Now I am God, Now I am Not - Aga Khan

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In 1956, under pressure from his Syrian followers, Aga Khan III changed the Ismaili Du'a from Gujrati to Arabic. He also changed the wordings of the Shahadah from “`Ali Sahi (truly) Allah” to “`Aliyyullah.” The later phrase translates “The `Ali, The Allah.” But, in the book of Ismaili Du'a it is translated as “`Ali is from Allah.” Today, by the virtue of this wilful mistranslation, Agakhani Ismailis claim that they are not venerating Karim Aga Khan as God. <p> The fact that the Du'a had to be changed in order to make the explicit affirmation that `Ali and by inference, Aga Khan was “truly Allah” implicit, indicates the growing importance of Islam on the world stage. Yet, to say otherwise would not only go against all the Ismaili religious practices, but even expose this “religion” to the charge of hypocrisy. How could a God cease to be a God? This is why the explicit statement was converted into a less explicit one which could then be mistranslated deliberately.