Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas quote: "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."

The common understanding among Muslims, no doubt indoctrinated by Western notions, is that a secular...
SYED MUHAMMAD NAQUIB AL-ATTAS

To know how to put what knowledge in which place is wisdom (hikmah). Otherwise, knowledge without or...
SYED MUHAMMAD NAQUIB AL-ATTAS

The secularizing 'values' and events that have been predicted would happen in the Muslim world have ...
SYED MUHAMMAD NAQUIB AL-ATTAS

Muslims must be warned that plagiarists and pretenders as well as ignorant imitators affect great mi...
SYED MUHAMMAD NAQUIB AL-ATTAS

Seeing that he owns absolutely nothing to ‘repay’ his debt, ‘his own consciousness’ of the f...
SYED MUHAMMAD NAQUIB AL-ATTAS

Ka'b ibn Malik reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, ...
MUHAMMAD AL-TIRMIDHI

Ibn Mas'ud reported that the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, "Sha...
MUHAMMAD AL-TIRMIDHI

Read Between The "Lies" Not The Lines
SYED SHARUKH

It Takes Sense To Sense, Non-Sense
SYED SHARUKH

When you think you have done enough in life...think again
ASAAD SYED

Unknown can be known ; known can't be Unknown
SYED SHARUKH

Anybody is Somebody to Nobody ; Nobody to Somebody - SRK ツ
SYED SHARUKH

Appear on your Fear it will Disappear - SRK
SYED SHARUKH

One way is better than no way!- SRK
SYED SHARUKH

Everybody don't wish you were Somebody, Be Somebody!- SRK
SYED SHARUKH

Enable envision to make invisible, Visible ! - SRK
SYED SHARUKH

Love is beyond the reason why - SRK ツ
SYED SHARUKH

If you see things as it is, You will never know what it is - SRK
SYED SHARUKH

Armed confrontation would automatically recede as the dialogue process moves forward.
SYED SALAHUDDIN

Only then will you receive more when you give more then you expeted
ASAAD SYED

Don't judge me and get mental, Don't be judge-mental !
SYED SHARUKH

Love is blind to make you see love - SRK
SYED SHARUKH

Thinking not to think is "Still" thinking - Syed Sharukh
SYED SHARUKH

I'm not in love, The love is within me! - Syed Sharukh
SYED SHARUKH

One who knows One, knows Everyone - Syed Sharukh
SYED SHARUKH

Know "Yourself" to know Everything else- Syed Sharukh
SYED SHARUKH

Am I on your mind or out of my mind !
SYED SHARUKH

It takes two to tango but It takes "ONE" to Love- SRK
SYED SHARUKH

Being Kind, Is Not My Kind
SYED SHARUKH

You Need To Gauge, To Engage.
SYED SHARUKH

Marginal gains is not about making small changes and hoping they fly. Rather, it is about breaking d...
MATTHEW SYED

Dominance is only for GOD.
SYED ISLAM

If You See Things As It Is, You Will Never Know What It Is
SYED SHARUKH

For me it's NOT to, It's "For"give; As Given it's NOT you "For"given - SRK
SYED SHARUKH

Maybe time by time people forget about the one who they really owe to.
SAHIBAH SYED

He not only sold us a building, he sold us the town.
SYED AHMED

But we do want people to know that Muslims on campus have something to say about it.
SYED AHMED

We just want people to listen to what we say.
SYED AHMED

We're not even supposed to draw the guy.
SYED AHMED

Nothing in this world is still, Keep Moving- Syed Sharukh
SYED SHARUKH

Appear On Your Fear, It Will Disappear
SYED SHARUKH

Don't Be Usual, Be Unusual.
SYED SHARUKH

Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.
SYED SHARUKH

My Words Are For The Ones Who Get It, Rest Forget It !
SYED SHARUKH

Reach up-to Absence to feel Presence
SYED SHARUKH

I'm Used To, Being Used, Not Abused.
SYED SHARUKH

We hope that this organization will enhance the partnership and cooperation between the Muslim- Amer...
SHAKEEL SYED

Four things support the world: the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of th...
MUHAMMAD

Don't disappoint the world,
MUHAMMAD

Love of the world is the root of all evil
MUHAMMAD

Whoso hath left debt and children, let him come to me; I am their patron, I will discharge his debt ...
MUHAMMAD

O God, don't allow a sinner to do good to me as my mind may wish to love him
MUHAMMAD

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr
MUHAMMAD

Poverty is my pride
MUHAMMAD

God enjoins you to treat women well, for they are your mothers, daughters, aunts
MUHAMMAD

We have been encouraged to take advantage of our freedom, and the media has taken the authorities at...
MUHAMMAD

That person is not a perfect Muslim who eateth his fill, and leaveth his neighbors hungry
MUHAMMAD

All actions are judged by the motive prompting them
MUHAMMAD

The greatest crimes are to associate another with God, to vex your father and mother, to murder your...
MUHAMMAD

Presidential sites are totally forbidden, ... It's a red line. Totally.
MUHAMMAD

The nearest to me are the abstinent, whoever they are, wherever they are
MUHAMMAD

Do you beat your own wife as you would a slave? That must you not do
MUHAMMAD

Verily your deeds will be brought back to you, as if you yourself were the creator of your own punis...
MUHAMMAD

Your smiling in your brother's face is charity; and your exhorting man to virtuous deeds is charity;...
MUHAMMAD

The most excellent jihad (struggle) is that for the conquest of self
MUHAMMAD

This world is a prison for the Faithful, but a Paradise for unbelievers
MUHAMMAD

I remember putting together mix tapes for my own imaginary radio station - WJAM - when I was a child...
MUHAMMAD

One hour's meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer
MUHAMMAD

When you lend, have the borrower sign a paper before witnesses
MUHAMMAD

No man is a true believer unless he desireth for his brother that which he desireth for himself
MUHAMMAD

Especially if you are well-to-do, see that no one goes hungry or naked
MUHAMMAD

Keep yourselves far from envy; it eateth up and taketh away good actions, like as fire eateth up and...
MUHAMMAD

He is the most perfect Muslim whose disposition is best; and the best of you are they who behave bes...
MUHAMMAD

Cursed is this world and cursed is all that is in this world, except the remembrance of God and that...
MUHAMMAD

Give the laborer his wage before his perspiration be dry
MUHAMMAD

The creation is as God's family; for its sustenance is from Him: therefore the most beloved unto God...
MUHAMMAD

Do you love your creator? Love your fellow-beings first
MUHAMMAD

He is not strong and powerful who throweth people down; but he is strong who witholdeth himself from...
MUHAMMAD

If the people of this religion are asked about the proof for the soundness of their religion, they f...
MUHAMMAD IBN ZAKARIYA AL-RAZI

‘‘Logic resigns when faith becomes blind; faith resigns when only logic controls faith.’’
SYED SHAMIM AZAM

The way you find an excuse, I want us to find an excuse to win and keep going. It definitely pays of...
SYED ILYAS AHMED

ভেবে-চিন্তে অগ্রপশ্চাৎ বিবেচনা করে ব�...
SYED MUJTABA ALI

যে ব্যামোর দেখবেন সাতান্ন রকমের ওষুধ, ...
SYED MUJTABA ALI

The lie is honest but the liar is not
SYED HARDICK MANZAR

compulsion is the ultimate annoyance
SYED HARDICK MANZAR

For India there is a problem in Kashmir, but for Pakistan Kashmir is a problem.
SYED IFTIKHAR GEELANI

Every appearance is a song and every song is a memory.
SYED HARDICK MANZAR

One single change of peception, one hundread ways of direction
SYED HARDICK MANZAR

No clean hands ever gotten a clean room
SYED HARDICK MANZAR

Tonight, It's not about You, Tonight It's about Me,
It's about How Your absence, troubles me, SYED MURTAZA HAROON

I roam the streets, silent and still,
I look for You, in each and everything.
I have come ...
SYED MURTAZA HAROON

!!!.. "That" happiness most of us searched for (and we thought it’s about getting a person but it)...
SYED NOUMAN ZAIDI

ডাক্তার উৎসাহিত হয়ে আরো কি যেন বলতে যা...
SYED MUJTABA ALI

It's not about being liberal or conservative, it's about being human.

It's not about bein...
KAREN L. SYED

i am in need of a sudden Shift,
Your crimson lips. screaming at my Lips.
Let me hold down ...
SYED MURTAZA HAROON

শস্ত্রে সব পাওয়া যায় - কোন কিচ্ছুর অনট�...
SYED MUJTABA ALI

I stood there silently, under the cold embrace of that rain,
and watched myself drown,
as ...
SYED MURTAZA HAROON

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.
MUHAMMAD ALI

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.
MUHAMMAD ALI

It's in my blood to be around people while I was training.
MUHAMMAD ALI

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it - and I may come back.
MUHAMMAD ALI

If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would h...
MUHAMMAD ALI

You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind.
MUHAMMAD ALI

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that su...
MUHAMMAD ALI

White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing.
MUHAMMAD ALI

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.
MUHAMMAD ALI

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
MUHAMMAD ALI

I'm more at home with my log cabins than I am in my house in Cherry Hill.
MUHAMMAD ALI

The white man is destroying the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI

We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don't want to be forced to integrate. Integration...
MUHAMMAD ALI

The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much d...
MUHAMMAD ALI

I didn't want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, 'W...
MUHAMMAD ALI

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, 'The...
MUHAMMAD ALI

You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep ...
MUHAMMAD ALI

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airpor...
MUHAMMAD ALI

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given t...
MUHAMMAD ALI

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that y...
MUHAMMAD ALI

I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was th...
MUHAMMAD ALI

Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.
MUHAMMAD ALI

I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI

People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one ...
MUHAMMAD ALI

I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain...
MUHAMMAD ALI

Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.
MUHAMMAD ALI

My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight the fight. Al...
MUHAMMAD ALI

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the...
MUHAMMAD ALI

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
MUHAMMAD ALI

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
MUHAMMAD ALI

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
MUHAMMAD ALI

I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, ...
MUHAMMAD ALI

I said I was 'The Greatest,' I never said I was the smartest!
MUHAMMAD ALI

At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don&...
MUHAMMAD ALI

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the...
MUHAMMAD ALI

When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Oly...
MUHAMMAD ALI

I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.
MUHAMMAD ALI

I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beaut...
MUHAMMAD ALI

I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the r...
MUHAMMAD ALI

No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white gi...
MUHAMMAD ALI

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.
MUHAMMAD ALI

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.
MUHAMMAD ALI

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S....
MUHAMMAD ALI

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brin...
MUHAMMAD ALI

It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.
MUHAMMAD ALI

The Nation of Islam's main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep...
MUHAMMAD ALI

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have se...
MUHAMMAD ALI

I don't have to be what you want me to be.
MUHAMMAD ALI

I've been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.
MUHAMMAD ALI

My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
MUHAMMAD ALI

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist.
MUHAMMAD ALI

It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep co...
MUHAMMAD ALI

I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in...
MUHAMMAD ALI

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
MUHAMMAD ALI

Don't feel sorry for me.
MUHAMMAD ALI

I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow,...
MUHAMMAD ALI

America is the greatest country in the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI

Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor.
MUHAMMAD ALI

I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when J...
MUHAMMAD ALI

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people ...
MUHAMMAD ALI

I'm no leader; I'm a little humble follower.
MUHAMMAD ALI

I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better...
MUHAMMAD ALI

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating...
MUHAMMAD ALI

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That&#...
MUHAMMAD ALI

I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before...
MUHAMMAD ALI

I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
MUHAMMAD ALI

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
MUHAMMAD ALI

It's not bragging if you can back it up.
MUHAMMAD ALI

Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
MUHAMMAD ALI

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL

Since love first made the breast an instrument Of fierce lamenting, by its flame my heart Was molten...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL

God is not a dead equation!
MUHAMMAD IQBAL

Though the terror of the sea gives to none security, in the secret of the shell. Self preserving we ...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL

But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL

Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile:...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL

Sexual self-restraint is only a preliminary stage in the ego's evolution.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually ...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL

The soul is neither inside nor outside the body; neither proximate to nor separate from it.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.
MUHAMMAD IQBAL

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is divers...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL

While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.
MUHAMMAD YUNUS

But only a brief moment is granted to the brave one breath or two, whose wage is the long nights of ...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL

There is the expression of selfishness and there is the expression of selflessness - but economists ...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS

Politics is the profession of those who have neither trade nor art.
MUHAMMAD HIJAZI

Grameen Bank was formed as an institution owned by its borrower members, who are poor women. Through...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS

We have people who are based in their emotions and so they're hurt. It doesn't hurt me, a fool doesn...
AGIN MUHAMMAD

Always could get somebody's goat if you just talk about his mama, and that's basically what you have...
AGIN MUHAMMAD

Protesting is really similar to war. If you get the best lick in this time, then you've got to get y...
AGIN MUHAMMAD

I understand the reactions, but it's not for me to reduce myself to that level.
AGIN MUHAMMAD

Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friend...
MUHAMMAD ALI

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. Bu...
MUHAMMAD ALI

Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They...
MUHAMMAD YUNUS

Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But...
MUHAMMAD ALI

Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets ...
MUHAMMAD ALI

The fact that the poor are alive is clear proof of their ability.
MUHAMMAD YUNUS

What keeps me going is goals.
MUHAMMAD ALI

Where do you think I'd be next week if I didn't know how to shout and holler and make the public tak...
MUHAMMAD ALI

I am the greatest. Not only do I knock em out, I pick the round!
MUHAMMAD ALI

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.

Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

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