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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.

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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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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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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 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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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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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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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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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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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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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This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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