Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely. — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
“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 tiada menyorotkan sinaran budi dan akal. Dalam menilai peranan dan kesan Islam, ciri-ciri yang harus dicari oleh mereka bukan pada tugu dan candi, pada pahatan dan wayang - ciri-ciri yang mudah dipandang mata jasmani - akan… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share
“The secularizing 'values' and events that have been predicted would happen in the Muslim world have now begun to unfold with increasing momentum and… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
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 peace be upon them all!) and the faith and practice of genuine Muslims after them; and they also refer to… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share
“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 subject to the rational soul, the man thus described has attained to freedom and existence;he has achieved supreme peace and his soul is pacified, being set at liberty, as it were, free from fetters of inexorable… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share
“The International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)... to establish a superior library reflecting the religious and intellectual traditions both of the Islamic… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
“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 knowledge; [its] aims and aspirations are different from Western conceptions. The purpose of higher education is not, like in the West, to produce the complete citizen, but rather, as in Islam, to produce the complete man,… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share
Today I meet with Dr. Syamsuddin Arif. He said Prof. al-Attas says, "I don't read much but I think a lot — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
“The common understanding among Muslims, no doubt indoctrinated by Western notions, is that a secular state is a state that is not governed by… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
Seeing that he owns absolutely nothing to ‘repay’ his debt, ‘his own consciousness’ of the fact ‘that he is himself the very substance’ of… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
“Injustice, being the opposite of justice, is the putting a thing in a place not its own; it is to misplace a thing; it… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
“Muslims must be warned that plagiarists and pretenders as well as ignorant imitators affect great mischief by debasing values, imposing upon the ignorant, and… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
