Quotes by Aga Khan IV

Aga Khan IV

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

Bridges

Home

Poverty

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.

Community

Depth

Identity

Canada has an experience of governance of which much of the world stands in dire need. 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.

Agree Upon

Religious

Space

Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind… That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.

Doubt

Successful

Unique

If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.

Generosity

Powerful

Progress

In Islamic belief, knowledge is two-fold. There is that revealed through the Holy Prophet (s.a.s.) and that which man discovers by virtue of his own intellect. 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. Indeed, one strength of Islam has always lain in its belief that creation is not static but continuous, that through scientific and other endeavours, God has opened and continues to open new windows for us to see the marvels of His creation

Humility

Islamic

Men

Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.

God

Islam

Purpose

None of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.

Country

Issues

Religious

Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.

Development

Pluralism Is

Progress

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.

Diversity

Government

World

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Agree Upon

Awards

Bridges

Community

Country

Degradation

Democracy

Depth

Development

Diversity

Doubt

Ethical

Ethics

Generosity

God

Government

Greed

Home

Humans

Humility

Identity

Ignorance

Islam

Islamic

Issues

Long

Looks

Mean

Men

Momentum

Motivation

Pluralism Is

Pope

Poverty

Powerful

Progress

Purpose

Real

Relation

Religious

Responsibility

Space

Spiritual

Successful

Survival

Together

Tolerance

Trying

Two

Understanding

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Quotes by Aga Khan IV

Aga Khan IV

A proper home can provide the bridge across that terrible gulf between poverty and a better future.

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.

Canada is today the most successful pluralist society on the face of our globe, without any doubt in my mind… That is something unique to Canada. It is an amazing global human asset.

If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.

Islam is probably the one that places the greatest emphasis on knowledge. The purpose is to understand God’s creation.

None of these situations are identical. You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.

Pluralism is no longer simply an asset or a prerequisite for progress and development, it is vital to our existence.

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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