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.
AGA KHAN IVGod has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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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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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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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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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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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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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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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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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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None of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another.
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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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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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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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