Dawoodi Bohra Forum

With the FIFA World Cup football ("soccer" to Americans) competition underway, please add to the list of the names of famous Muslim players who play or have played for non-Muslim countries: - Franck Ribery, France - Zenidine Zidane, France - Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Sweden - Khalid Boulahrouz, ...

The rest of the muslims pray the exact same way

Not quite true. For a start, Sunni Malikis and Shias pray with their hands to their sides whereas the other Sunnis fold their hands.

Everyone's post is in response to someone else, so what's your point? The original topic was incest, everything else is off-topic. Tarawih is a "bida prayer" by one sect during Ramadhan so it is hypocrisy on your part to criticise other sects' so-called "bida" and not expect a re...

Actually I have disagreed with Accty on many occasions. Your memory appears to be a little short or deliberately partial. "in essence" you are disagreeing with the quran. You are getting desperate now. Let me repeat: nothing in the Quran contradicts the fact that the essence of religion li...

Originally posted by anajmi: accty, It has been shown time and again that you have no idea what the quran says and what it does not say. I think you should keep your interpretation of the quran to yourself as you are the only one innovating stuff over here. It is also pointless if I were to post ay...

it is a pity you have to agree with accountability in order to disagree with Muslim First. Its a pity you have to make assumptions like that and act the perpetual sidekick for MF. I made it clear that I agreed in principle with what he says and in fact clarified what that principle was.. that the e...

Accountability,

Excellent post - in principle what you said is true. Much of the debate revolves around mere rituals whereas the essence of religion should lie much deeper.

The Tarawih innovation by Umar:

http://www.answering-ansar.org/answers/ ... /index.php

Ozul Burhan = eternal proof.

And now the Wahabi bigot is dead.

Egypt is a Sunni country but with strong Shia leanings. It is the country that gave refuge to the descendants of the Prophet Mohamed in the first century AH and continues to venerate them today. Its venerable Al-Azhar University is one of the few Sunni academic institutions to teach Shia Jaafari jur...

"O Sunnis! Prepare to get rid of the infidel snakes and their poison ... and don't listen to those advocating an end to sectarianism and calling for national unity. This is a weapon to get you to surrender," said the speaker on the tape who sounded like Zarqawi. The speaker blasted Iraq's ...

Dawat-e-Hadiyah America:
http://www.melissadata.com/Lookups/np.a ... it1=Submit

http://www.worldpress.org/Mideast/2343.cfm One major project of the Bohras has been to restore several mosques, such as Al-Hakim and Al-Aqmar, built in the Fatimid period. In their view, it was their religious duty to bring these mosques to their former Fatimid glory; this ultimately led to an imag...

MF,

Very interesting "pointers"... Now go learn some hadith about abusing people, or do they not exist in your bigoted mindset?

Anajmi Brother: I knew you will say this, I said Ayahs not quranic ayahs

Oh yes, of course. That makes perfect sense now.

That is Essa being the prophet, having been crucified, and his resurrection are all mentioned in Quran. Actually the Quran says that Jesus was NOT crucified. Resurrection of Jesus is also NOT in the Quran since he is not believed to be crucified in the first place. These are fairly basic beliefs kn...

Talking of apples and oranges, anajmi, was I was talking about the Bahraini government or the whole Muslim Ummah?

Bahrain has been addressing Sunni-Shia or to be more precise, Shia grievances, not out of the goodness of its heart but because the government has no choice - it has a Sunni monarchy in a Shia-majority country with a reputation for sectarian riots in the 1990s.

Yes, of course. He studied at Harvard

You are taking me out of context here. The posting you happen to quote was discussing the fact that some folks here are overjoyed when Aqa Moula falls sick. Al-Muizz, Actually, the original poster (omabharti) did not even mention Sayedna falling sick. The topic was "Thaal in Saify Mahal",...

Iranian president's letter in full:
http://www.president.ir/eng/ahmadinejad ... ndex-e.htm

Al-M, Previously you said: Humsafar: The likes of you and anajmi, i'm afraid, will always remain backwords. Go on to your internet cafes and pretend you know that the world actually buys your BS... .the rest of us actually make a difference in this owrld...that's what separates losers like you and t...

Al-M, According to you, previously: What a cursed bunch you are! When the Dai is ill, just like your parent would be ill, the entire community feels for him! Only our Dua to Allah Subhanahu and the hope that Allah will listen to us-will make Aqa well. Please explain your sudden change of stance.

I like tahir's idea, it sounds workable. It would also help against non-Bohras intruding into every discussion and diverting the topic for their own agendas. Only a minority of topics on this sub-forum are really to do with reform, and even those end up being diverted.

Go to yahoo groups home page and search 'bohra'. You'll get 81 results. None of those dawoodi bohra groups belong to progressives !

Found one:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/progressivedawoodibohras/

Kabeer,
Please could you reply on the new thread I created on the Islam Today forum, as felt its more appropriate there.
Thanks.

In summary my question was why have the Bohri's, Ithna Shri's, Agha Khani's evolved into 3 different sects with nothing in common except for their professed love for Ahle Bait. I'm not sure how you arrived at nothing in common . Please can you identify what the major doctrinal differences are? Plea...

In summary my question was why have the Bohri's, Ithna Shri's, Agha Khani's evolved into 3 different sects with nothing in common except for their professed love for Ahle Bait. I'm not sure how you arrived at nothing in common . Please can you identify what the major doctrinal differences are? Plea...