Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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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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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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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Nor do these two involve any contradiction, provided man remembers that his own mind is itself the creation of God. Without this humility, no balance is possible. With it, there are no barriers.
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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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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its peoples.
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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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Innumerable people since his death have told me how he used to read in the future, and this certainly was one of his very great strengths.
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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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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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