Are you a Dawoodi Bohra?
Mu' meneen Brothers
and Sisters,
As Salaam Aleikum wa
Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. (May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be
upon all of you)
One of our
brothers/sisters has asked this question:
Hey,
By the way, brother, who the hell r u?? R u Dawoodo Bohra?? Sunni?? Ishna
Ashari?? who the bloody hell r u?? and u call ur self my brother in Islam?? No,
get this, brother, get it right... u r not my brother in Islam. To me I think..
u r a bohra but, that one who does not believe in Aka Maula (TUS).
So, how bout not
trying to draw us away, from Aka Maula?? why dont u just leave us dawoodi
bohras as we are?? leave us alone, MR. We shall see what happens on Qayamat
day. I read the Holy Quran, but U think we are stupid..??? So plz MR, JUST
LEAVE THE PEACEFUL DAWOODI BOHRA COMMUNITY ALONE....!!!!!!!
AND DONT U TRY TO
EVER SEND THIS KINDA SHIT, AGAIN
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Answer:
In the name of
Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah
guides none can misguide, and who-ever He allows to fall astray, none can guide
them aright. We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person, no
grave, no prophet, no imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone,
and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of
His Messengers.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 49 Surah Hujaraat verses 10: The believers are the brothers of
one another; so set the relations right between your brethren and fear
Allah. It is expected that you will be
shown Mercy.
Your Question: By
the way, brother, who the hell r u?? R u Dawoodo Bohra?? Sunni?? Ishna Ashari??
who the bloody hell r u??
Allah is a witness, that we are
muslims. We believe in Allah, His
Book, His Messengers, His angels, and the Hereafter. Allah has called us muslims, and we are honored to be recognized
as muslims.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 22 Surah Hajj verse 78: Exert your utmost for the cause of Allah,
as one should. He has chosen you for
His service and has not laid on you any hardship in your deen. Therefore, be steadfast in the religion of
your father, Abraham. Allah had
called you ‘Muslims” before this, and has called you (by the same name) in this
Quran also, so that the Messenger may be a witness in regard to you, and
you may be witnesses in regard to the rest of mankind. Therefore, establish the ‘salaat’ and pay
the ‘zakaat’, and hold fast to Allah.
He is your ‘Maula’: what an
excellent ‘Maula’ and what an excellent Helper!
We are neither Sunnis, nor Itna
Asharis, nor Dawoodi Bohras nor any thing else! We are on the deen of Prophet Mohamed (saws). And the Prophet of Allah (saws) was neither
a Shia, nor a Sunni, nor a Dawoodi Bohra.
He (saws) was a muslim and we try to follow the same deen as practiced by
the Messenger of Allah (saws).
Your Comment: So,
how bout not trying to draw us away, from Aka Maula?? why dont u just leave us
dawoodi bohras as we are?? leave us alone, MR. We shall see what happens on
Qayamat day. I read the Holy Quran, but U think we are stupid..??? So plz MR,
JUST LEAVE THE PEACEFUL DAWOODI BOHRA COMMUNITY ALONE....!!!!!!!
We have been commanded by Allah
in the Holy Quran to invite whoever wants to listen to good caution to the deen
of Islam, and that is all we intend to do.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran: Chapter 16, Surah An-Nahl Ayat 125: Invite to the way of your Lord with
wisdom and excellent admonition and argue with people in the best manner. Your
Lord knows best who has gone astray from His Way and who is Rightly guided.
We do not, and cannot force
anyone to follow the commandments of the Holy Quran. Our only duty towards you is to invite you to the Way of Allah,
and Allah is a witness we have done that.
If you accept the invitation to the Quran, fine; and if you reject the
Admonition of the Holy Quran, you are welcome to formulate your own path and
take your chances with Allah on the Day of Qiyaamah.
Allah has given every human
being a free will and intelligence to search for the Truth. Intelligence says that one should at least
give the other person a chance to express his views, and if what they say make
sense to you and appeals to your intelligence, accept it. To not even let the other person speak and
close your ears and hearts, and reject the Truth without even listening to it,
is not intelligence.
It is indeed sheer stupidity to
follow the deen simply because one was born into it, and found his forefathers
and surroundings following it. It would indeed be stupidity if one wasted this
whole life in the dis-obedience of Allah, and find himself in a situation on
the Day of Qiyaamah with only the everlasting Fire of Hell as his eternal
abode! Stupidity would be to reject the
clear guidance of the Holy Quran, and formulate a deen in the names of some
Personalities, who have absolutely no authority from Allah Subhanah. Stupidity would be to believe in the
promises made by these unscrupulous self-proclaimed holy men, in preference to
the promises made by the Creator Himself in the Glorious Quran! All the promises made by Allah Subhanah in
the Quran will come absolutely true… and the promises made by man, with no
authority from Allah, will be nothing but absolute falsehood.
Either way, one will recognize
the Truth; if not in this life, then for sure on the Day of Qiyaamah. If one recognizes the Truth of the Quran in
this life and of his own free will and intelligence, serves and worships the
One Allah Alone, Allah has promised His Mercy for these believers. If one rejects the Truth of the Glorious
Quran and prefers any other way of life, Allah will take full retribution from
these deniers of the Truth. The Truth
is absolutely clear from the falsehood, and the choice is entirely yours.
Allah says in Chapter 2, Surah Baqarah aayat 185: "Ramadan is the
month in which the Quran was sent down: this Book is a perfect guidance for
mankind and consists of CLEAR teachings which show the right way and are a
Criterion of the Truth and falsehood."
The Glorious Quran is the
Criterion between the Truth and the falsehood. Read it, understand it, and use this Criterion provided by Allah
as a Mercy to mankind, to determine the Truth.
To assume that a Personality is guiding from the Quran, without ever
understanding the Quran itself, is nothing but mis-guidance.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 18 Surah Kahf verses 103-106: Tell them (O Mohamed), “Should We
tell you who are the most unsuccessful people and miserable failures in regard
to their deeds? They are those, all
whose edeavours in the worldly life, had gone astray from the Right Way, but
all along they were under the delusion that everything they were doing, was
rightly directed! Those are the people
who rejected the Revelations of their Lord and did not believe that they would
ever go before Him. Therefore all their
deeds were lost, for We shall assign no weight to them on the Day of
Resurrection. Their recompense is Hell
for the disbelief they showed, and for the mockery they adopted in regard to My
Aayahs and My Messengers!”
May Allah have Mercy on you and us,
and guide us all to the Siraat al Mustaqeem.
Whatever written of Truth and
benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error
is of me. Allah Alone Knows Best and He
is the Only Source of Strength.
Your brother and well wisher in
Islam,
Burhan
