A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
AGA KHAN IVCanada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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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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There is nothing wrong with being well off as long as money has a social and ethical value and is not the object of one’s own greed.
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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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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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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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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 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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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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