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.
AGA KHAN IVInnumerable 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.
AGA KHAN IVA proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
AGA KHAN IVIf our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
AGA KHAN IVIndeed, 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 IVWhile 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.
AGA KHAN IVThe right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
AGA KHAN IVNor 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 IVWe cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
AGA KHAN IVThe Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.
AGA KHAN IVCanada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
AGA KHAN IVThe 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 IVTolerance, 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 IVIn 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 IVOne 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 IVCanada 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 IVWe 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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