Islam is a religion based upon knowledge, and a denial of the possibility and objectivity of knowledge would involve the destruction of the fundament…

- Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

Change, development and progress, according to the Islamic viewpoint, refer to the return to the genuine Islam enunciated and practised by the Holy P…

- 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 …

- Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without order and seeking it without discipline does lead t…

- Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

Justice implies knowledge of the right and proper place for a thing or a being to be; of right as against wrong; of the mean and limit; of spiritual …

- Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

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 tem…

- Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

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 be…

- Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

Today I meet with Dr. Syamsuddin Arif. He said Prof. al-Attas says, "I don't read much but I think a lot

- Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas

Seeing that he owns absolutely nothing to ‘repay’ his debt, ‘his own consciousness’ of the fact ‘that he is himself the very substance’ of debt, so m…

- Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas