A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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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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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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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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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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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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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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 has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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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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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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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