The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples’ cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.
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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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Pluralist 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.
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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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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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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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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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Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark.
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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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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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