Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
AGA KHAN IVThe search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity.
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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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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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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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 is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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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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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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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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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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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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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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The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.
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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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