Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its peoples.
AGA KHAN IVThis means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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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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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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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world’s peoples.
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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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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity.
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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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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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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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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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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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