Global -- The lastest article in our What Ismailis Believe series explains why we recite the salawat for the family of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him and his family). In their daily prayers, all Muslims recite salawat by seeking blessings on Prophet Muhammad. The Arabic word salawat is the plural of salat, meaning "prayer." Based on guidance in the Holy ...
Ginans are a vast collection consisting of several hundred poetic compositions which have been a central part of the religious life of the Nizari Ismaili community of the Indian subcontinent that today resides in many countries around the world. Derived from the Sanskrit jnana, meaning contemplative knowledge, ginans refer to the compositions authored by Ismaili Pirs, who came to the Indian ...
TKN -- It is a rare person who sets aside a dynamic business career to become a volunteer - not just for a week or a month, but for years. Yet that is what Azmina Jivan did more than a decade ago. And she has not looked back. Azmina admits her new life as a volunteer was not conceived on her ...
Portugal -- Millions were benefited as the Shia Ismaili Muslim community celebrated the second annual Global Ismaili CIVIC Day on the 25th of September across the globe. This effort was made up of Local Partnerships connected to global efforts to strengthen communities through environmental stewardship. The Global Ismaili CIVIC Day is an annual Ismaili CIVIC signature event. It is a global ...
Monday, October 10, 2022 By Josephine Christopher, business reporter for The Citizen and Mwananchi newspapers Dar es Salaam. Tanzanian members of the Ismaili Community have expressed their commitment to taking action ...
![Moment in Time [October 12, 909]: Imam al-Mahdi was proclaimed Caliph establishing the Fatimid Caliphate](https://ismailidigest.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/4f1935bd50.jpeg)
On October 12, 9091 Imam al-Mahdi was solemnly enthroned as caliph in Sijilmasa (in present-day Morocco), where he had been residing for four years. This marked the end of the dawr al-satr (period of concealment) in early Ismaili history. Following the proclamation, Imam and his entourage set off for Qayrawan, the seat of the fallen dynasty, to officially establish Fatimid Caliphate. ...
Karachi, October 10, 2022: The University of York (England) and the Aga Khan University (AKU) in Karachi will jointly lead the establishment of a new research centre to improve mental and ...
Apply at the IIS STEP - Applications are due October 24, 2022! ...
By Dr Karim H. Karim, Chancellor's Professor at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada The Prophet Muhammad's open and outward-looking worldview has been constricted over centuries into insular dogmas that circumambulate increasingly ...
Life In Motion and Flying Colours take second Stakes victories. SEA THE STARS enjoyed three Stakes winners in two days, with Babala becoming number 101 on Friday followed by Life In Motion and Flying Colours adding to their 2022 tally on Saturday. Three-year-old Babala won the Listed Prix Charles Lafitte at Compiegne for owner/breeders Wertheimer & Frère to become her sire's ...
Ismaili Digest Exclusive for September 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.
Day 3 of the Schools2030 Global Forum focused on the future of Policy and Practice in education and asked: How might we better collaborate to advance equitable quality learning journeys? ...
#QuoteofTheWeek: On 19 October 2003, at the 25th Anniversary Graduation Ceremony of The Institute of Ismaili Studies, Mawlana Hazar Imam spoke about the binding forces that unite Muslims together. Click here to read his full speech. #AgaKhan #Ismaili #IsmailiStudies #OneJamat #OneHumanity #Studies #Learning #Education #Teaching #MindBodySpirit #Intellect ...
Day 2 of the Schools2030 Global Forum focused on the future of Design and Innovation in education and asked: How might we better catalyse inclusive quality learning experiences across Schools, Systems, and Societies? ...
#WordoftheWeek: Salawat An Arabic term, which is the plural of salat, meaning "prayer". It is used by all Muslims to refer to prayers to invoke blessings on Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), as mandated by a Qur'anic injunction. Believers recite salawat for a variety of reasons, including to seek Allah's help, support, and grace, and to express gratitude for Divine blessings. Shia and many ...
Day 1 of the Schools2030 Global Forum focused on the future of Assessment and Evidence in education and asked: How might we better measure holistic quality learning outcomes across schools, systems and societies? ...
Siyouni the third leading sire by average, Sea The Stars third by aggregate. The Aga Khan stallions were among the top sires during a strong renewal of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale, Book 1. SIYOUNI yearlings were particularly in demand, and he finished Book 1 as the third leading sire by average (more than one sold), with 18 yearlings selling for ...
In this video, Schools2030 Global Forum delegates share stories about their favourite teachers, those who inspired and motivated them, and gave them a lifelong passion for learning. ...
The Ismaili Tariqah and Religious Education Board (ITREB) U.K., as part of its Heritage Series, commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Ugandan Asian expulsion with a virtual panel discussion with 5 ...
A short film created at the Schools2030 Global Forum celebrating teacher-driven educational change. ...
WATTSUPWITHTHAT.COM -- A proper environmental impact assessment of a product means measuring all pollution it creates over its lifetime, not just one pollutant, such as CO2. A 2021 "life cycle assessment" (LCA) by the Journal of Cleaner Production found that manufacturing, charging, operating, and disposing of electric vehicles produces more pollutants than conventional cars in every category: 26% more fine particulate matter, 20% more human carcinogens, 61% more non-carcinogenic toxicity, 31% more terrestrial ecotoxicity, 39% more freshwater ecotoxicity and 41% more marine ecotoxicity. A 2019 German study found the Tesla Model 3 emits 11% to 28% more CO2, over its lifespan, than a diesel Mercedes C220D. While no single study is an end-all, clearly electric vehicles are far from zero-emission. Similarly, ...
AMERICANTHINKER.COM -- Large swaths of Florida's heavily populated Gulf Coast have been ordered evacuated. What if all 8,000,000, instead of just 100,000, of Florida's vehicles were electric? Depending on how heavily loaded they were, cars from southern Florida would start running flat after 100 - 250 miles, even assuming a full charge. Since recharging can then easily take over an hour, they would then spend hours at recharging stations, which would rapidly clog up with other vehicles waiting their turn. All those vehicles would spill onto the highways, potentially blocking traffic. Cars that ran flat on the highway would also block traffic. In all likelihood, the highways would become vast parking lots, their passengers trapped, while the storm approaches ...
TORONTO, ONTARIO (October 3, 2022) - Prince's Trust Canada (PTC), HM The King's flagship charity in Canada, has appointed Farah Mohamed as Chief Executive Officer. Mohamed succeeds retiring CEO Sharon Broughton. ...
The Aga Khan Education Service (AKES), India won the "School Chain of the Year" award in the K-12 education category for the 2022 India Didactics Association (IDA) Education Awards. The IDA ...
The retainer is cease with immediate effect. Following last Friday's incident at Saint-Cloud, which resulted in the fall of Rossa Ryan, the Aga Khan Studs have taken the decision to cease their retainer with jockey Christophe Soumillon with immediate effect. From this week onwards, Soumillon may still ride in the Aga Khan silks on occasion at the discretion of the French ...
NATIONALFILE.COM -- [ISMAILI DIGEST ED: Hazar Imam, 1999: "[One reason the Ummah may disappear is that they] adopt the modern world and forget their traditional values." ~~ Hazar Imam, 2008: "I have no intention whatsoever, of allowing compromises to come into our value systems to please passing concepts about limitless freedom in social relations." ~~ Hazar Imam, 1965: "The 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. When the Faith is broken down everything goes with it: the family, society, the individual, the intelligence."] ARTICLE: The left-wing world order is "doomed to fail" thanks to its deliberate destruction of "traditional values" Russian President Vladimir Putin said this week. While taking a firm stand for Christian tradition, traditional values and basic human nature, he railed against the far-left world order. "Do we want to have, here, in our country, in Russia, Parent Number One, Number Two, Number Three, instead of Mom and Dad? Have they gone mad out there? For us, all this is unacceptable, we have a different future, our own future," the Russian President declared. He continued, "Such a complete denial of man, the overthrow of faith and traditional values, the suppression of freedom acquiring the features of a 'reverse religion' - outright Satanism." In referencing America's troubled education system, which ...
USA -- Dr. Ali Asani speaks to Emory University Theology students on the meaning of Islam and its connections with other Abrahamic faiths. "How can we bring out the diverse voices of Islam?" It's an important question- one Dr. Ali Asani addresses on an August afternoon at the Ismaili Jamatkhana in Decatur, Georgia, during his guest lecture for graduate-level students from ...
By Peggy Garritty, Chancellor of University of Alberta, October 1, 2022 In 2018, the city of Edmonton hosted His Highness the Aga Khan to open what has since become a landmark ...
KA Imaging's SpectralDR™ technology enables dual-energy subtraction, providing bone and tissue differentiation with a single standard X-ray exposure. It acquires three images simultaneously (DR, bone and soft tissue dual-energy X-ray images). ...
Gr.2 success for Erevann and Gr.1 glory for Sea La Rosa during exciting Arc weekend. Impressive Prix du Jockey Club winner VADENI proved the best of his generation in the Gr.1 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in the rain at ParisLongchamp on Sunday. The dual Group 1 winning colt finished a close second to five-year-old Alpinista, who incidentally is herself a ...
THEHILL.COM -- Richard Herrington, the head of earth sciences at the Natural History Museum in London, and seven of his colleagues sent a letter to the British government calculating the resources needed to replace the UK's 31 million cars with electrics. The totals include two times the world's cobalt production, nearly its entire neodymium production, three-quarters of its lithium production and at least half of its copper production during 2018. By these numbers, electrifying the USA's 276 million cars would require roughly 18 times the world's cobalt production, about 9 times its neodymium output, nearly 7 times its lithium production, and about 4 times its copper production. Last year, in the USA, 17.3 million vehicles were purchased. EVs accounted for about 361,000, or roughly 2% of ...
RT.COM -- As the world eyes a more environmentally friendly future, it is getting more reliant on rare-earth metals (or elements). Rare-earths are used in magnets, batteries, motors, wind turbines, electric or hybrid cars, and much more. A single iPhone contains eight different rare-earth metals. But they are creating an environmental catastrophe of horrific proportions. Leaving aside they are rare and depleting rapidly, processing them requires a deadly cocktail of toxins. Processing a single ton produces 2,000 tons of toxic waste. Baotou, China, has the world's largest mine tailings pond and it's been leaking its toxic contents into the groundwater supply for 20 years. Sheep there grow extra rows of teeth or are unable to close their mouths ...
Contributed by Rumina Velshi, President and CEO of Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission Safety and security are imperative in the nuclear business, and having diverse perspectives around the table brings more questioning ...
GOOGLE.COM -- Success in establishing the Nizari "da'wa" in Alamut was mainly due to Hasan al-Sabbah revitalizing the Ismalli doctrine of the Imamate. He not only used the historical, philosophical, religious and exegetic arguments of earlier "da'is," demonstrating the necessity of an Imam descended from 'Ali, but also logical propositions in support of the doctrine of "al-ta'lim" (necessity of infallible teaching or instruction by an "Imam"). He argued that since God is just, He must, in every age send an infallible "teacher," whose teachings are the only way to truth and ultimately lead to unification of various faiths. As for reason, Hasan implied that its main use is to help the truth-seeker to know or "recognize" the true ...
Mr. Minaz Jivraj, Chief Security officer, Dufferin Peel Catholic District School Board (Ontario, Canada), was recognized by the Board of Trustees at a public meeting on August 27, 2020 in a ...
An old tale tells the story of a young goat herder in Ethiopia in the sixth century, who was astonished to see his herd of goats become particularly excited when they ...
October 1st is "International Day for Older Persons. To highlight this day, Sujjawal Ahmad joins in conversation with Laila Akber Cassum from Aga Khan University, Pakistan who sheds light on the ...
Portugal -- No passado dia 25 de setembro, o Jamat juntou-se para uma ação de limpeza na Praia da Ponta dos Corvos, no âmbito da comemoração do Global Ismaili CIVIC Day 2022. O Ismaili CIVIC é uma iniciativa global sob o qual a comunidade Muçulmana Shia Imami Ismaili uniu-se em torno da sua tradição secular de servir a humanidade, prestando serviço ...
This digital work, presented to mark National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, is a collaboration between Indigenous artist Darlene Gijuminag and Pakistani-Canadian filmmaker Imran Babur. After the Aga Khan Museum's virtual Music for a New Day project brought Gijuminag and Babur together in 2020, the artists were invited to hold space in the Museum in 2021 for the first National Day for ...
Dr. Mohamed Fazal Manji is a recipient of the 2022 Royal College M. Andrew Padmos International Collaboration Award Reflecting on his international career achievements, Tanzania-born radiation oncologist Mohamed (Mo) Fazal Manji, ...
