Hikmah Quotes by Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

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• Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows…
• Islam is a religion based upon knowledge, and a denial of the possibility and objectivity of knowledge would involve the destruction of…
• Today I meet with Dr. Syamsuddin Arif. He said Prof. al-Attas says, "I don't read much but I think a lot
• Seeing that he owns absolutely nothing to ‘repay’ his debt, ‘his own consciousness’ of the fact ‘that he is himself the very…
• Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self.
• Justice implies knowledge of the right and proper place for a thing or a being to be; of right as against wrong;…
• To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline…
• Change, development and progress, according to the Islamic viewpoint, refer to the return to the genuine Islam enunciated and practised by the…
• It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain…
• But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature;…

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