Islam is a religion based upon knowledge, and a denial of the possibility and objectivity of knowledge would involve the destruction of the fundamental basis upon which not only the religion, but all the sciences are rooted. — 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… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
“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… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
“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… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
“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… — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas Copy Share Image
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
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