• Mawlana Hazar Imam with His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum at the opening of the Ismaili Centre Dubai. Photo: Gary Otte
  • Mawlana Hazar Imam together with Prince Rahim and Princess Zahra overlooking the entrance hall of the Ismaili Centre Dubai from the balcony above. Photo: Gary Otte
  • Mawlana Hazar Imam addresses leaders of the Jamat who had come to pay homage, on behalf of the Jamat, on the occasion of his Golden Jubilee. Photo: AKDN/Aziz Islamshah
  • Mawlana Hazar Imam delivering the Peterson Lecture. Seated behind him is Mr Jeffrey Beard, Director General of the International Baccalaureate, Dr Monique Seefried, Chairman of the International Baccalaureate Board of Governors, and Salim Bhatia, Head of the Aga Khan Academies unit. Photo: Gary Otte
  • Mawlana Hazar Imam and Princess Zahra walk under a sabre arch salute presented by the Sol Ross volunteers of Texas, as they disembark in Austin, USA. Photo: Gary Otte
 

Golden Jubilee emblem

At the centre of the emblem is the Imam's crest. The fifty crescents surrounding the crest represent the half century of the spiritual leadership of Mawlana Hazar Imam. The outer ring embodies a verse from the Holy Qur'an-e Shariff (Surah 4, Ayat 1) rendered in calligraphy in the Fatimid Kufic script and reads as follows:

O mankind !
Be careful of your duty to your Lord
Who created you from a single soul
and from it created its mate
and from them twain hath spread abroad
a multitude of men and women
Golden Jubilee

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