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can human beings come to understand their own well-being as linked to that of others, in wider and wider circles, beyond family and tribe?

to reclaiming the prophetic tradition and working with multi-faith partners to build a society of equity and equality, compassion and justice.

That we do preserve something of that primary simplicity that poets and philosophers can still indeed in some sense say an Universal Prayer, that we live in a large and serene world under a sky that stretches paternally over all the peoples of the earth, that philosophy and philanthropy are truisms in a religion of reasonable men, all that we do mo

As a result, the West would eventually destroy itself, a position that was easy to understand after the First World War, which could be seen as the collective suicide of Europe. Muslims therefore had a vital mission to witness to the divine dimension of life, not by retiring from the world to engage in contemplation, but by an activism that impleme

This was the primordial faith that had been preached to the whole of humanity by the prophets of the past.