Tolerance, openness and understanding towards other peoples’ cultures, social structures, values and faiths are now essential to the very survival of an interdependent world.
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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This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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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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Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.
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The right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.
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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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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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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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The search for justice and security, the struggle for equality of opportunity, the quest for tolerance and harmony, the pursuit of human dignity.
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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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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 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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Canada has for many years been a beacon to the rest of the world for its commitment to pluralism and for its support for the multicultural richness and diversity of its peoples.
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