Islam is a religion based upon knowledge, and a denial of the possibility and objectivity of knowledge would … - Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

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Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

Islam is a religion based upon knowledge, and a denial of the possibility and objectivity of knowledge would involve the destruction of the fundamental basis upon which not only the religion, but all the sciences are rooted.

Basis, Fundamentals, Involve, Islam, Objectivity, Rooted

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To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead to confusion and hence to injustice to one's self.

Wisdom, Self Esteem, Knowledge, Know, Self

Change, development and progress, according to the Islamic viewpoint, refer to the return to the genuine Islam enunciated and practised by the Holy Prophet (may God bless and give him Peace!) and his noble Companions and their Followers (blessing and peace be upon them all!) and the faith and practice of genuine Muslims after them; and they also refer to the self and mean its return to its original nature and religion (Islam).

Blessing, Development, God, Islamic, Mean, Peace

It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain perhaps, proceeded to temper his cup with the salt of doubt so that his thirst now becomes insatiable though he drinks incessantly, and that in thus drinking the water that cannot slake his thirst, he has forgotten the original and true purpose for which the water was sought.

Drinking, Water, Doubt, Thirsty, Forgotten

Justice and injustice indeed begins and ends with the self.

Ends, Injustice, Justice, Self

Man is like an island set in isolation in a fathomless sea enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because even he knows not his self completely.

Darkness, Fathomless, Islands, Loneliness, Man, Men

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