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Islam is fundamentally in its very nature a natural religion.

— Aga Khan III

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Even a little knowledge of Islam will show that its religion is not only tolerant of other Faiths, but most respectful, and indeed, fully accepts the divine inspiration of all theistic Faiths that came before Islam.

There is a right and legitimate Pan-Islamism to which every sincere and believing Mahomedan belongs — that is, the theory of the spiritual brotherhood and unity of the children of the Prophet.

India in Transition (1918)

The subject should always disappear in the object.

Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough & Time (1954)

It is said that we live, move and have our being in God.

Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough & Time (1954)

Throughout the Quran God's signs (Ayats) are referred to as the natural phenomenon, the law and order of the universe, the exactitudes and consequences of the relations between natural phenomenon in cause and effect. Over and over, the stars, sun, moon, earthquakes, fruits of the earth and trees are mentioned as the signs of divine power, divine law and divine order.

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