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The Yacht Club Costa Smeralda’s 2024 sporting season was presented today in Milan at Casa Gessi, moderated by Sky Sports commentator Giovanni Bruno.

Princess Zahra Aga Khan, President of the Board of Directors of the YCCS opened the event, thanking those present and highlighting: "The upcoming sporting season at the YCCS will certainly be an intense one, with regattas scheduled from May to October. This year also marks a significant anniversary: 40 years of collaboration with our longstanding partner Rolex.

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.

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.

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).

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

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.

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).

Princess Zahra Aga Khan attended the annual Commonwealth Day Service at Westminster Abbey on Monday, March 11, 2024. Princess Zahra is listed as an Honorary Steward, Representing the Vice President of the Royal Commonwealth Society, on page 5 of The 2024 Commonwealth Day Service of Service Booklet.

THE PROCESSION OF HONOURED GUESTS AND PARTICIPANTS THE FOUR LOYAL SOCIETIES Honorary Steward Princess Zahra Aga Khan Representing the Vice President Royal Commonwealth Society

JAMATKHANA
By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S.Ali
mumtaztajddin@yahoo.com

THIS WRITE-UP INCLUDES FOLLOWING TOPICS
JAMATKHANA
SUFIC KHANQAH
QIBLA - Direction
WUZU or Cleanliness
DARKHANA (headquarters)
ISMAILI CENTRES
JAMATKHANA

AKIPRESS.COM - President Sadyr Japarov today received Prince Rahim Aga Khan, the eldest son of His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan and member of the Board of the Aga Khan Development Network, president's press service reported.

During this meeting, views were exchanged about cooperation between the Kyrgyz Republic and Aga Khan Development Network in the field of education, ecology and green economy.

AKIPRESS.COM - President Sadyr Japarov today received Prince Rahim Aga Khan, the eldest son of His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan and member of the Board of the Aga Khan Development Network, president's press service reported.

During this meeting, views were exchanged about cooperation between the Kyrgyz Republic and Aga Khan Development Network in the field of education, ecology and green economy.

Prince Rahim Aga Khan's visit to Kyrgyzstan marks a milestone in AKDN's collaboration for socio-economic and educational enhancement. A beacon of hope for sustainable development.

KARACHI, FEB 28 (DNA) – Aga Khan University has received a$1.5 million grant from Wellcome Leap, a leading global health innovation organization. This significant grant will support a project that seeks to transform the treatment of β-Thalassemia and Sickle Cell Disease (SCD), which have plagued South Asia, particularly Pakistan. These diseases have not only caused significant suffering but also imposed a heavy economic burden on society. This competitive grant provides a significant boost to the development of innovative gene therapies.

The Aga Khan University (AKU) has won the Award of Excellence for Disruptive Education of the prestigious and competitive Zairi International Award in Higher Education, 2022.

Thirtyone countries participated at the MENA Higher Education Leadership Forum in Dubai, UAE and thehonour to their organization has been received by Prof. Tashmin Khamis and Ms. Azra Naseem.

Continue to strive with courage and optimism and grasp all opportunities to serve your communities and contribute to making a more pluralistic and peaceful world. Since I was a young girl, my father always told me what a mistake it had been for many international organizations in the 1960s and 70s to focus almost exclusively on primary education and effectively defund tertiary and higher education across many countries.

If it's a daunting endeavor, so much the better. For every success there will be setbacks, but when you look back, it will be with the satisfaction of those who embrace hope, strive against the odds, and remain faithful to their commitments and ideals.

Bismillah-ir-rahman-ir-rahim.

Our Chief Guest, Honourable Ezekiel Machogu, Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Education, Government of Kenya,
Chairman and Members of the Kenya University Council and Uganda Council, Chairman
and Members of the AKU Board of Trustees,
Vice-Chancellor and President Suleiman Shahabuddin,
Provost Deans, Faculty, Alumni, Staff and Generous Supporters of AKU,
Parents, Family Members, Distinguished Guests, and most importantly, the members of
the Class of 2023.

Good afternoon, Hamjambo, and welcome to the Aga Khan University's 2024 Convocation.

Ottawa, Canada, 9 May 2022 – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi called for action to tackle climate change – a major factor contributing to the world’s worsening refugee crisis.

Nairobi, Kenya, 23 February 2024 - The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) is partnering with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the National Museums of Kenya (NMK) and Focused on Nature (FON) – Prince Hussain Aga Khan’s conservation organisation – around the sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6), to take place at UNEP headquarters in Nairobi next week. The Assembly will focus on how multilateralism can help tackle the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste.

As we all know, an excellent education is a broad one, developing the interests in arts, culture, sports, as well as academics, but it also needs to be meaningful and relevant. As we saw in the film again, the extensive service learning program is local and sustainable and improves the quality of life of others. It also allows our students to demonstrate their growing leadership skills and values.