Ismaili Medley

GOOGLE.COM -- KAMALZAR.COM -- Service Universal Human Ethics Some inspiring messages-1 • When you shift from a compulsion to survive toward a commitment to serve others, your life cannot help but explode into success. (Anonymous) • Happiness comes from devoting your life to helping others...the hand that gives is the hand that gathers, and giving begins the receiving process. (Anonymous) Some inspiring messages-2 ...

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ISMAILI.NET -- During didar, in Nairobi, in 1914, [Alidina Visram] sitting, on the floor beside the Imam's chair, saw tears in the Imam's eyes.... Eventually he asked their reason. The Imam replied, "My followers in the world are so visible in my sight as the lines in your palm. I am now looking at my followers of Kutchh, who are the impoverished peasants. I am ruffled to see their deplorable conditions." Varas said, "May I do something for them?" The Imam said, "You can do everything for them. You arrange to bring them and allot 10 acres land to each of them. I will send them in Africa on my expenses." ...

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IIS.AC.UK -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Must read for all Ismailis.] ARTICLE: This summary, of the easy to read book "Assassin Legends: Myths of the Ismailis," published by the IIS, details how legends about Ismailis were "fabricated and put into circulation by Europeans." It clears up critical misunderstandings about Ismailis and Hasan bin Sabbah, such as their use of hashish -- a drug -- which would have been counter-productive to successfully completing discrete and delicate missions Ismaili fidais undertook. ...

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GOOGLE.COM -- ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ISMAILISM, 2006 -- The word shah didar or shah'jo didar means may (you bless with) Lord's glimpse. It is a taslim in the Ismaili tariqah, the believers greet each other at the end of the prayer, beholding face to face, both pronounce shah didar by shaking hand. This is an act of humble wish to refresh their spiritual ...

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15MINUTEHISTORY.ORG -- UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS -- Guest: Shainool Jiwa, Institute for Ismaili Studies, London. Around the first millennium of the Christian era, a small group of Ismaili Shi'i Muslims established a dynasty that rapidly conquered North Africa from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea. At the height of their power they conquered Egypt, where they founded the city of Cairo, and ...

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[H/T VISITOR SUGGESTION] -- YOUTUBE.COM -- JOLLYGUL.COM -- Ginan with music aae rahem rahemaan ab to rahem karoge O Most Gracious and Most Merciful Bestow your kind mercy upon me now Composed by Sayyeda Imaam Begum Recited by Shemina Bhojani Video dedicated to Ismaili women for their important contributions in spiritual and worldly matters throughout our 1,400 years history. In loving memory of Huzur Mukhiani Nurbanu Somji 1954-2018 ...

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YOUTUBE.COM -- BBC DOCUMENTARY -- Part 3 covers how the European scientific revolution in the 16th and 17th centuries (The Renaissance) had its roots in the Islamic civilisation's scholarship. Host Jim Al-Khalili travels to Italy to see how Islamic ideas permeated into the West and ultimately helped shape the works of the great European astronomer Copernicus, and investigates why science in the Islamic world appeared to go into decline after the 16th and 17th centuries.

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YOUTUBE.COM -- BBC DOCUMENTARY -- Part 2 covers northern Syria, Cairo and Alamut to highlight Al-Biruni, Ibn al-Haytham and Nasir al-Din Tusi. Al-Biruni estimated the size of the earth to within a few hundred miles of the correct figure. Ibn al-Haytham helped establish the modern science of optics by proving light travels in straight lines. Tusi succeeded in re-writing Ptolemy's theory which ultimately led to the overthrow of the geocentric view of the universe.

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YOUTUBE.COM -- BBC DOCUMENTARY -- Science and Islam is a three-part BBC documentary, presented by physicist Jim Al-Khalili, about the history of science in Islamic civilisation between the 8th and 14th centuries. Its legacy is tangible, with Arabic terms like algebra and algorithm at the very heart of modern science. From the great mathematician Al-Khwarizmi, who invented algebra, to Ibn Sina, whose Canon of Medicine was still in use as recently as the 19th century.

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GOOGLE.COM -- ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF ISMAILISM, 2006 -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: In the early centuries, the day of Ghadir Khum was an occasion all Muslims celebrated. In Egypt, the Fatimid Imams officially sanctioned it as an Eid and adopted it as a court ceremony.] ARTICLE: The Prophet left Medina for performing his farwell pilgrimage on Saturday, the 25th Zilkada, 10. He reached Mecca ...

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THE.ISMAILI -- Scroll through pictures and descriptions of all the main events of Mawlana Hazar Imam's Imamat. ...

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YOUTUBE.COM -- ALY SUNDERJI -- Features Pir Shams, Pir Satgur Noor, Pir Hasan Kabirdin, Pir Taajdin and more. Continuously updated. Based on four books of Lalji Devraj from the early-mid 1900s. Narrated by Parin Virjee. Background ginans sung by Aly Sunderji. ...

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IICANADA.ORG -- ISMAILI INSTITUTIONS CANADA -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: By Aleem Karmali. Originally published in The Ismaili (UK)] ARTICLE: Unhealthy Habits: Alcohol, Drugs and Smoking In discussing the ethics of healthy living, Mawlana Hazar Imam has consistently warned the Jamat to avoid engaging in activities that cause harm to the self and to others, such as drinking alcohol, using drugs, and smoking. These ...

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ISMAILIWELLSPRINGS.WORDPRESS.COM -- The imam's ta'lim lights the murid's path to spiritual enlightenment and vision. In temporal matters, the Imam guides the murids, and motivates them to develop their potential. (The Preamble to Ismaili Consitution) It was essentially a reformulation of an old Shii doctrine of long standing among the Ismailis, namely, the doctrine of ta'lim or authoritative teaching by the imam, that the ...

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AKF.ORG.UK -- Jurjen Vandertas describes the history of Islamic gardens, how they are being adapted for modern use, and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture's 20-year journey of creating and restoring paradise gardens across the Islamic world. Gardens of Paradise take their name from the old Persian pairi dez, meaning "surrounded by a wall". Transliterated into the Greek as paradeisos and henceforth known ...

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[H/T VISITOR SUGGESTION] -- YOUTUBE.COM -- University of Alberta Botanic Garden. Beautiful footage! Nice music and editing! ...

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THECONVERSATION.COM -- BY FARHAD DAFTARY (IIS) -- Today, historian Farhad Daftary debunks the idea that Islamic State is based on the so-called Assassins or hashishin, the fighting corps of the fledgling medieval Nizari Ismaili state. Many Western commentators have tried to trace the ideological roots of Islamic State (IS) to earlier Islamic movements. Occasionally, they've associated them with the medieval Ismailis, a Shiʿite Muslim ...

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THEJOURNEYFILM.CA -- This devotional masterpiece called "The Journey" is visual poetry of Jalaluddin Rumi and the space at the Ismaili Centre in Burnaby, B.C. It is inspired by the creative prompts of devotion, aspiration, legacy and time for the Jubilee Arts Festival. In this poem, Rumi has expressed his love for the divine so deep that his poetry only scratches the surface. ...

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IICANADA.ORG -- ISMAILI INSTITUTIONS CANADA -- ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Originally published in Ilm Magazine (UK) -- This article seeks to explain briefly the nature, position, and function of festivals, rites and ceremonies in religion. The terms "rites and ceremonies" will be used interchangeably to mean the religious ceremonies rather than non-religious ones because the ensuing discussion concentrates on the meaning of ceremonies in a religious sense. ...

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[H/T VISITOR SUGGESTION] -- THEARTSDESK.COM -- Musical extravaganza focusing on enigmatic Central Asia comes to the Royal Albert Hall -- Many of us recognise that rather striking modernist building in Cromwell Gardens near South Kensington tube, having seen it on the way to the V&A or perhaps a Prom at the Albert Hall but not been sure what it is exactly. I ...

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ISMAILI.NET -- Dhamu Chunara also known as Dharamsi Panjuani was an eminent trader in Bhuj, Kutchh. He visited Iran with his wife Mulibai to behold Imam Shah Khalilullah in Yazd in the beginning of 1817. The Imam granted him a sealed letter of patent in Khojki script and also bestowed upon him the title of Dharas. He had two sons, Sumar and ...

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