Event - 1958-01-21

Greeted by Syrian Ismailis at Damascus early in the morning. Arrived in Karachi in the evening.

1958, January 21: Mowlana Shah Karim was Greeted by Syrian Ismailis at Damascus early in the morning. (Photo). Hazar Imam flew to Kuwait for a visit with his mother in the period of Sheikh Abdullah bin Salim al-Sabbah's reign (1950-1965). The Ismaili leaders, the jamats of Kuwait, Basra and Syria, the British Consul of Kuwait and Abdullah Jabir, the minister of education for Kuwait accorded a rousing welcome to the Imam at the airport. The Imam met the Ismailis in the visiting hall of airport and departed.

Photo: Mowlana Hazar Imam at the Beirut Airport with the Syrian and Lebanese Jamat, 1958