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The following communication makes one wonder whether the Hindus are more closer to us than the Sunnis in terms of their thinking.

HAF COMMENDS AGHA KHAN FOR COMMITMENT TO PLURALISM

The Hindu American Foundation wrote a letter to His Highness the Aga
Khan, the spiritual leader of the Shia Imami ...

Ya Ali Madad GMR

Can you elaborate on your following statement please, it sounds very interesting:

wait until the end of this year 2009 or so, when our Imam-e-Zaman would be touching/introducing Fatimid period to present time/era, as per his Taliqa Mubarak of December 13, 2008. .

Thank you ...

I think there are a number of initiatives that are taking place on an ongoing basis in the Muslim Ummah to revive and foster unity. Below is an excerpt of Hazar Imam's speech delivered to the Amman Islamic Conference.

"I applaud Jordan, under the leadership of His Majesty King Abdullah, for the ...

I mark/observe the festivals of other cultures and religions in the workplace out of diplomacy (e.g. Christmas, Diwali), so the Whites and Hindus don't discriminate against me because I am South Asian and Muslim. In other words, based on previous experience, I don't want them marking me out as the ...

What do you think Muslim Bortherhood and Fraternity means?

Doesn't exist - never has and never will. This so-called Muslim Brotherhood/Ummah is blighted by racism and sectarianism. I used to believe in the myth of Muslim Brotherhood/Ummah. But, from my own experiences, looking at contemporary ...

BULLSHITT! I was like, damnit, that's just some minor gun accidents news...some guys accidentally push the triggers of their toys and killed a bunch of foreigners...oops! he he...what's the big deal? just bury or burn the deads and move on...there are literally more deaths occur everyday on the ...

Interesting Wikipedia entry on Ismailis under the entry ‘Islam in Syria’

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_Syria#Ismailis

“Although holding their Imams to be of divine origin, as the [Twelver] Shia do, Ismailis have a dual Imamate. They believe the succession of visible Imams has continued to ...

Ya Ali Madad

Can anyone be more specific about the predicted historical changes to take place in late 2008??

Khomeini was a horrible Iranian nationalist. He's was a power hungry mullah, part of the cabal that has turned Islam into a fiqh-regulated nightmare devoid of any spirituality, responsible for the bad image of Islam that turns away Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

It was people like Khomeini that ...

"I fear the day when Islam will be our faith, yet its outward manifestation in the building we work and live in, the painting and works of art we behold and the music we listen to, will be dominated by foreign cultures which have their roots neither in our spiritual beliefs nor in our great artistic ...

From BBC News (South Asia):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7473019.stm

Islam and Hinduism's blurred lines

By Jyotsna Singh
BBC News, Ajmer, Rajasthan

Forty-two-year-old Sohan Singh is delighted to call himself a "full-fledged" Hindu.

Recently he cremated his mother, defying a ...

One of the important reason for this hatred is curriculum of Pakistan in Subject of Social Studies, which is inculcating feelings of hatred in the yound minds of children towards India and Hinduism, inorder to justify the existence of Pakistan..which is certainly wrong. Anyways, the reality is ...

Star Munir – the quotes you present just show that Hazar Imam (a) is against sectarianism, which is correct. Sure, I’m prepared to accept a Hindu and Sikh as long as they don’t hate Muslims (which the majority do) or propagandise against Muslims (which many do).

But, you don’t address the fact ...

From ‘An Ismaili Manual of Practice’ by Pir Sadruddin:

“Do not follow Hindu sectarian teachings your salvation cannot be found there.”

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ROLE OF THE LATE AGA KHAN AS A LEADER OF THE MUSLIMS
OF THE SUBCONTINENT IN THE POLITICAL FIELD

By: SHERALI ALIDINA, KARACHI

After the collapse of the Great Revolution of 1857, the Muslims in the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent were hounded out of all ...

From http://www.ismaili.net/Source/0036.html:

His active participation in the public life for about ten years gave the young Aga Khan an insight into the condition of Muslim India. He recalls his impressions about this period in his Memoirs as under:

"At the same time I began to realize, during ...

Hindus generally don't like Muslims - I've witnessed (even personally experienced) a lot of Hindu and Sikh bigotry against Muslims here in London and see it all the time on Hindu and Sikh online forums and websites. Ya Ali.

I would like to quote an excerpt from Prince Alykhan's speech on the ...

Ofcourse Ismailis are very blessed but what do you mean by saying we khoja would still be in India as slaves! There are many Ismailis who are living in India and they are living a very happy life.

Let's not think that things are 100% roses for Ismailis in India - we are viewed as Muslims (as we ...

My birthday was on the 12th December and Hazar Imam's today! I wish I was born on the 13th December. Damn. Just my luck

Baqi

Ya Ali Madad

Thanks for your help guys

Ya Ali Madad

Is the 23rd (Lailatul Qadar) on Thursday (4th Oct) evening or Friday (5th Oct) evening?

Thanks.

To Ali

Obviously you are an extremist Sunni who generally dislikes, most probably, Shi'as of all persuasions (see your statement, 'You have only quoted Shia extremist hadithes which have no authenticity'. Further, you present no evidence, proof or arguement as to why the hadiths I have quoted are ...

Two more hadiths from Imam Ali (a):

Ali said: “I am the guide and the guided. I am the father of the orphans, and the husband of the widows and the paupers. I am the shelter of every weak one, and the place of safety for all who fear. I am the one who leads the believers to paradise. I am the first ...

Imam as-Sadiq (a):

"Indeed, Allah created us and formed us, and gave us the most perfect form. He made us His Eye over His Servants, and His Speaking Tongue, through which He speaks to His Servants. We are His Open Hand, extended with Mercy and Kindness to His Servants. We are His Face, through ...

Dear Ali, some more hadiths from the Holy Prophet (s) and the masoom Imams for you to think over:

"The Imam never disappears..." (Imam Sultan Mohamed Shah, 1903)

"I am showing you the way. I am clearing the path by removing the obstacles, which might be on the way. Now, whether to tread it or not ...

No Ali, Shaykh 'Abd al-Hakeem Carney was not nuts as you claim. How would you know, you know nothing of this great man.

I think you are little more than a standard Sunni extremist, who has a very reductive and literalist approach to and understanding of religion.

Here is a hadith from the fifth ...

Dear Ali

Your questions are pretty much pointless, given that you are obviously arguing from the perspective of normative Sunnism (if not, then from a exoteric Twelver position).

Your questions, if you are honest, are basically trying to say that Ismailism commits shirk by attributing the ...

Ya Ali Madad

funguy2007 is spot on. If 'Prince of Peace' has serious misgivings about Hazar Imam, then I'm sure he'll have even greater misgivings about his new adopted faith when he starts to investigate and research the foundational figures of Christainity such as the Roman pagan emperor ...

Ya Ali Madad

I thought that fasting for the whole month of Ramadan wasn't compulsory for Ismailis? I'm married to a Sunni and am being forced to fast :( I hate it!!!

I thought that the whole point of the alamut was to spiriutally liberate us from exoteric-bound, sharia-obsessed pracitces such as ...

Ya Ali Madad Admin

I've been sent private messages. I can read them but am prevented from replying to them.

How do I remedy this? Thanks.

Baqi


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