From 11 July 2016 - 11 July 2017 Ismaili Gnosis on Instagram and Snapchat presented its Diamond Jubilee Countdown series in which we counted down through 49+ Imams and commemorated that blessed lineage of Mawlana Hazar Imam through pre-Adamic Imams, Prophet Adam, Prophet Muhammad, Hazrat Imam Ali, and Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah. You can find all these grams at the hashtag #IsmailiGnosisDJCountdown. Now that the Diamond Jubilee Year has arrived Ismaili Gnosis on Instagram and Snapchat is presenting its Diamond Jubilee series called Snapshots: The Life of the Living Imam. According to Ismaili tradition, the Imam is always an Imam - even before he is designated by the previous Imam. This Diamond Jubilee year Ismaili Gnosis Instagram & Snapchat is embarking on a year-long project to celebrate the life of the Imam of the Time in a series of anecdotes, stories, and snapshots from his life. These will help us get to know and appreciate the Imam-e-Zaman better and will hopefully give you tidbits that you may never have known. As usual we will focus neither exclusively on the zahir nor the batin. Please feel free to share *your* stories with us. "The essential nature of the Imām will never change, even when he is a drop of sperm in the loins of his father, or a fetus in the womb of his mother… The Imāms, both outwardly and inwardly, both exoterically and esoterically, issue from the pure line and loins of the Imām, one after another. The Imām is perfect when still in the form of sperm in the loins of his father and the pure womb of his mother. An Imām is always an Imām and always perfect. Otherwise, why should he say, ‘The Imām knows from which drop of sperm the Imām after him will come?’ If his being in the form of a drop of sperm or adult were not the same, he would not have said: ‘His sperm was kneaded along with his intellect.’ Their status looks different according to the way that our eyes perceive them. For example, sometimes [he appears as] a child, sometimes an old person, and sometimes a youth, and so forth, because although he does not change, it can be that we see him with our eyes as changing, or see him as two distinct persons, as a father and son...."