Pictures, paintings, embellishments

Of four yards

Destroyed, deserted

Fast colour, a type of fruit or vegetable from which red colour is extracted, a type of seed from which fast colour is made, fast colour

Four-fold, four times more

In the auspicious moment

Courtyard

Name of an ornament

Openly, in front of everyone

To sacrifice, to do a good deed, to adorn, to decorate

Decorate, embellish, do good deeds

True, pure and clean, rice

Purity, cleanliness

Pure and clean

Pure, clean, unadulterated

On all four sides

Fast colour, a type of red fruit or vegetable

Everywhere, all four sides

Thief

84 stages of creation

Having erected a tent of marriage

An awning set up for marriage. Its four corners are decorated by a pile of seven utensils

A title of Pir Shams (r.a.)

Attached, attracted

Cross-roads, market

At the cross-road, in the open market

Twenty-four (24)

The twenty four crore people who strayed

Fragrance, a type of fragrant wood

Will graze

Mistake, error

Forgot

Move away, deviate, miss, love, leave

Will miss, will slip away

On the stove

Constructed, built

Makes, builds, creates

Pluck, pick, select

Built, building

One who suckles

Children ought to be regarded as a blessing from God and their birth should be celebrated with zest and exchange of greetings. If one has no issues, he must pray for the grant of pious children just as Zachariah prayed for a noble offspring: "God! Give me from Your bounty a pious issue; undoubtedly You are the Hearer of the supplication" (19:516).

Lack of material does not enable to give a detailed account of the Ismaili influence after the death of Shah Tahir Hussain Dakkani on 956/1549 in Ahmadnagar, India. We do not have explicit details, whether his descendants continued the Ismaili mission in the cloak of Shi'ism or not. There are however certain strong indications that a lady ruler, named Chand Bibi was secretly an Ismaili, but her faith is shrouded in her political activities.

Charity, in the sense of giving away one's wealth, is of two kinds: voluntary and obligatory. Voluntary charity is mentioned in the Koran as itfaq (spending benevolently), ihsan (the doing of good) and sadaqa (derived from sidq, meaning truth, and comes to signify a charitable deed). The very words used to denote charitable deeds are an indication of the broadness of its conception.

The word chhanta is an Indian word, means an act of sprinkling (the water). Its synonymous in Arabic is rashash means to sprinkle, and rashash'tun (pl. rashashat) means an act of sprinkle (of water). Its proper word in Persian is pashidan. It is a sin that defiles man and renders him impure. The chhanta is a symbolic rite in Ismaili tariqah to dissipate the sins or forgiveness.

The word chiragh is derived from the Syriac shrag or shragh, meaning lamp, and Chiragh-i Rawshan means shining or luminous lamp, which is one of the oldest surviving Ismaili traditions in Central Asia. It is an assembly (majalis) of the believers, where a lamp is illumined, which is its hallmark, and the Koranic verses are chanted for the eternal peace of the departed soul, or for the prosperity of one who is alive.

With the imposition of the New Constitution of the Shi'a Ismaili Muslims in 1986, the Conciliation and Arbitration Board (CAB) came into existence for the first time in the Ismaili world. Previously, the Ismaili Councils executed the judicial activities in the community. The judicial activities of the Council thenceforward consigned to the newly formed Conciliation and Arbitration Board.