Prepared by MALIK MERCHANT
(Publisher-Editor Simerg, Barakah, and Simergphotos)
TALIKAS AND BLESSINGS FROM MAWLANA HAZAR IMAM
March 2020
April 2020
Please click: Mawlana Hazar Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan, sends message to his spiritual children around the world on Covid-19, with blessings for their protection from difficulty; multiple translations including Farsi, Dari, Arabic, Urdu, Gujarati and Russian
May 2020
Please click: Mawlana Hazar Imam’s loving and inspiring Talika on the occasion of Eid ul-Fitr shows his concern for his spiritual children in all facets of their lives
July 2020
November 2020
December 2020
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PASSINGS
The following tributes/obituaries appeared in Simerg in 2020. Some of the deceased may have died before 2020.
Please click: Mahebub Mohamed Juma Rupani
Please click: Nazeer Ladhani
Please click: Shamshu Jamal
Please click: Missionary Amirali Gillani
Please click: Alnoor Ramji, Goulzare Foui, Amirali S. Nagji, Sultan Piroj Maknojiya Methanwala, Salima Wanda Arthurs
Please click: Madatali Merali Jamal, Razia Jamal, Zubeda Ebrahim Jamal
Please click: James D. Wolfensohn
Please click: Alwaez Sultanali Mohamed
Please also click: Benjamin Mkapa (d. July 2020. As Tanzania’s President from 1995-2005, the late Benjamin Mkapa strongly supported the work of the Ismaili Imamat in his country as well as abroad. The support that he gave is clearly illustrated in a special piece about him in Barakah, a blog dedicated to Mawlana Hazar Imam, His Highness the Aga Khan)
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HISTORICAL PHOTOS OF MAWLANA HAZAR IMAM AND HIS FAMILY, IMAMAT PROJECTS AND OTHER EVENTS
Date posted: December 27, 2020.
Last updated: December 28, 2020.
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Nice, as usual. Just an aside: We used to spell MOwla, now it’s MAwla. When did the spelling change, who ordained it, and why. Happy New Year all readers of Malik Merchant.
Mawlana is derived from the Arabic word Mawla. Over the centuries it was adopted in other Islamic countries – Iran, Turkey, Pakistan etc. – where it was spelt as Mowlana, Moulana. As a co-editor of Ilm with my late dad for a number of years, we used Mowlana from 1975 until around 1985 when Mawlana was adopted, perhaps based on feedback from IIS which used to review ITREB magazine articles. The preamble of the Ismaili constitution (1986) uses Mawlana as do the Farman books that were released at the beginning of 2020. Readers submitting comments use different spellings and I find the usage of Moula (with a u) more common among Central Asians. I have adopted Mawlana for my 3 blogs.
Thank you Malik for excellent articles and pictures of Mawlana Hazar Imam and the Jamat. Mawla bless you and family with immense happiness, success, barakat and spiritual enlightenment. Ameen
Nazir Nensi
Malik, as usual amazing article and showers of blessings from our Mowla…Ameen.
And shukhar for the ruhani members. May Mowla bless their souls with eternal peace.. Ameen.
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