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THE CHARM AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ‘ ILM’ -KNOWLEDGE

Religious Knowledge is very important for human beings. Anyone who understands the meaning of Religion is great. Any Person having knowledge of Religion and guides other towards the right path, is the head of the group. A person without ILM (Knowledge) leads life like an animal. One can only realize the importance of learned teachers in their absence. Just as the Captain steers a ship safely, in the same manner, Teachers guide the people. Teachers are the leaders and they are able to show a right path to all their fellow beings. Teachers have studied Religious Scriptures which are revealed by the Almighty Allah. They are the fools who do not understand the value of Rubies. If by chance Rubies are received by fools, they would not retain the rubies with them. Also they are unknowlegeable of the value of the precious Rubies. When the learned teacher leaves the material world, ILM or Knowledge, disappears from there. A person who is ILMI (knowledgeable) can only re-enlighten the ILM (Knowledge) in the life of people. It is hard for a person to gain knowledge, if he does not have a sense of understanding in his heart and mind. Teachers are capable of leading those who are backward in their life. Just as the moon shines among the stars, teachers are the leaders that shine among the people. Stars are large in number but the moon however, is highly developed, and it shines brightly in the sky. In the same manner, teachers who guide the people shine among the people. Teachers are capable of swimming across the shore themselves but they can also take many people across with them. Ignorant people are unknowlegeable. They are like stones; they ruin themselves and take many lives to risk. The associates of ignorant people sink miserably. ( complete source )

Aga Hasan Ali Shah

Aga Khan I (آغا خان اوّل; or, less commonly but more correctly آقا خان اوّل; ), was the title accorded to Hasan Ali Shah (حسن علی شاه; ; b. 1804 in Kahak, Iran; d. 1881 in Bombay, India), the governor of Kirman, 46th Imam of the Ismaili Muslims, and prominent Muslim leader in Iran and later in South Asia.

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My Beloved Grandfather

My Beloved GrandfatherA few words by Mowlana Hazar Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan IV

“Today, I am speaking to you in a city and in a country which have a particular meaning to my family and myself. On 2nd November, 1877 my beloved grandfather was born here in Karachi. Through 72 years of Imamat, he guided his spiritual children to happiness and prosperity…”
 – Karachi, August 4, 1957

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Prophet Muhammad (s.a.s.) – My Holy Ancestor

In the seventh century of the Christian era, there was a rapid and brilliant new flowering of humanity’s capacity and desire for adventure and discovery in the realms of both spirit and intellect. That flowering began in Arabia its origin and impetus were given by my Holy ancestor, the Prophet Muhammed, and we know it by the name of Islam. From Arabia the tide of its influence flowed swiftly and strongly to North Africa and thence to Spain.

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The Paramount Need for Higher Spiritual Education

Over the past 51 years, Noor Mowlana Hazir Imam has consistently made firmans on the topic of higher spiritual enlightenment. Let us reflect deeply on the spiritual and luminous dimensions of Noor Mowlana Hazir Imam and then assess our progress on the path of enlightenment:
 

1. What is encompassed in Noor Mowlana Hazir Imam?
   “God encompasses all the subtle things of the universe, the existents, this world and the next world in the manifest Imam, because it is the Imam who is the house of His sacred light. Thus, the act of reviving the two kinds of the dead and the record of deeds and traces is also in the Imam, as Allah says: “Verily We bring back the dead to life, and We write down what they have sent before them, and their traces. And We have encompassed everything in a manifest Imam.” (36:12). That is, nothing is beyond the domain of the subtle body, the great soul and the perfect intellect of the pure and holy Imam.” (Source: Manifestations of Wisdom, p. 24)
    
2. What can be seen through the Light of Imamat?
   “By the Divine Pen is meant a great angel called the Universal Intellect and the Guarded Tablet is also a great angel called the Universal Soul, and they are the perfect intellect and the soul of the Imam of the time. They are one Light, which works like the Pen and the Tablet of the higher world. It is a miracle of the perfect power of the omnipotent God, the spiritual miracles of the light of Imamat are practically shown in the personal world of each arif (a mu’min who sees) so that the chain of His spiritual favours may continue forever.” (Source: Manifestations of Wisdom, p. 24-25)

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Theme of the Issue: Knowledge Society

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Imam on Education

Education has been important to my family for a long time.  My forefathers founded al-Azhar University in Cairo some 1000 years ago, at the time of the Fatimid Caliphate in Egypt. Discovery of knowledge was seen by those founders as an embodiment of religious faith, and faith as reinforced by knowledge of workings of the Creator’s physical world.”

Aga Khan IV, 27th May1994, Cambridge,
Massachusets, U.S.A.

“A thousand years ago, my forefathers, the Fatimid imam-caliphs of Egypt, founded al-Azhar University and the Academy of Knowledge in Cairo. In the Islamic tradition, they viewed the discovery of knowledge as a way to understand, so as to serve better God’s creation, to apply knowledge and reason to build society and shape human aspirations”

Aga Khan IV, Speech, 25th June 2004, Matola,
Mozambique.

“The legacy which I am describing actually goes back more than a thousand years, to the time when our forefathers, the Fatimid Imam-Caliphs of Egypt, founded Al-Azhar University and the Academy of Knowledge in Cairo. For many centuries, a commitment to learning was a central element in far-flung Islamic cultures. That commitment has continued in my own Imamat through the founding of the Aga Khan University and the University of Central Asia and through the recent establishment of a new Aga Khan Academies Program.”

Aga Khan IV, “The Peterson Lecture” on the International Baccalaureate,
Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 18 April 2008

“That quest for a better life, among Muslims and non-Muslims alike, must lead inevitably to the Knowledge Society which is developing in our time. The great and central question facing the Ummah of today is how it will relate to the Knowledge Society of tomorrow.  The fundamental reason for the pre-eminence of Islamic civilizations lay neither in accidents of history nor in acts of war, but rather in their ability to discover new knowledge, to make it their own, and to build constructively upon it. They became the Knowledge Societies
of their time.”

Aga Khan IV, Speech, 2nd December 2006, AKU,
Karachi, Pakistan

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