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• The traditional doctrine of man and not the measurement of skulls and footprints is the key for the understanding of that anthropos…
• The significance of the vast Islamic scientific tradition for Muslims and especially for young Muslims today is not only that it gives…
• The life of Islamic philosophy did not terminate with Ibn Rushd nearly eight hundred years ago, as thought by Western scholarship for…
• From it genesis twelve hundred years ago to today, Islamic philosophy (al-hikmah; al-falsafah) has been one of the major intellectual traditions within…
• In traditional societies, nature was seen as one’s wife, but the modern West turned it into a prostitute.
• The human soul, provided it is pure and strong enough, can contact the unseen in waking life as well as in dreams:…
• Only in the West did a philosophy develop that was not only no longer the love of wisdom but went so far…
• At all costs we should avoid considering our love of God to be superior to the love of the other for GodLet…
• The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all…
• Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall…
• The quest for truth must be carried out by each person individually. It is like breathing, something which no one else can…
• To be modern is to destroy nature.

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