"For, according to the teachings of Islam, moral knowledge automatically forces moral responsibility upon man. A mere Platonic discernment between Right and Wrong, without the urge to promote Right and to destroy Wrong, is a gross immorality in itself, for morality lives and dies with the human endeavour to establish its victory upon earth."

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Source : Muhammad Asad (1993). “Islam at the Crossroads”, p.18, The Other Press

Muhammad Asad

#Teaching Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Men Quotes

“Medicine for the soul.”

Source : Inscription over the door of the Library at Thebes. I. 49. 3.,
“I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.”
“My contacts with the film industry can be described in very simple terms: The industry does not really need me, and I do not really need the industry.”
“It is important to be chic.”
“He handed her the other half of his candy bar. She stared at it like it was a brick of gold. "I'm on a diet." But she took it. "A see-food diet, apparently. I see food and I eat it.”
“Success is the progressive realization of predetermined, worthwhile, personal goals.”
“Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.”
“I think there's a lot of great beliefs in the Buddhist religion, I think there's a lot of great beliefs in the Christian religion, I think there's a lot of great beliefs in no religion. It just depends on how you feel on the inside.”

Source : Source: puregrainaudio.com

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