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> [Muhammad was the exemplar ruler, exemplar father, exemplar warrior, and once you have a family, you have contentions, you have problems, human problems, and it's the human order. He set the example and model for Muslims for all the different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/muhammad-was-the-exemplar-ruler-exemplar-father-exemplar-warrior-and/)

[Seyyed Hossein Nasr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seyyed-hossein-nasr/)

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> [Muhammad sets the model for being a good statesman. He also sets the model for being a good warrior, for chivalry, of nobility, of all the things which the Quran and Hadith \[The recorded collections of the sayings and traditions…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/muhammad-sets-the-model-for-being-a-good-statesman-he-also-sets-the/)

[Seyyed Hossein Nasr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seyyed-hossein-nasr/)

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## Other authors on Koran

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## More by Seyyed Hossein Nasr

> [There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these ideas are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/there-is-an-idea-that-you-can-take-the-spiritual-teachings-of-a/)

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> [“In the Islamic world itself also there is a great crisis in he modern established universities precisely because the systems from the West have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/in-the-islamic-world-itself-also-there-is-a-great-crisis-in-he-modern/)

[Seyyed Hossein Nasr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seyyed-hossein-nasr/)

> [Muhammad was the exemplar ruler, exemplar father, exemplar warrior, and once you have a family, you have contentions, you have problems, human problems, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/muhammad-was-the-exemplar-ruler-exemplar-father-exemplar-warrior-and/)

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> [Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/only-man-can-stop-being-fully-man-he-can-ascend-above-all-degres-of/)

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> [Muhammad sets the model for being a good statesman. He also sets the model for being a good warrior, for chivalry, of nobility, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/muhammad-sets-the-model-for-being-a-good-statesman-he-also-sets-the/)

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> [“For anyone who understood the essence of modernism based on and originating in the secularizing and humanistic tendencies of the European Renaissance, it was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/for-anyone-who-understood-the-essence-of-modernism-based-on-and/)

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> [In fact, the machine doesn't have the consciousness we have, the free will that we have, and to surrender one's free will, not in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/in-fact-the-machine-doesn-t-have-the-consciousness-we-have-the-free/)

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> [In Islam, we believe that it is God himself who is the ultimate guide - Al Hadi - one of the names of God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/in-islam-we-believe-that-it-is-god-himself-who-is-the-ultimate-guide/)

[Seyyed Hossein Nasr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seyyed-hossein-nasr/)

> [All Muslims stand before God and they are their own priests.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/all-muslims-stand-before-god-and-they-are-their-own-priests/)

[Seyyed Hossein Nasr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seyyed-hossein-nasr/)

> [“Without the withering criticism by nominalism, medieval Christian philosophy and theology would not have relinquished their claim to the role of knowledge in discovering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/without-the-withering-criticism-by-nominalism-medieval-christian/)

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> [The Islamic world is suffering not only because of external oppression but also because of the loss of its own dignity, of its own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/the-islamic-world-is-suffering-not-only-because-of-external/)

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> [The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams: all that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/the-human-soul-provided-it-is-pure-and-strong-enough-can-contact-the/)

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> [Without Sufism, Islam would not have spread into two thirds of what we call the Islamic world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/without-sufism-islam-would-not-have-spread-into-two-thirds-of-what-we/)

[Seyyed Hossein Nasr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seyyed-hossein-nasr/)

> [There is no religion in the world where there is a possibility of spiritual development outside of the context of that religion. This is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/there-is-no-religion-in-the-world-where-there-is-a-possibility-of/)

[Seyyed Hossein Nasr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seyyed-hossein-nasr/)

> [Justice is inseparable from truth in human life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seyyed-hossein-nasr/justice-is-inseparable-from-truth-in-human-life/)

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