Questions about Ismailism from a Sunni

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shiraz.virani
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Post by shiraz.virani »

znanawalla said :
Virani, in reality you RESPECT forgeries and so you are deceptive - I have been abundantly clear that people have no obligations to follow any man made fabrications but only the Quran of God as revealed and you are still contesting....you are saying Messengership is eternal...yet you are unable to prove your statement other than making felicitous statements....you are saying quran is eternal but you are equating interpolations and fabrications and calling it the quran when it is a like thereof....you are deceiving people....I am not splitting anyone....I am showing them what others already know and what you are suppressing....you claim you are an Ismaili....I have serious doubts...

again ! look who's talking !
you believe in man-made hadiths and you calling me deceptive ?? lets leave this on fellow murids who recite arabic dua[with quranic verse] three times everyday !

dont forget that imam sultan muhammad shah[as] said its gonna take him 6 years to write holy quran in the year 1899 and we got our new arabi dua in 1950's ....the verses that we recite from the quran has the same aayat/surah with same exact number ....woooow !!!! what a co incidence !!

this proves your side of QURAN COMPILATION theory as FAKE !!!!!!

IF THERE WAS EVEN A PINCH OF A DIFFERENCE IN THE CURRENT QURAN , WHY WOULD OUR HOLY 48th IMAM[AS] USE IT ? INSTEAD, HE WOULD HAVE USED VERSE FROM HIS OWN QURAN !!!

does that make any sense to you ??? I DONT THINK SO !!
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I am not sure where this discussion is leading or what purpose it is serving other than trying to prove each other wrong. Although I see what Znan is trying to say and even I have argued with other muslims about Quran and I believe (this is what I get from Znan's arguments) the problem is in the way Quran was compiled and by people who were not authorized in the first place. It was not their job and Allah says that it is upto Him to collect and promulgate it and hence Znan's argument that it is man made. Remember the Caliphs refused to even look at the Quran that Ali had in his possession and he did say that they shall never see that Quran. History has it that the first Quran compiled in haste had errors which were corrected first in Uthman's time and then later again during al-Hajjaj's time. Then we have this big problem of verses not in chronological order.

This problem, if I may call it so, will remain with us till the end of time. Its good to argue one's point but to a point.

Shiraz you mentioned in one of your previous posts that Zakah is obligatory on rich people only and the poor do not have to pay. This is not what I was taught and not what I teach my kids. Is this the Ismaili stand or just your thinking?

I would like to get clear on this.
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Post by znanwalla »

"..! look who's talking ! you believe in man-made hadiths and you calling me deceptive ??..."

Yes! you are because the hadith I quoted were the sayings of Imam Jafar as Sadiq who is revered by all Sh'ias alike....they are found in the authentic books of the twelver Sh'ias ! You call them fabrications ! proves who you are ! certainly not an ismaili !

You felicitously claimed that your man made compilations by the scribes are "eternal" - you also claimed "messengership" was eternal ! and yet you downgraded Imamat altogether ! Now which ismaili would do this?

Then I showed you some fundamental flaws in the narrations where many narrators have called the quran the 'word of the noble Messenger" ! I asked you to comment - you swept it under the carpet so conveniently.

I talked of the attempt at abrogation and questioned how this is possible if the chronological order is incorrect? You have no clue of the quran and you offered to help me understand ! understand what?

Now you have changed by saying it will take six years to write - first you said to copy ! writing it or copying it....the quran is preserved in the heart of the Imam and Allah confirms this too in Sura Yaseen...but you are rejecting it and then acting coy !

So are you maherally minnion ? pretending here and giving us the lie of the land and using Imam's name on the sly to mislead? do you think you can fool me?
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Post by znanwalla »

A "like thereof" is abundantly clear to many except you....In order to avoid feelings of guilt, people like you who commit fraud in matters of faith have somewhat a need to be able to convince themselves that their actions can be somehow justified by their gift of the gab. It will not work with us pal ! We know that when a person like you who is in a desperate, panicked frame of mind, it's not too difficult to invent a fiction and false reason to legitimize your acts of monkery. Immediate gratification becomes a driving force....but we are able to rationalize your sketchy behavior. So try and fool someone else.

A pillar of Ismaili Faith (Iman). We may call it "walaya", which means allegiance or devotion.The association of faith (iman) with allegiance (walaya) is very fundamental in Ismailism. It illustrates the importance of the Isma'ilis' attachment to their Imams. Yet you denigrate the Imams and speak highly about confabulations circulating in the market because you have nothing else worthwhile left to hang onto...

Your interpolated and variant texts abound in certain fundamental flaws Pal ! don't ask me which texts? I am clear - YOURS!!!!!

And remember I said YOUR texts which your ancestors have left behind for you ! Not what the Imams of the Ahl al Bayt hold !

Don't show me any euphoria or don't blow the bugle ... your theologians are unable to put the chronological order correctly until now ... they claim that certain passages of the Quran are abrogated by verses having a different meaning or revealed thereafter...but if the chronological order is incorrect to begin with how does one correctly establish all this? who does this in absence of the Holy Prophet? please tell me huh?

According to al-Suyuti verse 2:240 is abrogated by verse 234..now how can an earlier verse abrogate a later one? so it is clear that the scribes of the caliphs messed up the chronological sequence and they have simply caused confusion.This is just one aspect for you all to ponder !

So tell me Mr Wise, which are the Meccan Suras? and which are the Medinan ones? What is the fundamental difference between them?

Is the noble Quran "time bound"? or is it the "eternal" word of God? Kindly enlighten? Your texts are saying quran is the word of the Messenger !

Is it fitting for you guys to say that an all powerful and omniscient and Omnipotent God should have to revise and revise HIS Commands so many times?

Does Allah have to withdraw and substitute?

How can you guys allow such a compromising position or procedure to be allowed to be introduced into your own system to pursue your own sectarian agenda?

You have got yourself into one heck of a jam bud ! are your folks suggesting to us that Allah was unable to get it right the first time?

Why would HE not get it right? after all HE is the all-knowing and the all-Wise? Or do you not believe in this Attributes of Allah?

So it is clear there were hecklers in those days in your own ancestary who were persistent in getting it all wrong because they were ignorant and dishonest like you folks are today in the 21st century....

You guys sure have a convenient doctrines which appear to be your salient features huh? and then you ask me irrelevant questions to sound as if you are so enlightened?

According to al-Suyuti the number of abrogated verses has been estimated at atleast few hundred....according to one another atleast 200 verses have been cancelled by later ones....in any event the issue of "abrogation" is well known and not a single ayah should be abrogated or considered "null and void" by you as it is the word of God !!! end of story !

Thus we indeed have a strange situation here where the entire Quran is being recited as the word of God by you folks - you bark incessantly at all of us and yet you are claiming in the same breath that some verses are abrogated and so no longer valid and so what nonsense is all this?

This doctrine makes a mockery of the Muslim dogma that the noble Quran is faithful and an unalterable "reproduction' of the original scriptures which you claim are preserved in the heaven !!! so how do you guys know what is actually preserved? You have abandoned the wise ones !


If God's words are eternal and uncreated and of universal significance as Quran was a criterion for entire mankind and not just for Muslims, how can you even talk of God's words being superseded or becoming obsolete?

Do you know that the text is not even in a correct chronological order, it makes a tremondous difference....which is the last and final ayats revealed to Muhamad?

You guys are still gazing at the stars as you don't even know !!! how ironical indeed ?

You pick and choose and prefer to choose some words of Allah over others?as long as it suits your own sectarian plans !

Let me just leave it at this point for now...I think it is enough for all to know that I do have a valid point !

The less you talk the more sensible it is for you !
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Post by shiraz.virani »

brother pardesi said :
Shiraz you mentioned in one of your previous posts that Zakah is obligatory on rich people only and the poor do not have to pay. This is not what I was taught and not what I teach my kids. Is this the Ismaili stand or just your thinking?

brother pardesi its just my take on zakat, by poor i meant "ULTRA POOR"= a person who cant even afford to eat 1 time meal


“More than 73 million people in 78 countries that depend on food handouts from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) are facing reduced rations this year. The increasing scarcity of food is the biggest crisis looming for the world”, according to WFP officials.” (Sunday Herald)

and i am very happy that our mawla is trying very hard to eliminate poverty , may allah[swt] give him more strength
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Post by znanwalla »

During the Umayyad period many false ahadith were made by your ancestors !

The aim was to reduce the importance of the Ahl al Bayt!

A famous Sunni erudite Shibli Nomani writes in his siratun Nabi - Vol 1 - page 13.."the Umayyad rulers forced people like Zohri and Muawiya and Zohri was the teacher of Bukhari and Ibn Abil Hadeed writes in his book Sharah Nahjul Balagha - part 1 - P 37 that Zohri made concoctions for which he was honoured by the Umayyads who were Enemies of Ali !

The same tampering was done to Quran!

This is the reason that Muhammad Ibn Sireen
(33/653 - 110/729), the famous scholar and Tabi'i (disciples of the companions of the Holy Prophet), regretted that this transcript of Hazrat Ali had not passed into the hands of the Muslims, and said:

"If that transcript were in our hands, we would found a great truth or knowledge in it." ...the Umayyads made their own text - a like thereof ! which even Allah rejects !
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Post by znanwalla »

INNOVATION of UMAR !!!!

Persuading Abu Bakr to collect the Qur’an and execution of the compilation work under his own care.

What was that thing when the holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him and his immaculate family) said, “I leave amongst you TWO most weighty things; one is the BOOK OF ALLAH, THE HOLY QUR’AN AND THE OTHER IS MY AHLUL-BAYT?

If the holy Qur’an was not readily in the book form, then how come he mentioned the word “BOOK” in this hadith?

Are the scattered chapters in the hearts and minds of people the same as a readily compiled Book? and that too when half the scribes were dead already?

If the Messenger of Allah through whom the Shariah was revealed could not and would not alter anything, how could his so called “Rightful Successor” interfere and introduce bida’h?

Didn’t the holy Prophet (pbuhf) say, “whatever I Muhammad has made halal will remain halal up to the Day of Judgement and whatever I Muhammad has made haram will remain haram up to the Day of Judgement”?

If so, then on whose authority are the Muslims following the innovations and bid’ats created by your ancestor, Virani ?

THE ABOVE MENTIONED VERSES ARE CLEAR CUT AND THERE IS NO ROOM FOR ANY INNOVATIONS OR BID’AH IN ISLAM.

Some folks HAD THE AUDACITY TO INTERFERE IN THE DEEN OF ALLAH AND HIS APOSTLE...and you now want us to follow your concoctions !

It means making certain things haram which were originally halal and vice-versa.

“This day I have perfected your religion for you and completed My favour to you. I have chosen Islam to be your faith.” 5:3.


If Allah claims to have completed His Deen, then why and for what are all these changes after the departure of the holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him and his immaculate progeny)?

How can one claim to be following the Deen of Muhammad (pbuhf) which is adulterated and manipulated by you and your ancestors?

This would then mean drifting away from the original Islam as preached by the holy Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him and his immaculate progeny) in the light of the holy Qur’an and as per commandment of Allah.

“You (Hazrat Ali) are related to me as Aaron was related to Moses (pbuh). But no Apostle will come after me.”

33:36 “IT IS NOT FOR TRUE BELIEVERS - MEN OR WOMEN - TO TAKE THEIR CHOICE IN THEIR AFFAIRS IF ALLAH AND HIS APOSTLE DECREE OTHERWISE. HE THAT DISOBEYS ALLAH AND HIS APOSTLE STRAYS FAR INDEED.”

49:1-2 “BELIEVERS DO NOT BE FORWARD IN THE PRESENCE OF ALLAH AND HIS APOSTLE. HAVE FEAR OF ALLAH: HE HEARS ALL AND KNOWS ALL. BELIEVERS DO NOT RAISE YOUR VOICE ABOVE THE VOICE OF THE PROPHET, NOR SPEAK ALOUD WHEN SPEAKING TO HIM AS YOU DO TO ONE ANOTHER. LEST YOUR LABOUR SHOULD COME TO NOTHING WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE.”

59:8 “WHATEVER THE PROPHET GIVES YOU, ACCEPT IT AND WHATEVER HE FORBIDS YOU FORBEAR IT.”

Whatever Prophet sent you rejected and now you are trying to coerce us too...
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Yes! you are because the hadith I quoted were the sayings of Imam Jafar as Sadiq who is revered by all Sh'ias alike....they are found in the authentic books of the twelver Sh'ias ! You call them fabrications ! proves who you are ! certainly not an ismaili !
so just because it is in some ishna shari book then it means its authentic...right ???

arent you the one who were making fun of imam mehdi here on ismaili.net ???



You felicitously claimed that your man made compilations by the scribes are "eternal" - you also claimed "messengership" was eternal ! and yet you downgraded Imamat altogether ! Now which ismaili would do this?
excuse me, i never downgraded imam[as] , all i did was to check your BP, dont forget that people from our sister branches visit this site often....so please kindly show some tolerance rather than being YAZID[may allah's curse be upon him]
Then I showed you some fundamental flaws in the narrations where many narrators have called the quran the 'word of the noble Messenger" ! I asked you to comment - you swept it under the carpet so conveniently.


copying something from christian[anti muslim] sites wont prove your stand sister read below and feel satisfied !!!
I talked of the attempt at abrogation and questioned how this is possible if the chronological order is incorrect? You have no clue of the quran and you offered to help me understand ! understand what?
Whenever the Prophet received a revelation, he would first memorize it himself and later declare the revelation and instruct his Companions who would also memorize it. The Prophet would immediately ask the scribes to write down the revelation he had received, and he would reconfirm and recheck it himself. Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) was an Ummi who could not read and write. Therefore, after receiving each revelation, he would repeat it to his Companions. They would write down the revelation, and he would recheck by asking them to read what they had written. If there was any mistake, the Prophet would immediately point it out and have it corrected and rechecked. Similarly he would even recheck and authenticate the portions of the Qur’an memorized by the Companions. In this way, the complete Qur’an was written down under the personal supervision of the prophet (pbuh).

The complete Qur’an was revealed over a period of 22½ years portion by portion, as and when it was required. The Qur’an was not compiled by the Prophet in the chronological order of revelation. The order and sequence of the Qur’an too was Divinely inspired and was instructed to the Prophet by Allah (swt) through archangel Jibraeel. Whenever a revelation was conveyed to his companions, the Prophet would also mention in which surah (chapter) and after which ayat (verse) this new revelation should fit.

Every Ramadhaan all the portions of the Qur’an that had been revealed, including the order of the verses, were revised and reconfirmed by the Prophet with archangel Jibraeel. During the last Ramadhaan, before the demise of the Prophet, the Qur’an was rechecked and reconfirmed twice. [ i think in one of the post you said ,fatima[khatoon e jannat] said jibrail reconfirmed the holy quran twice from rasool [saw] ]

It is therefore clearly evident that the Qur’an was compiled and authenticated by the Prophet himself during his lifetime, both in the written form as well as in the memory of several of his Companions.

Many Companions of the Prophet used to write down the revelation of the Qur’an on their own whenever they heard it from the lips of the Prophet. However what they wrote was not personally verified by the Prophet and thus could contain mistakes. All the verses revealed to the Prophet may not have been heard personally by all the Companions. There were high possibilities of different portions of the Qur’an being missed by different Companions. This gave rise to disputes among Muslims regarding the different contents of the Qur’an during the period of the third Caliph Usman

Usman borrowed the original manuscript of the Qur’an, which was authorized by the beloved Prophet (pbuh), from Hafsha (may Allah be pleased with her), the Prophet’s wife. Usman ordered four Companions who were among the scribes who wrote the Qur’an when the Prophet dictated it, led by Zaid bin Thabit to rewrite the script in several perfect copies. These were sent by Usman to the main centres of Muslims.

There were other personal collections of the portions of the Qur’an that people had with them. These might have been incomplete and with mistakes. Usman only appealed to the people to destroy all these copies which did not match the original manuscript of the Qur’an in order to preserve the original text of the Qur’an. Two such copies of the copied text of the original Qur’an authenticated by the Prophet are present to this day, one at the museum in Tashkent in erstwhile Soviet Union and the other at the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul, Turkey

The original manuscript of the Qur’an does not have the signs indicating the vowels in Arabic script. These vowels are known as tashkil, zabar, zair, paish in Urdu and as fatah, damma and qasra in Arabic. The Arabs did not require the vowel signs and diacritical marks for correct pronunciation of the Qur’an since it was their mother tongue. For Muslims of non-Arab origin, however, it was difficult to recite the Qur’an correctly without the vowels. These marks were introduced into the Quranic script during the time of the fifth ‘Umayyad’ Caliph, Malik-ar-Marwan (66-86 Hijri/685-705 C.E.) and during the governorship of Al-Hajaj in Iraq.

Some people argue that the present copy of the Qur’an that we have along with the vowels and the diacritical marks is not the same original Qur’an that was present at the Prophet’s time. But they fail to realize that the word ‘Qur’an’ means a recitation. Therefore, the preservation of the recitation of the Qur’an is important, irrespective of whether the script is different or whether it contains vowels. If the pronunciation and the Arabic is the same, naturally, the meaning remains the same too.

Allah has promised in the Qur’an :

"We have, without doubt, sent down the Message; and We will assuredly Guard it (from corruption). [Al-Qur’an 15:9]

Now you have changed by saying it will take six years to write - first you said to copy ! writing it or copying it....the quran is preserved in the heart of the Imam and Allah confirms this too in Sura Yaseen...but you are rejecting it and then acting coy !


i never changed nothing sister, its you who is dancing on HADITHS tune not me !
plus if it is preserved in imam's[as] heart then how come our holy dua book mentions aayat so and so which matches exactly !!!! lemme repeat exactly !! as compiled by h.uthman during his time !!

again a co-incidence ??

it was imam who said 6 years sister not me....he said its gonna take him 6 years !! that was in 1899 ...and in 1950's the old dua was dissolved and a new arabi dua was introduced !

So are you maherally minnion ? pretending here and giving us the lie of the land and using Imam's name on the sly to mislead? do you think you can fool me?
screw meherally !
just because i dont wanna believe in man made hadiths that support your fake side of islam means iam his minnion ???

if thats the case then you're most welcome to call me with whatever name you want

shiraz virani [houston, sugarland jamatkhanta :wink: ]
hope this clears little scum from that tiny brain !
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"...brother pardesi its just my take on zakat, by poor i meant "ULTRA POOR"= a person who cant even afford to eat 1 time meal ..."

don't fool yourself pal....you want to teach me quran...go and read Sura al tawba; Sura al Anfal ; Sura al Baqara ; Sura al Momineen ; Sura al Muhamad....

" Woe to the infidels who do not pay the zakat ..."

Imam Jafra as Sadiq says..."none of the duties of God on man is more severe that the return of "amanat" to HIM from your property and so those who oppose to this are obviously minnions...not Ismailis !and Allah calls them "Niggardly" in the quran....
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"...so just because it is in some ishna shari book then it means its authentic...right ???....

Many of the Sh'ia books are common lest you don't know - regardless your protestations does not make your own interpolations genuine...
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"...copying something from christian[anti muslim] sites wont prove your stand sister read below and feel satisfied !!! ..."

Frankly I have cross referred from three different sources as I would not accept non-muslims authors blindly....are you denying that the chronological order is screwed up? Yes or No ?

Are you denying that the narrations are saying that the quran is the word of a noble messenger - which means it is not of Allah and hence not eternal, if such is the case?

Are you denying the enmity of the Umayyads and the Abbassids against the Alid Imams? do you want me to still rip open these fabrications....I have cross referred and the narratiosn are incomplete, at best and not in their order which simply means that the final ayats have been suppressed and this obviously impacts succession.....

The copy of the Quran many are holding is a "Variant Version" and Muslim philologists do recognize this fact.

If you try and retrace the history of the text you have and begin to understand the variant versions circulating, you will start shivering as you really then have nothing to talk about.You will only realize that the HQ is not with you !

Yes! Quran is the word of God ! certainly it is ! now I ask you "which one"? the version in Tehran? or the one in Saudi? or maybe the one in Pakistan? which one? God sent only one Quran - the original - as revealed to him and NOT as compiled and put together by the scribes and companions of Abu Bakr and Umar or even Uthman.

History will tell yo that after the death of the Holy Prophet (may peace be on him), many scribes and companions still alive, were asked to put together a text and so they all gathered all the known revelations in the form of "Mushuf" and so it ended up with several codices of several scribes and then Uthman ultimately "cannonized" the Medinan text or Codex and copies were made and distributed with orders to DESTROY all previous Codices.

Man made compilations, eh ? subject to whims and fancies and coloured by greed, avarice and political agenda !

So it was Uthman who attempted to standardize the consonantal text but many of the variant traditions yet survived ultimately leading to the growth of different centres with their own variant traditions of how the texts should be pointed and vowelized, despite Uthman's order to destroy all texts other than his own.

I am not saying this...go and read history ......and so Muslims will not even touch the Uthmanic text which you are raving about and now nobody can say or know what is the true original and which is a variant text.

There is a tradition from Bibi Ayesha that there once existed a "verse of stoning" where stoning was once described as punishment for fornication....where is that verse now? did you remove it?

Today only 100 lashes are prescribed but we all know that the early caliphs carried out the stoning punishment.

Why does islamic law to this date demand stoning when the Quran only prescribes flogging?

The Scholars are recounting the story of Joseph offensive as it is an erotic tale they say did not belong to the Quran.

The Shias are claiming that many verses favourable to Hazrat Ali have been removed by Uthman.

Today of these Shias are , through default, holding onto the HQ as what other choice do they have? If they read the Ahadith and Tafsir of their own Imams, they know they are lost and grounded !

There exists interpretative glosses on certain rare words and more serious are the interpolations of dogmatic or political character such as 42:36-38 which seems to have been added to justify the elevation of Uthman as Caliph to the detriment of Ali.

I am not saying this....the Scholars who have done extensive research on the texts and variances are saying this.

Then there are views that have been added in the Quarnic texts and so when the Scholars have gone through many of the alterations and revisions they point to the unevenness of the style inherent, it is clear that the texts are variant and full of interpolations and alterations.

Histories are all jumbled and intermingled and shows that many hands - different hands have put it together - have caused discrepancies - adding or cutting out whatever they disliked and so they have made a mess of the divine revelations sent from God.

Why do think islam is at cross roads and at a centre of controversy?

Few years prior to AD 935 Ibn Mujahid tried to bring about a definite cannonization of one system consonants and a limit was placed on vowels and their variations but this was almost 300 years after the death of the prophet (may peace be on him).

It is not a good idea to push my BP....I will unravel more....
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Post by znanwalla »

"...screw meherally ! just because i dont wanna believe in man made hadiths that support your fake side of islam means iam his minnion ???.."

How ? perhaps yopu can be a better choice !

Now what is the basis for you to say that the sayins of Imam Jafar as sadiq are "man made" and yet you are trying to convince this group that you respect the Imams? are you not contradicting yourself?

And ironically you have no qualms about accepting man made texts and saying to us all "itis the quran"? how naive?
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Post by ShamsB »

Admins,

I think it's time to maybe shut down this thread for a few days.


Shams
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The following Quotation is from a Book, which was written in Danish language, but personally translated in English by Mr. Omar Louborg.......the "messiah" will be from the Family of " BENI HASHIEM" Ex PROPHET MUHAMMAD'S DESCENDANTS.

Quote: Page 17, Holy Kingdom will come INTERNATIONALY, "ISMAILIETERNE" will find Open Doors Quote: Page 18,

That will be a KINGDOM where will be no POOR, nor VICTIMISED or SOCIALY DEPRESSED and ISMAELITERNES will find Open Doors.
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"The Aga Khan", says the Spiritualist Mahmoud, "will play a silent, but prominent part in the world politics.

When the world emerges from the war, which is threatening it today, the Aga Khan's services will be requisitioned by the peace committees and greater glory will come to the Aga Khan".

He is an angel and a hero to all Ismailis."

"The Aga Khan is one of the greatest men the world has produced, said Prof. Mahmoud Bey a spiritualist in Egypt, in the course of an interesting discussion ....."His Highness," said the Spiritualist, is a truly religious man ..but he has not been properly understood by man... he is a great man and loved by all religious leaders.
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The Prophet said: " A slave of God is NOT a believer unless I am more beloved to him than his own soul and MY DESCENDANTS are more beloved to him than his own descendants and MY FAMILY is more beloved to him than his own family...."...

Then the Prophet (may peace be on him) said:
" Whoever Loves them (My descendants), loves God and whoever hates them, hates God.."......

Since the Commander of Believers was aware of the facts, he frequently said:

"By Allah, no verse has been sent down without my knowing
about whom or what it was revealed and where it was revealed. My Lord has gifted me with a mind which has a quick and retaining understanding, and a tongue which speaks eloquently."


"Ask me about the Book of Allah,for by Allah, there is no verse about which I do not know whether it was sent down at night or during the day, or whether it was revealed on a plain or in a mountain."

Sunni References:
- al-Riyadh al-Nadhirah, by al-Muhib al-Tabari, v2, p198
- at-Tabaqat, by Ibn Sa'd, v2, part 2, p101
- al-Isabah, by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, v4, p568
- Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, v7, pp 337-338
- Fathul Bari, by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, v8, p485
- al-Istiab, by Ibn Abd al-Barr, v3, p1107
- Tarikh al-Khulafa, by al-Suyuti, p124
- al-Itqan, by al-Suyuti, v2, p319


It was for this reason that the Commander of Believers, Ali (AS) frequently stated in his sermons: "Ask me before you lose me. By Allah, if you ask me about anything that could happen up to the Day of Judgment, I will tell you about it.

Ask me, for, by Allah, you will not be able to ask me a question about anything without my informing you.

Ask me about the Book of Allah, for by Allah, there is no verse about which I do not know ."

Sunni references supporting Ali's compilation.

- Fat'hul Bari fi Sharh Sahih al-Bukhari, by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, v10,
p386
- al-fihrist, by (Ibn) an-Nadim, p30
- al-Itqan, by al-Suyuti, v1, p165
- al-Masahif, by Ibn Abi Dawud, p10
- Hilyatul awliya', by Abu Nu'aym, v1, p67
- al-Sahibi, by Ibn Faris, p79
- 'Umdatul Qari, by al-Ayni, v20, p16
- Kanzul Ummal, by al-Muttaqi al-Hindi, v15, pp 112-113
- al-Sawa'iq al-Muhriqah, by Ibn Hajar al-Haythami, Ch. 9, Section 4, p197

- al-Riyadh al-Nadhirah, by al-Muhib al-Tabari, v2, p198
- at-Tabaqat, by Ibn Sa'd, v2, part 2, p101
- al-Isabah, by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, v4, p568
- Tahdhib al-Tahdhib, by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, v7, pp 337-338
- Fathul Bari, by Ibn Hajar al-Asqalani, v8, p485
- al-Istiab, by Ibn Abd al-Barr, v3, p1107
- Tarikh al-Khulafa, by al-Suyuti, p124
- al-Itqan, by al-Suyuti, v2, p319


I rest my case...thank you !
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sister znanwalla said :
"...brother pardesi its just my take on zakat, by poor i meant "ULTRA POOR"= a person who cant even afford to eat 1 time meal ..."

don't fool yourself pal....you want to teach me quran...go and read Sura al tawba; Sura al Anfal ; Sura al Baqara ; Sura al Momineen ; Sura al Muhamad....

" Woe to the infidels who do not pay the zakat ..."

Imam Jafra as Sadiq says..."none of the duties of God on man is more severe that the return of "amanat" to HIM from your property and so those who oppose to this are obviously minnions...not Ismailis !and Allah calls them "Niggardly" in the quran....

wow !! you gave us the sooo called MANMADE quranic reference this time ! :lol: :lol:

you are the biggest chamelion of all time !

on one side you dont believe in man made quran and here you are copy/pasting[as usual] holy quranic aayats....psst psst did i forget to mention only those that suits your statement !! :lol:

Zakāt (Arabic: زكاة‎ IPA: [zækæːh], sometimes "Zakāh/Zekat"[1]) or "alms giving", one of the Five Pillars of Islam, is the giving of a small percentage of one's possessions (surplus wealth) to charity, generally to poor and needy Muslim individuals. It is often compared to the system of tithing and alms, but it serves principally as the welfare contribution to poor and deprived Muslims, although others may have a rightful share. It is the duty of an Islamic community not just to collect zakat but to distribute it fairly as well.

Zakat or sadqah is worship as means of spiritual purification. It is not a tax burden but rather serves as socio-financial system of Islam by re-distributing the wealth among poor and needy.

Eight categories of individuals may receive the zakat, Noble Quran (9:60)

1. The needy (Muslims or Non Muslim)- Fuqara'
2. Extremely poor (Muslims or Non Muslims) - Al-Masakin
3. Those employed to collect - Aamileen
4. Those whose hearts are to be won - Muallafatul Quloob
5. To free the captives - Ar-Riqaab
6. Those in debt (Muslims or Non Muslims) - Al Ghaarimeen
7. In the way of Allah - Fi Sabeelillah
8. Wayfarer (Muslims or Non Muslims)- Ibnus-Sabeel


having said all this , kindly tell us how can these innocent muslim brothers and sisters of islam pay zakat when they cant even afford to eat once !!

ohh i guess its the HADITHS who feed them :wink:

"And those in whose wealth there is a known right for the needy who ask, and for those who are deprived (of wealth)". [70:24-25]

Allah says, "But he has made no effort to pass on the path that is steep. And what will make you know the path that is steep? (It is) freeing a neck (slave), or giving food in a day of hunger to an orphan near of kin, or to a miskeen afflicted with misery. [90:11-16]

people may have money, but it is not sufficient for their basic needs. Others have stated that these people have nothing. Allah says, "If they are Fuqaraa (poor), Allah will enrich them out of His Bounty". [24:32]
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znanwalla said :
The following Quotation is from a Book, which was written in Danish language, but personally translated in English by Mr. Omar Louborg.......the "messiah" will be from the Family of " BENI HASHIEM" Ex PROPHET MUHAMMAD'S DESCENDANTS.

Quote: Page 17, Holy Kingdom will come INTERNATIONALY, "ISMAILIETERNE" will find Open Doors Quote: Page 18,

That will be a KINGDOM where will be no POOR, nor VICTIMISED or SOCIALY DEPRESSED and ISMAELITERNES will find Open Doors.

ok so now imam actually transformed from a guide to messiah !!
oh wait i guess it must be in one of your so called hadiths :wink:
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"..wow !! you gave us the sooo called MANMADE quranic reference this time ..."

No ! I gave you references from your own man made interpolations and compilations....after all it makes more sense to use your own texts to show you the flaws therein so people can know for sure it is NOT the Book of Allah but the Book created by the firnatis for the finatis and the Shaikeen !

Al-Baqir said: I do not see anybody in this ummah who has possession of all of the Qur'an except the inheritors. (As-Saffar al-Qummi Basa'ir 4:193...now "all of the quran means what you have is incomplete ! and so there is no reason why one cannot refer to it - after all what other choice people like you have....

There are many ahadith in both Sunni and Sh'ia sources that speak of Ali being in Firdausu I Jannah! deny this too !

Ibn Hajar said in his book As Sawaaiqui I Muhriqah - page 96 (Egyptian edition)that Ad-Daylaamiy mentions a ahadith of the Prophet ..

" O! Ali, Allah has forgiven you, your progeny, your wives and your Sh'ia..be delighted !" Also Ad-Daylaamiy records..."O!Ali, you and your Sh'ia will come to me at the pond in paradise quenched with shining faces..."

Now you keep on swinging on your five...and btw show me at least from your interpolated fabrications where it says there are only Five pillars in islam? bring me an ayah before you boast of your five !
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Who told you Zakah is sadaqa? just because your dishonest translators say so, you believe and blindly follow?

The meaning of the word Ghanimtum
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The famous Arabic dictionary of al-Munjid (Father Louis Maluf of Beirut)
states, al-ghanim and al-ghanimah means

* what is taken from the fighting enemies by force
* all earnings generally

Furthermore the saying "al-ghunm bil ghurm" means that profit stands
against expenses, i.e, the owner is the sole proprieter of the profit and
nobody shares it with him, therefore only he bears all the expenses and
risk.

For the readers satisfaction, they are also encouraged to look up
dictionaries like Lisan al-Arab and al-Qamus.

This implies that in the Arabic langauge ' al-ghanimah ' has two meanings,one is the spoils of war, and the other is profit. The above quoted proverb also proves profit is not an uncommon meaning. When a word in the Quran can interpreted in more than one way, it is incumbent upon the muslims to seek guidance from the Holy Prophet (PBUH&HF) and the Ahl al-Bayt.

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The History of Khums
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Khums is one of those things which were introduced by Abdul Muttalib (RA)
the grandfather of the Prophet (PBUH&HF), and it continued in Islam when it was revealed in Quran. Acting upon a command of God given to him in his dream, when Abdul Muttalib rediscovered the well of Zamzam, he found in it many valuable things that were buried in it very remote past by the Ismailites when they feared that their enemies would usurp them.

When Abdul Muttalib found that buried treasure, he gave away one fifth ( literally khums ) in the way of God and kept the remaining four fifth to himself.

Then it became a custom in his family to and after the Hijrah of the
Prophet (PBUH&HF) the same system was incorporated in Islam. Thus the first khums was not given from the spoils of war, but from a buried treasure ( which is one of the seven items eligible for khums ).

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The Islamic Laws
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Not a single Islamic school confines the meaning of ghanimah to the spoils of war. In addition to the spoils of war the following items are subjected
to khums

* minerals: eligible in the Hanafi and the Shia
* buried treasure: eligible for all the muslims.

As already mentioned earlier, the interpretation of the Quran must be based on the teachings of the Ahl al-Bayt and not the scribes nor the squint eyed mullahs who can't even see beyond their noses.

The word ghanimah in the verse under discussion has been clearly interpreted as "the earned profit" (al- fa'idatul muktasabah) by our Imams.

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Some Sunni References
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To conclude, we can say that the word ghanima was never treated as being confined to the spoils of war by any Islamic school; and as far as our Imams are concerned, it meant many things besides the spoils of war right from the day of Imam Ali ( peace be upon him ), as many authentic
traditions show.

What has been quoted above is substantiated from the practice of the Holy
Prophet (PBUH&HF) as well. For example when the Prophet (PBUH&HF) sent Amr bin Hazm to Yemen, he wrote instructions in which, among many other things, he says ' ... to gather khums of Allah from the gains [ of Yemenis ].

Please refer to

* Ibn Khaldun, Tarikh Volume 2 part II p54 ( Beirut 1971 )
* Ibn Kathir, al-Bidayah wan Nihayah Volume 5 p76-77 ( Beirut 1966 )
* Ibn Hisham, Sirah Volume 4 p179 ( Beirut 1975 )

And when the tribe of Bani Kilal of Yemen sent Khums to the Prophet, the
later acknowledges it by saying, ' Your messenger has returned and you have paid the khums of Allah from the gains ( al-ghanaim ). ' Please refer to

* Abu Ubayd, al-Amwal p13 ( Beirut 1981 )
* al-Hakim, al-Mustadrak Volume 1 p395 ( Hyderabad 1340 A.H )
* Jafar Murtada al-Amili, al-Sahih fi Sirat al-Nabi Volume 3 p309
( Qum 1983 )

It is very interesting to note that the Bani Kilal obeyed Prophet's order
and sent the khums of gains to him while no war had taken place between the muslims and the un-believers. This is a clear indication that khums was not restricted by the Prophet (PBUH&HF) to the Spoils of War!

The importance given by the Prophet (PBUH&HF) to the issue of Khums can also be seen in his advice to the delegation of Bani Abdul Qays.

It seems that Bani Abdul Qays ( which was a branch of Rabiah ) was not a very strong tribe. More over in order to travel to Medina, they had to cross an area inhabited by the Muzar tribe, which was against the muslims.

Consequently, the Bani Abdul Qays could not travel safely to Medina except during the months in which war fare was forbidden according to the Arab custom.

Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith: 4.327 (pages 212-213)
Narrated Ibn Abbas:

The delegates of the tribe of Abdul Qais came and said: `O Allah's
Apostle ! We are from the tribe of Rabia and between us and you stand
stand the infidels of the tribe of Mudar, so we cannot come to you
except in the Haram Months.

So please order us some instructions that
we may apply it to ourselves and also invite our people left behind us
to observe as well.

' The Prophet (PBUH) said: `I order you to do four
(4) things and forbid you to do four (4):

I order you to believe in
Allah, that is, to testify that None has the right to be worshipped
but Allah (the Prophet (PBUH) pointed with his hand) ; to offer
prayers perfectly, to pay Zakat, to fast the month of Ramadhan, and to
pay the Khums.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Considering the facts that they travelled in the haram months ( when the
war fare ) was forbidden
, the circumstances of the Bani Abdul Qays who were weak and small in numbers ( evident from their travelling in the harammonths ), it leaves no room for interpreting the application of khums in the above hadith on the spoils of war exclusively! Please refer for the above hadith to

* Sahih Bukhari Volume 4 pp 212-213 ( Beirut )
* Abu Ubayd, al-Amwal p13 ( Beirut 1981 )
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The qaim will rise and read Ali's scroll ! sure he will rise ! now why are you guys waiting for the second return of Jesus? if naboowat has ended and your texts say he was only a prophet, then in whatcapacity will he come back? at least explain that first...Imam is a "saviour' and messiah means one who will save our souls from doom...No Imam ! then enjoy the interpolations and wave your flags...No Imam ! no Sirat ! only hell fire awaits you !
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shiraz.virani wrote:
Zakāt (Arabic: زكاة‎ IPA: [zækæːh], sometimes "Zakāh/Zekat"[1]) or "alms giving", one of the Five Pillars of Islam, is the giving of a small percentage of one's possessions (surplus wealth) to charity, generally to poor and needy Muslim individuals. It is often compared to the system of tithing and alms, but it serves principally as the welfare contribution to poor and deprived Muslims, although others may have a rightful share. It is the duty of an Islamic community not just to collect zakat but to distribute it fairly as well.

Zakat or sadqah is worship as means of spiritual purification. It is not a tax burden but rather serves as socio-financial system of Islam by re-distributing the wealth among poor and needy.


people may have money, but it is not sufficient for their basic needs. Others have stated that these people have nothing. Allah says, "If they are Fuqaraa (poor), Allah will enrich them out of His Bounty". [24:32]
Dear Shiraz,

According to the above post Zakat is due only on wealth that remains unspent and that too only 2.5% and is due once a year.

Ismailis are encouraged to pay 12.5% of whatever they earn every month after taxes, at least that is my understanding. Am I being taken to the cleaners by the Mukhi?

In my search I found the following on a bunch of Islamic websites:

Paying zakat is Fard (compulsory). The Qur'an says that only those who pay zakat are in the "brotherhood of faith".

In light of the above statement, are the poor who are not able to pay zakat out of the fold of Islam?

What is your stand on Zakat/Dasond? Should it be the 2.5% once a year by the rich only or should we follow what is prevalent in Ismaili tariqa? And if I may ask which one do you follow?
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znanwalla said :
How ? perhaps yopu can be a better choice !
perhaps you the BEST choice !
Now what is the basis for you to say that the sayins of Imam Jafar as sadiq are "man made" and yet you are trying to convince this group that you respect the Imams? are you not contradicting yourself?
first of all , the so called ishna shari hadiths did not exist during the time of their 11th imam.....and then soon after their 12th imam went into occultation ishna shari's started writing their own man made hadiths.....its wasnt before that my dear sister, so on what base you say that it was actually imam jafer as sadiq[as] who said that ???

And ironically you have no qualms about accepting man made texts and saying to us all "itis the quran"? how naive?
us ???? who is us ???? why are you trying to rope in our brothers and sisters ? i did clarified this that my debate is only with you and not with my fellow ismaili brothers and sisters !

did i claimed my views as ismaili/shia/sunni views ??? NO!!! , they're just my views ....similarly the junk that you're pasting is your views , not ismailis !

agony!!!!!! you believe in hadith, but you dont believe in the words of allah[swt]...and when pushed to the corner you cry...ohhhh its man made !!! I dont believe in it but finally when asked to prove...you copy/paste h. uthmans quran

why i respect all the sahabas and caliphs ? becasue imam aka sultan muhammad shah[as] told in his memoirs that ismailis believed it their khilafat but the imamat always stayed with imam ali[as] and his descendants[as]

and who is ismaili and who is not, lets just leave it on allah[swt]
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znanwalla said :
The qaim will rise and read Ali's scroll ! sure he will rise ! now why are you guys waiting for the second return of Jesus? if naboowat has ended and your texts say he was only a prophet, then in whatcapacity will he come back? at least explain that first...Imam is a "saviour' and messiah means one who will save our souls from doom...No Imam ! then enjoy the interpolations and wave your flags...No Imam ! no Sirat ! only hell fire awaits you !

and who said iam waiting for prophet jesus[pbuh] or imam mehdi[as] ???

my text ????? are you refering to quran or ginans ????? :lol:

now we got a chota imam = you , who will decide whether ill go to heaven or hell :lol:

lets just leave that on allah[swt] sister
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brother pardesi said:
Dear Shiraz,

According to the above post Zakat is due only on wealth that remains unspent and that too only 2.5% and is due once a year.
thats correct !
Ismailis are encouraged to pay 12.5% of whatever they earn every month after taxes, at least that is my understanding. Am I being taken to the cleaners by the Mukhi?
again i agree with you !
In my search I found the following on a bunch of Islamic websites:

Paying zakat is Fard (compulsory). The Qur'an says that only those who pay zakat are in the "brotherhood of faith".

In light of the above statement, are the poor who are not able to pay zakat out of the fold of Islam?
lemme ask you this , allah[swt] na kare, allah[swt] na kare....what if you're one of those poor brother who cant even afford to eat 1 time meal ?

should i treat you as a non muslim ? see what you see on website brother are not my views....it is the view of a third person !

in my view if i know that you are poor and needy , its not your fard but mine to take care of you !

allah[swt] is not stingy brother.....allah[swt] is merciful...he know who is more fortunate and who is less fortunate.

but !!!

if you are poor and have some money on you but no debt then it is your right to give zakat....but again if you're in debt our imam [as] does not want you to take a loan and pay zakat because no imam[as], rasool[saw] or allah[swt] wants its momins to bear that burden

hope i answered your question brother
What is your stand on Zakat/Dasond? Should it be the 2.5% once a year by the rich only or should we follow what is prevalent in Ismaili tariqa? And if I may ask which one do you follow?
[/quote]

since i gave bayyat to imam e zaman , i pay 12.5% as opposed to 2.5% but i dont make a show of it as some do here on this forum....what the purpose if our niyat is not paak and we pay 100% in zakat ?

again those who pay 2.5% again it is their belief !

our pirs told us 12.5% and so we pay 12.5%
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Imam Abdul Alim Musa of Masjid al-Islam (Washington, DC) has received criticism for his outspoken lectures on the Ahlul Bayt.

This lecture by far is most amazing and compelling stories of a convert who was lied to and deceived by the "imams" that brought him to Islam in prison.

The books they gave to him, he says, delibrately had mistranslations so to mask the importance of the Ahlul Bayt (as); instead of "People of the House" Ahlul Bayt (as) was translated as "followers of the Prophet."

It wasn't till much later did Imam Musa know the TRUE meaning of Durood Shareef.

He continues by revealing hadith after hadith about the importance of loving the Ahlul Bayt from Sunni sources. Whilst minnions and kufrs move in the reverse direction !

He tells the congregation not to get mad at him, get mad at the scribes who write down the hadiths. "Why aren't there any conferences on the Ahlul Bayt (as)?" he asks...

The four schools of thought (i.e. Hanafi, Maliki, Hanbali and Shafe'i) among the Ahlul Sunnah came into existence well over a century after the death of the Prophet.

The question is, to which school of thought did the Khulafa-e-Rashideen belong?

OR Did the mere fact that their election, nomination and selection by a few individuals automatically make them Mujtahids?

If this is the case, then why didn't the other khalifas also become the Mujtahids?
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"..perhaps you the BEST choice..."

actually nobody would be better than you as people from your cult have excelled in 'screwing" the entire world....so you have the pleasure sir !
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sister znanwalla said :
Sahih al-Bukhari Hadith: 4.327 (pages 212-213)
Narrated Ibn Abbas:

The delegates of the tribe of Abdul Qais came and said: `O Allah's
Apostle ! We are from the tribe of Rabia and between us and you stand
stand the infidels of the tribe of Mudar, so we cannot come to you
except in the Haram Months.

So please order us some instructions that
we may apply it to ourselves and also invite our people left behind us
to observe as well.

' The Prophet (PBUH) said: `I order you to do four
(4) things and forbid you to do four (4):

I order you to believe in
Allah, that is, to testify that None has the right to be worshipped
but Allah (the Prophet (PBUH) pointed with his hand) ; to offer
prayers perfectly, to pay Zakat, to fast the month of Ramadhan, and to
pay the Khums. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Considering the facts that they travelled in the haram months ( when the
war fare ) was forbidden, the circumstances of the Bani Abdul Qays who were weak and small in numbers ( evident from their travelling in the harammonths ), it leaves no room for interpreting the application of khums in the above hadith on the spoils of war exclusively! Please refer for the above hadith to

* Sahih Bukhari Volume 4 pp 212-213 ( Beirut )
* Abu Ubayd, al-Amwal p13 ( Beirut 1981 )

again hadith !!!
seriously , do you have a mental disorder ??

do you want me to give you a hadith from the same book of bukhari which says zakat money is prohibited for the descendants of rasool[saw] through imam ali [as] ?

how ignorant can you be sister ?? when i said i dont believe in hadiths you come up with the same YAZID[idiotic] mind !
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shiraz.virani wrote:brother pardesi said:
Ismailis are encouraged to pay 12.5% of whatever they earn every month after taxes, at least that is my understanding. Am I being taken to the cleaners by the Mukhi?
again i agree with you !
So what is it?
In my search I found the following on a bunch of Islamic websites:

Paying zakat is Fard (compulsory). The Qur'an says that only those who pay zakat are in the "brotherhood of faith".

In light of the above statement, are the poor who are not able to pay zakat out of the fold of Islam?
shiraz.virani wrote: if you are poor and have some money on you but no debt then it is your right to give zakat....but again if you're in debt our imam [as] does not want you to take a loan and pay zakat because no imam[as], rasool[saw] or allah[swt] wants its momins to bear that burden

hope i answered your question brother
I know I am asking too many questions here but they are important for me. Are you saying that if I am in debt I should pay those off before any dasond becomes due on me? Would my non-payment of dasond be forgiven? In the ginans of our pirs they have not mentioned anything like this. As a matter of fact they have emphasised on payment of dasond by every believing momin, regardless of financial situation.
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"...first of all , the so called ishna shari hadiths did not exist during the time of their 11th imam.....and then soon after their 12th imam went into occultation ishna shari's started writing their own man made hadiths.....its wasnt before that my dear sister, so on what base you say that it was actually imam jafer as sadiq[as] who said that ??? ..."

Certainly forgeries may have entered their Rijal books but again this does not mean that all of what is said therein is wrong...secondly what I have been showing are the "tafseers" of the Imams and which you have disrespected...primarily the twelvers suppress certain tafseers because their Imam is in Occultation but if Imam mahdi appeared tommorow, they would start singing a different lullaby.......

Now go and read al usul min al kafi - there are 8 volumes ; man la yahdurugu l'faqih - 2 volumes ; tahdhib al usul - 2 volumes and al istibsar - 4 volumes...

Sh'ias have been collecting ahadith since the 4th and 10th century and primarly they did so because some groups of muslims under pressures from your ancestors ommitted to write down any ahadith favouring the ahl al bayt but the followers of the Imams vigilantly took up this task and in fact a section goes back to the even the time of the prophet....
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