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.
AGA KHAN IVIslam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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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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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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In Islamic belief, knowledge is two-fold. There is that revealed through the Holy Prophet (s.a.s.) and that which man discovers by virtue of his own intellect.
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There are those… who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot.
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One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.
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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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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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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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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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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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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