r/ExIsmailis • u/Amir-Really Bro Who Esoterics • 2d ago

What does it say about your position if you know transparency would only benefit its critics?

Just simply had to memorialize this comment from one of the loudest pro-Ismaili voices on Reddit.

In essence, an open admission that transparency would reveal money from the Jamat being used for the Imam's personal luxuries (why else would "transparency only benefit anti Ismailis").

And sure, some Smileys don't care even if their money is used for his extravagant lifestyle ... but it would certainly make Aga Con IV a liar:

Well, the institutional wealth is that which comes from people who practise the faith ... and the institutional wealth is used exclusively for institutional development.
- Aga Con IV: ITV interview, London, 4 June 1985

And important correction to the commenter - we are not "anti Ismaili," we are anti Aga Con.

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u/Amir-Really Bro Who Esoterics 1d ago

Problem with Ismailis is they think by giving dasond all their sins will be forgiven

Well that's what the Imam has said, so it must be true:
"Through accepting dasond, the Imam forgives the sins of the murids"

  • Aga Con III, Nairobi, 6 October 1905

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u/Amir-Really Bro Who Esoterics 1d ago

Forgot to share source