Fast cars, yachts and races are not normal for religious leaders, but they fit the lifestyle of 12 million Ismaili Muslims in the world, who has died at the age of 88.
The 49th hereditary Imam of the Shi’a Ismaili Muslims, Prince Karim Agha Khan IV, claimed directly from his daughter Hazrat Babi Fatima and his son -in -law Hazrat Ali, which was directly descent. There are caliphs.
The Ismaili sect has no contradiction between spiritual and material fitness. As Aga Khan said: “It is not an Islamic belief that spiritual life should be completely excluded from our more material everyday activities.” Or, as he told Vanity Fair Magazine: “We have no concept of being bad of wealth, how do you use it … if God has given you the ability or luck to be a privileged person So, you may have a moral responsibility.
According to former Guardian journalist Hela Puk, an international businessman and donor, “smiling, welcomes, which has a hairline and a little overweight personality”. Minority communities have been scattered not only in the Indian subcontinent and Africa, but also in Europe and Canada.
He donated a tenth of his earnings to him, his foundation and development network, and in return his organization has provided his communities with hospitals, clinics, schools and scholarships.
On a trip to Africa to visit the Ismaili community in Kenya in the early 1980s, he witnessed the devotion with which he was organized: “I felt that between Aga Khan and his followers. There is an additional element I saw during a trip to Kenya. Will not be used.
Despite the prominent lineage, the family in its modern form attracts the then imam from Persia (now Iran) in 1837. Setting up in India, as a spokesman for the Muslim community, became a passionate supporter of Raj and was given. The title of tax -free status and Aga Khan by the British, which means the ruler.
On the affiliation of the fourth Aware Khan in 1957, Queen Elizabeth II formally gave her a style of greatness, “as the spiritual head of the Ismaili community, in view of her succession, many of whom many members of her greatness. I live. ” . He remained close to the British royal family and was appointed KBE in 2004.
Jet-set lifestyle as non-Muslims knew it better: a former Olympic skier, a fast racing yacht owner, a familiar personality of scooting and other rescosis, where his horse, not the least abusive sherger- armed The gang considered a temporary IRA in 1983 from a County Cleader study form and never saw again – won the big race.
Perhaps at the time, the world’s most famous horse, Shergar won both English and Irish Derby and five of the seven races that he had run before running, but Aga Khan demanded $ 2 million ransom. Refused. Another horse of his, Herzand, then won both Derby and third, Zarkova won, Perks DL Arc D Trump. He was attracted to the science of horses but never a condition.
Prince cream was born in the Gent Hood in Switzerland, the son of Juan Yarde Biller, who was the daughter of Lord Chorston, and an international playboy and the son of a third, Prince Eli Khan. According to Chen, who was given a commission to write his biography, it was a lonely childhood for the boy and his younger brother Amin, who parents in charge of an English grandmother in the houses of Paris, Dave Will and Guestad. It was through what they rarely seen. They fought in a dilapidated family house in Nairobi.
The two boys were sent to a special boarding school in Switzerland, Lee Rosie, who provided some stability with their parents’ divorce in 1949: his father Hollywood movie star Rita Heorth and his The owner of the newspaper near his mother went to marry Vescont Kamros. . Eli Khan was killed in a Paris car accident in 1960.
Karim was studying engineering in Harvard when his grandfather, Third Agha Khan, died in 1957 and unprecedented his father instead of his father, and he was lying at the will of the nuclear period. I was primarily changed in the world, he was convinced that this community should be led by a young man who could bring a new ideology about life in the office of Islam. ” Two days after going to Harvard to end his education in Oriental History, Karim visited the Ismaili communities around the world.
AGA Khan had taken all his responsibilities seriously to his co -religiousists, as observed during a trip to Kenya: “Certainly for most days and big parts of the night, I also There were meetings on hospital plans and other planned developments in Kenya. Also, with more plans, he believed that his planned biography was eventually vetoed, who believes that Aga Khan has opened himself a lot for a foreigner. ۔
AGA Khan’s business interests run from its headquarters in Switzerland, including diamonds and marbles, tires and sospens, real estate and mines, and the Costa Samralda Beach Resort in Sardinia and the Serena Hotel in Kabul. Top of hotels.
Financial assistance was provided by the gentlemen Aga Khan Development Network Rural areas include medical facilities, higher education scholarships, rural support programs to improve accommodation conditions in African Bush and a hydroelectric power network in Uganda.
Ismaili Center In Kinsanin, London, was founded in 1983 and the 700 -year -old Dijinjirber Mosque was restored in Timbuktu, which was part of his attempt to reconcile with Islam and the Jewish Christian world. “I see it as a clash of ignorance rather than a confrontation of civilizations,” he said. Sunday Telegraph In 2005. “There is a notable degree of ignorance here … I am talking about human society and civilization. This is not a religious issue.
Aga Khan was married twice, first in 1969, English model Sara (Sally) from the crook pool, which took the title of Princess Salima. The couple had three children, Zahra, Rahim – who now succeeded as the 50th Imam and Hussein, but the marriage was dissolved in 1995. The second thing, in 1998, was a German lawyer and former pop singer, Gabriel Lenjin, to whom he married. He had a son, Eli. The marriage ended in 2004 with a long divorce proceedings in British and French courts.
Aga Khan later lived in Lisbon, which has an Ismaili community, and was granted Portuguese citizenship.
Her children have survived it.
