Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
AGA KHAN IVUnless 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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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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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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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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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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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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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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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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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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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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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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It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.
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