Indeed, one strength of Islam has always lain in its belief that creation is not static but continuous, that through scientific and other endeavours.
AGA KHAN IVThese are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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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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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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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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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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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 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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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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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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