“Empirical" knowledge itself is of little benefit unless it awakens the inner perception of man as to his own situation, his potentialities, his risks, and his destiny” — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share Image
“The removal of God from human consciousness means the removal of meaning and purpose from human life.” — 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 of society, and the gross socioeconomic disparities that equally rested on and perpetuated a pernicious divisiveness of mankind. The two are obverse and converse of the same coin: only God can ensure the essential unity of… — Fazlur Rahman Copy Share
“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
