A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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.
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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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he 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.
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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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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.
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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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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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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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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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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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There are those… who enter the world in such poverty that they are deprived of both the means and the motivation to improve their lot.
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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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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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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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