These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
AGA KHAN IVGod has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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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 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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There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.
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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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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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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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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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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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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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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The Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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Unless these unfortunates can be touched with the spark which ignites the spirit of individual enterprise and determination, they will only sink back into renewed apathy, degradation and despair. It is for us, who are more fortunate, to provide that spark.
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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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