“God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation”

The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.

They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

None of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another.

The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity.

If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.

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.

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.

This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.

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.

These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.

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.

The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.

My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.

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.

Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.

This is a wonderful book, unique and engaging. Diaconis and Graham manage to convey the awe and marvels of mathematics, and of magic tricks, especially those that depend fundamentally on mathematical ideas.

I marvel every day at how people can excel – and that’s what really gets me going.

Since then mountains and torrential rivers and whatever separates and alienates have been cast between us, and even if we wanted to get together, we couldn’t. But when you now think of that little footbridge, words fail you and you sob and marvel.

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

Indeed, one strength of Islam has always lain in its belief that creation is not static but continuous, that through scientific and other endeavours.

In depths where her marvels are manifest; So the earth beneath her should not discover my hidden couchnor the heaven above her As a strong love selding a weary lover

I have a dog and sometimes I’ll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I’d bawl like a baby.