A RESEARCH ON THE ENTRANCE OF ISMAILIA IN GILGIT
Journal Title: The Islamic Culture "As-Saqafat-ul Islamia" الثقافة الإسلامية - Year 2018, Vol 40, Issue 40
Abstract
THE SMALL GROUP OF SHIITS AFTER HAZRAT IMAM JAFFAR SADIQ FOLLOWED HIS ELDER SON HAZRAT ISMAIL AS THEIR SPIRITUAL IMAM AND ARE KNOWN AS ISMAILIA. MORE OVER THE ISMAILIS WERE DIVIDED INTO TWO SUB SECTS I-C ISMAILI MUSTALIA KNOWN AS BOHRI AND ISMAILI NAZARIA KNOWN AS AGHA KHANIS. WITH THE PASSING OF TIME, THE CENTER OF NAZARI FATIMID DYNASTY SHIFTED FROM AFRICA TO NORTH OF IRAN AND SUBSEQUENTLY THE ISMAILI PREACHES ENTERED INTO SUB CONTINENT. THUS THE ERA OF ISMAILI IN SUBCONTINENT BEGUN. GILGIT IS LOCATED IN NORTHERN AREAS OF PAKISTAN WITH A HUGE AGHA KHAN POPULATION. OWING TO PREJUDICIAL AND BIASED APPROACH TOWARDS RELIGION AND SECTARIAN INTOLERANCE THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE HAVE POOR UNDERSTANDING AND KNOWLEDGE OF OTHER SECTS. IT MUST BE NOTED HERE THAT IN THIS REGION THE MAJORITY OF POPULATION BELONGS TO ASNA ASHRIA SHIATS, FOLLOWED BY AHL-E- SUNNAT (DEOBAND) THE AGHA KHANIS ARE AT THIRD NUMBER IN THIS ROW. IN SUCH A DIVERS POPULATION, IGNORANCE TO EACH OTHER’S SECTS, FAITHS AND BELIEFS LEAD TO RELIGIOUS IGNORANCE AND ULTIMATELY BRING CHAOS, CONFUSION, RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE AND SECTARIAN CLASHES. TO AVOID SUCH CLASHES AND TENSION IT IS NECESSARY TO PROMOTE TRUE SPIRIT, UNDERSTANDING AND MESSAGE OF ISLAM ALONG WITH KNOWLEDGE OF EACH SECT. IN GILGIT THE SHIATS AND SUNNIS ENJOY, CORDIAL RELATION WITH STRONG SOCIAL CONTACT. HOWEVER, PEOPLE KNOW VOLATILE ABOUT AGHA KHANIS AND ISMAILIS SHIITS. THIS CREATES MISUNDERSTANDING AMONG COMMON MAN AGAINST THEM. EVEN PEOPLE AVOID SOCIAL CONTACT WITH THEM. THIS REQUIRES PROPER STUDY AND UNBIASED RESEARCH REGARDING THEIR FAITH. THIS PAPER EXPLORED THAT ISMAILIA HAD REACHED GILGIT IN THE 11TH CENTURY AFTER THE ADVENT OF SHIA AND SUNNI SECTS. ON THE CONTRARY, HUNZA VALLEY, A PART OF THIS REGION HAD BEEN UNDER THE RULE OF SHIA FOR ABOUT TWO HUNDRED YEARS. IN THE BEGINNING OF THE 13TH CENTURY ISMAILI MISSIONARIES PROJECTED THEIR CREED POWERFULLY AND THE RESIDENTS HAD EMBRACED ISMAILI BELIEFS. APART FROM HUNZA VALLEY, YASEEN, GOPAS, PINYAL THIS SECT HAS QUICKLY SPREAD TO OTHER PARTS OF THE GLOBE.
Authors and Affiliations
Dr. Sajjad Ali, Inayat ulah Bhatti
Keywords
Related Articles
- EP ID EP487749
- DOI -
- Views 45
- Downloads 0
An Assessment of the Social Status and Religious Practice of Khawaja Saras in Pakistani Society in the light of Islamic Teaching: Preliminary Results
Transgender persons in Pakistan are largely known as Khwaja Saras or Hijaras in different parts of the country.The term "Khwaja Sara" refers to a range of individual behaviors that tend to deviate from the societies main...
Effects of Surroundings on Human Morals: A Critical Analysis
Almighty Allah indeed awarded the great honoured to the man and created him with the quality of great obedienc which is demanded by the teachings of islam that with the passage of time it would be better by the grace of...
To follow the Jurisprudence of only one Imam for the whole life
Just like a person is free in his faith, a Muslim Jurist Scholar (mujtahid) because of its capability of diligence (ijtihad) is also not allowed to follow any other scholar, but for a person who is not a scholar and foll...
HIJAAB In the light of Aisha’s [ra] ahadith
Hijab is one of the most important concepts in Islamic Sharia. It has not been practiced only in the Muslim era, but in old civilizations as well. The literal meaning of Hijab, the circumstances in which the order of Hij...
Imam al-Tahtawi - his efforts in education and praise of scholars
It is an article upon Allama Ahmad bin Muhammad bin Isma'il al-Husaini, alTahtawi, a renowned Hanafi Mufti of Egypt and upon his Hashiya on "al-durr almukhtar". His father, Muhammad bin Isma’il was originally from Rome,...