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The duty of history is not merely to repeat the events of the past. Rather, its true purpose is to teach the people of the present lessons from the mistakes of yesterday and to reform their moral character.

— Syed Sulaiman Nadvi

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If knowledge does not teach a human being humility and meekness, then it is not true knowledge. It is merely a mental veil that deprives a person from witnessing the truth.

This academy is a shared intellectual inheritance of the subcontinent. Its doors are open without any distinction of religion or creed to every researcher who possesses a thirst for knowledge.

Address at Darul Musannefin (1934)

Only that language survives which possesses the capacity to absorb good and useful words from other languages. Flexibility is the greatest indicator of a language’s vitality.

In the investigation of religious issues, my approach has always been that there should be no departure from the path of the righteous predecessors regarding fundamental beliefs. However, after critically examining arguments to the best of my ability, I prefer a specific jurisprudential viewpoint based on merit.

Ma'arif (1943)

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