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.
AGA KHAN IVTolerance, 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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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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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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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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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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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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That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.
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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms.
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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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Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind.
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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 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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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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