Dawoodi Bohra Forum

I appreciate this forum for being the voice of just people asking questions to the holders of faith.
But do you think we are asking the right question? We are questioning the unjust and unfair practices of KOTHAR and revered DAI, thats commendable but we fail of ask WHY? Why are people tolerating this bullshit in the name of religion. Is it because of lack of spirituality.
I might not be as learned or as bright as a few individuals on this forum but I am capable of independent research and free thinking and as a free thinking person my first confusion was about GOD, hence I started looking for answers. I have read and researched most religions scriptures and books on scientific principles and I came to the conclusion that religion in its present form does not provide sufficient answers. Where do we look for answers if not towards religion? I will try to answer a few questions to the best of my abilities. Please excuse me if i hurt your sentiments
IS THERE A GOD?
It is a possibility
The clue came from a famous quote by Albert Einstein, " GOD does not play dice with the universe."
Hence it became more important to understand the laws that GOD made in order to understand GOD. Laws like gravity and electricity are in continuum, one cannot exist without the other. Gravity attracts whereas Electricity repels. Same goes of Mass and Energy, Time and Space, Positive charge and Negative Charge.
IF THERE IS A GOD, ARE THERE DEMONS TOO? IS THERE A DEVIL?
It is a possibility
The clue came from the HOLY QURAN and the HOLY BIBLE where is demons are referred as jinns and are said to be created by smokeless fire
The JINN means THE HIDDEN, it means they are hidden from us. They are created by smokeless fire, it is a possibility that they are visible in the infrared spectrum of light which the human eye cannot see. Maybe thats why Paranormal investigators use infrared cameras to detect demonic activity.
IF THERE IS A GOD DO WE NEED TO PRAY TO HIM?
The clue came from countless religious scriptures telling everyone to think pure thoughts as thoughts affect the world.
Now imagine countless people praying across the globe (thinking pure thoughts) at any given point of time. The power of the collective positive energy will only do good in the world.
IF THERE IS A GOD THERE MUST BE AN AFTERLIFE TOO? WHAT HAPPENS AFTER WE DIE?
The clue came from the law of conservation of energy "Energy cannot be created or destroyed but can only be converted from on form to another."
Similarly we dont know who or what we were before we were born that part is lost to us. Maybe we were in a different plane of existence or an other dimension we dont know. But we cant go back to what or who we were before we were born. Similarly death can also be considered as transition from one plane of existence to another. Maybe towards the collective consciousness of the universe or towards the recycling out consciousness back to earth (reincarnation) or towards oblivion. We have to experience it to know for sure, and similar to our birth once we move on we cannot return back.

Why do these people oppress us, because we are spiritually weak. We are questioning them about the money they extort and the oppression they dish out as a thank, but we should really be asking them questions about why they are misguiding poor souls
Most people are caught up pursuing the immaterial things. I want a better house, I want a better cell phone, I want a better car, I want a better salary package.

Whereas we should be pursuing to better ourselves. I want to be a better runner than I was yesterday, I want to be a better orator than I was yesterday, I want to be a better liar than I was yesterday, if that's was you truly want.
My picture of GOD just want us to be true to ourself.
Become the next HITLER or Narendra Modi if thats being true to yourself, kill and oppress millions of people if thats what you truly believe.
There will also be a GANDHI and a MOTHER THERESA who will help millions of people to offset your negavity. Like I said everything is in continuum and good cannot exist without evil same way positive charge cannot exist without negative charge.

Its good to have community around us, it provided us with friendship and love and many other thing. But the SPIRITUAL JOURNEY is taken all alone.

And the question remains we all need to ask ourselves,
WHO AM I?

suggestions, questions and comments are welcome

Firstly, jins are not devils. Jins is another form and a whole lot of them created from fire. It is a race just like the human race where humand are made of earth. although physically you see flesh and bomes but the end is still mother earth. good joins were slaves of nabi Dawood to help him in his tasks and even today you can visit the middle east and see the massive couldrons built by the jins in the time of dawood nabi.
secondly, man is a social animal and this weakness is fully exploited by the kothar. just like you would feel more at home with your kinfolks so also the bohris like to mingle with their own kind where their culture, likes and dislikes are common. Religious aspect played a very minor role at one time but as society of bohris grew the clergy became more and more powerful and it is the people that act sheepish and let them rule their lives. To day the kothar is an international network ; bombay, calcutta, poona are major money makers for the kothar and then is Karachi. But imagine all the small towns of India and pakistan where literally crores are collected. Coming to the middle east, dubai sharjah, muscat, bahrain, saudi arabia all these are new frontiers which again pour millions into the kothar coffers. Look at the west, Other than London, there are jamaats in birmingham, leeds, scotland, ireland, the scandinavian countries, Paris. Now coming to u.s. Toronto, houston and California are the big money makers and on top of that are small time jamaats which all send the kothar big bucks. The small jamaats with about 30 to 50 bohri families means a million dollar collection. The austrailia jamaats is another big time contributer. Just in melbourne alone their are about 100 families and you can imagine to funds collected.
Also know that all this on top of the ziafats and najwa collected . And every time mr. right goes anywhere he talks lacs.

jins are not devils. Jins is another form and a whole lot of them created from fire,

Your are right demons are an another life form, but iblees or the devil as we know him is a jinn as written. This is clear in every religion and every religious scripture. The hindus have DEV, DANAV and MANUSHYA. The muslims have FARISHTE, JINN and INSAAN. The christians have ANGELS, DEMONS and HUMANS This another form of life can be extraterritorial or extra dimensional we don't know, but there is a very distinct possibility that they exist without our knowledge and they maybe in contact with some people e.g, dawood nabi (Kind DAVID), suleman nabi (King SOLOMON).

very true. The point i am making is that jin is a race just like humans and there are bad jins and good jins ,the same as humans.