If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
AGA KHAN IVPluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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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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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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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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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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 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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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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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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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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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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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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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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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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