God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
AGA KHAN IVIslam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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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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Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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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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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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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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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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It 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.
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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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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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