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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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he two worlds, Muslim and non-Muslim, Eastern and Western, must, as a matter of urgency, make a real effort to get to know one another, for I fear that what we have is not a clash of civilisations, but a clash of ignorance on both sides.
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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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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 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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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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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 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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A secure pluralistic society requires communities that are educated and confident both in the identity and depth of their own traditions and in those of their neighbours.
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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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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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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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These are moral imperatives which we must work towards and think about on a daily basis.
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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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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