Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
AGA KHAN IVNone of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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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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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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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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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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 Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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 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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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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