• Anant Akhado literally means a gathering of unlimited souls in an eternal context. It is a well known and respected composition of 500 verses written by Pir Hasan Kabiruddin at a very young age over a period of 6 months. He wrote the verses in Khojki script on a piece of cloth woven by himself.
• The verses deal with a comprehensive range of spiritual themes - struggle for liberation of the individual soul, religious practices and the relationship between a Murid and the Murshid.
• Overall, it is an expression of a timeless vision of hope for an individual soul bound to the clogging and hampering of this illusory material existence; to rise beyond it into eternity where it will unite with souls from other periods and ages in a joyous and festive manner, and merge with the ultimate reality as an eternal homecoming.
• Upon completion of the verses, Pir Hasan Kabiruddin presented them to the 30th Imam Mawlana Islam Shah by folding the cloth in the form of a turban. He was bestowed with the title and responsibities of a Pir at that meeting.
• The practical importance of these verses in Ismaili tradition is attested to by the fact that they are recited daily in Jamatkhanas before the first prayer. Indeed Mawlana Sultan Muhammed Shah had advised many murids to recite the entire Anant Akhado in times of difficulties and crises.

Sources: Introduction to Anant Akhado - Karim Maherali (Ismaili.Net)
              Dr Noorallah Juma (SalmanSpiritual.com)

• Our special thanks to Dr. Noorallah Juma and SalmanSpiritual.com for the transliteration, Karim Maherali and Ismaili.net for the literal translation. We appreciate your outstanding work in this area.
• Dr. Juma’s original transliteration also has diacritical marks (added to the top or bottom of a letter) to ensure proper pronunciation of words. You can access this version and many more Anant Akharo resources on SalmanSpiritual.com

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As a complement to the Anant Akhado service, JollyGul.com has also released 5 podcast episodes to throw more light on the subject. The podcast episodes gives an overview of Anant Akhado, presents a profile of Pir Hasan Kabiruddin and delves into some of the verses.

• Our special thanks to Shafiq Rawji, Shabnam Merali, Almas Murji and Aly Sunderji for the wonderful recitations.
• Our gratitude to Karim Maherali and Dr Noorallah Juma for the immense translation and transliteration efforts. And to Ismaili.Net and SalmanSpiritual.com for making these accessible online.
• Karim Maherali provided additional important help at short notice with going through the translations and updating them where appropriate.
• Alnoor Saleh and Arzina Merali hosted the podcast episodes and we are very grateful to them.
• Our sincere appreciation to Arzina Merali for general advice and overall help with content enhancement.