If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
AGA KHAN IVCanada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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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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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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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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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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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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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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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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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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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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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