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.
AGA KHAN IVNone of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another.
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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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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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 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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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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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 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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