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.
AGA KHAN IVThe Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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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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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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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.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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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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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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None of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another.
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