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 IVThere appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
More Aga Khan IV Quotes
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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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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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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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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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It is a world of increasing dissension and conflict in which a significant contribution is the failure of different ethnic, tribal, religious, or social groups to search for, and agree upon, a common space for harmonious co-existence.
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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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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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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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