While the past was a book he had read and re-read may times, the future was just one more literary work of art into which he used to pour himself with deep thought and concentration.
AGA KHAN IVWe cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
More Aga Khan IV Quotes
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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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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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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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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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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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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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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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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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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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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.
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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.
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