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Gems of Wisdom — 58 episodes
“My wish for the decades ahead” - New York, USA, 1 November 2017 and Aiglemont, France, 16 December 2016
“My beloved spiritual children” - Salamiyya, Syria, 10 November 2001
“A very significant moment in my own life” - Naryn, Kyrgyz Republic, 19 June 2021
“We would never become a demotivated, marginalised community” - Ottawa, Canada, 27 November 2013
“The ripple effect that a teacher can have” - Northern Areas, Pakistan, 19 October 2000
“Democracy can fail anywhere, at any time, in any society” - Gatineau, Canada, 19 May 2004
“Zanzibar was a significant focal point for this region of the world” - Zanzibar, Tanzania, 30 July 2009
“The problem of persistent global poverty” - Washington, D.C., USA, 22 April 2009
“The harmonious integration of the spiritual, the artistic, and the natural worlds” - Toronto, Canada, 28 May 2010
“A symbol of the hopes of people who lived through change and turbulence” - Houston, USA, 23 June 2002
“Without cultural identity, social cohesion gradually dissolves” - Amsterdam, Netherlands, 7 September 2002
“The promise of democracy has too often been disappointed” - New York, USA, 15 May 2006
“Confronting the knowledge deficit which now plagues too many Islamic societies” - Cairo, Egypt, 15 June 2006
“Ignorance could yield to understanding through the power of education” - London, UK, 26 June 2018
“Pluralism is the indispensable foundation for human peace and progress” - Ottawa, Canada, 16 May 2017
“When hope fades, extremist ideologies feed on the despair” - Toledo, Spain, 2 March 2006
“A for-profit international development agency” - Athi River, Kenya, 19 December 2003
“Culture is entwined for Muslims with matters of faith” - London, UK, 12 July 2007
“The northernmost Islamic garden ever created” - Edmonton, Canada, 16 October 2018
“Instability is infectious, but so is hope” - Lisbon, Portugal, 12 June 2014
“A strategic investment which many private investors might be reluctant to make” - Kampala, Uganda, 10 November 2006
“Critical components of any global development policy” - Berlin, Germany, 6 September 2004
“Reap the benefits of new technology” - Washington, D.C., USA, 10 November 1999
“Complex problems confronting sustainable development in mountain areas” - Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic, 31 October 2002
“Encounters of people and cultures” - Cambridge, Massachusetts, 27 May 1994
“A new Seat of the Ismaili Imamat” - Lisbon, Portugal, 10 July 2018
“The best of charity, in Islamic terms, can go beyond material support alone” - Islamabad, Pakistan, 17 October 2000
“Caricatures which have brought such pain to Islamic peoples” - Evora, Portugal, 12 February 2006
“Milestone moment in the early history of the University of Central Asia” - Naryn, Kyrgyz Republic, 19 October 2016
“Increasing frustration concerning the pluralism story” - Toronto, Canada, 21 September 2016
“Environmental goals and development goals must be part of a complementary agenda” - Jinja, Uganda, 21 August 2007
“An investment made in the earliest preschool years” - Mombasa, Kenya, 14 August 2007
“International development and its relationship to education” - University of Alberta, 9 June 2009
“Discovery of knowledge as a spiritual responsibility” - Dhaka, Bangladesh, 20 May 2008
“Each generation must leave for its successors a wholesome and sustainable social and physical environment” - Washington, D.C., USA, 26 January 2005
“Progress of democracy in our world is fundamentally linked to improving the quality of human life” - Athens, Greece, 15 September 2015
“Improving maternal, neonatal and child health should be one of the highest priorities” - Toronto, Canada, 29 May 2014
“A gift from the past that will keep on giving” - New Delhi, India, 21 February 2018
“Diversification without disintegration, this is the greatest challenge of our time” - Providence, USA, 10 March 2014
“A bridge across the gulf of knowledge which separates the Islamic world from the West” - Providence, USA, 26 May 1996
“Ethical media practices throughout the developing world” – Nairobi, Kenya, 18 March 2010
“Traditions evolve in a context, and the context always changes” – London, UK, 19 October 2003
“Civil society is one of the most powerful forces in our time” - Ottawa, Canada, 27 February 2014
“Building an effective cosmopolitan ethic in a fragmented world” - Cambridge, USA, 12 November 2015
“An education for success in the modern world” - Osh, Kyrgyz Republic, 30 October 2002
“Touching the very foundations of my ancestors, the Fatimids” - Cairo, Egypt, 25 March 2005
“A clash of ignorance” - Houston, USA, 23 June 2002
“Leading participants in the knowledge society” - Karachi, Pakistan, 6 December 2006
“The spiritual roots of tolerance” - Tutzing, Germany, 12 February 2006
“The Holy Prophet's life gives us every fundamental guideline that we require” - Karachi, Pakistan, 12 March 1976
“A place for contemplation and search for enlightenment” - Dubai, UAE, 13 December 2003
“In Islamic thought… beauty and mystery are not separated from intellect” - Ottawa, Canada, 6 December 2008
“Musical language as an elemental expression of human spirituality” - Lisbon, Portugal, 31 March 2019
“The Qur’an… has been an inexhaustible well-spring of inspiration” - London, UK, 19 October 2003
“Architecture is the only art form which has a direct, daily impact on the quality of human life” - Al-Ain, UAE, 6 November 2016
“Diversity as an opportunity rather than a burden” - Toronto, Canada, 15 October 2010
“Cultural investments as a springboard for development” - London, UK, 22 October 2015
“The most important skill anyone can learn is the ability to go on learning” - Atlanta, USA, 18 April 2008