Bloodline.

This is all very nice but a looming issue for the future of the community is the practice of its Prince and Princess'' marrying outside the ''clan'' and justifying it by saying Ismaili women/men are their brothers/sisters. Its a strange thing to see progressively Anglo people being worshipped by their South Asian counterparts. The bloodline is being progressively weakened and the claim of birthright to the Prophet risks getting tepid. The Ismaili community as such is extremely closed, absolutely no one is accepted without conversion. The Aga Khan is considered a living god and is directly worshipped to-these alone are contrary to the very notion of Islam especially since no one actually knows for sure what the Prophet looked like and there is no priesthood.

Salma

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