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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.

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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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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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Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world’s peoples.
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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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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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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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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark.
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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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