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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.

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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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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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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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The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.
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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.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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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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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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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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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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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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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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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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