In the countdown to Imam Shah Karim al-Husayni Aga Khan IV’s momentous Diamond Jubilee to be celebrated on July 11, 2017, Ismaili Gnosis presents a 60-part series celebrating the lineage of our Beloved Mawlana Hazar Imam from Adam to Aga Khan. For more information please visit ismailignosis.com. 34: Imam ‘Abbas Shah Gharib Mirza Mustansir bi’llah III (1494-1498): "The first duty which the believer must discharge is to see that what he eats and what he clothes himself with are clean, lawful to him, and legitimate for his use. The lawfulness of such matters consists in this: you must faithfully and exactly compute in full all your income and all that comes to you, and set aside a purification due of this, which is the duty (mal-i-wajibat) on it, and deliver it, faithfully, in full, and in all sincerity, to the treasury of the Imam of the time who is the King of this world and the hereafter. And you must do everything to ensure that it may reach him in full... By paying that purification due you will rise high in, your own esteem, and by not paying it you will remain in the valley of despair. If you pay it, your worship will be accepted, and if you do not, it will find no acceptance became worship is acceptable only if what you eat and what you clothe yourselves with are clean and lawful to you, that is to say, if you recognize the Imam of your time, paying correctly a purification due (dasond) unto him. Then, only the food you eat will be lawful to you and the dress in which you clothe yourself will also be lawful. Then only all other forms of devotion will be accepted." (Pir Pandiyat i Jawanmardi, transl. Ivanow) Read more: https://ismailignosis.com/2016/07/09/the-aga-khans-direct-descent-from-prophet-muhammad-historical-proof/ #Ismailis #Ismailism #AgaKhan #ProudIsmaili #OneJamat #Alamut #ImamOfTheTime #Adam2AgaKhan #DiamondJubilee #DJCountdown #IsmailiGnosisDJCountdown #IsmailiImamat #IGDJ #CountdownToDJ Please visit www.ismailignosis.com or ask.ismailignosis.com or visit our Facebook page www.facebook.com/IsmailiGnosis for more gems about Mawlana Hazar Imam, the Imamat, and