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Brian Miller: Thermodynamics, the Origin of Life, and Intelligent Design
YOUTUBE.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Throughout the Silver Jubilee, in 1982/83, Hazar Imam emphasised, repeatedly, that Allah "creates" and "removes" what He wishes, "*when He wishes*," "how He wishes", "where He wishes."] ARTICLE: The question is could God have designed everything at the beginning, in such a way, that everything happened naturally. Absolutely, that's what God could have done. But there's a problem. Those laws would be so complex and intractable that science would be impossible. To do science you need a set of simple laws, but simple laws do not create complex, molecular machines found in living cells. So what you see, throughout life, is evidence of a Designer infusing information into the system. The evidence is so clear and unambiguous that life is not the product of simple chemistry and physics but the product of dramatic intervention in Nature. A lot of people have the have a problem with the term "intervention," but they have to get over it because that's reality. So let's talk about the science. When you talk about the origin of life the question is ...
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Part 2: Have you ever changed your own interpretation of Hazar Imam's guidance after hearing someone else's point of view? | Ignition Question #5b
In Part 1, of this two-part Ignition Question, we highlighted remarks from Imams that advise us that we may indeed make mistakes in our own, personal interpretations of our faith. However, knowing we may be mistaken, in theory, is one thing. Admitting we are wrong, and changing a deeply held position or belief or worldview on some issue, is quite another. Here, in Part 2, we introduce a new perspective on open-mindness and see what "abandoning false conceptions" about faith, as Mawlana Sultan Muhammad Shah advises us to do, actually looks like in practice.
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VIDEO: Allah Hoo
This week, The Ismaili presents a rendition of "Allah Hoo," the famous qawwali popularised by Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. The genre of Muslim devotional music known as qawwali was founded in the 13th century. It fuses together the practice of lyrical repetition and remembrance, and combines Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Indic musical traditions. ...
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Part 15 -- Ismaili RoundUp | Latest 7 Videos
Features Mawlana Hazar Imam designates the Seat of the Ismaili Imamat in Lisbon, Portugal; UCA - Creating Opportunity on the Roof of the World; Philanthropy 360º - Aleem Walji, CEO, Aga Khan Foundation USA; Five Former US Presidents Recognize Houston's Ismaili Muslim Volunteers; Young Ismailis come together at Global Encounters 2015 ... and more. ...
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Pluralism and the Quran - Reza Shah-Kazemi
If you give thanks, I will give you more. - Quran 14:7 This is an edited version of extracts from speeches delivered by Dr Reza Shah-Kazemi at Milad al-Nabi Celebrations held in Atlanta and San Francisco, USA, in 2007. It first appeared in The Ismaili, USA, 2008. In the 9th year after the Hijra (631 CE), a prominent Christian delegation from ...
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The Ismaili - Nutrition Centre Dhal Katchori
Healthy Hints Don't be misled by the absence of red lights. This is just a snack, and if you have more than one, you could clock up a lot of calories before you've even had dinner! This recipe makes 24 large katchoris. If you make smaller ones, bear in mind that each katchori will absorb more oil (for science enthusiasts, this ...
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Religious Architecture: The Chamber Church, China
ARCHDAILY.COM -- The ChamberChurch aims to create a spatial container that both respects the past and looks towards the future. It provides a religious experience and secular touch. To create a modern icon, we needed to create a pure shape, that's still evokes the archetype of a church. The design echoes the memories associated with them, but interprets them in a timeless modernity creating a sense of the future. The design still features the classic components associated with a church, but abstracted. The landscape part of the exterior features an artificial lake to ...
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Tuesday's Teachings (From Life) Edwin Land's Deep Research
CALNEWPORT.COM -- Edwin Land is famous for co-founding the Polaroid Corporation, but he's also known as one of the twentieth century's most innovative inventors. In a 1975 interview with Forbes he explained his approach to innovation: "If anything is worth doing, it's worth doing to excess ... My whole life has been spent trying to teach people that intense concentration, for hour after hour, can bring out in people resources they didn't know they had." He underscores an important, overlooked point in an age that lauds open offices and social media-enabled serendipity: creativity is 99% hard, deep work. ...
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Chinese Female Imams – A Short 8-Minute Film
China’s Hui Muslims are unique in many respects. The country’s second-largest ethnic minority share linguistic and cultural ties with the majority in China that have allowed them to practice their religion with less interference and fewer restrictions than others, like Uighur Muslims and Tibetans. Outside of China, the Hui practice of installing women as the head of female-only mosques has ...
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News Flash for Digest + Ignition Ismailimail (via Ismaili Digest)
Almost every day, since its launch in 2006, Ismailimail posts several excerpts to a potpourri of Ismaili news, events and personalities published on the Internet. If news about people and places are your thing, then Ismailimail is for you. Although it's archive now has over 20,000 articles, Ismaili Digest's collection only goes back to the start of the Diamond Jubilee, so be sure to browse Ismailimail for older news.
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Think of Ismaili Digest as the Front Page of all the best Ismaili websites! Ismaili Digest automatically and continuously brings together all new articles, photos, videos, etc. from Ismaili websites -- like The Ismaili, Simerg, IIS, NanoWisdoms, AKDN, Ismailimail, etc. -- so you can see them all at once. Direct links to over 15,000 web-pages from the best Ismaili websites already available. Ismaili Digest saves you (and those who are not tech savvy, such as seniors) the effort of having to visit them one by one to keep up to date, or have your inbox cluttered with emails from each of them when they publish new content. In a busy world, our sense of belonging to our community sometimes tends to wither and fade (particularly for isolated Jamati members). We hope Ismaili Digest's simplicity and comprehensiveness will help you feel connected as well as feel the local and global pulse of the community. Like many other non-commercial, public-service thematic website aggregators, Ismaili Digest is just a thematic aggregator. We publish short 50-60 word digests of all their content and provide direct links to their original pages saving you time, extra page loads and clicks. For the website publishers, direct links ensure they'll get the maximum number of potential visitors reaching their content so their hard work gets the maximum exposure. Also featured are other important articles, research and opinions relevant to the community's well being, intellectual growth, best practises and administration. And all served with a drop of humour as well, because "we are a community that welcomes the smile!" Ismaili Digest is not associated with any private Ismaili website, whether aggregated by Ismaili Digest or not. All websites Ismaili Digest aggregates are independent websites run by their individual owners and we are not responsible for content they publish. |
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