http://www.theismaili.org/cms/574/Expressions-of-Love-and-Devotion-A-Golden-Jubilee-project
In celebrating 50 years of Mawlana Hazar Imam’s Imamat, many Ismailis sought to express their feelings creatively. Expressions of Love and Devotion, a Golden Jubilee programme in the United States, received thousands of entries, including works of prose, poetry and visual art.
Selected submissions were exhibited to the Jamat at Imamat Day celebrations, and galleries were set up in each Darbar hall during Mawlana Hazar Imam’s Golden Jubilee visit to the United States. Some of the written pieces narrated their authors’ experience of the Golden Jubilee year or described the Imam’s vast social development work.
One excerpt reads:
He promotes the culture of the Muslim world, the faith of the Muslim people. He is a light that shines so bright that it is impossible for me not to come out of the fog in my life, and see his light.
Those versed in languages of their origin, found expression in the art of ghazal and poetic songs written in Urdu, Hindi, Gujarati, and Farsi. Heartfelt verse sang of a special relationship:
Always my guide,
through remembrance and failure.
Always my Murshid —
before Time. And after.
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