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His Highness Prince Karim, the fourth Aga Khan, has been the spiritual leader of 15 million Shia Ismaili Muslims, building a hugely effective global development network. In Chantilly, home to France’s most prestigious horse race, James Reginato explores how the press-shy, Harvard-educated prince, at 76, fuses two worlds.

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While the Sunnis believe in five pillars in Islam, the Isma'ilis raise them to seven. Al-Qadi an-Nu'man devoted the first volume of his famous book Da'a'im al-Islam to the description of these pillars and an elaboration of them. The first of these seven pillars, as al-Qadi an-Nu'man mentions, is Faith (Iman). He also calls it walaya, which means allegiance or devotion. The other six are successively Ritual Purification (tahara), prayer (salat), Alms Tax (zakat), Fasting (sawm), Pilgrimage (hajj), and Holy War (jihad).

Jire bhaai re hamaare baavaa am-ne hasi ne kahiyaa
mirut lok maanhe mohor banaavo ji 1

Jire bhaai re tiyaan thi ame Shaah darge gayaa
Shaah ghannu raaji huvaa ji 2

Jire bhaai re raaji-po raakhi amne raaj aapi
tam ham paase sahi aayaa ji 3

Jire bhaai re kol boli ame tiyaan thi chaaliyaa
aaviyaa te amdaabaad ji 4

Jire bhaai re amdaabaad baareh ek meta-j hoti
temaa aavi ame utaaraa kariyaa ji 5

Jire bhaai re kaaji mulaah tiyaan bahuj aave

Hojire viraa jem aakaase suraj chhe,
ane chaud lokmaan prakaas;
tem ghatt ghatt saami raajo vasi rahiyo,
hun jiaan jowu tiaa paas 2

Hojire viraa Satgur saache mane sireviye,
ane saacho raakhone imaan;
Gurnu farmaan saachun kari jaannajo,
tame vaanchi juvone ginaan 3

Hojire viraa Gure ginaan sunnaaviyaa,
tame vichaari chaalo maaraa vir;
kaam krodhne paraharo,
ane raakho ridiyaa maanhe dhir 4

Hojire viraa dil maanhe dekhore munivaro,
sarve ghatt maanhe ekaj Shaaho;
kiddi kunjar maanhe ek chhe,