Doctor wrote:Why Burhanuddin sahab is never seen in the Santacruz (Mumbai) hutments of 'adna & gareeb' Dawoodi Bohras Mumineen?
progticide wrote:So [Doctor Mubarak] go and mind your own business and stop poking your dirty nose in the affairs of our community.
Assalaamu alaikum,
I was once a bohra and back then if someone raised the issue that Doctor has, it might have sooner or later gotten to me so I must echo him: why is the syedna seen with high-ranking officials/politicians and never seen amongst the poor and down-trodden? Why are ziyafats only for those who can afford the ridiculous salaams required, and hence not for the poor? And why are the bohras okay with this, how can they still justify the divinity of the syedna?
Abdes/devout Bohras need to stop for a moment, clear their mind of any of the syedna or the Dawoodi Bohra priesthood, and visualize, just for a moment, what goodness of character should
actually entail. Perhaps you'll imagine:
- someone actively thinking about the poor in the community, and what their physical, emotional and spiritual needs are
- someone actively encouraging their followers to think, to not be stagnant in their lives and to constantly see their day to day actions in a bigger perspective
- someone who actually urges everyone to learn their deen (and that means gaining knowledge, not recognizing your place in the social ladder and knowing all of the wajebaats you have to pay)
- someone who puts their words into action, to the extent possible, but modestly so
- many other things better than what I can think of right now
Coming back to the Dawoodi Bohra priesthood, do you not see a marked contrast? Are you not reminded of:
- someone who speaks messages of love to all Bohras, but seems to not actually care about them except their capacity to deliver wajebaats
- someone who may or may not be encouraging his followers to think, but who shows little sign of it himself as he always appears to be reading off a pre-written manuscript
- someone who people may say is encouraging everyone to learn their deen but in effect, somehow or another most people have not even learned the meanings of the Qur'an because they are taught that the true meanings of the Qur'an are inaccessible to the masses and that it is wrong to try to understand the Qur'an yourself since if you get a meaning wrong, the sin for you is enormous
- someone who is not seen doing any common-sense acts of good like seeing to the needs of the poor and the destitute, but who has scores of pics available of him mingling w/ politicians and higher-ups, in at least a few cases (and some say most to all cases) corrupt ones?
And my last point for abdes/devout Bohras to ponder over... if any of these issues I or others have raised have bothered you, do you feel that your Dai is accessible enough to you that you could get answers directly from him? Do you think he is open enough to answer questions you might have vis-a-vis points raised on this forum?
