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.
AGA KHAN IVThis means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
More Aga Khan IV Quotes
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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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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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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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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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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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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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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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