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.
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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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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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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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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There 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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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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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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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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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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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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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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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