A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
AGA KHAN IVIslam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
More Aga Khan IV Quotes
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Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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Nor do these two involve any contradiction, provided man remembers that his own mind is itself the creation of God. Without this humility, no balance is possible. With it, there are no barriers.
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We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.
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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples’ cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.
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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.
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Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its peoples.
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There are many interpretations of Islam within the wider Islamic community, but generally we are instructed to leave the world a better place than it was when we came into it.
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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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None of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another.
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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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he two worlds, Muslim and non-Muslim, Eastern and Western, must, as a matter of urgency, make a real effort to get to know one another, for I fear that what we have is not a clash of civilisations, but a clash of ignorance on both sides.
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A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.
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