"The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source of all his ethical thought and all his concepts of morality; not the outcome of primitive credulity which a more "enlightened" age could outgrow, but the only answer to a real, basic need of man at all times and in all environments. In another word, it is an instinct."

Source : Muhammad Asad (1961). “The Principles of State and Government in Islam”, p.10, Univ of California Press

Muhammad Asad

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