Canada -- In this podcast, Alwaeza Taslim explains the historical context ("jâhilîya") in which Laylat al-Qadr took place, the importance of the command "Iqra" ("recite ")," which according to the tradition was the first revelation made to the Prophet, as well as the link between the significance of Laylat al-Qadr and the principle of pre-eminence of the intellect in Islam. ...
LIVE WEBCAST -- Ismaili Institutions For Portugal, Angola, Spain (Jamat from around the world are welcome) -- FRIDAY, MAY 15: 11:30am Vancouver/Los Angeles/Seattle (PDT) ~ 12:30pm Calgary/Denver (MDT) ~ 1:30pm Winnipeg /Chicago/Houston (CDT) ~ 2:30pm Toronto/New York/Miami (EDT) ~ 4:00pm St. John's (NDT) ~ 7:30pm Lisbon/London/Angola (WET/BST/WAT) ~ 8:30pm Paris/Madrid (CEST) ~ 8:30pm Burundi/Mozambique/Rwanda (CAT) / South Africa (SAST) ~ 9:30pm Nairobi/Dar es Salaam/Kampala/Antananarivo (EAT) ~ 10:30pm Dubai (GST) ~ 11:30pm Karachi (PKT)/Dushanbe (TJT) ~ 11:59pm Mumbai (IST) ~ SATURDAT, MAY 16: 2:30am Singapore (SGT) ~ 4:30am Sydney (AEST) ~~ In keeping with tradition to observe Laylat Al-Qadr, the "Night of Power", an on-line program has been planned. The event will be streamed live at: the.ismaili/tv ...
This session brought to you by the Aga Khan Health Board for India, featuring Dr. Amin Momin, Senior Orthopedic Surgeon (Life Care Hospital, Mumbai), talks about how to take care of your bones as you age and answer questions sourced from this audience. This interactive session was highly appreciated by the live audience! Do drop a like and subscribe to our channel and ...
Chuqander are usually a deep red colour but there are varieties ranging from white, orange and even striped. Both the beets and their greens can be eaten as they are tasty and full of unique nutritious properties. One large chuqander (approximately 100 grams) contains only 43 Calories and 25 per ...
By NAVYN NARAN The echoes of Nature Bring us back to the cave Wherein spirituality harkens the soul Hush What is this ? To "Read"? Not yet. First to calm down Slow down the thoughts And attend the Divine Intellect That which emanates within each of our souls Within the bear of this Magnificent body That is all too human But ...
By: Sadruddin Noorani (Chicago, USA) Laylat al-Qadr, (the Night of Power, Night of Destiny), commemorates the night during which the first verses of the Holy Qur'an were revealed to Prophet Muhammad ...
Ziya Tabassian began playing the tombak (Iranian drum) at the age of ten. After a brief initiation period in Iran, he continued his autodidactic training in Quebec, his adopted homeland. From 1994 to 2001, he studied classical Western percussion with Julien Grégoire and obtained a Bachelor's degree in interpretation from the Université de Montréal. In a residency at The Banff Centre in the ...
Credited with single-handedly introducing the outside world to the boundless wealth of Tuvan traditions, Huun Huur Tu has spent decades honing overtone singing, instrumental approaches, and the vibrant songs of Central Siberia's Altai Mountains. Drawing subtly from both 20th-century composers and the contemporary palette of electronica, Huun Huur Tu transform ancient songs into to ethereal, universal music accompanied by lively acoustic compositions. ...
LIVE WEBCAST -- Ismaili Institutions For USA (Jamat from around the world are welcome) -- FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2020: Starts at 8:00pm LOCAL USA time (PDT, CDT, EDT) ~ SATURDAY, MAY 16: 6:00am Nairobi/Dar es Salaam (EAT) ~ 7:00am Dubai (GST) ~ 8:00am Karachi (PKT)/Dushanbe (TJT) ~ 8:30am Mumbai (IST) ~ 11:00am Singapore (SGT) ~ 1:00pm Sydney (AEST) ~~ In keeping with tradition to observe Laylat Al-Qadr, the "Night of Power", an on-line program has been planned. 3 sessions will feature Al-Waeza Dr. Nargis Ali Virani, Al-Waeza Dr. Natasha Hakimali Merchant, Dr. Azim Nanji and Dr. Farouk Mitha, Al-Waez Najeeb Haidary (Farsi), Al-Waeza Saleema Hassanali, Al-Waez Kamaluddin Mohammed (Urdu). Click for the agenda. The event will be streamed live at: the.ismaili/usa/live ...
LIVE WEBCAST -- Ismaili Institutions For Canada (Jamat from around the world are welcome) -- FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2020: Starts at 8:00pm LOCAL Canadian time (PDT, MDT, EDT) ~ SATURDAY, MAY 16: 6:00am Nairobi/Dar es Salaam (EAT) ~ 7:00am Dubai (GST) ~ 8:00am Karachi (PKT)/Dushanbe (TJT) ~ 8:30am Mumbai (IST) ~ 11:00am Singapore (SGT) ~ 1:00pm Sydney (AEST) ~~ In keeping with tradition to observe Laylat Al-Qadr, the "Night of Power", an on-line program has been planned. 3 sessions will feature Alwaez Karim Gulamali, Alwaeza Sheizana Murji and Alwaez Karim Damji. Click for the agenda. The event will be streamed live at: iicanada.org/live ...
LIVE WEBCAST -- Ismaili Institutions For Africa (Jamat from around the world are welcome) -- SATURDAY, MAY 16: 11:30am Vancouver/Los Angeles/Seattle (PDT) ~ 12:30pm Calgary/Denver (MDT) ~ 1:30pm Winnipeg /Chicago/Houston (CDT) ~ 2:30pm Toronto/New York/Miami (EDT) ~ 4:00pm St. John's (NDT) ~ 7:30pm Lisbon/London (WET/BST) ~ 8:30pm Paris (CET) ~ 6:30pm Cote d'Ivoire (GMT) ~ 7:30pm Angola/DRC (WAT) ~ 8:30pm Burundi/Mozambique/Namibia / Rwanda/Zambia (CAT) / South Africa (SAST) ~ 9:30pm Nairobi/Dar es Salaam (EAT) ~ 10:30pm Dubai (GST) ~ 11:30pm Karachi (PKT)/Dushanbe (TJT) ~ 11:59pm Mumbai (IST) ~ SUNDAY, MAY 17: 2:30am Singapore (SGT) ~ 4:30am Sydney (AEST) ~~ In keeping with tradition to observe Laylat Al-Qadr, the "Night of Power", an on-line program has been planned. More details to follow.The event will be streamed live at: the.ismaili/tv ...
Moman Chetamni ("Devotees Beware") is a 630 verse granth (long format ginan) composed by Sayyid Imam Shah, the youngest son of Pir Hasan Kabiruddin. Amin Mawani recites a few selected verses ...
Global -- What's got you preoccupied these days? or What thought are you in the process of working through? These are the questions our speakers respond to in each short episode of the (re)flect. To subscribe to this series and other amazing podcasts, look for The Ismaili Podcast, now available on Spotify and Anchor (coming soon to all other major podcast platforms). ...
Presenting Mehfil-e-Quwwat, an online devotional mehfil featuring international artistes hosted by Aly Sunderji. This programme will be premiered on Friday 15, May 2020 only on (please subscribe and click the ...
Prophet Muhammad frequently sought moments of reflection by retreating to a cave on Mount Hira outside Mecca. After fifteen years of this meditative practice, during one of his retreats, he received his first call of revelation on what subsequently came to be called Laylat al-qadr (Night of Power). It is believed that the first revelation came during the latter part of ...
Portugal -- Qualquer pessoa consegue identificar uma rosa... afinal de contas, trata-se da rainha das flores. Mas quantos conseguem chamar uma rosa pelo seu nome? Hoje, vamos apresentar-vos a rosa 'Claire Austen', uma presença inglesa nos jardins do Centro Ismaili. Quem já esteve no Centro Ismaili reparou com certeza nas muitas roseiras que todos os anos por esta altura abrilhantam o ...
Dhikr Zikr: A Source of Inspirational Strength (Alwaeza Roziina Punjwani) ...
Global -- Laylat al-Qadr, or the Night of Power, commemorates one of the most significant events in the history of Islam. It is the night when Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family) received the first revelation from Allah. According to tradition, the Prophet Muhammad used to retreat to Jabal an-Nur, a mountain outside of Mecca, for a month ...
MEDIUM.COM -- NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2006: " Too often, education made our students less flexible -- confident to the point of arrogance that they now had all the answers -- rather than more flexible, humble in their life-long openness to new questions and new responses."] ARTICLE: Worldwide we are seeing a rebellion against no-skin-in-the-game policymaking "clerks" and journalists-insiders, that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts with some Ivy league education telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think ... and 5) who to vote for. The Intellectual Yet Idiot (IYI) seems ubiquitous in our lives but is a small minority, rarely seen outside think tanks, the media, and universities. Typically, the IYI get the first order logic right, but not second-order (or higher) effects making him totally incompetent in complex domains. IYIs fail to distinguish between the letter and the spirit of things. They are so blinded by verbalistic notions such as science, education, democracy, racism, equality, evidence, rationality and similar buzzwords that they can be easily taken for a ride. Historically, the IYI has been wrong on ...
EVOLUTIONNEWS.ORG -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2016: "The public is very, very wise. Public wisdom is not dependent on education."] ARTICLE: Consider Joe Blow. A truck driver who works a couple of jobs to support his family, pays his taxes and goes to church. He is anything but a scientific expert, but he's also no fool. Joe has heard a lot about the replication crisis in science -- he doesn't understand it all but knows it means a whole lot of science is basically just made up. He remembers the 1960s warning that overpopulation would kill billions and he's still waiting for the apocalyptic global cooling he was told about in the 1970s. He remembers DDT was going to kill all birds so it was banned and then lots of people started dying (again) of malaria. Joe remembers being told AIDS was going to kill millions of Americans. He also remembers scientists insisted humanity was degenerating from poor breeding so the U.S. government sterilized tens of thousands of people, against their will. In a democracy, Joe says, the ultimate expert ...
AZQUOTES.COM -- "It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem." -- Gilbert K. Chesterton ...
Khorog, Tajikistan, 12 May 2020 - The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) in Tajikistan, the Government of Gorno Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO) and their partners have launched the construction of critical social infrastructure in Khorog Town. The total of nine infrastructure projects to be constructed include six playgrounds across the town, the #5 secondary school on Saidmir Abdurahmonov Street, a ...
Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the 2010 Aga Khan Award for Architecture Ceremony, Doha, Qatar, 24 November 2010. Read full speech: ...
Iraqi-born artist Wafaa Bilal discusses his most recent project, 168:01 , and elaborates on the evolution of his work, reflecting on his personal narrative and experiences living in both the conflict zone of Iraq and the comfort zone of the United States. Bringing online Museum experiences to you is part of our mission to connect cultures and promote understanding between peoples. To learn ...
Join a joyful conversation about the tulip and its journey in art from East to West. Filiz Çakır Phillip and Marianne Fenton reveal the fascinating story of this single flower and its symbolic meaning in different countries and cultures including the symbol of friendship & peace in Canada, celebrated every year in the Month of May. Bringing online Museum experiences to you is ...
Tamar Ilana is a powerful and versatile Canadian singer and flamenco dancer of mixed descent, renowned for her ability to sing in multiple languages and collaborate with various artistic communities from around the world. Tamar has recorded three albums with her world music fusion project Ventanas and directs the polyphonic Ukrainian a capella collective Kosa Koliadnyky. Tamar tours with various projects including ...
Wohi Khuda Hai - A praise of God as the One Creator of a system that runs in balance and harmony. Quarantine collaboration and tribute to the master Ustad Nusrat Fateh ...
By ROXANA JAFFER Heart in a pulsating mode; in rhythm with the breath Mind reaching its zenith; as thoughts meet their death Gratefulness taking over; Conveying lightness to the body Entire body in smiles; Perhaps the spiritual light in embody All because of the Dhikr, the constant chanting His attributes in tempo, energy in sync; all else negating Dhikr: What an ...
Global -- Since launching three weeks ago, The Ismaili TV -- an online streaming platform offering 24-hour programming curated for the global Jamat -- has been viewed over 800 thousand times. If you missed anything, a selection of programmes are now available to enjoy on demand. The Ismaili TV has offered a virtual stage for the global Jamat to come together ...
ITREB USA - Al-Waez Sarfaraz Abdullah shares a perspective on "Spirituality" through a focus on the significance of Laylat al-Qadr and explores the concept of spiritual search in our tradition. ...
[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- DAILYSTOIC.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1989: "Uncompromising excellence is also an ethical principle."] ARTICLE: Arete--the most powerful word to the Stoics. It means excellence, and it was the ultimate expression of human greatness--moral, physical, spiritual. Reaching it requires a certain philosophical approach. Because brilliance and inspiration and skill are not enough. Summing up Aristotle's thoughts on excellence, Will Durant wrote, "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act but a habit." In other words: Excellence isn't this thing you do one time. It's a way of living. It's foundational. It's like an operating system and the code this system operates on is habit. Which is why we've created this guide for you. Bookmark this page and return to it frequently--it is the ultimate guide on habits. We'll first lay out ...
AKEPB - State of the Economy with Ali Velshi ...
Nurses and midwives are the lynchpin of healthcare around the world and investing in these health professionals represents an investment in resilient health systems that can be the first line of ...
By A. Maherali Recently, there has been renewed and growing interest to learn more about our late Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan. May 12, 2020 marks 17 years since Prince Sadruddin passed ...
Jacqueline Tindi is at the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. She leads the critical care unit at the new Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral & Research Hospital that is serving the growing population of Nairobi and central Kenya. In response to the ongoing increase in coronavirus cases in Kenya, she is tirelessly working to ensure that her team is fully prepared and ...
Upload your challenge video to: t.ly/7bNr You can upload the video on social media and use the hashtag #sportsinsportson ...
Samira Kabani, a nurse manager at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan, was one of the key team members behind the launch of 24/7 services for coronavirus patients. In these uncertain times, she is always on the move as she coordinates the care of patients provided by over 50 on-campus and off-campus nurses. The marks from her tight-fitting protective ...
