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My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without imposing any particular views. He was an overwhelming personality but open-minded and liberal.

Aga Khan III

Outside His will, outside His thought, all is nothing, even the things which seem to us absolutely self-evident such as space and time.
AGA KHAN III

Absolutely Evident Nothing Outside Self Space Thing Time Will
Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.
AGA KHAN III

Day Every Filled Fled Fleeting Hour Life Minute Swift Time Wing
Allah alone wishes: the Universe exists; and all manifestations are as a witness of the Divine will.
AGA KHAN III

Alone Divine Exist God Manifestation Universal Will Wish Witness
My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without imposing any particular views. He was an overwhelming personality but open-minded and liberal.
AGA KHAN III

Basic Belief Country Encouraged Father Impossible Insisted Liberal Open Minded Overwhelming Personality Religious Tradition Understand View
Happiness is never a negative affair; it is to be won by men who are fully alive, full of the joy of living.
AGA KHAN III

Affair Alive Fully Happiness Joy Living Man Negative Won
There is a fundamental difference between the Jewish idea of creation and that of Islam.
AGA KHAN III

Between Creation Difference Fundamental Jewish Religious Space Unique
Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy.
AGA KHAN III

Defeat Duty Encouraging God Hand Inspirational Joy Man Struggle
The creation according to Islam is not a unique act in a given time but a perpetual and constant event; and God supports and sustains all existence at every moment by His will and His thought.
AGA KHAN III

Constant Creation Every God Moment Perpetual Religious Support Sustain Thought Time Unique Will
Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.
AGA KHAN III

Best Calling Destiny Exalted Great Grovelling Life Lofty Mean Noble Shuffled

My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without imposing any particular views. He was an overwhelming personality but open-minded and liberal.

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