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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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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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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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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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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 appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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