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The Reply by the Usurper Plaintiff confirmed the defendants' suspicions as it further undermined the principles of Ismaili Faith and destroyed the significance of the Mehmani ceremony as well as of the privileged relation between the Murid and his Imam.

Two of the main points of the reply were that The Imam "edits" His farmans and He did not consented to the publication of Farman books at the 1992 Mehmani

Both these points were contradicted by the Imam at the Discovery on 15 October 2010 where Imam said He does not" Edit", He only annotates. The Imam further offered to Alnaz and Nagib to make available to them all of His annotated Farman if they so wish.

On the crucial matter of "Consent", The Imam said He remembers the Mehmani "very well" and gave the instruction to continue publishing, The Imam confirmed exactly what Alibhay wrote in his affidavit concerning the Mehmani. the Imam went to the extend of explaining to Gray and SS why He gave Consent, He said they needed those books to be able to translate the Farmans into French, Farsi etc and the first of the Farman Books of the Kalam-e Imam-e Zaman series was presented in Mehmani at a time were they were looking for competent people...!

Suspiciously, there had been no prior institutional effort to peacefully stop the endeavor, no action in the Ismaili Arbitration board, and no communication by the Imam on the matter, although the Kalam-e Imam-e Zaman series of Farman books and the defendants' circulation of Farmans started in the early 1990's.
There had been a telephone threat in January 2010 to Nagib Tajdin that his reputation in the Ismaili Community will be ruined if he does not withdraw the publication or if he maintains his accusation of forgery of Imam's signature.

The Lawsuit text was circulated by email to worldwide ismailis before it was even served on the defendants. Defendants started being bombarded by emails, phonecalls, and pressured in person to apologize and withdraw the book.

The Lawsuit text seemed to undermine the Divinity of Farmans, the Infallibility of the Imam, and as the case advanced and more documents were filed in court, more and more ismaili basic beliefs and tenets were undermined by the people running the action against the two murids.The attempt was made to discredit the defendants so that when they disclose the information about forgery of Imam's signature, no one would believe them.

The Defendants decided to hold fast to the Noor of the Imam, and to submit to the court a Defense, not against the Imam, but against whoever the usurper Plaintiffs are who are undermining the tenets of Ismaili Faith.

The Following News Event contains links to the Statements of Defense filed by the Defendants Alnaz Jiwa and Nagib Tajdin.

Defenses Glorifying the Aga Khan filed in federal Court - 2010-04-29