Dawoodi Bohra Forum

Was there a simultaneous unfurling of the glorious tricolour at Malabar Hills and Thane I wonder?

Sitting under a tree on a hot day
A fruit drops on your head
Enraged at this affront you
Put the fruit in your pocket
And climb the tree to find the branch
To blame.
One of the branches admits to being the one
Who bore the fruit which dropped on your head
But you know that the branch is not solely ...

An interesting view from 100 years ago- the Seven Pillars of Islam by T.E. Lawrence

This faith of the desert was impossible in the towns. It was at once too strange, too simple,
too impalpable for exportand common use. The idea, the ground-belief of all Semitic creeds
was waiting there, but it had ...

I quite like this piece where Spain and other European acquisitions are coloured in in their 5 year plan

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... iance.html

What about us who aspire to the Banting way of life. I am on a LCHF diet ie low carbohydrate high fat. That m. eans basically no rice no roti and no mithas. So does not give me much leeway as far as FMB is concerned.'
But is does give me an excuse to have eggs fried in coconut oil.
Yum
And chicken ...

It would be nice if items in Gujarati had a few words of translation in English to inform those of us unable to understand.
We are unable to use google to translate, as there is no Guju option
There are two guj snips on this page alone.
Anyone care to have a go?

What if it was the way your community dresses?
Something you wear day in and day out?
What if you were moved outside your normal environment, and trust into something different?
Would you then also change your outward appearance?
Probably not....... http://vube.com/vote/Sayogo+Channel/qskZVgS7RH?n=2 ...

The day before the election results, there was tension in Old Hyderabad as one community found their banner burnt and another found a burnt book. The police could not stem the ensuing riot so the army was brought in and promptly fired in the air, killing three fellows who had just popped out to see ...

go into a bar..no not really but Pollan does make very interesting reading what with our food fixation, religion encroaching on our food and men behind it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... fmCT-Qsegg

Now would be an opportune time to download House of Cards and listen to Underwood at least once a day to imbibe and emulate his august machinations in his journey to ultimate power.

A bit rambling and possibly written after a very happy St Patrick's day

Taxes by any name act like crystal meth on the person collecting. There was no income tax till 1862 n the U.S. and that was 3% to pay for the Civil War. But after the war the income tax stayed and became a larger and larger percentage of one's income.
So expect old dues to remain on the books and ...

It really depends on your how your jamaat is governed. I have heard of jamaats where even a third mishak was held to accommodate stragglers. Even more accommodating was attendance for ziyarat (Mumbai) . The ejamaat number was asked for on a piece of paper by my cell leader ( I don't know what you ...

Actually it looks like a godsend for SKQ who I understand is an aficionado of bulgogi and won't say no to a bit of kimchi.

Come on Tasneempati, lets have his name so we can google him good

I am not asking where it came from, just where is it and how can I get hold of a tiny piece. Simply for the barakat of course.

- almost no one there takes it seriously


How exactly would you know such a thing ?
How would you not know such thing? That would be the simple answer; years of attendance of basic functions and sabaqs will help develop a keen eye for a charade. That's how.

People on this forum make some very ...

they might invite him back, but now is their company worth of friendship and time?
Absolutely. I don't think anyone on the brink should be left to decide which way they should jump. In this case the friend is threatening to jump unless Questions does something, so I feel it is better to save the ...

My suggestion for Questions is to go to the misak and enjoy the tamasha- almost no one there takes it seriously (one can do a very good job of acting as the fancy dress plus beard are already there to help you along) Be sure to mutter " Mola Mola" once a while , and put thumb and finger to the ...

મારા ભાઈઓ અને બહનો આ સૂ થઇ રહ્યું છે આપની બોહરા કૌમ માં. એક અદના મુમીન ય મુમીના ને કેવી રીતે ખબર પડશે કે કોના પર બરોબર નસ થઇ છે ? આ તો આપની કોમ પર ઘણી મોટ્ટી આફત છે। કઈ કરવો જોઈએ કોના પાસે જાવું જોઈએ।

Not having human handy and my machine translator spewing gibberish
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