The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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.
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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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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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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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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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Indeed, one strength of Islam has always lain in its belief that creation is not static but continuous, that through scientific and other endeavours.
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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.
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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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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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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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