Hazrat Mowlana Imam Kahir
Our 22nd Holy Imam Kahir was born in Alamut. His complete name was Al-Kahir biquwwatellah ibne Mohtadi ibne Hadi ibne Nizar. He ascended to the Masnad of Imamat in 552 A.H in Alamut . During this time Dai Muhammad bin Kiya Buzurg Umid announced on a mimbar to all Ismailis in Alamut and other Ismaili forts that the Daur-us-Satr was now ending and the Daur-us-Kashf was coming soon when as per Hasan bin Sabah the Caliphat and Imamat would be combined under our Imams
04. The Hujjat's and Da'i's knowledge of the Imam
One must also know that the "people of the order," i.e. the da'is and other
inferior ranks (hudud) can always trace the person of the Imam by the guidance
of two signs of which one is his legitimate nomination of two signs of which
one is his legitimate nomination (nass) and the other his descent. But the
chosen, i.e. the Hujjat, knows him since pre-eternal times by his miraculous
knowledge and by innate disposition. In several past incarnations some da'is
have not erred in recognising the Imam's person through being in possessionof
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