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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.

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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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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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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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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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.
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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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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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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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This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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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 right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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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 Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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