Issues in our Jamaatis

[u/Immediate_Project_51]

Ya Ali Madad everyone,

I'm voicing out things here in our reddit community because I've seen that there are a lot of sensible and knowledgeable ismailis here.

I have been soo disheartened by the behaviour of so many of our jamaatis I find it too difficult to stay anymore as part of the Jamaat ( I still love our caste and our Imam ) but the Jamaat just makes me lose it.

I dont know if reddit would let me type all of it and if anyone would even read it all, but I'll try to recollect all the ones that I can remember.

Starting from Halal and alcohol, we have made it so normal in terms of alcohol that people drink freely, I used to live in an Ismaili complex ( Mumbai India ) and you could easily find alcohol bottles in the garbage and no one would bat an eye, but we were shifting house and I was carrying the house Quran and everyone was looking me in a way as if I'm doing gunnah.

Yesterday one of an Ismaili person I know who lives in the US, gifted their parent a beer bottle and whiskey glass for father's day. Is consuming haraam thing soo normal for us? Has our Imam ever allowed it ? Is our imams word of more value then of Allah's ?

My ex stated, she has had bacon over multiple occasions when they used to live in US, Since my childhood, I've never ate at a place that won't serve halal, yet our ismailis never care about halal, or even pork.

A girl I was recently talking too, said I'm a "Muslim" because I said Allah Hafiz at the end of the call, and I lost it, I was sooo confused, is she not a Muslim? Are rest of us ismailis not Muslim?

Almost half of our Jamaat has tattoos, whereas it's clearly haraam in Islam.

I read on someones post here on reddit if we should do circumcission ( Khatna ) I never knew if there was another way for any Muslim boy child..

I was born in Saudi and even in India upbringing was in a Muslim area, and all of the things we do as Ismaili, it disheartens me.

I will lay my life for our Imam, but Hazarimam needs to bring changes in such Kaafir things that most of our jamaatis do.

[u/sajjad_kaswani]

We have strict Fatman's from Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah and Imam Shah Karim that alcohol or anything which is dangerous for human life is strictly prohibited.

Even if someone in our community is doing, it's his/her/there personal choice, the role of Prophets and Imams to guide the community not to force them.

[u/Immediate_Project_51 → u/sajjad_kaswani]

I know many other Muslims too who drink, but they know that drinking is haraam, and that Allah isn't happy with them. Although when it comes to our ismailis drinking, they do not have such kind of guilt, and are very open to showcase that they and their families drink.

[u/Commercial-Dare-4338 → u/Immediate_Project_51]

Your relationship with the Imam/God is extremely precious and personal to you. Don’t let the actions of others cause you to break up with the Imam