There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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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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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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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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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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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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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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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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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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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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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.
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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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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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