Indeed, one strength of Islam has always lain in its belief that creation is not static but continuous, that through scientific and other endeavours.
AGA KHAN IVCanada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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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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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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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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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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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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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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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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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