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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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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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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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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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Nor do these two involve any contradiction, provided man remembers that his own mind is itself the creation of God. Without this humility, no balance is possible. With it, there are no barriers.
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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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