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AKDN reaffirms commitment to enhancing collaboration with Bangladesh 2024-03-26

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Source: 
unb.com.bd

On behalf of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), its Resident Diplomatic Representative Munir M Merali has extended the warmest felicitations to the government and the resilient people of Bangladesh as the country commemorated the 54th Independence Day on March 26.

This significant milestone serves as a testament to the unwavering spirit, resilience, and determination of the Bangladeshi nation in achieving independence and upholding the cherished values of freedom, democracy, and sovereignty, he said on behalf of all AKDN agencies and staff working in the country.

Princess Zahra opens 2024 sporting season for the Yacht Club Costa Smeralda 2024-03-20

Princess Zahra Aga Khan, President of the YCCS Board of Directors, left Stefan Muller, General Manager of Rolex Italy, right Edo
Source: 
pressmare.it

The Yacht Club Costa Smeralda’s 2024 sporting season was presented today in Milan at Casa Gessi, moderated by Sky Sports commentator Giovanni Bruno.

Princess Zahra Aga Khan, President of the Board of Directors of the YCCS opened the event, thanking those present and highlighting: "The upcoming sporting season at the YCCS will certainly be an intense one, with regattas scheduled from May to October. This year also marks a significant anniversary: 40 years of collaboration with our longstanding partner Rolex.

BODY AND SOUL By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S. Ali

The body is our spacesuit for living on the earth. It is an outer garment and outer expression of the soul. Body is destructible, but soul is indestructible. One can burn body by fire, blow it away by a strong wind, or cut it into pieces because it is tangible. Without any harm, the body slowly decays over time, and once the right time comes, death follows eliminating the functioning capacity of a body. The body can be cremated or buried, but it cannot be done with soul. Thus, the body’s journey on earth ends with death.

Eji Uthi Allah’na Gur’e Banda (Ginan by Mumtal Ali Tajdin

1. Standzaic form:
a) 7 quatrains : 28 lines
1 refrain (varanni) of 3 couplets : 6 lines
Total : 34 lines or 17 couplets.
2. Theme: Awareness of midnight worship. It is both didactic and pedagogic.
3. Structure & Style:-
a) Choice of language: Sindhi
b) Rhythmic content: r’at-s’ath, kud-mud, kiyo-samario, lok-thok kat’ea’i-mark’ei’n.
4. Polyglotic form:
a) Arabic: Allah, hur, momin.
b) Persian: banda, shah, pir.

VARIOUS TASBIHAT By: Mumtaz Ali Tajddin S. Ali

Tasbih (Eulogy)

The word tasbih is derived from sbh means to glide or swim. In Aramaic it had long meant to praise. The Arabic writers describe this type of praise as swimming in a shoreless sea: “He praises (yusabbih) in a shoreless sea” (Majmu’atu’l Ahzab, p. 563). The tasbih is often described as the occupation of all the angels: “Those who are in your Lord’s abode do not think themselves too great to worship Him. They offer praise (yusabbihuna) to Him and prostrate themselves before Him” (7:205).

EJI TAMAKU’N SADHAR’E SO DIN BAHOTAJ By: Mumtaz Tali Tajddin S. Ali

After the fall of the Alamut in 1256, Imam Shamsuddin Muhammad (d. 1310) went to Azerbaijan, where he and his successor, Imam Kassim Shah (d. 1370) passed normal lives in simplicity. Imam Islam Shah (d. 1423), the next Imam was first to be born in Azerbaijan.


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