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Mazhar you say - "I believe that the word change does not apply to Allah, but His orders be."

- The Orders or Farmans are not changed by Allah. They are changed by the Prophets and Imams. The Imams have authorization and authority from God at all times; so their orders change based on the needs of ...

Mazhar

What you say in your post contradicts itself a number of times.

Firstly, eternal means completely beyond time. We both agree on this. So if Allah is eternal (beyond time, space, change), then Allah's Acts do not change. I mean Allah's Act of creating, sustaining, and bestowing blessings ...

“Whoever thought God shifts from one state to another has actually ascribed to God the attributes of His creatures. Nothing can provoke God, the Sublime, to bring any change in God.”
- Imam Muhammad al-Baqir, (Al-Kulayni, Usul al-Kafi, Kitab al-Tawhid, Hadith No. 302, tr. Sayyid Muhammad Hasan Rizvi ...

MR FORGET

Read the entire article I posted it. The answer is already there:

Allah is eternal and unchanging. He answers all prayers at all times and all moments. Allah's blessings descend upon all at all times.

Prayer to Allah is not to convince Allah to send us more or to change His Will and His ...

Eternal means beyond time and change. Go and look it up.

Eternal does not simply mean limitless. Limitless is another word altogether.

Dear Mazhar

You are incorrect when you say that Allah can change His act.

Because Allah is eternal and eternal means beyond all time and change. If Allah were to change His act, then He would be changing and therefore, He would be in time and composed of parts. This means Allah is not truly one ...

Dear Mazhar

You are incorrect when you say that Allah can change His act.

Because Allah is eternal and eternal means beyond all time and change. If Allah were to change His act, then He would be changing and therefore, He would be in time and composed of parts. This means Allah is not truly one ...

Prayer is always a religious matter. You cannot claim that just because Imam is primarily concerned with our upliftment spiritually that he does not care about our quality of life materially. IN fact the Imam says in his interviews that his role is to protect his murids.

Regarding Allah answering ...

Mazhar

Two questions for you.

1. You accept the words of MHI right? In Pakistan, 1964, the Imam said that "the Jamat looks to the Imam of the Time for help in ALL matters."

On Sept 1, Bombay, MSMS said that whoever seeks the help of Mawlana Ali, the Imam used to fulfill their wishes.

Do you ...

Our article explains the fake funeral of Imam Ismail.

http://ismailignosis.com/2014/10/02/who ... ibn-jafar/

Dear Mazhar

The Imam's guidance at Paris Conference was that the Imam is the mazhar of Allah. And that Allah Himself is absolutely transcendent. The Nur of Imamat, also called Nur Allah, is the supreme manifestation of Allah's Essence, and Imam is the human manifestation of Nur of Imamat n earth ...

Mazhar

With all respect, you do not seem to understand or follow what I am saying.

Your whole reply was explaining why the Imams are not Allah. That is great but I never said the Imams are Allah.

I said the Imams are the Living Names of Allah and the Face, Hands, Eyes, of Allah. That is the same ...

Mazhar

So you have not addressed by points I posted.

As for the Prophet being the Hand of God - think about it. The Prophet's hand was over the hand of each murid when they gave Bayah. But the Quran said it was God's Hand.

Now, God is generally present everywhere and always as a witness over all ...

Mazhar

The Quran tells us to call upon Him (Allah) by His Names.

Now, Allah's Names have two forms - one is the verbal and written form which exists on the tongues and on paper when we write them.

The other form of Allah's Names are the pure souls of His Servants, namely the Imams, which exist ...

Mazhar

The Quran tells us to call upon Him (Allah) by His Names.

Now, Allah's Names have two forms - one is the verbal and written form which exists on the tongues and on paper when we write them.

The other form of Allah's Names are the pure souls of His Servants, namely the Imams, which exist ...

This article puts to rest any Twelver claims and proves that Ismail is the Imam after Ja'far al-Sadiq:

http://ismailignosis.com/2014/10/02/who ... ibn-jafar/

Imam Hasan Ali Shah has not written those books, to my knowledge. They are not mentioned in any article on him or his writings.

Nuseri

Nothing you say above makes any sense. Allah is Allah. Allah is not from Ali. No Imam or Pir or Dai has taught that!

According to MSMS, Allah is Monoreality. This Monoreality is the Light that shines and manifests in all creatures. Everything is in God but God transcends everything.


The ...

The Imam does play a real and active role - his blessings, guidance, inspiration, purification, love and compassion for his murids makes their souls more receptive and polished, so that their souls can receive more of God's blessings. All these roles are given to Muhammad in the Quran anyway and ...

" Now with due respect and not offending any body, why not in our du;a guzari after tasbihat, we say ALLAHUMA BI HAQQI AHL BAIT WA A'IMATICAL MUTAHAREEN HAMAREY GUNAH BAKHSH KAR WA HUM PAR RAHM FARMA, AND SO ON-"

- Mazhar, please go back and read my response above. The bi-haqqi is already implied ...

"Could you then please explain the esoteric meaning of it?"

- That relates back to how prayer works metaphysically and the fact that the supplications of creatures cannot and do not affect or change God's Will or His acts. God's act of giving existence and bounties to His creatures is a constant ...

According to the Qur’an itself, the Prophet of Islam is not only the revealer of the Qur’an but also its expounder (16:44, 5:15; 5:19; 16:44; 16:64; 14:4). Revealing the Qur’an actually comprises just a portion of Muhammad’s mission on earth which also includes teaching, purification, and guidance ...

Dear Mazhar

The Tasbihs are recited after Du'a and after salwaat recited in the Du'a.

So going into the Tasbihs, it is already known that:

a) Allah bestows His blessings upon the souls of Muhammad and the Imams
b) Allah grants us His blessings THROUGH the souls of Muhammad and the Imams

So ...

"This would imply that Imam Mustawda has no spiritual status at all."

- Well no, that does not follow. Imam Mustawda has all the powers and authority of the Imam while he is appointed and he exercises those powers - until at his death he must surrender them to the real Imam.

This is why at the ...

The Pir before prophet Muhammad was his father Abdullah until his death. Then the office was occupied by Abu Talib himself before he appointed the prophet as the Pir.

BIbi Khadija was the Bab/Hujjat - there are 4 Babs in total and the Pir is one of them and Khadija was the other of them. She was ...

There is no historical or theological basis for saying Imam Mustawda and Pir/Bab is the same thing. No text supports this.

Karim M - the MSMS Memoirs quote never says Imam is mazhar of the Essence and we have no historical evidence that the early Imams taught this. On the contrary the early Imams ...

Admin, Imam Mustawda is NOT the same as Pir and there is no text written by an Ismaili Imam, Hujjat, Pir or Dai that says Imam Mustawda = Pir.

The only person who said that was Abualy Missionary and on that point, he is not correct. If you want to follow his view without question, then that is your ...

In relation to the Imams, the 49 and the Cycle of Qiyamah, these articles are very useful:

http://ismailignosis.com/2012/12/24/esoteric-apocalypse-qiyamah-ismaili-muslim-perspectives-on-the-end-of-the-world-part-1/

http://ismailignosis.com/2012/12/24/esoteric-apocalypse-qiyamah-ismaili-muslim ...

``the Essence preceding the Attributes, He who is above all else, whose Mazhar is the Imam. ``

- Admin, Corbin never says the Imam is mazhar of the Essence. Corbin merely relates the Nizari Alamut view that Imam is mazhar of the Command of God. The Command of God is not identical with the Essence ...

" that when Imam is the Mazhar of the Divine Intellect, the the presence of the Mazhar of the Divine Command isn't there in the realm of physical?"

The Imams - their souls to be specific - are the mazhar of the Universal Intellect. Now, the Universal Intellect is joined to the Command, so the ...