1. “To know how to put what noesis in which home is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, cognition without lodge together with seeking it without subject does lead to confusion together with thence to injustice to one’s self.” ― Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Islam: The Concept of Religion in addition to The Foundation of Ethics in addition to Morality
ii. “Change, development in addition to progress, according to the Islamic viewpoint, advert to the return to the genuine Islam enunciated as well as practised past the Holy Prophet (May God bless together with give him peace) as well as his noble Companions as well as their Followers (approving together with peace live upon them all) in addition to the faith as well as practice of genuine Muslims after them; in addition to they also name to the self too mean its return to its master nature too faith (Islam)” ― Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Islam: The Concept of Religion in addition to The Foundation of Ethics as well as Morality
iii. “It is similar the thirsty traveller who at starting time sincerely sought the water of cognition, but who afterwards, having institute it obviously perchance, proceeded to temper his loving cup with the salt of incertitude and then that his thirst directly becomes insatiable though he drinks incessantly, in addition to that inward thus drinking the water that cannot slake his thirst, he has forgotten the master copy and truthful use for which the H2O was sought.”― Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Islam: The Concept of Religion and The Foundation of Ethics too Morality
4. “Justice together with injustice indeed begins in addition to ends amongst the self.” ― Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Islam: The Concept of Religion together with The Foundation of Ethics together with Morality
v. “Islam is a faith based upon cognition, together with a denial of the possibility together with objectivity of knowledge would evolve the destruction of the fundamentals ground upon which not alone the faith, but all the sciences are rooted.” ― Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, The Oldest Known Malay Manuscript: A 16th Century Malay Translation of the ‘Aqa’id of al-Nasafi
half-dozen. “Man is like an isle prepare inwards isolation in a fathomless body of water enveloped by darkness, saying that the loneliness his self knows is so utterly absolute because fifty-fifty he knows non his self completely.” ― Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Islam and Secularism
vii. “Justice implies noesis of the right and proper place for a thing or a existence to be; of right as against incorrect; of the hateful together with limit; of spiritual gain equally against loss; of truth every bit against falsehood.” ― Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Islam: The Concept of Religion too The Foundation of Ethics in addition to Morality
8. “But the philosophical in addition to scientific procedure which I telephone call ‘secularization’ necessarily involves the divesting of spiritual significant from the world of nature; the desacralization of politics from human affairs; in addition to the deconsecration of values from the human mind too conduct.” ― Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Islam and Secularism
9. “Seeing that he owns absolutely null to ‘repay’ his debt, ‘his own consciousness’ of the fact ‘that he himself that very pith’ of debt, then must ‘homecoming’ himself to Him Who owns him absolutely.” ― Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Islam: The Concept of Religion together with The Foundation of Ethics too Morality
10. “The secularizing ‘values’ as well as events that have been predicted would pass off inwards the Muslim world take like a shot begun to unfold amongst increasing momentum in addition to persistence due however to the Muslims’ lack of understanding of the true nature and implications of secularization every bit a philosophical computer programme.”
― Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Islam as well as Secularism
eleven. “An Islamic university…construction is unlike from a Western University; [its] invention of what constitutes knowledge is different from what Western philosophers fix forth as cognition; [its] aims as well as aspirations are unlike from Western conceptions. The function of higher educational activity is not, like inward the West, to create the complete citizen, but rather, as in Islam, to create the complete man, or the universal human being…. A Muslim scholar is a human who is not a specialist inward whatever one branch of cognition but is universal in his outlook and is authoritative inward several branches of related knowledge.” ― Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas
12. “When the human, past agency if ‘ibadat, succeeded inward curbing his creature and canal passions as well as has thereby rendered submissive his animal someone,making it subject to the rational mortal, the human being thus described has attained to liberty too existence;he has achieved supreme peace together with his soul is pacified, being gear up at liberty, as it were, costless from fetters of inexorable fate in addition to the noisy strife and hell of human vices.” ― Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, Islam in addition to Secularism