Dawoodi Bohra Forum

Can no one help me on this one?

Or is that we all recite duas and do not understand what we recite. Just the way the powers would like us to conduct our daily life. Hoard information.

I found this interesting article on the internet. Some of us are moving on. Bravo Rafik. You have Balls man! Here i will introduce my self to you and will give you introduction on the beginnings of our church and how we became what we are today. I was born and raised in a Muslim family, into the Daw...

Can someone please enlighten me on this one. I was long time ago given a Dua by a priest which I recite everyday. On the cover it says "Dua Mustajabba" ( I hope I have translated it right). Can someone tell me what this dua is about, its source and what are the benefits of this dua. The ot...

I was recently reading teh book written by Barrack Obama the recently elected senator who is an off-spring of a black father from Kenya and an American mother. There is a passage in there where somene asks "Why did the slaves not revolt and kill the whites?" It is an interesting question. ...

surely a well fed cat he is!

Anyone know what happened to Taizoon bhaisaheb. Did he get fed some poison?

You mean a trip to buy diamonds, tanzanite from the interior and coverting money into gems for shipment to Dubai.

Some people intrinsically have the ability to distinguish between emotions and rationality, but most of us have to learn these skills and for that you need some study to contexualize your experiences and separate them from emotions. The reason you ahve such a blind following in our community is that...

Average Bohra: an excellent observation. All professionals are not intellectuals. My fatherwas not schooled but he was very intellectual and wise. Much wiser than teh many learned folks. Also, beng a doctor does not mean you are an inteleectual. Doctors and accountants are all technicians. You need ...

Forget the arabic - the bhaisahebs are doing what they do best - eating and going for the food and what is the female doing there without rida?

MUMIN didi you know that truth is a defence to defamation. In court the gory details would come out so I do not think you want to go to court.

I was recently told that the hunting trips into the interior of Tanzania re actually trips where diamonds and gold is bought from teh Africans who are summugling it out of the diamond and gold mines in Tanzania and Congo. If this is true then I must say it is ingenious. What better way to launder mo...

I agree with you but do our people ever see the light? They have chains of mishaq, marriage and death around their necks. They will never be able to liberate themselves. I have come to the conclusion that our community is full of idiots who will never see the light. Those who have seen the light hav...

MH the problem in this community is becasue we have assholes like you. If we did not have stupid people like you we would not be where we are. What f....g Arzi and to whom and for what. Get a life my friend raise your self esteem and go find a job. Pray to Allah and he provides. I am not going to gi...

Mal my friend wake up to what. You and I belong to a communtiy of "bekans". We are cowards. Nothing will change my friend. Everytime you rise tehy will squeeze your balls and you will say "Ah! dukhe che" and sit down. I remember my grandmother rationlizing her existence in this c...

Here is something else to think about. Both the Bohoras and Ithaneshris are waiting for their Imam. Ithnaeshris are looking for him since Musa Kazim went into seclusion. We are looking for ours since Imam Tayeb went into seclusion. When the Imam comes out (zohoor) will he be common to both groups or...

Interesting serendipity. A lot of mixture. Then why do we not intermarry? Or why when someone wants to get married out of our sect there is so much resistance by the powers that be.

Can you imagine our imam to be European. We will all be flocking to Geneva maybe for Ashura or again to Toronto if he is Canadian. What would he be eating? Would he be dressed in sayo topi etc. What if he is African? We could be going to Sudan for Ashura maybe. Will we still eat in thals then? Since...

I have been thinking about the Imam in purdah. Now since the last Imam Tayeb was an arab did this lineage continue among the arabs. If so then our next imam would be arab. So how would the indian dias then fit in? Now what if the imam has intermarried and has emigrated to live in Sweden. Could our n...

What we have to focus on is the Enlightenment of the followers of our religion. We could perhaps label our GOAL under the following banner: REFORM: THE PATH TO ENLIGHTENEMENT. Here are some thoughts on the Conference to be held in UK. We have to move away from bashing and wasting our time with a sys...

This practice will only stop if you put your foot down and save your daughters from the knife. When will we understand that change will only come when you make a stand and not expect others to make the stand for you becasue we are all bikun. Are we waiting for a pronouncemnt from the Moula to say do...

c'mon bikun bohoras - give the information requested - nothing in this community will change because we are bikun bohoras. Apne su karsu - apne waiz ma to javu che. alooka sathe apne kam dushmaniwit kursu - tamne kitho ne mai tume jai ne sign karyaw jo - tame nai jav to apni chiti ban thai jaise - h...

Do not complain about it. If you are not willing to speak just suffer in silence my friend and do your salaam. We shall all be slaves forever becasue we are all "bikun". Do not wait for the next person to say something. You say it loud and clear. Till Bohoras can find their "balls&quo...

Ignore the idiot mamluk786. It is for the likes of such idiots taht we are in such dire straits. Some very interesting comments which will allow us to take this movement a nothc up. I think we have to brainstorm and see what the Movement can do to achieve its objectives and tehn work on some action ...

I have struggled for many years to find an analogy with our condition within the community and it finally came to me.Now tthat we understand it we can find solutions. Tell me what you think: We are all in an abusive relationship with the community where we are sufferring from mental cruelty inflicte...

Qiyam Let us cut through the chase. Here is a scam they use. You do a jamaan and although you have paid for everything from your pocket, the jamaat wants you to invoice the local jamaat for expenses. The jamaat then cuts you a cheque. You are then supposed to cash it and pay the cash money back to t...

Qiyam, Boy you have stamina. You are still feeding everyone your drivel. Look! as a member of the community who goes out and works hard everyday and then is forced to pay the Amil my money who then does not have to account to the local jamaat who then sends the money to the Dai who we cannot ask and...

Mohamed Husain why bother. Another Bohri who wants to sit in judgement. A favourite Bohri pastime as I told another person on this board. Just ask him to go to the mosque eat biryani and do what you do to your chest with vigour and everything will become good..and a sore chest to boot!

Qiyam you still amuse me: "People who volunteer to do niyaaaz during the Holy Month are required to do specific amount of salaams to the Amil and his children, if any. During the Fazila Raats, the congregation is required to do salaams to the Amil and his children. ---This is false. You are not...

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So you want to sit in judgement. A favourite Bohora pastime. Go and suck on some rocks.