"But the philosophical and scientific process which I……" — Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
"But the philosophical and scientific process which I call 'secularization' necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual meaning from the world of nature; the desacralization of politics from human affairs; and the deconsecration of values from the human mind and conduct."
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Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
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10 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…
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Islam is a religion based upon knowledge, and a denial of the possibility and objectivity of knowledge would involve the…
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Today I meet with Dr. Syamsuddin Arif. He said Prof. al-Attas says, "I don't read much but I think a…
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Seeing that he owns absolutely nothing to ‘repay’ his debt, ‘his own consciousness’ of the fact ‘that he is himself…
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Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self.
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Justice implies knowledge of the right and proper place for a thing or a being to be; of right as…
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To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it…
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Change, development and progress, according to the Islamic viewpoint, refer to the return to the genuine Islam enunciated and practised…
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It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found…
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