Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority ...
[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- AZQUOTES.COM -- "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." -- Mark Twain ...
JollyGul.com (Video): "A Letter To Mawla" Geet (Valentine's Day 2020 Special)
JollyGul.com presents, in a video format, a very popular Golden Jubilee devotional geet "Ik Khat Likhenge Ham, Mawlaa Ke Naam" (A letter we shall write, To Mawla). It is sung by ...
Estrutura Residencial para Idosos (ERPI) de São Lázaro
Portugal -- Decorre esta semana, no Porto, juntamente com 7 grupos de residentes da "Estrutura Residencial Para Idosos (ERPI) de São Lázaro", um conjunto de "diagnósticos participativos". O objetivo passa por saber quais as suas perceções sobre qualidade de vida, tendo em vista planear ações consequentes com a informação recolhida. Esta iniciativa enquadra-se no âmbito da colaboração entre a Fundação Aga ...
Ginástica para os Seniores, no Centro Ismaili
Portugal -- Encontram-se abertas inscrições para aulas de ginástica para os Seniores. Os seniores interessados deverão contactar os membros do Elderly Care. A ginástica ajuda a prevenir a artrite, doenças cardíacas, diabetes, aumenta a massa muscular e ajuda na perda de peso. ...
Shraddhanjali: A Memorial Tribute to Mahatma Gandhi held @Unity_Houston
In observance of the passing away of Mahatma Gandhi on January 30, 1948, Eternal Gandhi Museum Houston, Arya Samaj Greater Houston, Interfaith Ministries for Greater Houston, The Ismaili Jamatkhana Center, Mind ...
Heroes | Restoring Faith in Humanity | 2017
YOUTUBE.COM -- ICOMPILATIONTV -- Restoring Faith in Humanity ...
VIDEO: Quote of the week
Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the Nouvel Economiste Philanthropic Entrepreneur of the Year 2009 Award. Read full speech (also available in French): ...
Zainab Samad: Reaching new heights in national healthcare
When Zainab Samad was 13 or 14, she accompanied her mother to see a physician at Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi, Pakistan. The doctor her mother consulted for treatment was a woman, a heart surgeon. "I was struck by her ability," Zainab says now of that doctor. When Zainab applied to medical schools, she applied to AKU. "I am the ...
Girls landing: Reaching for the moon
Global -- "Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination," said Mae Jemison, an American engineer, physician, and the first African American woman to travel into space. She orbited the earth in 1992, making history as the first female person of color to journey into space about 30 years after the first ...
Dubai girls team wins award for innovative solution at robotics competition
Global -- In an effort to achieve gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls through access to and participation in science for women and girls, the United Nations recognises 11 February as International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Young girls from the Dubai Jamat have displayed that women and girls can thrive in the field of science ...
GALLERY: A Tradition of Women in Science: Creating the Scientists, Researchers, Doctors, Nurses and Professors for the Developing World
Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, Aga Khan III, famously called for the education of girls and women in the early 1900s. In 1905, he established several schools, which admitted girls. In 1945, he said that "If I had two children, and one was a boy and the other a girl, and if I could afford to educate only one, I would have ...
VIDEO: International Day of Women and Girls in Science
Mahnoor Ahmed is driven by an insatiable curiosity for the world around her. From her fascination with cloning to the passion with which she educates others, she believes that conceptual learning is the key to success as a student and later in life. Mahnoor's school is working with the Aga Khan University's Examination Board to offer the best academic standards to students ...
Academic Paper: The portrayal of the Nizari Isma'ilis in the Assassin's Creed video game series
"Ubisoft's Assassin's Creed does a remarkable - though not flawless - job in presenting a well-balanced game narrative, which incorporates not only a historically justified representation of the Nizari Isma'ilis, but ...
Universal health coverage possible if nurses and midwives play their pivotal role
Kampala, Uganda, 8 February 2020 - Evelyne Amulen, a midwifery graduate at Aga Khan University (AKU), went to great lengths to pursue her education. For two years, she travelled over 600 kilometres from Karamoja to Kampala twice a week to pursue undergraduate studies at AKU's School of Nursing and Midwifery. "If I didn't get a boda boda, I would risk hitching ...
15-Minute Easy Salad Recipe by Desi~licious RD Shahzadi Devje (@Desiliciousrd)
By Shahzadi Devje (Toronto-based Registered Dietitian and Certified Diabetes Educator) This homemade raw green salad is quite something; refreshing, crunchy, tangy and sure to satisfy your salad cravings! In this recipe, ...
Advances in Conservation Agriculture: Two-volume book edited by Professor Amir Kassam (@AmirKassam1)
The two-volume book edited by Professor Amir Kassam has just been announced by Burleigh Dodds Science for publication. Advances in Conservation Agriculture Volume 1 (Systems and Science) This volume summarises research ...
Superintendent Ghalib Bhayani: North Vancouver RCMP's New Top Cop
He's been to Delta, Sudan, Iraq and even Burnaby. But for Supt. Ghalib Bhayani, North Vancouver is the promised land. "I've been trying to get to North Van for 18 years, ...
G(irls)20 (@Girls20) Leadership Forum: A Seat at the Table- March 7, 2020, Toronto
This year, to celebrate International Women's Day, G(irls)20 is hosting their 3rd annual Leadership Forum for young women in Toronto on March 7th. The theme, A Seat at the Table, reflects ...
VIDEO: Jubilee Arts legacy lives on in Syria
Global -- After the International Arts Festival held in Lisbon in July 2018, the number of Ismaili artists in Syria has increased, with the offering of intensive training and rehearsals organised by the Ismaili Council. A host of artists came together to perform on the occasion of Imamat Day in 2019. ...
Jubilee Arts legacy lives on in Syria
Global -- The Syrian Jamat commemorated Imamat Day in 2019 by reminiscing about Jubilee Arts during an event where artists came together to perform traditional songs and dances, demonstrating dedication, passion, and excellence in their performances. The atmosphere was diverse, with Ismailis and others sharing happiness and joy on this special occasion. Attendees praised the celebration which was inaugurated by the ...
Why Would Philosophers and Scientists Deny That Consciousness Is Real?
MINDMATTERS.AI -- How can serious scientists or philosophers convince themselves that their own consciousness "doesn't exist" or is a "mistaken construct"? What, exactly, is thinking the thought that their consciousness doesn't exist? I want to understand what makes the consciousness of an intelligent human being deny, with a straight face, its own existence. What kind of conscious inner dialogue do these people engage in to convince themselves that they have no conscious inner dialogue? Short of assuming that they are insane, fantastically stupid or dishonest we have an authentic and rather baffling mystery in our hands. My present opinion is that materialists are so fanatically committed to materialism that they ...
Meat Has No Opinions. Or, Why Would Philosophers and Scientists Deny That Free Will Is Real?
MINDMATTERS.AI -- When the history of modern materialism is written, it will be a catalogue of almost incomprehensible folly. The striking irony is that many of the most strident claims by materialists are not merely empirical and logical nonsense; much of materialism is self-refuting. The widespread assertion by educated public "intellectuals," like evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne, that we are meat-sacks without free will is self-refuting gibberish. Consider his assertion that free will doesn't exist and that all human actions are fully determined by material processes--biochemistry, neurophysiology, evolution, and such. Meat can metabolize and secrete, but it can't argue. Meat has no opinions. Meat is neither right or wrong. Denying free will is denying the ability to deny. Yet Coyne's assertion ...
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[Feb 9]Today in history:Al-Mu'ayyad was appointed chief da'i by Fatimid Imam al-Mustansir bi'llah
Abu Nasr Hibat Allah b. Musa b. Abi Imran b. Dawud al-Shirazi, one of the most distinguished da'is of the Fatimid period (909-1171), was born around 1000 in Shiraz, the capital of Fars region of south-west Persia, where his forefathers had a long history of serving the Fatimids as well as earlier Imams as da'is. Following the death of his father, ...
VIDEO: DJSF Opening Ceremony Highlights
Opening ceremony of the Diamond Jubilee Sports Festival National Games 2017-18 in Pakistan ...
28th Imam - Shams al-Din Muhammad - by Mumtaz Ali Tajddin
GOOGLE.COM -- Imam Shams al-Din Muhammad is said to have been born in Maimundiz fortress in 1230. Ata Malik Juvaini wrongly suggests the butchery of Ismailis by the Mongols, in Qazwin and Rudhbar following Alamut, was the end of the Ismailis as well as the unbroken line of the Imamate. However, manuscripts reveal that Imam Shamsuddin Muhammad had left Maimundiz a week before the Mongols arrived and Juvaini joined the Mongols a month later still. Those Iranian Ismailis who survived the Mongol massacres, entered a new era. Taking refuge in obscurity and cloaked by Sufism, they now referred to their spiritual leader not as an Imam but as a Pir. Tradition says Imam Shamsuddin Muhammad most probably lived ...
SR Media Group Presentation: Shahnama-E-Karim- The Golden Years (Episode 6)
Suleman Raheemani of SR Media Group in collaboration with Zulfiqar Jessani bring to global jamat their latest release: Shahnama-E-Karim (The Golden Years, Episode 6). Shahnama-E-Karim is a lyrical composition highlighting "global" ...
Our Artists, Our Heroes: Irfan Gowani (Poet & Lyricist)
JollyGul.com has launched Irfan Gowani's website on its hosting platform. The Jamat can now conveniently play and enjoy his devotional songs with his beautiful Urdu lyrics and English translations displayed at ...
Exclusive: Noorali Harji collection of rare photos of Mawlana Sultan Mahomed Shah, Prince Aly Khan and Mawlana Hazar Imam in Zanzibar and Mombasa
Nizar Harji of Vancouver receives Mawlana Hazar Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan, at a mulaqat in Vancouver during his first visit to Canada in 1978. Photo: Late Noorali Harji Family Collection. By MALIK MERCHANT (Publisher-Editor, Barakah, Simerg and Simergphotos) The historical photos in this article are from the collection of Late Noorali Harji (1912-2006). They were presented for publication in Barakah ...
Interfaith Collaboration in the United States
United States -- The UN General Assembly proclaimed the first week of February each year as World Interfaith Harmony Week. Its resolution notes that mutual understanding and interreligious dialogue are important dimensions of a culture of peace. We take a look at some initiatives taken by the US Jamat to reach out to members of other faith traditions. Renowned Christian theologian, ...
Video: How to Cook Baingan Bharta (Indian Eggplant) By Shahzadi Devje
By Shahzadi Devje (Toronto-based Registered Dietitian and Certified Diabetes Educator) Calling all veggie-lovers, who relish a bit of spice! I want you to have a "baingan" day with my scrumptious VEGAN ...
Antananarivo -- Capital of Madagascar
YOUTUBE.COM -- SWEET SOUR TRAVEL -- This video shares the experience of walking or driving around the city, as a guide to Antananarivo & Madagascar things to do. We also did Antananarivo to Antsirabe, then Antsirabe to Ranomafana, an extra night in Ranomafana, and then another day to Isalo (Ranohira). You wouldn't want to miss Ranamafana, it was a terrific National Park. ...
Ali Karim Travelog: More Osh, Kyrgyzstan
This is a continuation of previous post from January 14, 2020. We spent more time exploring Osh, and met up with some Ismaili's here, as well as visiting the Aga khan ...
