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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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he two worlds, Muslim and non-Muslim, Eastern and Western, must, as a matter of urgency, make a real effort to get to know one another, for I fear that what we have is not a clash of civilisations, but a clash of ignorance on both sides.
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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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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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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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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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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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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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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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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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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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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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