By Karim Imamdad
Extracted from « A LIVING BRANCH OF ISLAM : ISMAILIS OF THE MOUNTAINS OF HUNZA » page 11 and 12 written by Dr.Faquir Muhammad Hunzai (Institute of Ismail Studies London) published by Instituto per L’oriente C.A Nallino Italy as titled Islam in Sourth Asia.“In 1940, on the 10th March Imam Sutan Muhammad Shah Al- husayni sent a farman in Persian through Dehli radio, at a time when there were merely two radios in the whole of Hunza, one belonging to Mir Gazan Khan 11 (d.1364/1945) and the second to an English doctor serving at the Aliabad Civil hospital. The translation of the Farman runs as follows.”
“I REMEMBER ALL GAMA-ATS OF THE NORTHERN FRONTIERS OF INDIA,SUCH AS CHITRAL, HUNZA, GILGIT, AND BADAKHSHAN AND ALL FRIENDS AND DEVOTEES WITH BENEDICTION. BE CERTAIN THAT THE LIGHT OF MY LOVE AND KINDNESS WILL REACH THE WHOLE GAMA-ATS OF HUNZA JUST LIKE THE RAYS OF THE SUN. MEN AND WOMEN SMALL AND BIG, YOUNG AND OLD, ALL OF YOU ARE MY SPIRITUAL CHILDREN, I NEVER FORGET YOU AND WILL NEVER FORGE YOU BOTH IN THIS WORLD AND IN THE NEXT. TRY TO EDUCATE YOUR CHILDREN AND STRIVE TO LEARN EUROPEAN LANGUAGE AND THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE”
