These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
AGA KHAN IVTolerance, 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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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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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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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration.
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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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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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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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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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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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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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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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