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20 Minute Video Recap and Q&A of "The Ismaili Imamat: A Signature in History"
A few weeks after the first presentation of "The Ismaili Imamat: A Signature in History", a Q&A session was held in which a short recap of Signature as well as answers to some written questions were presented, followed by an open Q&A. We are pleased to make the videos of these available for the Jamat. The younger Jamat, especially in the West, do not often find traditional, philosophical arguments for God and the Imamat intellectually satisfying. "The Ismaili Imamat: A Signature in History" is a new objective assessment of the Ismaili Imamat's authenticity using a fresh, ground-breaking approach inspired by the fundamental principle that faith is, and always has been, evidence based. We are confident it will be of particular interest to parents, young adults, youth, especially high school and university students as well was the wider Jamat.
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Chiragh-i Roshan, a ceremony of light, was established by Nasir-i Khusraw
Literally meaning "luminous lamp," the Chiragh-i Roshan (or Rawshan) is a ceremony practised by the Nizari Ismailis of Afghanistan, Tajikistan, western China, and northern Pakistan. The ceremony, generally performed on the third night following the death of a family member, is guided by the authorised text Chiragh-nama which comprises poetry, supplication, and verses of the Qur'an, culminating in the kindling of ...
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Bonhoeffer's Theory of Stupidity
YOUTUBE.COM -- SPROUTS -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazrat Ali, Maxims of Ali: "Stupidity is a pain irremediable; a disease incurable."] ARTICLE: Dietrich Bonhoeffer argued that stupid people are more dangerous than evil ones because while we can protest against or fight evil people, against stupid ones we are defenseless -- reason falls on deaf ears and thus the stupid person is self-satisfied. There are human beings who are remarkably agile intellectually yet stupid, and others who are intellectually dull yet anything but stupid. People who live in solitude manifest this defect less frequently than individuals in groups. In conversation with a stupid person, one virtually feels that one is dealing not at all with him as a person, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like that have taken possession of him as if he is under a spell. Having thus become a mindless tool ...
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The five universal laws of human stupidity
QZ.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2016: "Public wisdom is not dependent on education."] ARTICLE: In 1976, Carlo M. Cipolla (d.2000), a professor of economic history at the University of California, Berkeley outlined 5 laws governing what he perceived as humanity's greatest existential threat: Stupidity. Stupid people, he explained, share several identifying traits: they are abundant, they are irrational, and they cause problems for others without apparent benefit to themselves. He argued there are no defenses against stupidity. ~~ Law 2: The probability that a particular person is stupid is independent of any other personal trait -- gender, race, nationality, education level, income. Every category one can imagine possesses a fixed percentage of stupid people. There are stupid college professors, stupid people at Davos and at the UN General Assembly, and in every nation on earth. How numerous ...
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We Aren't Raising Adults. We Are Breeding Very Excellent Sheep.
BARIWEISS.SUBSTACK.COM -- I taught English at Yale University for ten years and mostly I taught what one of them herself called "excellent sheep." Excellent sheephood, like wokeness, is a species of conformity. Today's elite college students still regard themselves as children, and are still treated as such. The nature of the authority, parental as well as institutional, that the young now have is an authority that does not believe in authority, that does not believe in itself. It's an authority that wants to be liked, that wants to be your friend, that wants to be thought of as cool. That will never draw a line, that will always ultimately yield. Children can't be children if adults are not adults, but children also can't become adults. The 1960s broke authority, and ...
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The Fatimids and the Founding of Cairo -- BoAI Vol #2
GOOGLE.COM -- On Tuesday, the 17th of Sha'ban, in the year 358 Hijri -- a day 1,000 years ago corresponding to July 6, 969 A.D. -- the victorious Fatimid General Jawhar, acting on the orders of the Caliph, Imam al-Muizz-li-din-Allah, laid the foundation of the city of alQahirah. This notable event, which also marked the opening of a glorious new chapter in the history of the Fatimid of North Africa, was attended by all the pomp and splendour of a dramatic moment in history. More than 100,000 panoplied soldiers, scores of noblemen in splendid garments and an uncounted number of the newly conquered people of nearby Fustat watched the historic ceremony as the lines of the new city were traced on the virgin earth. Cairo ...
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Hukum powers clear in Coronation
Baaeed brother the 17th Group 1 winner for Sea The Stars. Hukum became the 17th Group 1 winner for SEA THE STARS on Friday, powering clear in the Coronation Cup at Epsom to take the 12-furlong contest by more than four lengths, ahead of last year's winner Pyledriver. The five-year-old Shadwell homebred, who is the first Gr.1 winner for trainer Owen ...
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Zarak scores new Stakes winner
Zagrey an easy winner of the 166e Derby du Midi. The Yann Barberot-trained Zagrey ran out a smooth winner of the Listed 166e Derby du Midi on Saturday at Bordeaux-le-Bouscat on his first try over 1900m. Co-owned by his breeder Jean-Paul Challet and Gérard Augustin-Normand, the colt is a half-brother to Gr.1 performer Graignes and recent Listed-placed Anatiya (DARIYAN). He becomes ...
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Aspire to Inspire: Shahida Bano
ANZ -- Originally from Ahmadabad, Hunza (Northern Pakistan), Shahida Bano is a Senior Quality Improvement Consultant at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Australia. SHAHIDA BANO Senior Quality Improvement Consultant Melbourne, Australia Shahida completed the early years of her education at Diamond Jubilee School, Ahmadabad. She started her career in the field of health management and quality assurance at the Aga Khan University ...
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Finding the Sacred Within and Around Us
USA -- Let us reflect upon how we can coexist peacefully in a globalized world through the cosmopolitan ethic. In his work of prose entitled Gulistan (Rose Garden), the 13th Century Persian poet Sa'di captures the sacredness and connectedness of human beings in the poem entitled, "Bani Adam" (Children of Adam): The children of Adam are parts of one wholeFor they ...
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Ismaili Centre Lisbon hosts Africa Day
Global -- On 25 May 2022, the Ismaili Centre in Lisbon commemorated Africa Day at an event organised by the Group of Ambassadors of African countries in Portugal, in partnership with the Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat. Africa Day is commemorated in many countries around the world on 25 May every year to celebrate progress made across the continent's nations, and ...
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Loneliness Is Not About Being Alone!
Portugal -- Loneliness is often defined as sadness, caused because one has no friends, company, or an intimate partner. The reality is that despite having those nurturing relationships, there are still strong feelings of being lonely, as we feel misunderstood, our expectations from these relationships are not realized, dreams and aspirations remain unsupported, the environment uncomfortable. As social media has become ...
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VIDEO: Guidelines for Ethical Wealth Transfer and Inheritance Planning
The Ismaili International Conciliation and Arbitration Board, in collaboration with the IIS, and at the direction of Mawlana Hazar Imam, has produced Guidelines for Ethical Wealth Transfer and Inheritance Planning to assist Ismailis to engage in ethical wealth transfer and inheritance planning. The Guidelines are based on ethical principles which reflect the values of our Tariqah, particularly, natural justice and equity, and they ...
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