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Huzurala (TUS) has done fasal that the Ashara Mubaraka of 1429 H will be held in Colombo - Srilanka, Inshallah.

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The following are the venues where Dr.Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin has performed Ashara Mubaraka//

Hijra 1429 / 2008 - Colombo, Sri Lanka

Hijra 1428 / 2006 - Mumbai, India [Saify Mahal]

Hijra 1427 / 2007 - Colombo, Sri Lanka

Hijra 1426 / 2005 - Surat, India

Hijra 1425 / 2004 - Dubai, U.A.E.

Hijra 1424 / 2003 - Mumbai, India [Saify Masjid]

Hijra 1423 / 2002 - Indore, India

Hijra 1422 / 2001 - Houston, U.S.A.

Hijra 1421 / 2000 - Surat, India

Hijra 1420 / 1999 - Colombo, Sri Lanka

Hijra 1419 / 1998 - Nairobi, Kenya

Hijra 1418 / 1997 - Surat, India

Hijra 1417 / 1996 - Karachi, Pakistan

Hijra 1416 / 1995 - Mombasa, Kenya

Hijra 1415 / 1994 - Mumbai, India

Hijra 1414 / 1993 - Mombasa, Kenya

Hijra 1413 / 1992 - Pune, India

Hijra 1412 / 1991 - Colombo, Sri Lanka

Hijra 1411 / 1990 - Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Hijra 1410 / 1989 - Surat, India

Hijra 1409 / 1988 - Mumbai, India

Hijra 1408 / 1987 - Karachi, Pakistan

Hijra 1407 / 1986 - Indore, India

Hijra 1406 / 1985 - Surat, India

Hijra 1405 / 1984 - Nairobi, Kenya

Hijra 1404 / 1983 - Karachi, Pakistan

Hijra 1403 / 1982 - Sidhpur, India

Hijra 1402 / 1981 - Cairo, Egypt

Hijra 1401 / 1980 - Cairo, Egypt

Hijra 1400 / 1979 - Mumbai, India

Hijra 1399 / 1978 - Jamnagar, India

Hijra 1398 / 1977 - Karachi, Pakistan

Hijra 1397 / 1976 - Madras, India

Hijra 1396 / 1976 - Kolkata, India

Hijra 1395 / 1975 - Mumbai, India

Hijra 1394 / 1974 - Mumbai, India

Hijra 1393 / 1973 - Mumbai, India

Hijra 1392 / 1972 - Surat, India

Hijra 1391 / 1971 - Kolkata, India

Hijra 1390 / 1970 - Colombo, Sri Lanka

Hijra 1389 / 1969 - Mecca, Saudi Arabia

Hijra 1388 / 1968 - Mumbai, India

Hijra 1387 / 1967 - Mumbai, India

Hijra 1386 / 1966 - Mumbai, India

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Correction:

Hijra 1428 / 2007 - Colombo, Sri Lanka

Hijra 1427 / 2006 - Mumbai, India [Saify Mahal]

Incidently, choice of venues has correlation with the paying capacity of the audience. When was the last time the waaz was held where bohras are not rich?

Tahir,

Interesting comment, how do you expect thousands of Bohras to gather without money , get real man

OK thanks for that delighful list of voyages made by the TUS at the people's expense. OK, and your point is?

Hozi Bhai,

Please disregard my rather acidic previous comment. . . what I'm upset about is the use of people's $$$ to have these pageants once a year.

a rather strange decision...holding the picnic in colombo again!

can anyone more in the know enlighten us on this? is it the weather, the money or the govt tolerance, or is it also maybe the opportunity to engage in some business with the precious stones there? there is more than meets the eye here...

The west is very cautious of these money laundering schemes under the pretext of religious non profit trust. Here in the u.s. many a preachers have been caught using the peoples money for their own private use. Many churches have been shut down and their preachers have been sent to prison because they collected money for helping the poor and needy,but instead they only helped themselves by living in big mansions,riding in luxury cars and having private planes. Such abuse of peoples money is intolerable in the u.s. Some of the preachers were asked to open their books to show how much was collected and where it was spent. Such audits revealed the preachers intentions of making himself rich at the cost of hoodwinking the innosecent. Many such bogus religious organizatio have been shut down by the government and I would not be surprized if Houston, California and Chicago jamaat were next in line as there is no accountability as to where the money has been spent. I say, even Allah believes in accountability on judgement day then why not the religious leaders who show themselves as being more closer to Allah then their mumins.

Is any one in Kothar thinking?

Yes AGAIN only thinking of the money they will collect/extort and NOT the safety and security of the gullible Bohris?

Remember what happened to the innocent Bohris in Iraq(Kerbala etc). They were butchered to death by the anti-Shias of Iraq,despite the claims by the Kotharis that Aqua Moula is "gebna jaannar".

And one more thing, Bohris are not supposed to commercially insure themselves as it is haraam or kufr. But the Kothari insurance premium (insured by Allah only) and the premium payable to the Kothar only called Nazar Mukam is allowable!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sri Lanka notifies broker Norway of an end to rebel peace deal
1 hour ago - CANADIAN PRESS: http://canadianpress.google.com/article ... zDbhlVXi5A

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka's government officially notified peace-broker Norway on Thursday that it is pulling out of a 2002 ceasefire agreement with Tamil Tiger rebels that has failed to quell the violence.

Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama handed a letter to Norwegian Ambassador Tore Hattrem, saying the government has decided to terminate the Norway-brokered agreement, a Foreign Ministry statement said.

The government has said growing violence in the last two years has rendered the agreement irrelevant

More than 70,000 people, many of them civilians, have been killed since the Tigers began fighting for an independent state for the ethnic Tamil minority in 1983, claiming discrimination by the Sinhalese majority.

Despite the ceasefire, near-daily ambushes, assassinations and air strikes have killed more than 5,000 people in the last two years.

The government's decision Wednesday to pull out came hours after a roadside bomb struck a bus of wounded soldiers being taken to a hospital in the capital, Colombo, killing four people and wounding 24 others. The military blamed the rebels.

In continuing violence Thursday, suspected guerrillas set off a mine targeting a military truck transporting food in northern Anuradhapura district, killing two soldiers, said Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara, a military spokesman.

Separately, soldiers overran six rebel bunkers in the northern Mannar district, killing six guerrillas, Nanayakkara said. Fighting killed one soldier.

There has been a major escalation in fighting in recent weeks along the front lines surrounding the Tamil Tiger rebels' de facto state in parts of the north.

There has to be a way to notify the Tamil Tigers that their country is being used to rob millions of $$$$$$$$$$$.Untaxed

seeker, do u think that the kothar hasn't bribed the tamil tigers to ignore the bohras?

when the shiv sena had it in for the bohras, the kothar quickly neutralised them by inviting and feeding bal thackeray annually in badri mahal, putting a shawl on him and giving fakhir bribes. praising him publicly and licking his backside.

ditto narendra modi, ditto countless others who are or can be a threat to the kothar's interests. the police, the underworld bhai's.. all get a 'take'..

"chor na bhai ghanti chor"....

I hear that this money extortion in the name of religion had reached such a massive proportion in the hindu temples of India and around the world that the state governments of India has taken over control of most of the temples in India.

Today evening Syedna went to Raudat tahera for the namaz. He looked frail enough to drag his foot forward, forget leading the community. With all due respect I guess it is time he gracefully retires and stops playing with the fate of bohras.

Originally posted by mumin:
The west is very cautious of these money laundering schemes under the pretext of religious non profit trust. Here in the u.s. many a preachers have been caught using the peoples money for their own private use. Many churches have been shut down and their preachers have been sent to prison because they collected money for helping the poor and needy,but instead they only helped themselves by living in big mansions,riding in luxury cars and having private planes. Such abuse of peoples money is intolerable in the u.s. Some of the preachers were asked to open their books to show how much was collected and where it was spent. Such audits revealed the preachers intentions of making himself rich at the cost of hoodwinking the innosecent. Many such bogus religious organizatio have been shut down by the government and I would not be surprized if Houston, California and Chicago jamaat were next in line as there is no accountability as to where the money has been spent.

Only a few churches were closed due to money laundering but majority of them were due to economic situations (Real Estate conversions), lesser attendees and ofcourse the lawsuits (child molestations). Besides, many churches/temples are independently owned and governed as non-profit organization, unlike Bohra masjids that are run as one gigantic non-profit religious communal corporation throughout the world with an executive head, which makes it extremely difficult on financial accounts, especially without any notes/receipts. I have no idea how each society keeps track of cash flows and their terms and conditions of franchise leaderships all over the world.

I say, even Allah believes in accountability on judgement day then why not the religious leaders who show themselves as being more closer to Allah then their mumins.

The religious leaders care more about HERE AND NOW rather than THERE AND THEN. For them and almost all religious fanatics, "Allah" remains in dormancy or simply dilly-dallying.

The progressives must make an appeal in writing with explanations and evidences to all authorities/governments (specially IRS & FBI) and promulgate collectively to either abolish the current doctrine or bring them to justice. Your voices must be heard, proven and measured justifiably in endless efforts in order to succeed.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7174650.stm

May Allah Subhanahu bless and protect the citizens of Sri Lanka and give the Kotharis the wisdom to suspend their Ashara hangama in Colombo and to save them from the civil strife there.

More killings to-day!! A Government Minister got killed to-day.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0108/p99s01-duts.html