shezada yousuf Najmuddin

[mumin]

I am refering to the brother of the present Dai. Does anyone know of the why and how of the tragic death of the Dai"s brother shezada Yousuf Najmuddin saheb in Cairo?

[ghulam muhammed]

The reasons and cause of death of YN was answered by Insafbhai on some other thread wherein he stated that YN was probably murdered by some land mafias of egypt due to some monetary reasons.

[mumin]

dig deeper. there is some thing else as to why this tragic event.

[porus]

The only documentary evidence that I have seen is a report in a Cairo newspaper reporting accidental death of YN. I remember the report said that he fell from a balcony off a multi-storey building. I had a copy of this report but can no longer find it.

It is rumored that YN was murdered by the Egyptian Mafia in connection with a real estate deal gone sour. mumin, can you corroborate this?

[accountability]

I have heard that he was contender for the coveted post, which he thought rightfully belonged to him as raees ul jamia.

[S. Insaf]

The various newspaper reports on the death of Yusuf Najmuddin (YN) that I had quoted in that thread had described Sayedna Burhanuddin Saheb as "Sultan" and YN as Naib (deputy) Sultan. When YN arranged the marriage of his son Sayedul Khair BS with Sayedna Burhanuddin Saheb's daughter it was thought many in the community that YN is creating a contender of Dawat in his family as against present Dai's sons.
According to "Mosame Bahar" the 47th Dai Sayedna Yusuf (Abdulqadir) Najmuddin s/o Tayeb Zainuddin nominated his brother Abdul Husain Husamuddin s/o Tayeb Zainuddin as his succesor with an agreement that the Dai after Husamuddin will be from his (47th Dai's) family and vise varsa.
So the the Sayedna Mohammad Burhanuddin s/o 47th Dai was nominated as 49th Dai and then Abdullah Badruddin son of 48 Dai Husamuddin was nominated as 50th Dai. He in turn nominated Sayedna Taher Saifuddin grand son of 47th Dai as 51 Dai.
Sayedna Taher Saifuddin should have nominated some one from 50th Dai Abdullah Badruddin's family, but he voilated the agreement and made his son Mohammad Burhanuddin his successor.
So YN was trying to go back to the old agreement and was harping on his father Taher Saifuddin and then on his brother Burhanuddin to nominate him or some one from his family as 53th Dai. (This is all I had gathered during my association with mashaikhs in services of Sayedna Taher Saifuddin Saheb. It could be their guess work.)

[Muslim First]

Bohra Muslims expressing “Gam-e-Hussain”

http://akhbar.mumineen.org/2009/12/24/p ... ark-marol/