There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one’s own greed.
AGA KHAN IVInnumerable 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.
More Aga Khan IV Quotes
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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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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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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The Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.
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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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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration.
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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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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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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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Indeed, one strength of Islam has always lain in its belief that creation is not static but continuous, that through scientific and other endeavours.
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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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