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.
AGA KHAN IVThe right to hope is the most powerful human motivation I know.
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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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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 Pope is only concerned with the spiritual welfare of his flock.
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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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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 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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They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
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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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If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope.
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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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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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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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Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need.
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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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