This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
AGA KHAN IVThis means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
AGA KHAN IVNone of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another.
AGA KHAN IVThe Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
AGA KHAN IVIn 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.
AGA KHAN IVThere are those… who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot.
AGA KHAN IVThe right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
AGA KHAN IVPluralist 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.
AGA KHAN IVGod has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
AGA KHAN IVhe 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.
AGA KHAN IVThe 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.
AGA KHAN IVWe 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.
AGA KHAN IVIt 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.
AGA KHAN IVThere 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 IVIf our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
AGA KHAN IVThese are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
AGA KHAN IVThe search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity.
AGA KHAN IV