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.
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.
More Aga Khan IV Quotes
-
-
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.
AGA KHAN IV -
These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
AGA KHAN IV -
Canada 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 IV -
We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
AGA KHAN IV -
Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
AGA KHAN IV -
My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
AGA KHAN IV -
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 IV -
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.
AGA KHAN IV -
Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
AGA KHAN IV -
They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
AGA KHAN IV -
That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
AGA KHAN IV -
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 IV -
The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.
AGA KHAN IV -
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.
AGA KHAN IV -
If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
AGA KHAN IV