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.
AGA KHAN IVThe search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity.
More Aga Khan IV Quotes
-
-
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.
AGA KHAN IV -
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
AGA KHAN IV -
Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples’ cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.
AGA KHAN IV -
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.
AGA KHAN IV -
A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
AGA KHAN IV -
We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
AGA KHAN IV -
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.
AGA KHAN IV -
God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
AGA KHAN IV -
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.
AGA KHAN IV -
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 IV -
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.
AGA KHAN IV -
They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
AGA KHAN IV -
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.
AGA KHAN IV -
The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.
AGA KHAN IV -
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 IV