QUOTE 510

Our time-honoured cultural heritage had been buried – obscured not only by the shifting sands of time, but also by an all-consuming occidentalisation. As one observer commented, the physical identity of the Islamic world had been reduced to coffee table books.

quote 509

All Muslims are called upon to improve the physical condition of our world, and honouring our cultural heritage is vital to that calling.

quote 508

Not a day goes by where my institution – the Ismaili Imamat – is not building or rebuilding something somewhere: a historic site perhaps, but also a hospital, a university, an industry.

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Dua App: http://www.ismaili.net/heritage/node/33635 Ginan App: http://www.ismaili.net/heritage/node/33631 Both pages are currently restricted to the audience parameter 'ismailis'. This means that only librarians that are tagged as ismailis can see it. only a handful of us. If you remove that restriction, it becomes available to the public. Statistics for dua: http://www.ismaili.net/heritage/node/33637 Statistics for Ginan: http://ismaili.net/heritage/node/33632
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quote 507

This merging of Nature’s Gifts with Human Design is an ideal that is deeply embedded, of course, both in Indian culture and in Islamic traditions, with the flow of refreshing water reminding us of the abundance of Divine Blessing.