Dawoodi Bohra Forum

Please list the achievements of Burhanuddin Saheb (TUS). Please also add the achivements of Bohras under Burhanuddin Saheb (TUS)

[*]installing the Zarih Mubarak of Imam Husain(AS) in Cairo, Egypt
[*]Restoration of Imam Hakim’s(AS) venerated masjid, al-Jame al-Anwar, in Cairo.
[*] Iftetah of Al-Masjid Al-Husaini in Northolt, London and the masjid went down in history as the 1st Dawoodi Bohra mosque in Europe and the largest in Western world.
[*]Syedna(TUS) is proud holder of the ORDER OF THE STAR OF JORDAN (FIRST RANK).

Please add more.

salam Khuzemabhai,
Reformists doesnt have enough space on their website to include aqa moulas all acheivements. list is huge :p

was-salam.
way2heaven

Can you list the names of a couple of christians or jews or hindus that have converted to Bohraism because of the great aqa maula? Now that would be an achievement to talk about!!

Salaam HeavenOHeaven,
U r absolutely correct.I must second u. But I couldn't resist myself mentioning one of our biggest achievements.

Here it is...

"Cleared out all trash and all dirts from our community"

That's what my garbage/trash person (sanitary engineer, he calls himself)does every week in my neighbourhood community of Burhani Maholla as well! Don't tell me even he has competition?

Overall Bohras are very progressive community. I am trying to figure out the reason for bohras to be so progressive.

What percentage is it Syedna TUS contributed?
How much is the Khotars, and NDK, Mulla, or Sheikhs contribution?
What percentage can we give to the networking?

There are some big achievements of Syedna which even progressives agree

Please also let us know any of your personal story or story from your jamat for your achievements and to whom you want it to be credited

Control of total bohras wealth
Controlling the hurricane Rita and diverting the same to where non bohras are leaving

Yes there are many more

salam anajmi,
i know atleast one HINDU person who is converted to Dawoodi Bohra n he is quite orthodox as well.

was-salam.
way2heaven

Dear Have-no-heaven,
Do you know how many Dawoodi Bohras have left faith and have become Ashna Asharis, Sunnis, Bahais and even Hindus. There numbers are in thousands. And it is all because of atrocities committed by "Humane at Core" and "Ambessadore of peace" just keep everyone under his thumb and exploit them.

I know a couple of hindus who have turned bohras BUT that is purely for love marriage. Sayedna and his preachings has nothing to do with this. In one shocking instance, a brahmin (sharma) professor of poitical science fell in love with a bohri student who was writing a thesis under his guidance. Initially, the girl eloped with him, converted to hinduism and rechristianed herself as "Kapila" after a court marriage. After a year and a baby, due to some unexplained reasons there was a reverse conversion. The girl returned to the bohri fold bringing along her brahmin husband with her. He had to undergo "khatna" and was renamed as "Qaid Johar" by the local aamil. Though he retained his hindu believes and practices, he had to visit the jamatkhana and mosque occassionally out of "family" pressure. They started living near the community. This proved fatal to their marriage and disasterous to the man. The bohris kept taunting the girl as "madam sharma" and their son (who was 5 years old now) as "pandit ji no dikro". The Man had to fight for every inch of space in the community and for a fair treatment to his family. He was seen quarreling in the streets every other day for trivial things. Gradually he turned mad. Today he is seen shouting on streets cursing the bohras and the dai. The girl divorced him and is remarried to a "proper" bohra now.

Thanks for your posts. We need more. Please let us know about your financial achievements and how the community played a rule in achieving that.

What ever you are posting on this forum will be recorded for ever. People will read this for many generations. This is history in making. Please post your feelings and believes here. Try to be just. Do not just blame every thing that goes wrong to Syedna, please also appreciate his efforts in uplifting the community

I do not want to offend any of the ortho brothers and I love the cute dai but this is really weird. Constructing physical structures by money which one has not earned by his own hard work is considered "achievemnts"!!! ....and if that is the criteria for revering someone as dai, the bohris should infact consider the late King Fahd of Saudi Arabia as "imam" cuz his "achievements" are atleast 50 times more than that of the dai. In Indian context, I could have named the Tata and Birla group of industries who have constructed several townships, recreational centers, hospitals, school etc. but it would be unfair to compare the bohri dai with them since the Tatas and Birlas have 'achieved" this by their own hard work. They didnt hoodwink and exploit a community of million people. Besides, their motives were to contribute to the society and not to put a "gullak" and make a "rubaat/musafirkhana" and earn money from those "achievements". (the dai must have profited many times more than he actually invested in those constructions and which anyway was not his money but mine and yours)

The nearest example I can think of is the underworld don Dawood Ibrahim. He too has "achieved" many constructions by blood money like the dai has done. BUT again, he has not put a "gullak" in those places and he doesnt beg for money in the name of majlis, darees and jaman in those places. So it would be unfair to dawood to compare him with the dai. Dawood fleeces someone only once while the dai does it throuighout one's life.

Recently I visited Burhanpur and stayed in dargah-e-hakimi for 3 days. I must say that they have constructed a wonderful township and a resort in the dargah premises and the facilities in the cottages are no less than that of three star hotels. Looks like the kothar has sensed that their future lies in diversifying into tourism and hospitality industry.

Recently I interviewed 10 prominent doctors who are very close to Kothari Shahzadas and some of them had worked with Saifee & Jamali hospitals, from Bhindi Bazar, Mohammed Ali Road and Byculla in Bombay, for a story in the Bohra Chronicle. To my surprise every one had to raise money in hard way to compelet their education and training, had no way helped by Sayedna or Kothar. Still four of them were giving credit for their success to Aqa Maula, though I had told them that their names will never be declared as I am not writing their names but their struggle in life to come this position.
Today they are given especial places in Kothar's functins and in their presence they are introduced as great achievers due to dua mubarak and help from Aqa Maula.
So under these circumstances how can one find out Sayedna's real efforts in the upliftment of the community!

To measure a person's success or his greatness by the number of "zari's", and that also from someone else's funds, he has built is pathetic.

I would consider success only if I see non-muslims being converted to Islam or even Bohrisim. What we have is the reverse situation, ie. people leaving the Bohra fold for whatever reason. Even a sigle person leaving the Bohra fold is a major failure on the part of the Dai and his administration and we have examples of countless people who have left the Bohra fold and joined other communities.

Regards

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Brothers
AS
Add one more achievement;

[*] Deflected Hurricane Rita from Houston in September of 2005.

“ Storm which was previously heading towards Houston and are witnessing the great mojiza of our beloved Aqa Moula (TUS). As the storm is approaching the land it is changing its path.â€