These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
AGA KHAN IVMy grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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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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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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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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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Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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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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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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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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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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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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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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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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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