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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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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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Continue Creation God Marvel Opened Window
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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Art Concentration Deep Future Literary Past Read Thought Time Work
My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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Amongst Art Book Gifted Grandfather Many Past Person Qualities
A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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Better Bridge Future Home Hunger Poverty Proper Provide
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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Communities Community Confident Depth Educated Identity Neighbour Pluralistic Require Society Tradition
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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Community Generally Instructed Interpretation Leave Religious Wider World
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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Avoid Big Building Cultural Development Economic Look Picture Single Social Syndrome Together Trying
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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Culture Faith Openness Social Structure Survival Tolerance Understanding Value
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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Belief Discover Fold Holy Humility Knowledge Man Prophet Religious Revealed Virtue
That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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Amazing Asset Canada Global Human Something Unique
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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Civilisation Clash Effort Ignorance Matter Musit Real Urgency Word
If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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Animosities Born Confident Fear Generosity Generously Hope Powerful Progress
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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Equality Justice Opportunity Security Struggle Thinking
Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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Creation God Greatest Knowledge Probably Purpose Religious
Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark.
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Apathy Degradation Determination Enterprise Ignite Individual Renewed Spark Spirit Touch Touched Unfortunate
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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Architecture Award Better Mean People Physical Place Seek Term Trying

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