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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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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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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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Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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Development Existence Longer Pluralism Progress Simply Vital
These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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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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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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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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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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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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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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