Documented Farman — Sultan Muhammad Shah (Aga Khan III)
“In my Ismaili religion (dharam) keeping the fast is not obligatory. Again, some people fast seven days and others throughout forty days—this is not obligatory… The manner of fasting for a mu’min is the fast of the eye, of the hand, of the mouth, of the foot, and then learning the essence… Observe a fast wherein besides me, besides Hazar Imam, you do not have faith in anyone else and you keep a clean heart and do not tell lies.”