Uganda -- This November, Farouk Noormohamed visited Kampala and addressed the Jamat on architecture and his experience of designing the award-winning Ismaili Centre in Dushanbe and the Jamatkhana in Khorog. The sessions were held at Darkhana and Kololo Jamatkhana's and facilitated by National Council of Uganda and ITREB. Rahim Adtani, Honorary Secretary of ITREB and Zaheer Nathani, National Council Member were ...
By FAROUK ESMAIL "When I leave, each and everyone of you will be in my heart, in my prayers, in my thoughts....you must remember that Imam loves you more, much more than you can ever love him and you must be strong in this knowledge." -- Mawlana Hazar Imam, Karachi, December 13, 1964 Introduction: Festive celebrations Festive celebrations are an integral ...
I am confident that Africa will continue to be a leader, in drawing on its historical experience, in building resilient, pluralistic, economically-strong, and environmentally-sound communities, rooted in solid values and communal support structures that societies in the West and elsewhere will admire and emulate in years to come. The rest of the World has much to learn from Africa.... Here, there is also a growing youth population, an impressive 60 percent of Africa's population is under the age of 25, a significantly higher proportion than in the West. ...
ARABNEWS.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1967: "Ever since I was old enough to understand a little bit of one's own surroundings, I have always felt much closer to the East and till the day I die will always have these same feelings.... I'm very far away at heart from the West ..."] ARTICLE: I was smoothly becoming a Pukka Brown Sahib. I had the right credentials in terms of school, university and, above all, acceptability in English aristocracy, something our brown sahibs would give their lives for. So what led me to do a 'lota' on the Brown Sahib culture and become a 'desi'? It did not happen overnight. I was in the unique position of living between two cultures. While institutions were strong in Western societies, we were, and still are, superior in family life. I realised this was the West's biggest loss. In trying to free itself from the clergy, they had removed both God and religion from their lives. Its direct impact has been on family life. Science ...
#Salgirah2019 #Salgirah #Imam #Agakhan #Ismaili Special Poem Presentation by Tashir Kasmani in celebration of His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan's 83rd Birthday. Reflection upon the moon lite stream Journeys from the ...
Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan at the inauguration of the revitalised Forodhani Park, Zanzibar, 29 July 2009. Read full speech: ...
Photographer Rick Allred shares his inspiring journey initiating In the Folds of Peace, a global project with the goal of bringing people together and starting conversations about our hopes for our families, communities, and the world. Following the talk, Allred led a workshop at the Aga Khan Museum inviting visitors to fold colourful paper cranes to contribute to his project, with the goal ...
Musical Geographies of Central Asia: Conference and Concert ...
Mawlana Hazar Imam arrived in Dubai on the evening of 22nd of January, 2018 on an official visit at the invitation of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai. ...
Mawlana Hazar Imam inaugurated the Aga Khan University (AKU) Centre for Innovation in Medical Education (CIME), a state-of-the-art facility for technology-based learning for health professionals, on 15 December 2017. ...
Aga Khan delivers a message to Kusi Ideas Festival in Rwanda Kigali, Rwanda, 8 December 2019 - "Africa's strength has always been her peoples. Their resilience, sense of community and self-help, ingenuity and resourcefulness ... is responsible for the continent's progress and exciting prospects." This was the message by His Highness the Aga Khan, 49th hereditary Imam (Spiritual Leader) of the ...
YOUTUBE.COM -- Sophia the Maid has to choose between two hairdressers. Use your deduction skills to solve this classic mind teaser. Riddle 01: The hairdresser - One of them is a trap. Will you guess it? ~~ Riddle 02: The skillful shoplifter - Help Abu find who's the culprit. ~~ Riddle 03: The overbook hotel part 2 - This riddle is so hard! ...
By Shahzadi Devje (Toronto-based Registered Dietitian and Certified Diabetes Educator) Why stick to sauce when these cranberry recipes are so darn tasty? Thanks to the lovely CTV @yourmorning crew for inviting ...
TKN -- Over the last decade, Vancouver-based Iqbal Lalany has served on several TKN assignments to provide extensive medical response training in areas that need it most. In 2011, Iqbal received a call from Dr Firoz Verjee, then Coordinator of the AKDN's Disaster Risk Management Initiative (DRMI). Iqbal was asked if he could deliver First Aid training for six weeks, a ...
JollyGul.com presents Shabnam Merali's devotional geet Aaje Avsar Aaviya Che Sohamnaa Re (The auspicious occasion is here). This is a continuation of series of videos for the Jamat to celebrate Salgirah ...
Little over a month ago, Huse Madhavji (Actor/ Host/ TV Personality/ Singer/ Songwriter) was invited to speak at the TOP Ten Event at CBC's Glen Gould Studio in Toronto. Huse talked ...
From a recently proposed ban on Muslim women wearing burkinis to banning face veils in public, France has cracked down on Islamic practices in the public sphere. The French government points to the concept of "laicite", the strict French secular separation of church/state, to justify such measures, but there may be a double standard when it comes to Islam. ...
By SADRUDDIN K. HASSAM INTRODUCTION Spread in various countries around the world, the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims have their own innumerable ways for celebrating important religious occasions according to their various cultural, social and religious traditions and backgrounds. One very important occasion in the annual calendar of the Ismailis is the Salgirah, or the birthday of their spiritual leader His Highness ...
DISCOVERY.ORG -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1987: "The industrialised world only rather recently has rediscovered that [many] questions engage not merely professional ethics and standards; they touch the deeply held convictions of a Judeo-Christian tradition.... Nations cannot assign these issues to a priesthood of scientists."] ARTICLE: On this episode of ID the Future, host Ira Berkowitz talks with Rabbi Moshe Averick about his recent Times of Israel article, "From the People Who Brought You the Hydrogen Bomb." Yes, it's pointed -- straight at scientists. It's about scientists who jump out of their disciplines, taking the place of priests and shamans and pronouncing upon the place of mankind in the universe. Averick is the author of Nonsense of a "High Order: The Confused World of Modern Atheism." ...
TIMESOFISRAEL.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1987: "[Many questions] touch the deeply held convictions of a Judeo-Christian tradition, an idea of humanity that has challenged the prophets and philosophers for thousands of years. Nations cannot assign these issues to a priesthood of scientists."] ARTICLE: For those who lean towards secularism in the Western world, Scientists have taken over the role of priests and clergymen. Scientists are looked upon with awe and are conferred with something akin to a demi-god status. Many Scientists have a rather arrogant habit of assuming their scientific credentials confer upon them expertise and wisdom on fundamental questions of human existence. However, as Nobel Prize winning physicist, Richard Feynman said: "When even the greatest scientist talks about things that are outside of his area of expertise, he is just as dumb as the next guy." ...
The term 'Islamic art' does not refer to a specific style, but rather describes the art created specifically in the service of the faith such as the mosque and its furnishings produced in the lands ruled by Muslims, for Muslim and non-Muslim patrons, or created by Muslim artists. Furthermore, all artistic and intellectual activities were governed by principles of the faith ...
5 minute highlights video of Princess Zahra's visit to the Aga Khan Hospital in Dar es Salaam, to preside over the inauguration of Phase II of its expansion programme. ...
DAILYSTOIC.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Mawlana Sultan Muhammad Shah: "A man's chief capital is time and if he wastes time, he wastes his greatest asset which can never be recouped."] ARTICLE: In his twenty-third letter, Seneca opens with a snark that is relatable to anyone who has ever been trapped in a banal conversation. "You were probably thinking I was going to open this letter with idle chit chat about the weather," Seneca begins, "but I'm not, because who has the time?" Certainly not Seneca, who spends the rest of the letter talking about the joy from the earnest pursuit of the art of living. Important ideas. None of these trivialities -- the weather, 'what have you been up to lately?,' 'how's your mother?,' 'reading anything good?' -- which he says are the refuge of people who are "at a loss for topics of conversation." They are not ...
GOOGLE.COM -- Imam al-Muhtadi was the first Ismaili Nizari Imam to be born in Iran. In 530/1136, on assuming the Imamat, he deputed da'i Zayn bin Abi Faraj in Syria with a sealed letter addressing his Syrian followers: "Verily, I am your Mawla Muhammad bin Ali bin Nizar. May God curse one who denies to believe the truth and covers it. We have charged da'i Zayn ibn Abi Faraj ibn Abi'l Hasan ibn Ali with this pledge to make the truth cleared for you for the manifestation of the truth. ..." Imam al- Muhtadi also traces his lineage four times from Imam al-Nizar and concludes that, "After the termination of the 40th time (dawr-i arb'in), and also after ...
Uganda -- Nadim Lalani, the National Council member for Outreach spoke of his time at the Lira weekend, saying, "The experience was a little different to volunteering within the Jamat. We had the opportunity to make a difference and work with people from completely different backgrounds and cultures. Not only volunteers but Doctors, Donors from Optometry and Pharmaceutical field also travelled ...
Short-listed for the 2013 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. ...
Letter from publisher By MALIK MERCHANT (Publisher-Editor, Barakah, Simerg and Simergphotos) The Ismaili community is a dynamic community with the Imam-of-the-Time guiding his followers according to the time. The essence of the faith remains the same but the form may change over time in cognizance of differences in traditions, cultural, social or other factors. Similarly, there could be changes over time ...
Salgirah Mubarak 2019 Special Presentation by SR Media Group Suleman Raheemani of SR Media Group in collaboration with Zulfiqar Jessani bring to global jamat their latest release: Shahnama-E-Karim. A lyrical composition ...
[H/T MOHIB EBRAHIM] -- YOUTUBE.COM -- BY TIMELINE -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Highly, highly recommended for the whole family to watch in its entirety.] ARTICLE: This feature-length documentary examines Islam's rich and significant contribution to western art and culture. Presenter and art critic, Waldemar Januszczak, sets out on an epic journey of discovery across the Muslim world from Central Asia to the heart of the Middle East and beyond. He reveals a world of awe-inspiring architecture, spectacular Islamic treasures and a host of artists and craftsmen, bringing the largely unknown and fascinating story of Islamic art and architecture to the attention of the public. ...
JollyGul.com presents Almas Kabani's rendition of Pir Hasan Kabiruddin's U(n)chaare Kott Bahu Vechanaa (A high and lofty fortress) ginan as part of its Salgirah 2019 Celebration Program for the Jamat. The ...
By Sahir Dewji, Ph.D. via Fair Oberver Excerpt from article. Read full post at the source The rise of Islamophobia and the increase in hate crimes targeted at Muslims point to ...
Global -- On the occasion of World Volunteer Day, 5 December 2019, The Ismaili is pleased to release the official song and music video to celebrate the centenary of the Ismaili Volunteer Corps (IVC), featuring participation from 41 countries across the world. Entitled "All work, no words," the song pays tribute to the countless volunteers -- past and present -- who ...
Sacred Web Editorial - The Transhumanist Fallacy GOOGLE.COM -- SACRED WEB -- Transhumanism can be defined as the ideology which seeks to modify or improve the human race. A very basic question that must be asked before we presume to tamper with humanity ...
The Ismaili is pleased to release the official song and music video to celebrate the centenary of the Ismaili Volunteer Corps, featuring participation from 41 countries across the world. See below for lyrics: All Work No Words - Lyrics [Opening] [Farsi] Khorshid-e rakhshaan (The brightening sun) Taabide bar barg-e derakhtaan (Shines on the leaves of the trees) Raghsaan, baa baad-e-shaademaan (Dancing, with happy wind) ...
In this illustrated talk, Walter B. Denny, Distinguished Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, explores various facets of the wide spectrum of Ottoman-Italian cultural contact. ...
ACCIDENTALTHEOLOGIST.COM -- LESLEY HAZLETON -- Tarzan and Jane come up when I'm asked about interfaith gatherings, which I generally find kind of stilted. We tend to get together as me-Tarzan-you-Jane-we-friends. That is, me-Jew-you-Muslim-we-friends. We need to get beyond that. We need to see each other first as people. Talk about anything but religion. Eat together, two or three or four at a time, over our own dining tables. It seems ...
The sons of Adam are limbs of each other, Having been created of one essence. When the calamity of time affects one limb The other limbs cannot remain at rest. If ...
Global -- In 2019, Jamats around the world have been celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Ismaili Volunteer Corps (IVC). Throughout its history, the IVC has aimed to serve the needs of the Jamat. Within the ethic of improving the quality of life of all humanity, the IVC also serves the broader communities of which the Jamat is a part. This ...
