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.
AGA KHAN IVThe Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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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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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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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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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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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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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 right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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