"So you may be asking yourselves, if fear is omnipresent ā as I believe it is, what does that mean about the world in which the graduands of lāAiglon will enter? And you will be asking yourselves how, as nano-players on the global scene, you could cause positive change to happen for yourselves, your families, your peoples. My answer is: hope. Fortunately, just as fear can be infectious, so hope is infectious. When individuals and families and communities, or even nations, come together around new found hope ā and this hope translates into perceptible, tactile improvements in the quality of life ā that new momentum can be unstoppable. The smile replaces the frown. Conversation replaces silence. Fear of the future is replaced by confidence to respond to its challenges. This reversal from fear to hope is rooted in individuals, in the leadership that they provide to the overall impact of civil society. Governments and institutions must create an Enabling Environment in which hope can flourish. But the actual process of replacing fear with hope rests with every individual in his or her society. And once individuals begin to express their own sense of hope and to act on a common outlook then they begin to discover a common cause that they can support. They speak and sense the same issues and opportunities. And they can be come an enormous source of growing strength and reassurance for one another. I hope that that will happen to you." - Mawlana Hazar Imam MawlAiglon College Graduation Ceremony (ChesiĆØres, Switzerland), 21 June 2014 #Ismaili #Ismailism #AgaKhan #ProudIsmaili #SpiritualChildren #HazarImam #SpiritualFather #SpiritualMother #ShahPir #Blessed #Faith #Love4Imam #Imam #Imamat #IsmailiPride #LessonsInIsmailism #Nanowisdoms #DidYouKnow #USIG2015 #OneJamat #HopeIsInfectious #HopeDrivesChange #HopeBeatsFear #HopeItUp Please visit www.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.