Ismaili Waez | Predictions About Future According to Ginans | Importance of JK for Mushkil Aasan

This Waez has been done by Rai Abu Ali Missionary on the Predictions About Future According to Ginans, and Importance of JamatKhana for Mushkil Aasan. Listen to it as enhance as much of your knowledge as possible ========================================================================= O’ Brother! Imam shall rise on the seventh (7th) day of the last month of the year. Remember that it will be Thursday when Imam will arrive in Subcontinent. The verse cited above is one of the many verses from the vast corpus of ginanic literature that deal with one of the most comprehensive, convoluted, and a colossally stimulating theme (i.e.“AsvƗrƯ of the Ismaili Imam”). Sometime, in the middle of this year, I visited around 50 villages in Pakistan for some academic research purpose. During the visit, I was fortunate enough to unearth and study a manuscript entitled “Ɩgam VƗṇƯ TathƗ ShƗh NƯ AsvƗrƯ NƗ GinƗn”. This article is largely a result of the study of this newly discovered manuscript which is now in the possession of an Individual in Karachi, Pakistan. This article is a minor attempt to compile the available readings from the ginanic literature on the theme of AsvƗrƯ with thorough relevance to the modern age of scientific encroachment and critical reasoning. The motive which induced me to start working on such topics was an instruction that was given by Hazar Imam(A.S) to our Ismaili Community in Karachi, Pakistan on Tuesday, September 27, 1960. It reads: “The most important problem by far for us today is to create students who are capable of going back and of reading the original texts of our history, of reading texts in Arabic, of reading them in Persian, of reading them in Urdu, of reading them in Gujarati, of reading them in any language in which they may have been written.......For this reason, I would like the Association [Modern day Ismaili Tariqah and Religious Education Board] in the years to come, to do everything possible including pick its best students and grant them scholarships....” 7 The word “Savārī” is a Hindi word which literally means “To Ride”. It has been used in the ginƗns as “Asavārī”. Owing to their conventional approach some community scholars have also used the word “Zahurat” [from the word ZƗhir, which literally means manifest] as the synonymous of AsavƗrƯ. However, both have been used in the ginƗnic literature in a different context. According to the ginƗnic literature, it refers to the time when one of the IsmƗƯlƯ ƮmƗms [Hazar ƮmƗm (Present ƮmƗm) or ƮmƗm of the time] who would be manifested in the west would come to the Indian subcontinent and declare his authority openly in front of the entire world. Generally speaking, for the IsmƗƯlƯ community, the coming of their ƮmƗm [Hazar ƮmƗm (Present ƮmƗm)] from the west to the east to openly declare his authority and rule is the meaning of the word AsavƗrƯ. However, there is much more to understand other than the simple meaning of the word AsavƗrƯ. To retain the interest of the readers and shorten the discussion, I have quoted some interesting facts or events that are indications towards the AsavƗrƯ from the very next page. These facts or events have been taken from the ginƗns. I have not included the details given in farmƗns. Eji Sayyad Imaam Shaah kahe evi veraa aavshe, tyaare Ali thaashe asvaar ji [Verse 449, Jankaar, Granth, Syed Imam Shah] O’ Brother! Syed Imam Shah says that such a time will come, [and] at that time Ali will reveal [declare his authority] himself. Eji Saaheb thaashe asvaar, te veraa ghanni doheli jaann ji [Verse 451, Jankaar, Granth, Syed Imam Shah] O’ Brother! Imam will reveal [declare his authority] himself, remember that time will be immensely difficult [worldly difficulties] Eji Varas Nu Maa Antam ne titha sataein Shah aavase thaavar raat O’ Brother! It will be the seventh of the last month of the year. Imam will come on Thursday. Yaaraa titha sataein maan rohan nakhshatra Sanj thaavar theindo shaah jo viyaan O’ Friend! It will be the seventh day of the month and the star will be Aldebaran [Taurus constellation]. On Thursday evening Imam will reveal himself. [Verse 5, bhāī tīnī vireṅ jīuṅ umeduṅ āsuṅ puṇīuṅ, Ginan, Pir Sadardin] Eji Mulasthaan thi kosha sau beej dur Shah maaro rachaase Avichal raaj O’ Brother! At a distance of [about] 585 km from Multan [Islamabad?], My Imam will inaugurate his eternal rule [kingship]. Eji Sapohor shah naa tambal vaaje Panth nu shah karse kaaj O’ Brother! In the evening, drums [musical instruments] shall be played [in honour of Imam]. Imam will do religious works. Jire bhai re Shah maaro jampudip maanhe aavase Ane tiyan megh Aachaare varse Dharam naa dhol tambal vaajse Nakalanki avtaar thaase asvaar O’ Brother! My Lord will come to the subcontinent. There will be heavy rainfall. Drums shall be played for religion [In honour of Lord]. The purified manifestation [Imam] shall reveal himself. =========================================================================