Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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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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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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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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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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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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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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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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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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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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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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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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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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