On this historic occasion of the 65th Imamat Day of His Highness The Aga Khan, The Ismaili is pleased to present "Nur Un Ala Nur". Composed by Salim-Sulaiman, this devotional offering brings together, for the first time, globally renowned and award-winning Ismaili artists who will take us through a soul-stirring and reflective expression honouring our 49 Imams. Composed by Salim Sulaiman Music Written ...
The Ismaili is pleased to present a music video from Syria titled "On your Imamat Day, the universe has blossomed." It is a song that reminds us of the importance of Imamat Day - tracing the tradition of Imamat all the way back to the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) with his declaration at Ghadeer-e-Khum. Many of the performers in this ...
The Ismaili is pleased to present Euphoria, a song by K4 that reiterates important themes and messages of faith. This track reminds us of the blessing we have to be guided by a present living Imam and emphasizes the power of unity and resilience during times of adversity. ...
"...in 1957 I was a junior when I became the 49th hereditary Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims -- when my grandfather designated me to succeed him. What does it mean to become an Imam in the Ismaili tradition? To begin with, it is an inherited role of spiritual leadership. As you may know, the Ismailis are the only Muslim ...
GOOGLE.COM -- Muhy-ud-Din Ibn-al Arabi, described as Ismaili dai, was in fact a great sufi and is claimed by sunnis as their "Shaikh-alAkber". He was a contemporary of Mansur Hallaj and is said to have been influenced by Ikhwan-as-Safa and Ismaili teachings. Ibn-al-Arabi was a native of Spain and a contemporary of Faridud-din Attar, Shahab-ud-din Suhrawardi, Najmud-din Razi, Rumi and some other great sufis of the East. The generosity of his numerous patrons allowed him to devote his time to writing. He was the most prolific of all sufi authors, with over four hundred works to his credit. Ibn-al-Arabi's doctrine of "Wandat al-Wujud" or unityism influenced the whole Islamic society from top to bottom. "It affected its religious attitude, it affected its moral attitude, it affected its ...
PRAGERU.COM -- It has become a dogma of progressive ideology that America is a "secular" nation. There is a problem with this claim, however: It's false. The words "separation of church and state" are not in the Constitution. What the Constitution does say is that Congress was forbidden from one, establishing a national church (on the model of the Church of England); and two, attempting to disestablish or interfering with the established churches that existed in some of the states. None of the Founding Fathers, including Jefferson who was among the least religious of them (though not an atheist), ever entertained the idea that ...
Ismaili Digest Exclusive for June 2022 -- Each month enjoy the most popular new articles and videos viewed by the Jamat from over 36 of the best Ismaili websites with just one click! 'Most popular' means most viewed post(s) on each website (excluding duplicate postings, Event Alerts and COVID-19 advice) without social media influence. NOTE: Posts are randomly ordered.
Global -- The Ismaili is pleased to announce an Imamat Day programme streaming on The Ismaili TV, on 9-11 July, featuring content to entertain and inspire the Jamat as we celebrate the milestone 65th Imamat Day of our beloved Mawlana Hazar Imam. The weekend's festivities will include films from the archives celebrating the achievements of our beloved Hazar Imam, along with ...
Portugal -- Para coincidir com a Conferência dos Oceanos das Nações Unidas que se realizou em Portugal, o Centro Ismaili, Lisboa, tem o prazer de apresentar a exposição Fragile Beauty - Photographs by Prince Hussain Aga Khan. As imagens marcantes da exposição representam uma chamada de atenção em prol da preservação dos oceanos e da proteção da vida marinha. English Na ...
Portugal -- To coincide with the United Nations Ocean Conference taking place in Portugal, the Ismaili Centre, Lisbon, is pleased to present the exhibition Fragile Beauty - Photographs by Prince Hussain Aga Khan. The exhibition's striking images represent a call-to-action in favour of preserving the oceans and protecting sea life. Portuguese This week, Prince Hussain visited the exhibition at the Ismaili ...
Shakeel Bhamani is a multi-instrumental musician. His frequent boredom allows him to try to master new things all the time. He is also a nationally ranked beatboxer and gave a TEDx ...
Portugal -- Esta semana, juntamente com as nossas irmãs e irmãos no Islão, comemoramos o Eid al-Adha, o Festival do Sacrifício. A ocasião recorda-nos o ethos monoteísta no coração das tradições abraâmicas do judaísmo, do cristianismo e do islamismo. English Foi, na tradição judaico-cristã-muçulmana, uma prova da fé de Hazrat Ibrahim (que a paz esteja com ele) e do seu filho ...
Global -- On 11 July 2022, the global Jamat will commemorate a rare milestone - Mawlana Hazar Imam's 65th Imamat Day. In the seventh and concluding part of this series, we look back at his past five years as Imam. During the last five years, from 2017 to 2022, Mawlana Hazar Imam's Imamat has been shaped by his Diamond Jubilee celebrations, ...
Introduced by MALIK MERCHANT Eid al-Adha is celebrated around the Muslim world on the 10th day of the twelfth month of 'DhuI-Hijjah, after the culmination of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca (see historical photo, below). This year (2022) the Eid will be celebrated by the Canadian Ismaili Muslim community on Saturday, July 9. Numerous Muslim Mosques in Canada have also announced ...
UK -- The Gilgit-Baltistan's Goodwill Movement GB GWM) is an organisation working on community and skills-based development for persons with disabilities in Gilgit-Baltistan. This recently registered organisation is being run by persons with disabilities, primarily students keen to showcase their work on a national, regional, and international stage. Today, we are joined by Ghulam Muhammad Baig, CEO of GB GWM, Farhan ...
Portugal -- Prince Hussain Aga Khan's "Fragile Beauty" exhibition, taking place at the Ismaili Centre, was visited by Sylvia Earle, a renowned marine biologist, to whom this exhibition is dedicated to. A very special guest who honoured us with her visit and left us truly inspiring words. Read on to find out about all the details of that day! Portuguese The ...
Global -- On 11 July 2022, the global Jamat will commemorate a rare milestone - Mawlana Hazar Imam's 65th Imamat Day. Here, we look back at his sixth decade as Imam. This decade began with the commencement of Mawlana Hazar Imam's Golden Jubilee, which ran from 11 July 2007 to 13 December 2008. Hazar Imam visited 22 countries, met with leaders ...
FORBES.COM -- America was founded on the idea of governance through family, church and community. Separation of church and state only meant the Federal Government could not elevate one denomination over others. Other than that our forefathers never sought to evict the church from society. Nor did the Constitution inhibit public displays of faith. On the contrary, the early Republic welcomed public worship. Even non-Christian founders thought religion essential. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 states: "Religion, morality, and knowledge, being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind..." Alexis de Tocqueville noted that Americans intertwined individual liberty with vibrant faith, stating "It is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other." Meanwhile, the French Revolution's "De-Christianization" ...
USA -- Senator Warner meets Afghan and other Richmond Jamati members. U.S. Senator Mark Warner visited Richmond Jamatkhana to learn more about the Ismaili community and the resettlement effort of Afghan refugees. The Virginia senator met with National Council President, Al-Karim Alidina and Northeast Council President, Aly Alibhai, on May 14, 2022 to better understand who the Ismailis are and discuss ...
WASHINGTONEXAMINER.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 2006: "But if freedom of religion deteriorates into freedom from religion -- then societies will find themselves lost in a bleak and unpromising landscape -- with no compass, no roadmap and no sense of ultimate direction." ~~ Hazar Imam, 1965: "What does happen, and this is a danger, is that the left-wing attitudes tend not only to destroy the Faith of a man towards his religion but also the respect of one individual towards another."] ARTICLE: Twelve years ago, an "alert" was sent to the Freedom From Religion Foundation about a coach who led his team in short prayers. For decades, activists pushing freedom from religion have helped reshaped culture and traditions and last week's, already-famous, 6-3 Supreme Court ruling struck back. It is a massive, massive change that moves the country ever so slowly back to its center-right equilibrium after being dragged so hard toward the left by our cultural curators. Anyone paying attention to the down-ballot races in 2020, noticed voters were moving rightward because liberalism went from "Let's all coexist" to "If you don't agree with us, you're a bigot." That shift pushed a lot of evangelical voters to start voting on religious liberty. That constant beating of the bigot drum on everything, ...
As part of our series, What Ismailis Believe, this short video explains why Ismailis call their Imam Khudavind. Credits SCRIPTWRITING - Aleem Karmali NARRATOR - Parviz Lakha AUDIO RECORDING - Riyaaz Tinwalla & Iliyan Ladhani DESIGNER - Ahmed Zulfiqar EDITING & ANIMATION - Salman Tarani & Sameed Makhani PHOTOGRAPHS - Rehana Virani & Hussein Charania DIRECTORS - Aleem Karmali & Karim K. Dossani PRODUCER ...
#Speech made by His Highness the #AgaKhan at the Stephen Ogden Lecture at Brown University on 10 March 2014 in Providence, USA Read the full speech here: For more about the Aga Khan Development Network, visit ...
June 29, 2022: The Globe and Mail Arts staff recommend short and sweet summer reads. How Beautiful People Are by Ayaz Pirani (Gordon Hill Press) - review by Rukhsar AliImage: The ...
Global -- On 11 July 2022, the global Jamat will commemorate a rare milestone - Mawlana Hazar Imam's 65th Imamat Day. Here, we look back at his fifth decade as Imam. Between 1997 and 2007, the world experienced discovery and discord: the first Hybrid vehicle came onto the market; much of Europe began to use the Euro as a common currency; ...
Misha Euceph is the host of the podcast Tell Them, I Am and CEO of Dustlight Productions. Tell Them, I Am features major Muslim celebrities telling stories of little moments that changed their lives. She talks about her rise to podcast fame, her struggle to gain ownership over her show, and making the Quran more accessible. You can watch her Quran Book Club ...
Shumaila Hemani's poem, Living with Purpose, was nominated for Alberta Magazine Awards in Poetry in 2022. Hemani's poem was published in Alberta's literary magazine, New Forum in 2021 and was jointly ...
Nasir Khusraw (1004- ca.1077) was born in Qobadiyan in the eastern Iranian province of Khurasan. He did well at school, learning Persian and Arabic as well as sciences, literature, mathematics, philosophy, religious sciences, and history. Following his family's tradition, Nasir joined the government bureaucracy in a financial capacity, perhaps as tax collector. Nasir enjoyed to travel and "relished the opportunity to ...
As the founder of the popular online community Muslim Mamas, Nargis Jahan-Uddin has a front row seat to the ongoing interests and concerns of Muslim mothers. She gives us a look into the contemporary online world of Muslim motherhood, and talks about her own journey from an impoverished neighbourhood of London, to creating this growing online community, which now includes a lifestyle website ...
Tasneem Alsultan is a photographer based in Saudi Arabia. Her work has documented major changes in Saudi culture for The New York Times, National Geographic and others. But she also captures the more ordinary aspects of life. She won first prize in the 2017 World Photography Organisation Awards for Saudi Tales of Loves, a series showcasing love stories of all kinds, from ...
Ian Whiteman was a fixture of the 60's UK music scene and member of the cult classic bands Mighty Baby and The Habibiyya. He reflects on the early early days of psychedelic rock, and talks about how Islam became a major part of that scene, leading to his own conversion and his friendship with Yusuf Islam, A.K.A. Cat Stevens. His latest album ...
Marina Tabassum is an acclaimed Bangladeshi architect whose work includes Bangladesh's underground Museum of Independence and the award-winning Bait Ur Rouf Mosque. She talks about working with local materials, the rich landscape of Bangladesh's capital city, Dhaka, and why she designed $200 mobile houses to address climate change. Marina Tabassum is the founder of Marina Tabassum Architects and the academic director of the ...
Khalid Albaih is a Sudanese political cartoonist, who publishes cartoons online under the name Khartoon! as well as in galleries and publications around the world. He talks about how Superman shaped his worldview, the dangers of his work, and why he's trying to change his relationship with the internet. Learn more about This Being Human: ...
Roni Helou is a rising star from Lebanon's fashion scene. The young designer talks about making fashion with a message, why he staged a photoshoot on a mountain of garbage, and surviving the explosion that devastated Beirut in 2020. Learn more about This Being Human: ...
Hamid Dabashi calls himself "the first Muslim intellectual." He is the author of more than twenty books, a consultant on major Hollywood films, a curator and juror of film festivals, and a professor of Iranian Studies and comparative literature at Columbia University. He talks about how an early love of Indian musicals, his mother's poetry and travelling storytellers led him towards a life ...
HLI.ORG -- Americans are appallingly ignorant on abortion statistics. California college students believe abortion is illegal after the first trimester and that, in the United States, less than 100,000 abortions occur each year. The actual number is over 10 times more and, in many places [ED: including all of Canada], abortion is freely available through all nine months of pregnancy. Polls reveal that people believe the "hard cases" (rape, incest, women's health/lives, birth defects) account for anywhere from 25% to 50% of all abortions. The reality, from a survey of more than 2.4 million abortions, is that just 0.4% of abortions are for rape or incest and 3.5% for all "hard cases". Even the Guttmacher Institute (formerly the research arm of Planned Parenthood -- the largest American provider of abortions) puts the figures at less than 1.5% for rape or incest and 7% for all "hard cases". World-wide, the numbers are similar. In 1998, Guttmacher
GOOGLE.COM -- When disagreeing with authorities, Hasan al-Basri approach was a two-fold loyalty -- to one's community and to one's conscience. The true Muslim must, above all, remain "loyal to his community," by respecting constituted authority and giving it his obedience. So while he refused to revolt, Hasan also refused to remain silent in the face of injustice. He constantly spoke of a Muslim's duty to not just observe the Law, but also urge his brethen to respect it. So, instead of keeping silent about the misdeeds of authorities, he reproached them, whether they were Caliphs or their Governors. Such was Hasan's attitude towards power and authority -- loyal and courageous, but nevertheless ill at ease. It pre-supposes not only ...
Back to back Group 1 wins for the three-year-old colt. The three-year-old colt showed a strong turn of foot again to prevail against a competitive field in the Gr.1 Eclipse Stakes at Sandown today. He was winning a second consecutive Group 1 following his five-length success in the Gr.1 Prix du Jockey Club last month. Positioned at the rear of the ...
Portugal -- In line with all jurisdictions worldwide, Jamati Institutions launches the new platform - Ismaili Institutions Portugal (II Portugal). Ismaili Institutions Portugal is a new digital platform, which replaces the previous JIS platform (Jamati Information System) and will centralize data related to the Jamat and Institutions, ensuring a simpler, more agile and improved functional communication, allowing the community and institutions ...
PRAGERU.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Mawlana Sultan Muhammad Shah, 1934: "As an ideal, my preference is for [Indian] self-government either on the American federal plan or on Swiss lines leaving ultimate power through the Initiative, the Referendum, and perhaps the Recall."] ARTICLE: After the 1787 Constitutional Convention, legend says a woman asked Benjamin Franklin what kind of government had been created. Franklin responded "...a republic, madam. If you can keep it." A republic? But isn't our country a democracy? Actually, pure democracy frightened the Convention Delegates as a path to mob rule so they rejected it. Instead, they built both democratic and non-democratic features into the Constitution to protect liberty. That's why Wyoming has 2 Senators, the same number as California and every other state, so large population states like California can't overwhelm the needs and interests of small states like Wyoming. "More democratic" doesn't always mean more just. A republic is a brilliant way of diffusing power. Our founders understood ...
