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“The successful are those who can be saved from their own selfishness.”
“The removal of God from human consciousness means the removal of meaning and purpose from human life.”
“The idea behind verses about the sealing of hearts appears to be the psychological law that if a person once does a good or an evil deed, his chances of repeating that kind of action increase and o...”
“All evil, all injustice, all harm that one does to someone elsein sum, all deviation from man's normative naturein a much more fundamental way and in a far more ultimate sense one does to oneself, ...”
“It must be constantly remembered that the Qu rn is not just descriptive but is primarily prescriptive. Both the content of its message and the power of the form in which it is conveyed are designed...”
“To hold that the Qurn believes in an absolute determinism of human behavior, denying free choice on man's part, is not only to deny almost the entire content of theQu rn, but to undercut its very b...”
“People belittle or ignore or even rebel against God, because they view theprocesses of nature as having self-sufficient causes, normally regarded by them asultimate. They do not realize that the un...”
“Philologists assure us that ulm in Arabic originally meant "to put something out of its proper place," so that all wrong of any kind is injustice, i.e., an injustice against the agent himself) is, ...”
“This unstable character of man, this going from one extreme to the other, arising as it does out of his narrow vision and petty mind, reveals certain basic moral tensions within which human conduct...”
“The essence of all human rights is the equality of the entire human race, which the Qurn assumed, affirmed, and confirmed. It obliterated all distinctions among men except goodness and virtue (taqw...”
“The Qurn definitely seems optimistic about the future, while rather grim about the past It is absolutely imperative for successor civilizations and their bearer communities to study well and learn ...”
“This struggle between good and evil, fresh and stale, new and decrepit,between the vigor of moral youth and the dotage of senility, is of positive benefit, for it keeps the perennial moral values a...”
“The Qurn began by criticizing two closely related aspects of that society: the polytheism or multiplicity of gods which was symptomatic of the segmentation of society, and the gross socioeconomic d...”
“The purpose of man's creation is that he do good in the world, not substitutehimself for God and think that he can make and unmake the moral law at his ownconvenience and for his own selfish and na...”
“ top up position down bottomThe corruption of religious leaders, who were expected to be the source of spiritual force and regeneration, is the last step in the decay of a community.”
“The simple truth is that nowhere in human history is there another manwho combined so uniquely and effectively in his person both the idealist and realist factors as did Muammad (Peace be upon him)”
“For the Qurn, it is neither strange nor out of tune nor blameworthy for a prophetthat he is not always consistent as a human. It is nevertheless as a human that hebecomes an example for mankind, fo...”
“Nature exists for man to exploit for his own ends, while the end of man himself is nothing else but to serve God, to be grateful to Him, and to worship Him alone.”
“Empirical" knowledge itself is of little benefit unless it awakens the inner perception of man as to his own situation, his potentialities, his risks, and his destiny”
“The Qurn does not appear to endorse the kind of doctrine of a radical mind-body dualism found in Greek philosophy, Christianity, or Hinduism; indeed, there is hardly a passage in the Qur'n that say...”
