So what do you guys know about him and the whole Aga Khan thing? Like I get the idea of the institution but I'm a bit confused by it. Can someone explain the whole thing and it's purpose?
Looking at Karim Al-Husseini's picture around the house is eerie because you think even in this age some white cult leader is mandating you give him 1/8 of everything you earn while he while blows hundreds of millions $$ on yachts, mansions, supercars, jewelry, etc. You look around and you see his impact on humanity being inconsequential. You realize he's insignificant to the world spiritually and physically. On a spiritual level, he's shockingly bad. It's surprising that somebody could manage to pull off the ruse of being a divine figure while saying practically nothing of significance. Aga Khan's only ever provided the most censored TRITE guidance that any stereotypical European plutocrat could give. It's not so much that Aga Khan lacks knowledge or intelligence, he lacks the boldness required to say anything of significance. But why acknowledge theological issues like half your Jamat believing in Hindu deities/reincarnation or unanswered LGBTQ issues when you could stay quiet and maximizes profits. In the material world, Aga Khan has practically no influence on the direction humanity heads. All while he's been careless enough to admit to tasting alcohol, selling alcohol, riffing off false predictions/terrible advice, and then being bold enough to even go on to create religious ceremonies based on seizing more money from his followers (1/4 Income Majlis). I guess we're now in the age of the "European" Imam, an Imam who doesn't even care to play the part. He doesn't even engage with his Jamat. His fraud is so overt, so apparent, so disdainful.
LOL...Imagine if this were said and taught over the current theology.
Why isn't my spiritual daddy letting me on his ship?, I told him every night before going to bed... why isn't he listening to me? :(
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/socialite-dolores-guinness-aboard-a-yacht-owned-by-the-aga-news-photo/79885353
Is AKDN an actual non-profit? or is just a holdings company for 3rd world investments for Aga Khan IV?
Can anybody provide their financial statements, holdings, investments, and cash allocations?
In addition, what's the structure of AKDN? Does Aga Khan IV really have full control over the company?
"And they showed their appreciation. On his Golden Jubilee, in 1936, his followers famously gave him his weight in gold, a spectacle some 30,000 onlookers jammed a square in Bombay to witness. Upon his Diamond and Platinum Jubilees, he received similar tributes in the appropriate stones and metal. The sizable funds from those tributes pale, however, compared with the zakat money traditionally paid by members of the Ismaili community, some of whom believe their imam is semi-divine. (Prince Karim categorically denies any suggestion that he is divine.) Though exact figures are not known, it is thought members who can afford to do so provide a tithe of around 10 to 12 percent of their annual income. According to some estimates, that may amount to hundreds of millions a year. While the Aga Khan has complete control over these funds, they are not meant for his personal use. It has always been difficult to calculate his own wealth versus that which belongs to the imamate, and estimates vary widely, but a recent tally put Aga Khan IV’s fortune at $13.3 billion."
" In a highly unusual arrangement, the Aga Khan adopted, you might say, the entire 20,000-acre Domaine de Chantilly, which also contains one of France’s foremost but relatively unknown cultural treasures, the Château de Chantilly. "
"Last summer marked the 55th anniversary of his imamate. It was an inheritance no one—himself included—expected him to receive when the news was announced on July 11, 1957, during a reading of the will of his grandfather His Highness Sultan Mahomed Shah, Aga Khan III. It was the first time in the family’s 1,300-year history that a generation—Karim’s father—had been skipped over. Though historians have written about the events of that day, Prince Karim has rarely publicly commented on his own feelings.
“It was a shock,” he reveals today, “but I don’t think anyone in my situation would have been prepared.”
Source: https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2013/02/aga-khan-spiritual-leader-multi-billionaire
