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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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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples’ cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.
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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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This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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We try to avoid the single-building syndrome. You have to look at the big picture. If you try to put social and cultural development ahead of economic development, it doesn’t work. You have to do it all together.
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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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Pluralist societies are not accidents of history. They are a product of enlightened education and continuous investment by governments and all of civil society in recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the world’s peoples.
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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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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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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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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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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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