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Porus, please come back.

Assalam Alaykum - Bismilla-hi-Al-Rahmaan-i-Raheem Regarding Misaq: The Misaq system is archaic, it is used as a tool of coercion rather than an act of allegiance/faith. In modern times, I have never heard of any other Community that is required to swear allegiance to its religious/secular leaders. ...

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What a pathetic picture of the Abde's future.Serve them right cos that's what theydeserve.

While on the subject on Daftary, you may be interested in his views on Imamat which seems to be opposite to that of yours :- Ancestry of HIDDEN Ismaili Imams Reveals Designtion of Imamat is NOT by previous Imams http://mostmerciful.com/?p=825 Farhad Daftary is a distant relative of the Aga Khan but...

hb, you started this debate by claiming that you do not want to leave this community of slaves and fools because you hold your 'core values' very dear and the only way you can continue enjoying them is by being in the company of the mainstream orthodox who are forced to pay up or else take a hike. ...

mkenya and Bohra spring, nime furahi kusoma mlioandika, tafauti na maandishi zinazo andikwa hapa mara nyingi. Kiswahili yenu ni nzuri na amini mna toka Mombasa. Ahsante sana. Translation: Nice to read of what you have written, different than dialogues written here on this forum many a times. Your Ki...

mkenya,
safi sana, umeandika ukweli kabisa,
For the rest of us it hardly matters whether its the masoos or the mazoom,
whom ever gets the Daiship our fate will always remain the same. Abdes for
ever to be leached.

way to go, every one to his own belief

Thank you Mkenya, its been a while since somebody has posted something worthwile . I totally agree with you and your analysis of the Bohra community psyche of how it works and disfunctions. They are stuck in a rut which they are incapable of disassociate them selves from with the so called "clu...

Get well wishes for your wife and yourself and take care.

The second one who is born into an environment where he is oblivious to any thing and just flows with the ethnicity he has been raised with. Theses are the most dangerous as they never ask any questions and feel they do not have a choice than just follow the flock. The third kind, probably the major...

Sorry my posting went haywire.

No scientist, as far as I am aware, is concerned or interested in God's existence or where he came from. Well, every scientist that I am aware of is interested in God's existence or where he came from. That is infact the first question they ask. You should look at some of your own posts inquiring a...

Who are we kidding, all one god theorist believe that our world's existence of mankind starting with Adam and Eve started some 6000 to maybe 10000 years. . who told you these periods ? plz quote your source haggi with reference to Islam. Please check all the mono -aestheticism reliogion's chronolog...

So God created the world because the scientist have not been able to establish how the big bang came about. Who are we kidding, all one god theorist believe that our world's existence of mankind starting with Adam and Eve started some 6000 to maybe 10000 years. Archaeological finds prove this all wr...

THE ONLY PART i LIKED ABOUT THE BAYAAN WAS THAT THEY DONT HAVE TO DO MAATAM EVERY OTHER 2 MINUTES LIKE THE ABDES.

S Insaf Thanks for all the info you give to all of us. With your insight we on the other side we would never know what Khotar is up to. Udaipur jamaat hats off to you for taking the kothar head on. You are our last hope and if you fall we are doomed forever and we dont know what happen to this small...

To you all, How can we be so blind to see through all these manipulations and extortions of money from us and still adhere to this so called religion. I sometime fail to comprehend how a DB brain ticks. One one hand he is smart, literate and and business savvy but when it comes Deen he becomes an ab...

Ozmujaheed and others, Let me start by stating that when you mention the "Ismailis" you mean followers of the Aga Khan who they claim to be some 20 milion strong worldwide. This maybe be debatable but what I would like point out that we always seem to forget that WE ARE ALSO ISMAILIS ! In ...

In Shia Doctrine you don't get to elect the Imam nor does he chosen by God. This is an inheridetry position from an Imam to his (most of the the time) his first male offspring ie. from the linage of Ehle Bait. As I see the history of of Islam , at the time of the prophet's death, he made a huge mist...

Human, Its high time we come to a conclusion that we don't have a Hazir Imam from the progeny of Imam Taayib. Period. Our so called last Imam was an infant, who probably would not have survived the infighting in the Ismaili community in Fustat whereby the real power was held by the viziers instead o...

by guy_sam2005 on Thu Feb 11, 2010 3:52 am dude for me all i have to know is moula mazoon n mukasir,not their whole families for bein a bohra..no rule says so...........when you start your community you keep that rule. there is no rule where i should know moulas children too. For once Sam has someth...

Dear All, Just finished reading Jashwant Singh's fascinating book on Jinnah. It is an almost honest look into not only Jinnah's role in the partition of India but also the roles of Gandhi, Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel and others. But at the end of the book he concludes that there is no single person,rea...

Hopefully, the majority Bohras will finally realise that the "king has no clothes". However I'm sceptical if we will be able to put "the genie back into the lamp". We have created a Frankenstenian monster who is out of control and by keeping us in their clutches are also leading ...

Al Zulfikar, Thank you for your comments, but I think you have read me incorrectly. Never at any point did I try to condone of whatever is happening in Bohoraism today or for the last 100 years. If you read my text carefully you will notice that all I was just stating that I personally have not hear...

ozmujaheed, As much as I'm critical of recent trends in Bohoraism, I would like to inform you that I have not heard any Laanats on the 3 shahabaas whenever I have participitated during Muharram for the last 12 years. It does not make sense why you keep on bringing this subject. Burhannudin has learn...

Thank you,GM for the info. which confirms what I suspected that the origin of this Maatam / muharram tradition has Safawi origins. After digesting this info. I need to ask further questions if you or any other knowledgeable can oblige. 1. What is the time frame the existence of Shah Ismail Al-Safawi...

S.Insafbhai, Your quote from Goethe, “Not everything that history offers us has actually happened. And what has actually happened has not happened the way it is presented to us, and what we know to have happened is only a very small part of what actually happened. The historian can have no more info...

To you all, especially Porus and S. Insaf bhai, Just like many on this board, I have just endured the ritual of Muharram and Maatam in the confides of the mainstream Dawoodis. Lucky for me I was able to be miss the the first 9 days but had to show up on the day of Ashura just to please the better ha...