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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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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 right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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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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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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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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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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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 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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This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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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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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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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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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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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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