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“As a Muslim we don’t make the divide between faith and life in the same way as parts of the Christian world do, not all of it but there are large parts of the Christian world which make that divide. We don’t make that divide. Islam doesn’t allow you to make that divide. You reflect your belief, your faith in the faith of Islam, not only by your attitude to the faith itself but to the society in which you live — to poverty, to the family, to ethics in your civil behaviour. It’s part of your everyday life. You live the faith. And I think that’s why many, many Muslims, not me but others, including myself, define the faith as, a way of life because it is a way of life.”
- Imam Shah Karim al-Hussaini Aga Khan IV ZDF (Enterprises) Interview (2nd) for the documentary ‘Islam and the West’, ‘Morgenland’ (‘Orient’) (Germany), 30 May 2009
http://www.nanowisdoms.org/nwblog/9266/ #Ismaili #Ismailism #AgaKhan #ProudIsmaili #SpiritualChildren #HazarImam #SpiritualFather #SpiritualMother #ShahPir #Blessed #Faith #Love4Imam #Imam #Imamat #IsmailiPride #LessonsInIsmailism #Nanowisdoms #DidYouKnow #USIG2015 #OneJamat #FaithAndLife 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.

"Like each of you personally, the University also remembers its heritage on a day like this. That heritage is rooted in the rich history of Islamic intellectual accomplishment, including the work of my own ancestors in ancient Cairo 1000 years ago, when they founded the Azhar University and the Dar-ul-ilm, the House of Knowledge. This story continued for several centuries, as Muslim centers of scholarship and culture involved and inspired people of many traditions and faith communities. A respect for diversity, a welcoming, cosmopolitan ethic has been a hallmark of this heritage — an increasingly relevant legacy in the emerging “border-less” world that President Rasul has so aptly described. It was this intellectual heritage that inspired my grandfather, as Imam of the Ismaili Muslim community, to make education a top priority. In fact, he started the first Aga Khan School in Africa over 110 years ago in Bagamoyo, Tanzania. And that same legacy was in our minds when we began planning for this new Aga Khan University." - Imam Shah Karim al-Husayni Aga Khan IV 2015 Aga Khan University Convocation Ceremony (Kampala, Uganda), 26 February 2015 http://www.nanowisdoms.org/nwblog/10885/ #Ismailis #Ismailism #AgaKhan #AhlAlBayt #ProudIsmaili #SpiritualChildren #HazarImam #SpiritualFather #SpiritualMother #ShahPir #Blessed #Faith #Love4Imam #Imam #Imamat #IsmailiPride #LessonsInIsmailism #Nanowisdoms #DidYouKnow #OneJamat #IntellectualHeritage #Fatimid #DarUlIlm #HouseOfKnowledge #Cairo #RespectForDiversity #CosmopolitanEthic 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.

Mawlana Hazar Imam immediately turns and waves enthusiastically to crowds of Ismailis during his Golden Jubilee visit to Dushanbe. #Ismailis #Ismailism #AgaKhan #ProudIsmaili #SpiritualChildren #Imam #Imamat #LessonsInIsmailism 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.

"The Imam must direct Ismailis on the practice of their religion and constantly interpret the Qur’an for them according to our theology. On the spiritual plane, the Imam’s authority is absolute. Ismailis believe therefore that what the Imam says is the only true interpretation possible. This is fundamental to our religion — perhaps something similar is found in the case of the Pope in the Catholic religion.” L’Expansion Interview, Roger Priouret, ‘Face to Face with the Aga Khan’ (Paris, France) March 1975 http://www.nanowisdoms.org/nwblog/1732/ To read about HOW Mawlana Hazar Imam interprets the faith for us read: http://essentialismaili.com/2015/06/20/how-the-ismaili-imam-teaches-the-esoteric-interpretation-tawil-of-the-holy-quran-ismaili-gnosis/ #Ismailis #Ismailism #AgaKhan #ProudIsmaili #SpiritualChildren #Imam #Imamat #Nanowisdoms #Imamat #Appreciation #OurPureImams #LessonsInIsmailism #WhoIsAli #Truth 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.

Mawlana Hazar Imam laughs and smiles and we can't help but laugh and smile with him: "We are a community that welcomes the smile!" 😍 Opening ceremony for the Ismaili Centre Toronto and the Aga Khan Museum, September 12, 2014 #Ismailis #Ismailism #AgaKhan #ProudIsmaili #SpiritualChildren #Imam #Imamat #Nanowisdoms #ICT #IsmailiCentreToronto #Imamat #Appreciation #LessonsInIsmailism @agakhanmuseum #Smile 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.

ON DASOND: QUESTION: “Tell us how this money is collected? I mean is it a system of taxation or is it really entirely voluntary?” ANSWER: “No — it is entirely voluntary and the IMAM USES THE MONEY either to grant SCHOLARSHIPS to students, to grant capital to a SCHOOL or a HOSPITAL. We have got on hospital in Nairobi at the moment which will have cost about 400,000 pounds and my grandfather GAVE A VERY LARGE SUM to that hospital.” Imam Shah Karim al-Husayni (UK Press Interview, 2 May 1958) #Ismailis #Ismailism #AgaKhan #ProudIsmaili #SpiritualChildren #Imam #Imamat #Appreciation #Give2Receive #LessonsInIsmailism #Dasond 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.

DID YOU EVER WONDER - WHAT CONSTITUTES A MUSLIM NAME? Mawlana Hazar Imam explains: "If they had Muslim names, they would be in Arabic or Turkish or Persian or Urdu and none of you would be able to pronounce those names.” 88th Stephen A. Ogden, Jr. ’60 Memorial Lecture on International Affairs and apres lecture conversation with Christina Paxson, Brown University (Providence, USA) 10 March 2014 #Ismailis #Ismailism #AgaKhan #ProudIsmaili #SpiritualChildren #HazarImam #SpiritualFather #SpiritualMother #ShahPir #Blessed #Faith #Love4Imam #Imam #Imamat #Nanowisdoms #IsmailiPride #AU2K15c2 #CPOI2015 #STEP #LessonsInIsmailism #MuslimName 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.