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.
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 has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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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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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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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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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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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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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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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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