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.
AGA KHAN IVThat is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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 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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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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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.
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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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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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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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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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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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Indeed, one strength of Islam has always lain in its belief that creation is not static but continuous, that through scientific and other endeavours.
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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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