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Do not reduce the Dua to a file on a hard drive. Go to Jamatkhana. Ask for the booklet. Learn one verse of meaning per week. Eventually, you won't need the PDF. The meaning will live inside your heart. Have you found a reliable way to study the meaning of the Dua? Share your tips in the comments below (but please, no sharing of copyrighted PDF links). ismaili dua meaning in english pdf
In this post, we will explore why that PDF is so hard to find, what the Dua actually means in English, the structure of this holy prayer, and how you can access its meaning legitimately. For the Nizari Ismaili Muslims (followers of His Highness the Aga Khan IV, the 49th Hereditary Imam), the Dua is not merely a prayer. It is the holy roza (spiritual fasting) and the pillar of their faith. This blog post respects the intellectual property and
Unlike the Salat (the obligatory prayer of Sunni Islam and other schools of thought), which is performed five times a day in Arabic, the Ismaili Dua is recited three times a day (dawn, midday, and sunset) in a specific ritual posture. Historically, the Dua was recited in Arabic, but in the 1950s and 1950s (with revisions following), the present Ismaili Imam, Mawlana Hazar Imam, prescribed a Dua in specific local languages to allow followers to understand exactly what they were saying. Go to Jamatkhana
If you are an Ismaili Muslim—or someone deeply curious about esoteric Shia Islam—you have likely typed a variation of the following phrase into a search engine: