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Men Quotes by Muhammad Asad
- The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source of all his…
- If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western…
- If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in…
- But who, except God, can say whether a man is right or foolish if he follows the call of his conscience?
- For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the…
- ...I suddenly felt in myself all the weight of Europe: the weight of deliberate purpose in all our actions. I thought to myself, 'How difficult…
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