3.809:
Narrated `Umar bin Al−Khattab: People were (sometimes) judged by the revealing of a Divine Inspiration during the lifetime of Allah’s Apostle but now there is no longer any more (new revelation). Now we judge you by the deeds you practice publicly, so we will trust and favor the one who does good deeds in front of us, and we will not call him to account about what he is really doing in secret, for Allah will judge him for that; but we will not trust or believe the one who presents to us with an evil deed even if he claims that his intentions were good.
Book 48: Witness
**Sahih Bukhari **
this is the criteria. n in my personal opinion (that may be flawed) karim agha does not meet this criteria.
Imam or ne other religious personality like peer of (naqhbandi, chisti….. etc.) tradition are supposed to provide guidance the guidance to their followers in the light of quran and hadith. Rather than to establish business empire and take part in horse racing/gambling.
My father saw karim agha when he came to inauguration ceremony of the agha khan hospital. He did not shake hand wid ismaili’s over there. However he shook hand wid non ismaili including the president Muhammad Zia ul Haq (late). I don’t know whether its his permanent habit or not. Yesterday I was seeing his profile, he never married to the ismaili women (Christian women converted to nazari) like his son hasan did. And princess zahra married to a Christian, what kind of msg that whole family wants to deliver. Is this according to sunnat of prophet pbuh.
Apart from he is imam or not but atleast he is ummate of prophet. How can he override his action?