GENERAL HIDAYATS FOR JAMATS - Short Quotes

[swamidada]

If you are united you will be able to serve and also remain strong. With this, Hazar Imam will help you in the world also, else others will overpower you.

Nairobi- March 22, 1926.

[swamidada]

You should be united. Our Religion preaches that we should let bygones be bygone. That is one specialty of our Religion. Even if one harms you, you should forgive him. If you do not do this, how are you going to derive benefits from our Religion. Even if a wrong is done unto you, you should forgive.

Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah
Kurla, Feb 19, 1935.

[swamidada]

I must once more inform my beloved spiritual children that economy in daily life as part of Religion is necessary. You must not squander money on gambling, betting on horses, unnecessary expensive clothes and false jewellery. Constant attention to economy in life not to spend more than necessary even if rich so as not to show superiority over others.

Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah
Marseilles Sep 10, 1951 (Talika to Burma)

[swamidada]

.....But are you surprised at your age that Khoja Ismailis are held back by their intense personal jealousy, which is opposed to their Religion but which, by some racial influence is always coming up. If you read my Farmans during the last sixty years, I have often said that if Khola Ismailis had not this jealousy and this anxiety to pull each other down, with their Iman, with their devotion, all the other good qualities such as good children, good husbands, good fathers and mothers, with these wonderful characteristics they would have been the first community in the world. Unfortunately this one poison pulls them down. I particularly add the word "Khoja" Ismailis, because I have not found such jealousy among non Khoja Ismailis of Syria, Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia and other countries.

Excerpt from a letter written by Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah to Wazir G. A Dossani on April 12, 1955.

[swamidada]

If you desire the emancipation of your soul, then keep your soul in the love and affection of God. Never forget God even for one moment but always think of Him.

Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah
Bagamoya Sep 20, 1899.

[swamidada]

As you have in your body the flesh and blood of your worldly parents, similarly you have in your soul that of your Spiritual Father: by this you should understand that you are the Spiritual Children of your Spiritual Father. You are the sons (and daughters) of one father and brothers to one another.

Nairobi - March 30, 1945.

[kmaherali]

*"You perform bay‘ah, but you must first understand it’s meaning and then offer bay‘ah. When you offer me bay‘ah it means that you extend your hand to me with a promise…He who obeys me and promises to follow me after offering me bay‘ah I also give him my promise that I shall hold his hand in the Hereafter. The trials and tribulations of the Day of Judgment are very frightening and painful. I will keep him away from this."*

.....MSMS
.....Manjewadi,
.....October 31, 1903

[swamidada]

An excerpt from Mawlana Hazar Imam’s speech at the opening ceremony of The Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat in Ottawa, Canada on December 6, 2008. In the speech, Mawlana Hazar Imam says:

As the Holy Quran so powerfully affirms, “Allah is the Creator and the Master of the heavens and the earth.” And then it continues: “Everything in the heavens and on earth, and everything between them, and everything beneath the soil, belongs to Him.” But in Islamic thought, as in this building, beauty and mystery are not separated from intellect – in fact, the reverse is true. As we use our intellect to gain new knowledge about Creation, we come to see even more profoundly the depth and breadth of its mysteries.

We explore unknown regions beneath the seas - and in outer space. We reach back over hundreds of millions of years in time. Extra-ordinary fossilised geological specimens seize our imagination - palm leaves, amethyst flowers, hedgehog quartz, sea lilies, chrysanthemum and a rich panoply of shells. Indeed, these wonders are found beneath the very soil on which we tread – in every corner of the world - and they connect us with far distant epochs and environments.

[kmaherali]

Love and Support One Another

Remember that both in this world and in the next you will be greatly rewarded for loving your brothers and sisters and supporting each other on every occasion.

As always you are in my prayers, heart and thoughts.

(Idd-ul-Azha Message, 5-6-1959)

[kmaherali]

Be ambitious, but not greedy

So I say to my Jamat: think intelligently ahead, build sound foundations, educate your children, be ambitious, but not greedy - - be ambitious, but not greedy - - and bring as much support as you can to every future generations of every family. Build around peace, help, come in support of those who are in need of support, be generous with your time and your thought, and assist those who are facing worldly difficulties. Our Jamat is one big brotherhood, and I expect every murid to be available to help every other murid when there are difficulties that have to be addressed.(MHI DJ Farman, Lisbon, Portugal7 July 2018)

[swamidada]

When the devil wants to exploit you and you think of taking tobacco and alcohol and you are force by devil to use them, then if you remember me and think of me , it will be all easy.

Karachi- Feb 4, 1951.

[swamidada786]

Saifullah is not for war, but it is to face the problems of mankind. And problems of mankind which you and your Imam have to face. My worries should be your worries.
Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah.

Zanzibar; Aug 31, 1899.