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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 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.
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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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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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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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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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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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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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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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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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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