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The Esoteric Feminine: Women in Ismaili History and Thought

Posted on October 20, 2015 by Ismaili Gnostic

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Ya Ali Madad: The Rationale for Praying to God and Calling upon the Imams in Prayer

Posted on March 22, 2015 by Ismaili Gnostic

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Mourning for Ma‘rifah: Ismaili Interpretations of Ashura

Posted on October 25, 2014 by Ismaili Gnostic

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Today we celebrate Yaum e Ali! Ismaili Gnosis Presents: Ismaili Teachings on Tawhid (Oneness of God): From Imam Ali to Imam Shah Karim al-Husayni Aga Khan IV “That which has no second does not enter into the category of numbers.” – Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib “Islam’s basic principle can only be defined as mono-realism and not as monotheism.” – Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III Read the article: https://ismailignosis.com/2016/01/22/ismaili-teachings-on-the-oneness-of-god-tawhid-beyond-personalist-theism-and-modern-atheism/ #Ismaili #Ismailism #AgaKhan #AhlAlBayt #ProudIsmaili #HazarImam #OneJamat Please visit www.ismailignosis.com or ask.ismailignosis.com or visit our Facebook page www.facebook.com/IsmailiGnosis for more gems about Mawlana Hazar Imam, the Imamat, and Ismaili history and philosophy.

"The bogey of Islam as a monolith, irreconcilable to the values of the West or, worse, as a seedbed of violence, lurks behind its depiction as being both opposed to, and incapable of, pluralism. This image flies directly in the face of the respect that Islam's cherished scripture confers upon believers in monotheistic traditions, calling upon Muslims to engage with them in the finest manner, and with wisdom. History is replete with illustrations where Muslims have entrusted their most treasured possessions, even members of their families, to the care of Christians. Muslim willingness to learn from Jewish erudition in medicine, statecraft and other realms of knowledge, is well exemplified by the place of honour accorded Jewish scholars at the court of the Fatimid Imam-Caliphs of Egypt.... Intellectual honesty and greater knowledge are essential if current explosive situations are to be understood as inherited conflicts and -- rather than being specific to the Muslim world -- driven by ethnic and demographic difference, economic inequity and unresolved political situations." - Imam Shah Karim al-Hussayni Aga Khan IV His Highness the Aga Khan's 2004 Keynote Address to the Governor General's 2004 Canadian Leadership Conference: 'Leadership and Diversity' (Gatineau, Quebec, Canada) http://www.nanowisdoms.org/nwblog/6977 #Ismaili #Ismailism #AgaKhan #AhlAlBayt #ProudIsmaili #HazarImam #OneJamat Please visit www.ismailignosis.com or ask.ismailignosis.com or visit our Facebook page www.facebook.com/IsmailiGnosis for more gems about Mawlana Hazar Imam, the Imamat, and Ismaili history and philosophy.

"The essential nature of the Imām will never change, even when he is a drop of sperm in the loins of his father, or a fetus in the womb of his mother… The Imāms, both outwardly and inwardly, both exoterically and esoterically, issue from the pure line and loins of the Imām, one after another. The Imām is perfect when still in the form of sperm in the loins of his father and the pure womb of his mother. An Imām is always an Imām and always perfect. Otherwise, why should he say, ‘The Imām knows from which drop of sperm the Imām after him will come?’ If his being in the form of a drop of sperm or adult were not the same, he would not have said: ‘His sperm was kneaded along with his intellect.’ Their status looks different according to the way that our eyes perceive them. For example, sometimes [he appears as] a child, sometimes an old person, and sometimes a youth, and so forth, because although he does not change, it can be that we see him with our eyes as changing, or see him as two distinct persons, as a father and son.... But once you come to the realization that that drop of sperm in the loins of his father is but one and the same Light, ‘a Light that transmigrates from loins to loins,’ and even though the mother’s womb into which this Light enters may be perceived by you as imperfect, you may still affirm these words:‘And we come from the Light of God.’ For can the Light of God be affected by anything? Can the Light of God be dimmed by any cause or circumstance? It is nonsensical to maintain otherwise my friend. Or can this intellectual sperm be more perfect when it becomes a mature person? Or can anything be hidden from the Light of God, that at some time he (the Imām) is cognizant of a truth and another time incognizant, or that some of them know and others do not? This matter of the perfection of Imāmat is not what some people have supposed.” – Imām Ḥasan ‘alā dhikrihi al-salām, (Nasīr al-Dīn Tūsī, Rawda-yi Taslīm, tr. S.J. Badakhchani, The Paradise of Submission, 125) #Ismaili #Ismailism #AgaKhan #AhlAlBayt #ProudIsmaili #HazarImam #OneJamat Please visit www.ismailignosis.com or ask.ismailignosis.com or visit our Facebook page www.faceboo

"Personally, 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 no hesitation in giving the higher education to the girl." -Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III Guidelines for the Muslims of Transvaal (Johannesburg, South Africa), 12 August 1945 http://www.nanowisdoms.org/nwblog/10699/ #Ismaili #Ismailism #AgaKhan #AhlAlBayt #ProudIsmaili #HazarImam #OneJamat Please visit www.ismailignosis.com or ask.ismailignosis.com or visit our Facebook page www.facebook.com/IsmailiGnosis for more gems about Mawlana Hazar Imam, the Imamat, and Ismaili history and philosophy.

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