by criticizing two closely related aspects of that society: the polytheism or multiplicity of gods which was symptomatic of the segmentation… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
“The corruption of religious leaders, who were expected to be the source of spiritual force and regeneration, is the last step in the of… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
