Fakhr al-Din al-Razi Quotes on Knowledge
Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (1149–1210), the most influential Sunni theologian-philosopher of the post-Avicennan generation and the author of the great Quranic commentary Mafātīḥ al-Ghayb (Keys to the Unseen), gave Ash'arite kalām its mature engagement with the philosophical tradition of al-Fārābī and Avicenna. The Mabāḥith al-mashriqiyya (Eastern Discussions) and the Muḥaṣṣal (Compendium) systematically incorporate the Avicennan ontology and epistemology while subjecting it to kalām objections, and the framework defines the synthetic tradition of philosophical theology that the post-classical Sunni schools would carry forward through the late-medieval and early-modern centuries.
Quotes
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Attributed to Fakhr al-Din al-Razi:
“Doubt is the beginning of certainty.”
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Attributed to Fakhr al-Din al-Razi:
“Reason is the foundation of all genuine theology.”
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Attributed to Fakhr al-Din al-Razi:
“The truths of religion and the truths of philosophy converge.”
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Attributed to Fakhr al-Din al-Razi:
“Anyone who reflects deeply on the world will find the traces of God.”
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Attributed to Fakhr al-Din al-Razi:
“Inquiry is a religious duty for those whom God has given the capacity to inquire.”
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“I regret the time I have been eating instead of being in pursuit of learning - for time is precious.”
in Great Figures of Islam – Imam Fakhruddin ar-Razi -
“in Great Figures of Islam – Imam Fakhruddin ar-Razi”
I regret the time I have been eating instead of being in pursuit of learning - for time is precious. -
“My heart was never deprived of science, There are little of the mysteries that I did not understand. For 72 years I thought night and day, Yet I came to know that nothing is to be known.” [ 1 ]”
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