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Imamat Day 2015: Imamat Day – 58 years anniversary of the 49th Imam, the Direct Descendent of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)
It’s been 8 years since the Golden Jubilee. This is the 58th anniversary of Imamat Day. Only two more years to go before the Diamond Jubilee, Masha’Allah!
We are so blessed that this year Imamat Day is just two days after Layla tul Qadr! So much celestial and spiritual significance, taking place in the holy month of Ramadan!
Surely I will make you an Imam of men. – Quran 2:124
| What | The Holy Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan’s Imamat Day Celebrations – Khushiali Mubarak! (Rejoice, Blessings!)… Continue reading |
Layla tul Qadr — Islam’s Birthday Anniversary
Layla tul Qadr — The Night of Destiny and Power
The Holy Quran was revealed on the 23rd night of Ramadan celebrated as Layla tul Qadr — the Night of Power when Angel Gabriel descended to deliver God’s message to Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him:
Iqra, bi-ismi rabbika allathee khalaqKhalaqa al-insana min AAalaqIqra, warabbuka al-akramAllathee AAallama bil qalamAAallama al-insana ma lamyaAAlam
Read in the name of your Lord Who created.He created man from a clot.Read and your Lord is Most Honorable,Who taught (to write) with the penTaught man what he knew not.
Surat Al-Qadr – The Power, Quran 97 – سورة القدر
إِنَّا أَنزَلْنَاهُ فِي لَيْلَةِ ٱلْقَدْرِ
أَدْرَاكَ مَا لَيْلَةُ ٱلْقَدْرِ وَمَآ
لَيْلَةُ ٱلْقَدْرِ خَيْرٌ مِّنْ أَلْفِ شَهْرٍ
تَنَزَّلُ ٱلْمَلاَئِكَةُ وَٱلرُّوحُ… Continue reading
Ramadan Kareem Mubarak!
Ramadan Kareem Mubarak!
“Be it man or woman, each of you is equal to the other.”
The holy month of Ramadan begins on the first day of Ramadan which is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar. This year it starts on June 18, 2015 which equates to Ramadan 1, 1436 A.H. After the moon’s lunar cycle of 30 days or so, the end of the fasting month is celebrated by Eid where the devout celebrate after having completed the month of fasting successfully from dawn to sunset each day. The end of this month starts with the morning prayers on Eid-ul Fitr, greetings are exchanged with everyone and children are given an Eidi, a gift of money followed great rejoicing and feasting and picnics.
The great Muslim poet… Continue reading
His Highness the Aga Khan Speech at the Aga Khan Park, Toronto
His Highness the Aga Khan Speech at the Inauguration of the Aga Khan Park, Toronto
Video of Agreement Signing below
May 25th 2015
Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim
The Honourable Kathleen Wynne
Madame Clarkson
Mrs. Weston
Excellencies
Honourable Ministers
Mayor Tory
Distinguished Guests
Madame Premier may I thank you for your most warm and thoughtful words on this occasion. The Ismaili community are relatively recent arrivals in Canada and they’ve been here really as a result of the sorts of situations that you’ve mentioned including Karachi where people of different groups, different faiths, different ethnic backgrounds, have lived in societies governed by fear, pain, poverty, insecurity… an inability to predict anything into the future for themselves, or for future generations.
And what happened in Uganda with Idi Amin, you all know. I don’t need… Continue reading
Miraj Articles
Night Journey and Ascension, the Miraj
Of the Holy Prophet took place on Rajab 27, (anniversary this year, May 15, 2015) where he was brought to the Throne of God and received spiritual graces and insight. This closeness to God Almighty is possible for all of us if we merit His Grace and for which we should ever pray! This is a highly spiritual encounter and many mystics have experienced this Companionship On High.
I only created the jinn and mankind in order that they might worship Me. — Quran 51:56
Wama khalaqtu al-jinna waal-insa illa liya AAbudooni — Quran 51:56
Think about it! God created us and hardwired us to find our way back to him — Fitrah. All of creation and the verses in the Quran… Continue reading
Arabic Universal Language of the Muslim World — Aga Khan III
Arabic Universal Language of the Muslim World
Speech by the late H. H. Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah Aga Khan III at a session of Motamer al-Alam-al-Islamiyya
Karachi, Pakistan
February 9, 1951
Mr. President
Brother Muslims
I can assure you that it is not with a light heart that I address you this evening. I fully realise that what I am going to say will make me most unpopular with important sections of the population. However, I would be a traitor to Islam if I let this opportunity pass without placing before the people of this powerful and populous Islamic nation the views which I consider my duty to place before the Muslims with as many of the arguments as I am capable of using in a short address. I fear… Continue reading
Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan — Inauguration of Amir AqSunqur Mosque in Cairo
Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan — Inauguration of Amir AqSunqur Mosque in Cairo
Please watch videos below also, thanks – the Editor
May 2, 2015
Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim
Your Excellency the Minister of Antiquities,
Your Excellency, the Governor of Cairo,
Your Excellencies, Honourable Ministers,
Your Excellencies,
Distinguished guests,
Ladies and gentlemen,
It is an immense pleasure to join all of you once again, in this special celebration. The inauguration of the AqSunqur Mosque is an extraordinary moment in its own right. And it also marks the culmination of a larger revitalisation that has taken place over many years in historic Cairo.
As Muslims, we are invited to protect and enhance the world in which we live during our lifetimes. We are trustees of God’s creation, hence the word Trust in… Continue reading
Yaum-e Ali — Imam Hazrat Ali’s Birthday Anniversary
Yaum-e Ali Mubarak! Imam Hazrat Ali’s Birthday Anniversary!
“And peace on him on the day he was born, and on the day he dies, and on the day he is raised to life” Holy Quran 19:15
Did you know that Father’s day in Iran is celebrated on the 13th of Rajab, which is Imam Ali’s birthday. (This year 2015 is year 1436 in the Hijri Islamic calendar.) Imam Ali is the first Imam for Shia Muslims through whom descended all the Imams and also the lineal descents of all the Sufi orders originated in Imam Ali’s spiritual tradition.
Did you also know that Imam Ali was born on Navroz, March 21, 600 A.D., his solar birthday anniversary? Navroz falls on the first day of the month of Farvardin, the… Continue reading
Imam Ali Bin Abu Talib — 1st Imam
Ali Bin Abu Talib (11-40/632-661), 1st Imam
“Ali, the son of Abu Talib and the cousin of the Prophet was born on Friday, the 13th Rajab in the 28th year of A’am al-fil (the year of elephants) or 600 A.D. inside Kaba in Mecca. He was brought up under the subtle care and affection of the Prophet. Ali himself cherished the memory of his childhood by saying: “The Prophet brought me up in his own arms and fed me with his own morsel. I followed him, wherever he went, like a baby-camel which follows its mother. Each day a new aspect of his character would beam out of his noble person and I would accept it and follow it as commanded.” Ibn Abid Hadid (d. 655/1257) quotes Ibn Abbas as… Continue reading
Imam Ali and the Power of Compassion — Dr. Reza Shah-Kazemi
Dr. Reza Shah-Kazemi Yawm-e Ali lecture Video delivered at the Ismaili Centre, London
The 2010 Yawm-e Ali Lecture at the Ismaili Centre, London was delivered on 14 July, 2010 by Dr Reza Shah-Kazemi, Research Fellow at The Institute of Ismaili Studies in London. In his lecture titled Imam Ali and the Power of Compassion, Dr. Shah-Kazemi explored the role played by Rahma — divine compassion — in the teachings of Hazrat Ali.
He stressed the relationship between intellect and compassion as one of the key polarities in the thought of Imam Ali. Just as the operation of the intellect requires the participation of all the cardinal virtues — compassion above all others, says Dr Shah-Kazemi, likewise, the deeper meaning and transformative power of the virtue of compassion can only… Continue reading
Imam Hazrat Ali the Great!
Imam Hazrat Ali from “An Introduction to Shi’i Islam” by Moojan Momen
Born inside the Holy Kaaba in Mecca on Friday the 13th Rajab, 30 Amulfeel, (year of the Elephant) 11th October 599 A.D. His father was Hazrat Abu Talib, his mother was Bibi Fatima Binte Asad, his wife was Bibi Fatima Binte Muhammad az-Zahra (SA) and he was the father of Imam Hassan (AS), Imam Hussein (AS), Bibi Zaynab (AS), Bibi Kulthum (AS) and Hazrat Muhsin(AS).
As we all know, Hazrat Ali (a.s.) was the first male Muslim convert (Hazrat Khatija being the first female believer) and he took up the responsibility to propagate the Holy Message delivered to our beloved Prophet Muhammad (s.a.s.) at a tender age. He was only twelve when Prophet Muhammad asked who would come to… Continue reading
The Imams, The Holy!
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21st Year Anniversary of Amaana.org on March 21, 2015, Alhamduli’Llah!
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20th Anniversary Files click here which include many articles from the older version of Amaana.org! Mubarak!
20th Anniversary Files click here which include many articles from the older version of Amaana.org not included here! Mubarak!
The Peterson Lecture by His Highness the Aga Khan to the IB 40th Annual Meeting
Speech by His Highness the Aga Khan “Global Education and the Developing World”
— The Peterson Lecture addressed to the International Baccalaureate 40th Annual Meeting
Atlanta, Georgia
April 18, 2008
Video of this speech at AKDN: http://www.akdn.org/videos_detail.asp?VideoId=9
Dr. Monique Seefried, Chairman of the IB Board of Governors
Members of the Board of Governors
Mr. Jeffrey Beard, Director General of the IB
Educators and Students from the IB Community
Distinguished Guests
What a great privilege it is for me to be with you today – I have looked forward to this gathering for a long time. And I am particularly grateful to Monique Seefried for her generous introduction, and for so beautifully describing both the local and the global context in which we meet.
This is a particularly significant occasion… Continue reading
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