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The treasures of our past are being destroyed and an ever quickening construction boom is bringing us too many buildings that I think we will live to despise. Should we allow future generations of Muslims to live without the self-respect of our own cultural and spiritual symbols of power, to practise their faith without also being reminded of that sense of scale in relation to the universe around us which is so particularly ours?
SPEECH TO THE ASIA SOCIETY - New York, U.S.A. 1979-09-25
Posted March 3rd, 2019 by librarian-ld
Mr Talbot, Ladies and Gentlemen, honoured guests and members of the Asia Society
By the Islamic calendar we will in just a few months enter the 1400th year of our faith. In the Christian accounting of time, we stand on the brink of the 21st century. It seems fitting to reflect, to consider what Islam has been and what it is to become in this new age. It is a time to speak about hazards and about visions.
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