SOP GPISH

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"Moman ke moh upar Nur adkera, jo bich raat uthe kare kamai. Raat ki Bandagi din me dise, ke karanhar ke Moho upper roshnai!! Kalame Mawla, verse:169

It means ‘a person has glow on the face who meditates during the night, and that meditation is seen during the day with face full of light'!!

The above verse from Kalame Mawla is imprinted in my mind forever as referred to the verse when I delivered Waez for the first time at the age of 12yrs. And meditation became my life force and I always wanted to research on spiritual part of human life and it's impact.

I come from a very religious family background, where Seeds of regular jamatkhana attendence and serving our Beloved Imam and the jamat were sown by my parents since childhood.
Due to the strong religious bond, I have always had a strong desire to be involved in our religion and the community. I started teaching in REC when I was in grade 6th and am still involved teaching till date.

I had been eager to learn to read Quran in Arabic since childhood and am currently attending Arabic classes to accomplish my dream. I am constantly cross examined about our tariqah practices by other Muslims, however there are times its difficult to explain to them. And it became a subject of my research.

I practiced Alternate medicine with herbs, ayurveda medicines, acupressure, homeopathy etc. and my main method of treatment was meditation to provide patients with best possible treatments. Serving humanity was always my priority in life. However, around 2005 I felt the need to change my career as I felt depressed due to treating so many people in pain regularly.
I was in US during the 9/11 incident. Muslims were look down upon and many M...

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...for spiritual search, cross question by otherMuslims, Interpretations of Quran has all lead me on a journey to GPISH.
And so for accomplishing my goal GPISH at IIS is the best option as I can study about Islam, Ismailism in depth through research, seminars and lectures. I would love to grow with my classmates through education right from orientation to academic excursion to Cairo and Spain.

Given a chance to study at IIS I would consider it as an honour because of the calibre of faculty, its reputation as an institution and the my fellow students.

After graduation I would take up Islamic Studies at Master level and I am looking forward to becoming a professor for Islamic Studies at IIS. I want to impart knowledge on Islam in context with Ismailism and bring forth the beautiful face of Islam, a religion of peace, prosperity, brotherhood, architecture and poetry.

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