From_Alamut wrote:
Kamaherali brother, I asked an al-waize in Jamat Khana about 313 murids if they were from other faith too, but he said no it is not and these murids are only from Ismailism faith because they have their bayait of the Imam and they are spread in different countries where ever there is Ismails. [/code]
I have heard that MSMS in one of his interviews (I was given the interviewer’s name but have forgotten it) was asked about the sect out of the 73 that will be saved. He said that the sect comprising of the pious people of all sects will be saved. This implies that there is a possibility of individuals from other faiths to make spiritual progress as well.
In his memoir MSMS says:
“Roumi and Hafiz, the great Persian poets, have told us, each in his different way, that some men are born with such natural spiritual capacities and possibilities of development that they have direct experience of that great love, that all-embracing, all-consuming love, which direct contact with reality gives to the human soil. Hafiz indeed has said that men like Jesus Christ and Muslim mystics like Mansour and Bayezid and others have possessed that spiritual power of the greater love; that any of us, if the Holy Spirit (*) ever present grants us that enlightenment, can, being thus blessed, have the power which Christ had, but that to the overwhelming majority of men this greater love is not a practical possibility.”
Clearly Hafiz, Rumi, Mansur and Bayezid were not Ismailis and yet MSMS seems to suggest that they were individuals who were enlightened.
MHI has also encouraged us to seek knowledge from wherever, we would also suggest that there are enlightened sources of knowledge outside our tariqah as well.