ASWAN, Egypt — The Aga Khan IV was laid to relaxation on Sunday at a non-public ceremony in Aswan, Egypt.
The dying of Prince Karim – the forty ninth hereditary imam of the Shiite Ismaili Muslims – was introduced Tuesday by the Aga Khan Improvement Community and the Ismaili non secular group. His son, 53-year-old Rahim Al-Hussaini, has been named because the Aga Khan V, the religious chief of the world’s tens of millions of Ismaili Muslims, in in accordance together with his father’s will.
On Saturday, a non-public funeral service passed off on the Ismaili group middle in Lisbon attended by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Spain’s King Emeritus Juan Carlos and Portugal’s President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
The Aga Khan is taken into account by his followers to be a direct descendant of the Prophet Muhammad and is handled as a head of state.
The governor of Aswan welcomed Prince Karim’s household on the southern Egyptian’s provinces airport on Saturday.
“When his will was opened, it was discovered that he had requested to be buried in Aswan close to his grandfather, Sultan Muhammad Shah, and his grandmother, Om Habiba,” stated Maj. Gen. Ismail Kamal.
Ismaili mourners marched as bells rang through the burial ceremony within the nation’s southern Aswan province, as Prince Karim’s physique was taken in a van. They carried his physique, draped in a white shroud, and positioned it on a yacht on the Nile River.
Prince Karim, 88, was given the title of “His Highness” by Queen Elizabeth in July 1957, two weeks after his grandfather, the Aga Khan III, unexpectedly made him inheritor to the household’s 1,300-year dynasty as chief of the Ismaili Muslim sect.
The late Aga Khan advanced over many years right into a enterprise magnate and a philanthropist, shifting between the religious and the worldly with ease. He was a defender of Islamic tradition and values, but additionally broadly considered a builder of bridges between Muslim societies and the West.
The Aga Khan Improvement Community offers primarily with problems with well being care, housing, training and rural financial growth. It says it really works in over 30 nations and has an annual funds of about $1 billion for nonprofit growth actions.
Ismailis lived for a lot of generations in Iran, Syria and South Asia earlier than additionally settling in east Africa, Central Asia and the Center East, in addition to Europe, North America and Australia extra lately. They take into account it an obligation to donate as much as 12.5% of their revenue to the Aga Khan as steward.
