This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
AGA KHAN IVThere 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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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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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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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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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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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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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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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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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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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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