…The sixtieth anniversary of my inheriting my Imamat and ascending the “Gadi” fell in 1945. Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah, Aga Khan III, writing in his Memoirs of Aga Khan: Both ceremonies raised over 640,000 British pounds each in the Aga Khan’s weight against diamonds. Five months earlier many saw a similar weighing in Bombay. From Madagascar to Central Asia, Ismaili pilgrims converged on the city for the weighing ceremony on Augin Dar-es-Salaam. The Aga Khan speaking at the Diamond Jubilee Celebrations in Dar-es-Salaam. Let the Diamond Jubilee message for my spiritual children be that of doing their best and devoting their best in the best cause of their beloved faith…. It is a time to go ahead and leave a mark on the world history like the glorious Ismailis of the past. With the Diamond Jubilee dawns a new era, full of hopes and opportunities for economics, educational, social and religious uplift of my beloved spiritual children all over the world. With it a phase of consolidation and co-operation has been achieved among my spiritual children in various countries, and now lies ahead a period of goodwill and expansion. My Diamond Jubilee marks such a stage in the present times. The Ismailia history has passed through several stages of development.

Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah in a message to the Diamond Jubilee Souvenir: No occasion ever occurred in the world history like it. It is an incomparable occasion in the world. Sixty years have passed to the enthronement of the Imamat, which is a unique occasion.

Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah in a message to the Aga Khan Legion Central Committee: THE DIAMOND JUBILEE – SIXTY YEARS OF IMAMAT

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