A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
AGA KHAN IVThe Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
More Aga Khan IV Quotes
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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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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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