If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
AGA KHAN IVGod has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
More Aga Khan IV Quotes
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation
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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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We cannot make the world safe for democracy unless we also make the world safe for diversity.
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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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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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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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My grandfather was a most gifted person, and amongst his many qualities, one of them had always particularly impressed me.
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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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