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 IVIf our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
More Aga Khan IV Quotes
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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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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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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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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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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 Islamic ethic is that if God has given you the capacity or good fortune to be a privileged individual in society, you have a moral responsibility to society.
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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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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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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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