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http://www.dawoodi-bohras.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=8319#p112672 Thanks for sharing this. So all of these are collected in the form of wajebaat and this is collected in ramadan? And then there is sabeel for the running of the jamaat. This is also collected during ramadan, correct? What abou...

I get confused by all the various amounts that are collected from bohris - there is wajebaat, sabil, najwas, salaams, silafitr, etc. Can anyone here list out all the different amounts collected throughout the year, what purpose the collection is for, whether it is voluntary or mandatory? Thanks in a...

my 2 cents on this... whether it is haram or halal, i personally, morally by my personal standards see as hunting for sport wrong. i personally feel this discussion will go nowhere because this is perhaps one of those things for which there is no answer. in case like these, i prefer to use my own d...

ZF Bhai....that is a terrible story. I'm so sorry that you were subjected to that type of harassment....but sadly, I don't find it very surprising. At all.

This thread is brilliant!

notruthinreligion, I agree with a lot of what you wrote - very well expressed. I think that rather than God having formed us in His image, humans have formed a concept of god in our own likeness. Whether you read the Quran, the Bible, Hindu , ancient Greek/Roman/Egyptian religious scriptures, etc. -...

BTW, Grounded.....I'm glad you followed your heart in the face of all that pressure 25 years ago. It's still hard for my friends today to marry outside the bohri fold. Twenty-five years ago...I cannot imagine the what you had to overcome. I'm glad it ended well for you!

Grounded, thank you for sharing your story. I, too, have left the bohri fold some years back and am also looking at these events as a bit of an outsider. It is so obvious to me that the shehzadas and their henchmen that are running the show are just running a business, it's a mafia. It is a multi-bi...