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Perhaps you only care to do detailed analysis of 3 or four sermons of people whom no one cares about LOL! Actually, I did very detailed analysis of all 10 of STF's sermons. But I only posted 3 here as I realized that posting here was a waste of my time. Many people, like yourself, are fanbois and b...

This topic seems a little strange but I came across concept of "Busaheba" and "Aaisaheba". Literally meaning of these two words are "Great Mother" sort of Farsi/ Urdu and Marathi. Now, I came across one old lady wife of Late Najmuddin, Fatema bibi. She is also mother-i...

I remember, a decade or so ago, there was a pdf document available on this forum written by a British historian, commissioned by the crown detailing the beliefs, rituals and political affairs of the Dawoodi Bohras... could anyone please help me finding this?

thanks!

Please stop hyperventilating! Read carefully, we said "we are not against the Dai as an institution ". Which means, let us clarify, that we accept the system of the Daiship (with all its flaws) but have problems with the incumbent. As for the evils of Mufaddal Saifuddin's regime or, for t...

I have been following STF's waaz and sadly it has diminished in quality exponentially.. He started from detailed explanations of Quran ayats and their actual meanings to how awesome the last 3 dais were like characters out of the MARVEL or DC universe.. the dreams TS had, how TS loved his dad etc et...

what is the point of all this haqaiq and ilm when your life style doesnt match to the ahlul bayt. (or even close to it) I count on characters and not on the bookish knowledge. scriptwriters are easy to find, the real test is to live the life of preached characters. both ilm and amal are important a...

If there was a 'like' button, this post would have surely deserved it... What I fail to understand is that why (and more importantly, how) would Kitab ul-Idah wa'l-Bayan prove that the S. Hussain was the Dai because as far as I undesrtand, at that time, this level of knowledge was known by very few....

Badrul Jamali and Saeed-al-Khair are the directors of the current bohra regime.. they officially held the power to decide who gets amaalat where which automatically bought allegiance of all the ambitious ones...Saeed al Khair is pretty strong but not as his brother was.. After these two brothers, it...

All the doctors I speak to give me a timeframe of atleast 6 months for the Covid to come under control.. unless they find a cocktail of anti-virals which can do the trick.... given this lengthy duration, I wonder what will the situation at Ashara.. with hardly any travel allowed and people all para...

Yes, your above writeup shows that you are awaal chela and member of Ustadi Bohras. Instead of the da'i you have your own "Gau Mata of Ustadi Bohras", i.e. Shaikh Ahmak One, Shaikh Ahmak Two, Shaikh Ahmak Three and Shaikh Ahmak Four. Not sure who your current Gau Mata is as you seem hell-...

Could you tell me where I could access the case details and notes of the Chanda bai galla case and Burhanpur Dargah case? India Ni Advocates services ni ghani sites chey. Ahna par senior advocates help advise de chay. Aap malum karjo ke AIR LAW REPORTS MA Aa beway cases published thaya chay, beja L...

Afsus Aa Waat Par Thaey Chey Ke DB Progressive Website Par Ismaili Tayyabi Aqaid par Tanqid ane Bahass Karnar Ahwa Lugu Chey Je Dawat Ni Kitaboo Tu Door Ni Waat basic Aqaid ni details pan nathi janta. Progressive movement Ibtida ma Dawat Na Ulama si guidance leta. Burhanpur Dargah Case ane Chanda B...

Infallible is a very broad term - If you mean it in the sense that someone who cannot fail then no, absolutely not.. Dai-al-Mutlaq are not infallible.

@Humsafar and @Biradar... Just because I think an authoritarian system is the right one, doesn't mean I condone the administration of TS MB MS KQ or TF in any way... I don't believe they are the correct ones..but just because they are not correct, it does not mean any or all authoritarian systems ar...

The progressives 'failed' because they did not develop an institution.. there was a revolution, people got high.. rallied behind the revolutionaries.. but then that high faded.. a core group always remained. But they could not develop something...they did not focus on building a long lasting institu...

So I want to clarify a few more things..... You say the 47th Dai was rightful.. the Ulemas were in the wrong.. but you also say SMB was a crook like his father and brother and his grandfather.. So where did it start to go all wrong? where did the chain break? who is the rightful one? We both agree ...

I am glad to see that a progressive community outside the mainstream versions is thriving however there is no room for 'democracy' in Islam.. atleast not in a sense where common members decide who will lead them... Please explain how there is "room no for 'democracy' in Islam". I'm really...

So we will try and remake a community and what will you do? Keep complaining on this forum? Inaction is not revolution, whinging about past wrongs at the hands of perceived culprits is not it, waiting at the altar of some idealistic liberation in not a revolution. It is nothing more than providing ...

The Bohra history includes imams who were kings and lived like kings and were known as tolerant and just rulers. Why focus on the duat who were poor? There is nothing in the books written by Syedna Hatim and his successors that says that one should not live well if one has wealth... why do you want...

@Biradar & Kseeker, If I may ask, 1. could there be some tawil or Haqiqat explanation for this duration? 2. If pregnancy determination was the only reason for iddah then why would there be different waiting period Iddah(mourning) and Iddah(divorce)? from what I Know the way Iddah is practised i...

I do remember asking an elderly Jamia teacher about this.. I think he is still teaching there.. anyways, his answer was that this method helps get rid of all sorrow from the woman's heart... I told him that if that was the case, why aren't men told to do it? Moreover, the amount of sorrow one has de...

Dear members, I am looking for information with regards to the rules of consumption of meat as a form of diet and it's history. I came across a piece of literature quite a while (over a couple of decades ago or so) saying that Ibrahim (AS) was the first natiq to allow meat consumption and before tha...

It is rather amusing that in 2011 the very first comment that SBM made was: This topic has been discussed in length on this forum, Please do a search under Iddat and you will get to thread. That thread goes on for 8 pages. Then we had more people on this forum, with radically different views. There...

Can the learned members on the forum @Kseeker @Biradar @Adam @James etc.. with reference to primary sources from Fatimi Literature, define what event or action qualifies to be termed as Mojiza/Miracle? Coz, currently as per regular followers every move or action that Syedna does is a "Moula no...

Biradar However, the Ismailis are not unique in this and Sufis (both Sunni and Shi'a) also interpret the Qu'ran and shariaa in similar symbolic manner Br Biradar If we accept Ismailis and Sufi's version of Interpretation of Quran and still consider them Muslims then why the Muslim world calls Ahmed...

It is morally wrong to prevent poor women from getting jobs to support their family. It is morally wrong to tell women they should sit in corner of the house, and only cook, sew, make topis, cook rotis and not pursue ambitious career goals. It is morally wrong to tell husbands to throw out their wi...

Thank you Kseeker and Biradar for underlining the importance of intellectual property rights and, more specifically, putting this site and forum at risk when pirated material is posted here. most of the videos of huzurala(tus) are copyright of jamea(stolen while telecasted)am sure this law applies ...

Did oxford press take permission of Qadi Nauman before translating his book? Anyways... books are out there now... you deleting them won't make any difference. And I will keep posting them using newly created IDs.. sk goodluck trying to stop me from doing so on this forum. There was no copyright on...

In his biography of his father, Ja'far bin Mansur al-Yaman says that in the absence of the Imam the dawa is established by three ranks: da'i mutlaq, ma'dhun al-mutlaq and ma'dhun al-mashur (i.e. the mukasir). In such times the Imam, Bab, hujjas and da'i al-balagh accompany the Imam into seclusion. ...