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BODY AND SOUL By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S. Ali

The body is our spacesuit for living on the earth. It is an outer garment and outer expression of the soul. Body is destructible, but soul is indestructible. One can burn body by fire, blow it away by a strong wind, or cut it into pieces because it is tangible. Without any harm, the body slowly decays over time, and once the right time comes, death follows eliminating the functioning capacity of a body. The body can be cremated or buried, but it cannot be done with soul. Thus, the body’s journey on earth ends with death.

Eji Uthi Allah’na Gur’e Banda (Ginan by Mumtal Ali Tajdin

1. Standzaic form:
a) 7 quatrains : 28 lines
1 refrain (varanni) of 3 couplets : 6 lines
Total : 34 lines or 17 couplets.
2. Theme: Awareness of midnight worship. It is both didactic and pedagogic.
3. Structure & Style:-
a) Choice of language: Sindhi
b) Rhythmic content: r’at-s’ath, kud-mud, kiyo-samario, lok-thok kat’ea’i-mark’ei’n.
4. Polyglotic form:
a) Arabic: Allah, hur, momin.
b) Persian: banda, shah, pir.

VARIOUS TASBIHAT By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S. Ali

Tasbih (Eulogy)

The word tasbih is derived from sbh means to glide or swim. In Aramaic it had long meant to praise. The Arabic writers describe this type of praise as swimming in a shoreless sea: “He praises (yusabbih) in a shoreless sea” (Majmu’atu’l Ahzab, p. 563). The tasbih is often described as the occupation of all the angels: “Those who are in your Lord’s abode do not think themselves too great to worship Him. They offer praise (yusabbihuna) to Him and prostrate themselves before Him” (7:205).

EJI TAMAKU’N SADHAR’E SO DIN BAHOTAJ By: Mumtaz Tali Tajddin S. Ali

After the fall of the Alamut in 1256, Imam Shamsuddin Muhammad (d. 1310) went to Azerbaijan, where he and his successor, Imam Kassim Shah (d. 1370) passed normal lives in simplicity. Imam Islam Shah (d. 1423), the next Imam was first to be born in Azerbaijan.

Three stages in the Gatpaat Ceremony

Three stages in the Gatpaat Ceremony

In the Ismaili tariqah, the holy water in Jamatkhana is filled in a big jug (ibriq of the Koran, 56:18) or kumbh, which is served with small cups (suwa of the Koran, 12:72). Both the jug and small cups are placed on a low planks.
Three modes of the sanctification or to make water creative power are as under:-

1) Sthapana or Thapana: Its synonymous in the ginans are mandavu, thapavu, ghat-puja, ghat thapana, kalash thapana, ami puja, kumbh jal and so on.

REWARD OF FOOT-STEPS TAKEN TOWARDS JAMATKHANA

We recon the mark or impression made by a foot being the foot-step, an action of taking a step in gait or the distance covered by a stride in walking. In Arabic, it is called waqae or aqdam, in Hindi qadam, in Marathi paula and in Gujrati pagathiyu’n and dagalu.

Koran (36:12) says, “And We write down that which they send ahead (of their deeds) and the footprints that they left behind.” (wa nak tobo ma kademu wa a’asaare’ qum).

JAMATKHANA By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S.Ali

Ismaili Centre Toronto opened by Hazar Imam in 2014

JAMATKHANA
By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S.Ali
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THIS WRITE-UP INCLUDES FOLLOWING TOPICS
JAMATKHANA
SUFIC KHANQAH
QIBLA - Direction
WUZU or Cleanliness
DARKHANA (headquarters)
ISMAILI CENTRES
JAMATKHANA

Abe Shafa

AB-I SHAFA
By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin
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Kal Jug (Present Era)

The eschatology (the end of the world) is variously described in the world religions. The pre-primeval period means the era of nothingness or zero period, which is termed Sunka’l in the ginans. It is also known as Karann (Arabic Kiran). The Muslim thinkers mentioned that there were four kirans, the 1st lasted for 24,18,000 years, the 2nd 18,29,000 years, 3rd 12,22,000 years and 4th 8,25, 000 years, while according to the ginans, there were 8,00,000 karanns.

LIFE AFTER DEATH By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin

“It is not so that you will be in God’s presence equally with same body and face, and not that you will be young with dazzling face. The old man of eighty will be also young is uuntrue. You will enter paradise exclusively with astral bodies (noorani kaya).”
Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah, Manjevadi, 28th Dec., 1893)

WHAT IS DUNYA

KORANIC VERSES IN HOLY DUA

KORANIC VERSES IN HOLY DUA
(INTERPRETATIONS)
By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S.Ali
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Alhamdu lil-lahi Rab-bil A’lameen, Ar-Rahmanir-Raheem, Ma’liki Yawmid-din, Iyyaaka na’budu wa iyaaka nastaeen, Ihadinas-Siratal Mustaqeem, Siratal-Lazeena an’amta alayhim, Ghairil Maghzoobi alayhim walaz zaal-leen (Sura Fatiha)

IMAM SULTAN MUHAMMAD SHAH AND KAISER WILHELM II By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S. Ali

World War I (1914-1919) was one of the deadliest wars in history; an estimated 9 million soldiers were killed in combat, plus another 23 million wounded, while 5 million civilians died as a result of military operation, hunger, and disease. Millions more died as a result of genocide, dearth and the devastation of the war heavily contributed to the Spanish flu pandemic that followed.

WOMEN’S ACCESS TO PRAYER HALL IN ISLAM By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S.Ali

Are women the same as men, different or distinct from; alike and unequal to; or unlike and equal to?

THREE PIRS IN ISMAILI HISTORY - by Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S. Ali

THREE PIRS IN ISMAILI HISTORY
( BOOK - WOMAN - INFANT )
By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S. Ali
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PIR PANDIYAT-I JAWANMARDI (BOOK)

AHL AL-KITAB (People of the Book) - By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S. Ali

The word ahl means those who occupy with one the same tent, the family or inmates, relative, folk, kin, kinfolk, people, members, followers, etc. Under these meanings, the word ahl occurs 31 times in the Koran. According to another view, it is derived from ahala, meaning to demonstrate (the family).

The word kitab, comes from the root word kataba, meaning to write down. The word kitaba occurs in the Koran for the Divine Books revealed to various prophets.

SI HARFI - (30Alphabets) by Sayed Ahmed Shah

TRANSLITERATION, TRANSLATION & EXPLANATION

By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S.Ali
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Si Harfi (30 letters) is an acrostic on the alphabet. This kind of verses or formation are not
found in any Indian language. It is not of Persian or Arabic origin, but indeed a Punjabi
form. The oldest verse of this kind is found in the Guru Granth Sahibji - a central religious

KORANIC VERSES IN HOLY DUA By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S.Ali

Anas bin Malik related that the Prophet said, “The good-fortune increases in the house
(bayt or khana) where the Koranic verses are recited.”
(Itqan, 1: 137 by Jalaluddin Suyuti)

KORANIC VERSES IN HOLY DUA
(INTERPRETATIONS)

By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S.Ali
mumtaztajddin@yahoo.com
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Alhamdu lil-lahi Rab-bil A’lameen, Ar-Rahmanir-Raheem, Ma’liki Yawmid-din, Iyyaaka na’budu wa iyaaka nastaeen, Ihadinas-Siratal Mustaqeem, Siratal-Lazeena an’amta alayhim, Ghairil Maghzoobi alayhim walaz zaal-leen (Sura Fatiha)

INFALLIBILITY OF THE IMAM By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S. Ali

The word ma’sum is derived from the verb asama, means prevented, hindered, protected, defended, preserved, etc. Hence, ma’sum refers to one who is incapable of error and sin. In Islamic theology, the Arabic term isma both impeccability and closely are related notion of infallibility, which is not an inherent quality, but rather a divine gift bestowed on the Prophets and Imams, who are immune from any sort of lapse and error. Isma (infallibility) is considered a basic feature of the Imamate.

SAUM OR FASTING By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S. Ali

The word roza is a Persian for the Arabic saum. The primary significance of saum is abstaining in an absolute sense (al-imsaku ani-l fi’l), and includes abstaining from eating or speaking or moving about; thus a horse that abstains from moving about, or from fodder, is said to be sa’im, and wind is said to be saum when it abates, and the day when it reaches the midpoint. On two occasions in the Koran (9:112 and 66:5), those who fast are called sa’ih (from saha meaning he travelled) or spiritual wayfarers.

MEMOIRS OF ASWAN By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin. S. Ali

Aswan, there we can hardly see any cultivated land. The hills and rocks are not only on both sides of the Nile River, but also form its bed and island. Granite, mostly red, is everywhere, parts of which still keep their original color, while other parts, exposed to the effect of the water and the sun, have become dark and covered with a smooth glaze like enamel. Those who have enjoyed such a view while sailing opposite Aswan or in going up-steam or downstream to the Dam, can never forget it.


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