If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
AGA KHAN IVNor 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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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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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