Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples’ cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.
AGA KHAN IVCanada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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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 Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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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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 appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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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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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 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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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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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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This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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