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 IVThe right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.
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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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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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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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