I am writing to you again regarding a video that I saw on You Tube of an indoctrination lesson being given by your eminent Prince, Taher Khuzaima Qutbuddin to your very few followers via the internet. At the end of his lengthy lesson, one of your Qutbi followers, a certain Abizer, asks him why people believe in Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin TUS and aren’t believing in you. Taher, your eldest son, has been widely rumored to be next in line in your Qutbi Dawat since all current relayed waez’s from your FatemiDawat website are of him from his living room in Bakersfield California. Others are saying that since it is very difficult to understand you, your followers requested that Taher’s waez’s be relayed instead of yours so the youngsters in your religious organization could be indoctrinated more easily. In any case, Taher offers a lengthy answer in which he says that fear is the main factor why people haven’t flocked to your cause. This video was back in April, so I guess you know by now that of course that isn’t true and it is love and devotion to Burhanuddin Moula RA and Mufaddal Moula TUS why people have been scared of you and not followed your call to anarchy. In his answer, Taher then goes on to say that people choose to believe in all sorts of wrong things even when they know that they are wrong. He goes on to give the example of Kufa and Imam Husain SA, explaining how history is full with people having followed the wrong side and having accepted tyranny. He explains that Hitler also killed so many people and how something as horrendous as the holocaust happened only sixty years ago while people watched by and let it happen. While his example of Hitler is true and the world went to war for those actions, Taher then goes on to say that the current Prime Minister, Narendra Modi (this video was in April), is also like Hitler because he massacred so many Muslims in Gujarat, and turned neighbor against neighbor. He says that history shows that people have been on the wrong side and followed a tyrant and points out that this occurred with Modi only 10 years ago. And then he says, “now they want to make him the Prime Minister.” The video I found where he insinuates these allegations is posted above.
Respected Prime Minister Modi paying his respects to Burhanuddin Moula RA and recently also to his Janisheen, Mufaddal Moula TUS.
I wanted to remind you that Prime Minister Modi had wonderful relations with our late Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin RA. He paid a lot of respect to Burhanuddin Moula RA and often came to many of our miqats and even to Saifee Mahal to pay that respect and foster a relationship of honor and love for our Moula RA and in turn for our community, the Dawoodi Bohras. Aqa Moula RA also had foreseen the potential and ingenuity that President Modi possessed and today he would have been very happy that he has become the Prime Minister of India because of the new horizons to which he will take India. The Prime Minister has previously demonstrated such a successful record in his reformation of the infrastructure and economy of Gujarat and because of him, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, Jains, and all Indians of every religion and creed have prospered. He will bring his success and vision to the country and hopefully move India to the top of the global community. So when Burhanuddin Moula RA paid so much respect and admired Prime Minister Modi, why would Taher liken him to Hitler, especially in a religious indoctrination lesson which he broadcasted on the internet? Again, why is the Qutbi ideology so different than what we were taught to espouse under Burhanuddin Moula RA. Are Qutbis generally indoctrinated to be anarchists?
Burhanuddin Moula RA always taught us to be loyal to the country that we live in and to support the government for its betterment so that it can help all people and Mumineen through its own prosperity. Furthermore, because of the respect and relation that was fostered between Burhanuddin Moula RA and the current Pradhan Mantri, Narenda Modi, much honor and respect has come to the Dawoodi Bohra community. Why would you and Prince Taher choose to damage that by your hurtful and unproven allegations? Why would you choose to openly insult the Prime Minister (who was not in office yet at the time of the video) and demonstrate so much animosity to him? It seems that you are not only brewing anarchy within the Dawoodi Bohra community with your new religion but also within the Indian government. Are these the actions of a peace loving community? I hope that someone from your family can reply soon. We have been waiting for someone to come and answer the questions on this website.
A Letter From The Royal Qutbi Prince, Taher bin Khuzaima Qutbuddin of Bakersfield
Dear Mr. Qutbuddin,
I hope you are doing well. I was compelled to send in this letter to you after some of the comments which have been posted on this website by your diehard followers. My sincere query to you is regarding a letter which was supposedly written by your eldest son Taher who is currently residing in Bakersfield and often appears on your website where his waez is relayed from his living room because it is easier for most of your followers to understand him since it is difficult to follow what you say in your current medical condition. I understand this choice of yours to put Taher in the limelight and try to garner support for him as he very well may be your successor and since your health may not be what it use to be. But what I don’t understand is that it seems that Taher has interpreted a different ideology from you some years back that is different than what was purported on the Fatemi Dawat website. I will point out what I am trying to say in the following –
The letter is almost 13 years old and has excerpts from a sabak you gave on the ‘urs of Syedna Tayib Zainuddin.
The main point of the letter is that you say that in Zuhoor the ritual of proskynesis was given to Imam and so in satr it should also be given to Dai considering the maqam in which Imamuz Zaman has placed him.
You go on to say (according to Prince Taher) that while it is necessary to accept and honor the positions below the Dai (Mazoon and Mukasir), the positions which the Dai has established, the ritual of proskynesis should only be done for the Dai.
You then say that if someone hurls obscenities at the Dai, keeps enmity with him, then they will suffer ill-fortune. An enemy of the Dai cannot seek salvation from him and they will have the worse of punishments in the afterlife.
You also mention that it is an article of faith to do baraat with the enemies of the Dai (cut off communications with them) and that walayat cannot be considered complete unless you have done baraat.
So, Mr. Qutbuddin, what I don’t understand is that throughout your career as the Mazoon your children openly performed the ritual of proskynesis to you. Aqa Moula Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin RA put a stop to this amal and it was no longer allowed – this is a known fact. In fact, this is exactly why Prince Taher wrote this letter – to ensure that he affirmed that ideology and concurred that one is not allowed to offer proskynesis to the mazoon and it is an amal reserved solely for the Dai. This much is said in the letter – that Mazoon and Mukasir should be respected and honored but not given sajdo.
Therefore, if you maintained that this amal could only be performed for the Dai, then why were you allowing it to be done for you? I have seen your children and diwaans performing this amal for you in Karachi many times. Secondly, if you somehow maintain that you were next in line to be Dai and that is why you allowed this amal for yourself, you have said many times on your website and elsewhere that your private nass without witnesses was suppose to remain a secret and no one was suppose to know because ‘talwar chali jaate.’ I hope you do understand the contradiction in your actions and statements. If you were Burhanuddin Moula’s RA mansoos then he surely would have indicated that we perform this amal for you publicly for Mumineen. He never has once told Mumineen to do this in any bayan – ever.
If it was suppose to be a secret it should have only been done in private. I saw you accepting this amal to be done to you many times in Karachi and elsewhere, almost as if it was being forced. Therefore, it seems to me that you were doing this amal openly on your own and this is why there was a stop put to it. Otherwise, why would something right be stopped? Furthermore, the fact that Taher Qutbuddin wrote this letter is further proof that he had to openly state that improper protocol being followed with the amal. Obviously if you were only suppose to announce that you were the mansoos at the right time, as you have maintained, you were announcing it all these years with your amal in public and that is contradictory to what you have been saying all along about keeping it a secret. Why such a blatant contradiction of statements? Why didn’t Burhanuddin Moula RA ever tell us to perform this amal for you if you were truly his mansoos? And if you were keeping the so called nass a secret, logic mandates that you would never have allowed your children and close relatives to do this in public. In fact, when people asked them they would maintain that they were just kissing the ground at your feet which was not sajdo but another amal. Were they lying at the time? Did you tell them to lie?
Secondly, after articulating that it is an article of the faith to not hurl obscenities or blasphemous statements at the Dai, why was this the first amal that you did when Burhanuddin Moula RA passed away. You opened a website that hurled blasphemous statements and obscenities at the 53rd Dai Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin TUS. Okay – lets say that you personally didn’t accept Moula TUS as the Dai. But you also didn’t do anything for three years after all Dawoodi Bohras had time to accept Mufaddal Moula TUS after nass was done on him. So you let everyone accept him as the Dai in their hearts, then after Burhanuddin Moula’s RA wafaat you came out and did dushmani and hurled obscenities such as calling him a wahabi, misogynist anti-woman suppressor, etc. etc. You knew what this would mean to the community and the 99.5 % of Dawoodi Bohras and what repercussions it would have. But you still chose to do it anyways. This is what I call fitnat because you must have anticipated the reaction of the Dawoodi Bohra community when you hurled insults at the 53rd Dai Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin TUS openly all over the internet during the funeral procession and subsequent memorial services.
Then when baraat was done to you – according to the tenets of the faith which you uphold in the letter above – you ran to the newspapers to display what a wrong act it was and how it was unfair to you and your handful of followers. You demonstrated to your followers that the Dawoodi Bohras were acting irrationally and that the fact that they did baraat of you was such a wrong action. However, in this letter of Taher you have clearly stated that doing baraat with people who display enmity and hurl obscenities to the Dai is an article of faith. So I guess the question is why, Mr. Qutbuddin? I feel you really have some explaining to do as your recent actions seem contradictory to your previous beliefs and teachings. It seems a little ill-willed and malicious.
What Happens in Vegas Should Stay in Vegas, No? What say you, Mr. Qutbuddin?
Dear Mr. Qutbuddin,
You, your eminent children, your followers, and especially the progressive Dawoodi Bohras who openly gave gaali to Burhanuddin Moula RA on their website, have held Teyzoon the LasVegaswala in high esteem and continually placed him on a pedestal for ‘exposing’ the alleged conspiracy you say was going on against you for so many years. First of all, in many places you have stated, like in Nairobi many years ago when you fell from grace, that Imamuz Zaman directly supported you. So if you truly believed that then how could there have been an ongoing conspiracy for so many years? Wouldn’t divine providence have silenced your enemies some how? Anyhow, one thing is for sure – Teyzoon, your glorious follower, was never silenced and continued to blurt things he didn’t understand nor did he have the expertise to comment upon.
I am referring to what your hardcore followers have continuously mentioned on this site and elsewhere about Teyzoon’s Zahirbatin.org website. They maintain that it is some kind of smoking gun and the mastermind of this website, Teyzoon, is some kind of holy saint. I would like to send this letter to you to understand why you have continued this incorrect assumption and espoused Teyzoon. Isn’t it a well-known fact that there are many levels of knowledge in Dawoodi Bohra culture? I read in the comments here on this website that the level of knowledge that Mr. Teyzoon blurted and broadcasted all over the internet were at such a high level of knowledge, for which at the beginning of every class of this type of knowledge a strict oath is taken in which one promises that he will keep what he learns a secret and only reveal it to those he is charged to reveal it to. You’re not even suppose to reveal one word of what you learn – I believe. If he had questions about it I don’t think Google would have helped in answering them so broadcasting it on the internet seems malicious and latent with malintent. Furthermore, my grandfather told me that one who breaks this oath invokes the wrath of Allah and all his angels and their really isn’t a stricter oath than this? His website, the Zahir batin, is the epitome of such a breach of that oath. Yet, you and your followers still rave about it as some kind of magnificent fire-breathing dragon when in reality it is simply a red herring in every sense. Why so?
So my question to you is, Mr. Qutbuddin, you have made Teyzoon the martyr of your cause and used him to give him a sense of importance because he lacked any serious attention within his former family and religion, but is there any proof that he is still a Dawoodi Bohra after his breaching of the oath mentioned above? People have said how Burhanuddin Moula RA was hurt by him for making such a website and disclosing the secret knowledge he was charged to withhold and safeguard, but is there any proof that after breaking his oath that he reentered Dawat again. While we know he is a Qutbi cult follower, the question is was he ever a Dawoodi Bohra again after breaking his oath or did he come straight to the Qutbi Dawat? Did he give another oath of allegiance after he breached his original one? It seems like many people like this Teyzoon, your martyrs, are at the forefront of your religious cult and you have monopolized on their confusion. This in itself is very weird isn’t it, Mr. Qutbuddin. I was wondering if you cared to comment since Mr. Teyzoon is now part of the hierarchy of your congregation?
Site of the Battle of Khandaq Near Medina – Source Wikipedia commonsMap delineating the area where the Battle of Khandaq took place outside of Medina. The green line indicates the trench.
Dear Mr. Qutbuddin,
You have openly alleged that for the three years following the mild stroke of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin RA that his entire family, especially his own Shehzadas, had taken advantage of his medical condition to basically lay waste to everything he had sown and reaped in the Dawat for the last fifty years as the 52nd Dai of the Dawoodi Bohra community. During this time, if you believe it to be true since you have purported this on your Fatemidawat.com, not you or one member of your family or followers stood and tried to support Burhanuddin Moula RA. No one rose to try and rectify what you and your eminent learned children have considered a critical moment in Dawat. You have maintained that you did this for the preservation of yourself, and your children said in a press conference that you were silent because you hoped that Syedna’s health would get better. But in other places you have said that Syedna was so ill and his family, for lack of a better word, masqueraded Burhanuddin Moula RA and literally brandished him around to try and falsely demonstrate that Nass was done on Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin TUS. I hope you do understand how this allegation, in itself, is so very offensive to every Dawoodi Bohra, although it has become a fundamental belief in establishing the legitimacy of your Qutbi Dawat. In fact, you say this deception and chicanery went on for three years and you labeled it as something like ‘drama baazi’ on your official website Fatemidawat.com. You said that the reason for your silence and inaction to protect Burhanuddin Moula RA was because he had told you not to reveal to anyone that nass was done on you until the ‘right time’ because had you done so before his demise – your life would be in danger. In other words, your silence, your retreat, your decision not to help Burhanudidn Moula RA while his children were doing this was because of your need for your own self-preservation. You have quoted Marhoom Mukasir Saheb as saying “talwaar chali jaate,” etc. With all of your exuberant claims, the fact that 1 million Dawoodi Bohras have been led astray because of your alleged secret and self preservation is inconsequential to you. The fact that Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin’s RA legacy of preparing so many nufus for Imamuz Zaman’s Zuhur is now in shambles because only the 300 people or so who follow you remain as the only true believers, means nothing in comparison to your own life. This defeats logic on its own terms – but okay – let’s say you’re right for a brief second. Let’s say you did all of this to preserve your own life. You didn’t come to the janazah because of the safety of your life. You led one million people astray because of an alleged secret which was kept to protect your life.
The action of self-preservation at the detriment of Haq na Sahib and the well-being of the nufus of Mumineen makes little sense logically and theologically. It is uncharacteristic of someone who would claim to be Moulana Ali’s Dai. Here is a breakdown of what I am trying to say.
When Shaikhun Najdi got members of the Quraish to come and assassinate Rasullullah SAW while he slept, it was Moulana Ali AS who slept in his bed in his place. He thought of Rasullullah SAW and not his own self-preservation at the time and Ameerul Mumineen has said that this incident was one of the seven of his greatest trials in his life.
In the Battle of Uhud, Rasullullah SAW suffered many losses and he himself was wounded on the battlefield. When the Muslimeen thought they had won, the army dispersed and went to collect the war booty. Rasullullah SAW was left alone and the disbelievers returned and then lead an attack on Rasullullah SAW. During that time, Moulana Ali stayed and said that he would protect Rasullullah SAW. Rasullullah SAW told Moulana Ali to also go and leave- and in reply he said, “Shall I become a kafir after bringing Islam?” Moulana Ali SA defeated the enemies and did not leave Rasullullah alone, an act of such bravery and loyalty that the riwaayats say that Jibra’il came from the skies and said, “This is the true meaning of loyalty,” and “There is no fata (young man) like Ali.” May I remind you – you have alleged that the title of fata also belongs to you.
Another example – during the Battle of Khandaq, ‘Amr bin Abde Wadd crossed the khandaq dug to protect the people of Medina in which the Muslimeen were quite worried of what would happen next and if they might lose the battle. Burhanuddin Moula RA always called this event “a critical moment” in Islam because ‘Amr bin Abde Wadd was such a fierce warrior and enemy. At that time again, when everyone was worried about their own self-preservation, it was Moulana Ali who stood and said that I will go and fight him. He protected Rasullullah even though it meant his life was in danger. There were others present there at that time who decided not to go and fight ‘Amr bin Abdewadd during this ‘critical moment’ and decided to indulge in their own self-preservation. We all know who they are and there is no need for me to mention that here and on which side of the analogy you fall. I am just not understanding your actions because I for one, would never let my Moula suffer for the thought of my own self-preservation. However, according to your own testimony and allegations against Burhanuddin Moula’s RA family this is exactly what you have done.
There are not just examples of Moulana Ali which exist- countless Hudood of Dawat sacrificed themselves for Haq na Sahib. For example, Syedi Feerkhan Shujauddin went to the Qayd Khana with Syedna Qutbuddin Shahid RA even though doing so might cause him harm or even death. There was eminent danger there too, no? How about Syedi Musanjee bin Taaj, from my own watan of Baroda. He was put in burning oil while he was protecting his Dai. The first thought of Mumineen has always been to protect Sahib uz Zaman. This is our history and this is our tradition. These are our natural feelings as a community – Moula par fida thawu – not just in words but in reality. It is considered an honor. You might say that your actions were for the preservation of the nufus of Mumineen through your own preservation. However, how does the loss of a million followers equate that? It does not make any sense, Mr. Qutbuddin.
So in light of these well-known historical events recording Moulana Ali’s protection of Rasullullah SAW, I want to ask you, Mr. Qutbuddin, whose Dai are you? Why did you let Moula suffer so much if indeed you really believe what you have said officially on your website and elsewhere? Would anyone look at your actions and say that you are truly Moulana Ali’s Dai? I think we all deserve an explanation of what was going in your head during this time since you are claiming to be the Fatemi Dai. What does fidaayat actually mean in your ideologies? You said in your Ashura sermon this year that you are the ‘sacrifice of Imamuz Zaman.’ How so, if you weren’t even willing to sacrifice yourself for Burhanuddin Moula in his critical moment while his children supposedly did what you openly have alleged. Please answer soon as I think this is very fundamental to the veracity of all your claims.
(Left) His Holiness Dr. Syedna Taher Saifuddin RA (Right) Al-Maula al-Hayy al-Muqaddas Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin TUSHis Highness Prince Dr. Aziz Qutbuddin, the youngest son of the claimant of the Qutbi community. Dr. Aziz recently gave a quotation in the Indian tabloid newspaper, the Mumbai Mirror, saying “it’s unfortunate that Shehzada Mufaddal Saifuddin and his representatives are resorting to threats and social pressure to maintain their control over the community, “It is sad that a joyous occasion such as a marriage is used to apply this kind of pressure. We pray that the community is united once more and that this turmoil comes to an end.” I should note that the prince is currently married to the third woman he has had a relationship with in the last eight years. His second relationship that recently failed was with an Egyptian non-Dawoodi Bohra woman who he had met while studying in Cairo. The Qutbi Bohras are not allowed to marry unless within the community so several attempts were made directly by his family to convert this Egyptian Muslim girl. She even accompanied the Qutbuddins on a trip to Karbala Moalla with the late Syedna Burhanuddin during the inauguration proceedings of the Kufa mosque in 2010 in an attempt to convert her from her religion and have her accept the Dai so Aziz could marry her. He could not marry her otherwise because it was not allowed. However, when she did not convert Aziz was instructed by his family to break off relations with her and then later married his current wife.
Dear Mr. Qutbuddin,
I am a little confused by your eminent son Aziz’s recent statement in the tabloid newspaper called the Mumbai Mirror. He is quoted as saying, “it’s unfortunate that Shehzada Mufaddal Saifuddin and his representatives are resorting to threats and social pressure to maintain their control over the community, “It is sad that a joyous occasion such as a marriage is used to apply this kind of pressure. We pray that the community is united once more and that this turmoil comes to an end.”
What I am confused about is that Aziz is painting Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin TUS as someone who uses the social pressure of disassociating the few hundred members of the Qutbi religion to garner support. However does it not make sense that members of any religion who choose to change their religion would no longer be able to use their former religion’s facilities? Furthermore, should the use of Dawoodi Bohra facilities which are exclusive and largely maintained and paid for by funds that come from community members, be available to non-members? I would think not. This policy also makes a lot of sense because in the end, the Dawoodi Bohra religious creed is a Shii’ version of Islam which means that the belief in the central figure of the Imam, or in this case his Da’i who is believed by Dawoodi Bohras to lead the community for the Imam, is the single most important tenet of the religion. It is what forms their identity. You can’t say you are a Dawoodi Bohra unless you believe in the central figure of the Dai just as you can’t say you are a Shi’a and not believe in the Imam. In the history of Shiism when people differed in the religious identity of the Imam, groups splintered off and formed their own religion. Hence we have Ithna Asharis, Ismailis, Nizaris, Zaydis, Sulaymanis, Alawis etc. The groups that splintered off severed ties with their old community and created new ones. This is a known historical fact. They did not demand that they still be part of the old religion and try to congregate in the same places with the same old people. Obviously this would make no sense. Therefore, in the Mumbai Mirror article it seems that Aziz is trying to show that this type of policy, which makes absolute sense within the Shii context, is somehow a new practice and tactic being employed by Mufaddal Saifuddin. The article is biased and a horrible form of journalism because it is trying to paint the majority of Dawoodi Bohras as being irrational and somehow placing the blame on the split of the three hundred or so people on the belief system of the community members. It also implies that for some reason the Qutbi Bohras would not maintain such a practice, however, the Qutbis who believe very much in Syedna Taher Saifuddin and his policies will have to agree that the policies of not mingling and regulating the involvement of dissident members from the larger Dawoodi Bohra community was something that Syedna Taher Saifuddin fought for in the judicial court system in which you, Khuzaima Qutbuddin, have placed so much faith.
Therefore, Mr. Qutbuddin, if possible I would like to ask you a few questions.
1) In a court case dated to January 9 1962 of the Late Syedna Taher Saifuddin vs. the State of Mumbai, Syedna Taher Saifuddin RA was taken to court by people who had left the community and had the same plaints that Aziz was expressing in the article. The court ruled,
Coming back to the facts of the present petition, the position of the Dai-ul-Mutlaq, is an essential part of the creed of the Dawoodi Bohra sect. Faith in his spiritual mission and in the efficacy of his ministration is one of the bonds that hold the community together as a unit. The power of excommunication is vested in him for the purpose of enforcing discipline and keep the denomination together as an entity. The purity of the fellowship is secured by the removal of persons who had rendered themselves unfit and unsuitable for membership of the sect. The power of excommunication for the purpose of ensuring the preservation of the community, has therefore a prime significance in the religious life of every member of the group. A legislation which penalises this power even when exercised for the purpose above-indicated cannot be sustained as a measure of social welfare or social reform without eviscerating the guarantee under Art. 25(1) and rendering the protection illusory.
Several other cases were fought to prevent the Dai and his community of Dawoodi Bohras from exercising rights to ensure its preservation by not allowing dissident members to use community facilities and to take an active part in the community. I didn’t bother to list them here because I think you get the point. The court which the Qutbis believe is the beacon of justice upheld this practice several years ago. Therefore, why is Aziz defaming a deputy of Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin for not solemnizing a wedding when according to Dawoodi Bohra creed, community members are generally encouraged to marry only within the community and do not marry outsiders unless they convert. It is obvious that a minority community would need to uphold such practices for its survival. So simply stated, the three hundred or so Qutbi Bohras are no longer part of the 1.2 million Dawoodi Bohra community because they changed their religious identity when they chose not to follow Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin. They chose a leader that was not appointed by Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin according to the beliefs of the rest of the community. They did this consciously and so why would they be upset that suddenly they weren’t allowed to use the facilities or receive the services of their former Dawoodi Bohra community and its clergy? This was the hard choice they made when they chose to follow you, Mr. Qutbuddin. I am not understanding Aziz’s outcry here except as a cheap tactic to still paint Dawoodi Bohras in a prejudice typcasted ideology like they have previously tried to do for Dawoodi Bohra women. It is starting to seem pretty desperate, however, Aziz and your family claim that you are the true waris of Syedna Taher Saifuddin and Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin. So why do you find their practices, in the words of Dr. Aziz, “unfortunate,” and “sad?”
2) The second point I would like to make is that in the case of marriage, your family followed the same policy when it came to Aziz. Some time in 2009 while Aziz was studying in Egypt he fell in love with an Egyptian Muslim woman whose name I have omitted for the sake of her privacy. Aziz carried on the relationship for some time to the extent that you and your family made an attempt to convert the girl to the Dawoodi Bohra religion. In 2010 when Aqa Moula Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin RA visited Karbala, this Egyptian girl traveled from Egypt to Karbala with Aziz’s sisters and during her visit there the sisters dressed her in ridas that they had made for her especially for this trip. In the end, after she did not convert, Aziz was told by you and your family to end the relationship. Therefore, even the Qutbuddins believe that marriage normally does not take place to people outside the community and therefore you did not let Aziz marry this girl. Could this be the reason for Aziz’s outburst in the Mumbai Mirror?
So considering these two points above, again I don’t understand why your eminent prince Aziz said those quotations in the Mumbai Mirror. What was his point? Of course, the progressives and dissidents of the community have stood by their creed that this practice of exclusion of former members of the community is outdated and should not happen. They believe that people should marry whoever they choose and do what they want and no one should have control over their religious position and social behavior. They maintain that they do not have to believe in the Dai and they can still identify as being a Bohra. Well – within a shii context – this obviously doesn’t make sense and the debate with this ideology can be saved for another time. But why have you and your family resorted to the same ideology as the dissidents? As I said before, you can’t call yourself a Shi’a if you don’t believe in the present Imam. Dawoodi Bohras cannot be Dawoodi Bohras (in the religious and spiritual sense) unless they believe in the Imam or Dai. Atleast this was the policy of Taher Saifuddin Moula and Burhanuddin Moula and dissidents can debate that as much as they want but the policy of the Duat has been this way. However, why now have you and your family made this an issue? Do you or Prince Aziz have a problem with Taher Saifuddin Moula’s policies? Or is it your bitter hatred with Mufaddal Moula that led Aziz to not think before he spoke, since it is probably pretty obvious to him that Taher Saifuddin Moula had went to court several times over the same issue. Where does this place the Qutbis now in terms of ideologies? Even more, why do you have a problem with these policies when you enforced the same policies for your son?
If someone could back to me on this I would greatly appreciate it. I think you can email an answer on this website.
Khuzaima Qutbuddin, based in Thane, India. From his compound he leads the cult of the Qutbi Bohras, a few offshoot followers of the Dawoodi Bohra religion. His ideologies have the workings of a cult mentality.David Koresh (born Vernon Wayne Howell; August 17, 1959 – April 19, 1993) was the American leader of the Branch Davidians religious sect, believing himself to be its final prophet. Howell legally changed his name to David Koresh on May 15, 1990 (Koresh being the Persian name of Cyrus the Great (کوروش, Kurosh). A 1993 raid by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the subsequent siege by the FBI ended with the burning of the Branch Davidian ranch outside of Waco, Texas, in McLennan County. Koresh and 75 others were found dead after the fire.
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Cult \ˈkəlt\
noun , often attributive
: a small religious group that is not part of a larger and more accepted religion and that has beliefs regarded by many people as extreme or dangerous.
Dear Mr. Qutbuddin,
I wanted to compare your antics and the formation of your Qutbi sect to the studies done by Berkeley regarding the behavior patterns of cults. There are 19 characteristics listed that are highly comparable to the patterns of your religious cult. I was wondering if you or any of your eminent princes could comment and say why you’re Qutbi religion functions very much like a cult.
Recruitment
1. Deception – Group identity and/or true motives are not revealed. The group leaders tell members to withhold truth from outsiders.
This is very familiar to what you and your children have been doing. Qutbi Bohras are told to keep their mission secret. For instance, claiming that nass was done but no one besides the group leaders, i.e. Sakina Qutbuddin, Abdeali Qutbuddin, Taher Qutbuddin, and the others were privy to this knowledge.
2. Emotional Leverage/Love Bombing – Instant friendship, extreme helpfulness, generosity and acceptance…Group recruiters “lovingly” will not take “no” for an answer-invitations impossible to refuse without feeling guilty and/or ungrateful. “Love”, “generosity”, “encouragement” are used to lower defenses and create an ever increasing sense of obligation, debt and guilt.
Khuzaima Qutbuddin’s call for openly funding various Mumineen’s businesses and education ventures, buying them homes through Zahra Hasanaat Scheme displays generosity and extreme helpfulness. However, it has also left many Qutbi Bohras trapped. Many Qutbi Bohras do feel that the ideologies put forward by Khuzaima and his children is fantastical – however they feel a ‘sense of obligation, debt, and guilt.’ Khuzaima Qutbuddin and his children have been kind to many, and therefore, many of their followers do so because they feel indebted.
3. Exploit Personal Crisis – They use an existing crisis as a means of getting you to participate. They exploit vulnerability arising from:
Broken relationships
Death in the family
Loss of job
Move to new location
Loneliness/depression
Guilt/shame
Stress/fear
Exploiting personal crisis – The demise of Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin RA was a crisis for everyone in the community. Everyone keeps on asking – why did Khuzaima Qutbuddin wait three years to finally say something. Or why did he think that the demise and janaza of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin RA was the opportune time to say that nass was done on him privately with no witnesses 50 years ago. He did this because he could exploit the vulnerability from the situation and use the grief of those who held him in favor to his advantage.
4. Crisis Creation – They employ tactics designed to create or deepen confusion, fear, guilt or doubt. i.e. “you aren’t serving God the way He intended.” Questions areas of faith never before examined or explored and attack other faiths specifically.
Khuzaima Qutbuddin created a crisis around the demise of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin RA by launching his website, FatemiDawat.com to deepen confusion and bring about shakk in Mumineen. “You aren’t serving God the way He intended” became “Tame haqq par nathi because mein Mazoon hato ane koi mane maan nota aapta.” (Most people never saw you or knew you outside of Mumbai and Bakersfield.)
5. All The Answers – Provide simple answers to the confusion they, themselves, create. Support these answers with material produced or “approved” by the group.
This is exactly what Fatemidawat.com was used for. Although most of the material on the website were cherrypicked arguments devoid of any actual context and truth, they made it look like they could provide all the answers where others couldn’t. The main reason for this was because all their evidence and ideas were unwarranted and unheard of by most people.
Programming
1. Intense Study – Focus is on group doctrine and writings. Bible, if used at all, is referred to one verse at time to “prove” group teachings.
If you hear Husain Qutbuddin’s youtube videos and his use of the Quran to justify Khuzaima Qutbuddin’s every move – even claiming that certain ayats were playing when Khuzaima went to Saifee Mahal to pay his respects to Aqa Moula’s RA janazah mubarakah – to prove his legitmacy. The sabaqs that the Qutbis are giving through youtube and other means show that a lot of attention is being given at the moment to emphasize group doctrine and indoctrinate their followers with an offshoot version of their old religious ideologies. The Qutbis have gone to extreme lengths through online channels to “prove” group teachings to their followers. Because they don’t have any institutions or physical means they are using the net to reach a global audience.
2. Opposer Warnings – Recruiters are told that “Satan” will cause relatives and friend to say bad things about the group to try to “steal them away from God.” Recruits soon believes group members, alone, are truthful/trustworthy.
The children of Khuzaima constantly warn followers not to engage in dialogues with other Dawoodi Bohras. They tell them to be nice to them and invite them in their homes but are unwilling to even try to listen to what they are saying. They reject every truth that is said to them without giving it much thought. It is just total rejection. Every piece of advice or outreach of affection to keep them as part of the community is seen as an attack on them.
3. Guilt and Fear – Group dwells on members’ “sinful nature” (many use public confession). Guilt and fear arising from “failing God” are magnified to manipulate new member.
Upsetting Khuzaima Qutbuddin by thinking his claims are unprecedented and unheard of in the history of Dawat becomes a fear held by most members. It is better to reject truth and precedence rather than think that he might be wrong for a second.
4. Schedule Control & Fatigue – Study and service become mandatory. New member becomes too busy to question. Family, friends, jobs and hobbies are squeezed out, further isolating the new member.
He kept everyone in Thane right after the demise of Moulana Mohammed Burhanuddin. No one was allowed to leave his compound to the extent that he forbade his followers to participate in funeral of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin. Much like the cult of David Koresh in Waco, Texas (pictured above), people were trapped in the Darus Sakuna. People were not able to question. They are made too busy in spreading the Qutbi cause that they are unable to think logically.
5. Attack Independent Thought – Critical thinking is discouraged as prideful and sinful, blind acceptance encouraged.
If any Qutbi follower thought independently then they would wonder why Burhanuddin Moula was never with Khuzaima Qutbuddin in most events for the last 25 years but kept Mufaddal Moula at his side throughout. However, critical thinking has escaped them because they aren’t allowed to reason. They just use obscured and misinterpreted textual evidence to try and prove their beliefs. Everything else is a lie, be it the ‘amal of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin and his outright actions. The hospital video is a lie. The Nass at Raudat Tahera is a lie. They mask reason with fantasy.
6. Divine Commission – Leader(s) claim new revelation from God, within past 200 years, in which all but their group are rejected by God. They, alone, speak for God.
Nass, its witnesses, Sh. Ibrahim Yamani’s diary, Moula’s nass at Cromwell Hospital and at Raudat Tahera do not mean anything. Khuzaima Qutbuddin can raise the Quran and swear that he is appointed by Imamuz zaman and Khuda and that suddenly becomes truth refuting everything else. Everything in Dawat’s history before about Nass and witnesses becomes unnecessary, devoid. Suddenly, Khuzaima, alone, speaks for God and not the years of Burhanuddin Moula’s efforts to cultivate this Dawat ni waari. All 98 % of the believers are wrong – only Khuzaima Qutbuddin is right. His life is valued over everything else, even walking in Moula’s janazah. Nass was not pronounced to save his life, but it doesn’t matter that if such an action would eliminate 98% of the followers. This is because Khuzaima is divinely commissioned.
7. Absolutism – They insist on total, unquestioning obedience and submission to the group, both actions AND thoughts. Group “love” and acceptance becomes dependent upon obedience and submission. Unconditional love…isn’t.
No room to interpret that Khuzaima Qutbuddin might have misinterpreted Moula’s words for which he thought was nass. He’s right and everyone else is wrong.
8. Totalism – “Us against them” thinking. Strengthens group identity. Everyone outside of group lumped under one label.
This is why the Qutbis have propounded the ideology regarding the followers of Rasullullah’s Dawat and Ali’s Dawat as being few. They call their new Qutbis the Ansar u Dawat and even have opened a fund in the same name. They want to show that it is ‘us against them.’ The 98%, once all brothers and eating in one thaal, are now enemies. Had their call not been a form of totalism – then they would have employed the three years of Nass on Mufaddal Moula to argue their cause.
Retention
1. Motive Questioning- When sound evidence against the group is presented, members are taught to question the motivation of the presenter. The verifiable (sound documentation) is ignored because of doubts over the unverifiable (presenter’s motives). See Opposer Warnings (#2 above).
Qutbis maintain that all of Aqa Moula’s Shehzadas and every hudood of Dawat, including Syedi Husain Bs. (former Mukasir Saheb and current Mazoon Saheb) who prepared Mumineen to do Moula’s khidmat are lying about Nass. No one is right. Everyone is making something up. All the events and material evidence is fabricated.
2. Information Control – Group controls what convert may read or hear. They discourage (forbid) contact with ex-members or anything critical of the group. May say it is the same as pornography making it not only sinful and dangerous but shameful as well. Ex-members become feared and avoidance of them becomes a “survival issue.”
Qutbis are told not to read sites like 53 Reasons and Qutbi info and just gain knowledge directly from the cult leaders like Tahera Qutbuddin and Husain Qutbuddin. Also Sabaqs are regularly given by the other children like Taher and his Insiya. They are using brainwashing techniques so that the Qutbis cannot think for themselves or on the precedence of Dawat’s bayaano.
3. Isolation, Separation & Alienation – Group becomes substitute family. Members encouraged to drop worldly (non-members) friends. May be told to change jobs, quit school, give up sports, hobbies, etc.
Khuzaima Qutbuddin has isolated his cult followers from their family members. He has caused fathers to be away from their children, husbands and wives to get divorced, grandparents to be away from their granchildren, and total rejection and separation of people who believe in Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin. He has broken families. What kind of person claiming to be a religious leader would do so.
4. Coercion – Disobedience, including even minor disagreement with group doctrine, may result in expulsion and shunning.
Qutbis are not allowed to leave their religion.
5. Phobias – The idea is planted that anyone who leaves goes into a life of depravity and sin, loses their sanity, dies, or will have children die, etc. Constant rumors of bad things happening to people who leave. No one ever leaves for “legitimate reasons.”
Qutbis can’t leave because they fear that they will go to hell and worse if they leave Khuzaima.
ADDED – Thursday Dec. 24th 10:52 PM (IST)
cult
\ˈkəlt\
noun , often attributive
: a small religious group that is not part of a larger and more accepted religion and that has beliefs regarded by many people as extreme or dangerous.
Picture of the funeral procession of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin RA being attended by thousands and thousands of followers and led by the 53rd Dai al-Mutlaq Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin TUS. The claimant, Mr. Khuzeima Qutbuddin, refused to participate in the funeral because his demand to lead the prayers were not answered. Picture from CNN.com: Year 2014 in Pictures.
Dear Mr. Qutbuddin,
A simple question, where were you?
Sincerely,
The Followers of The 53rd Dai al-Mutlaq, Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin TUS.
Dear Mr. Qutbuddin cc. Dr. Tahera Qutbuddin (Professor University of Chicago),
You have continuously tried to smear the reputation of Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin for his continuation to ensure the preservation and strength of the family unit within Dawoodi Bohra culture. Instead of looking at things from a Dawoodi Bohra socially centric viewpoint – you, your family members, and even you daughter Dr. Tahera Qutbuddin who should be the last person to do so, all catered to Islamophobic, right-winged, and bigoted attacks on Syedna by pairing Dawoodi Bohra culture and treatment of women with Islamic extremism. First of all – let me tell you – your chosen tactics and their cruel and demoralizing intentions are very clear to anyone with a brain. Secondly, Dawoodi Bohra women are not suppressed, oppressed, or made to sit in the house and just know how to make roti and sew as you and your family have so deliberately tried to paint a false picture on the community. Making roti, building a home, and raising a family are just treasured and cherished values we hold as a community and culture. We surely don’t need you or your family to try and tell us what should be valued when it comes to family since your daughters have broken more homes than they have built as have your actions of trying to tear the community believers apart and take advantage of devotion. This is why I want to show you simply these two cases below of successful women,
Durriya Badani is a Dawoodi Bohra woman and proud follower of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin and Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin TUS.
I have heard many things about this woman and none of them echo any hint of suppression. She worked for the US Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, where she had constant contact with the secretary. She has worked in the U.S. State Department all over the world. She has done all types of consulting work regarding Islamic culture and women. She currently works in several organizations improving US relations with the Islamic world. You can see and hear her here on this you tube video –
She did all of the above wearing a rida. It seems impossible – but I feel that she does it and her personality and principles, coupled with her success and education is how she comes off to people. She doesn’t look suppressed to me, does she? She doesn’t seem to lack an education. However, she does seem to adhere to the principles set out by Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin and Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin. She regularly attends Ashara and is a great example of the spectrum of Dawoodi Bohra women. You openly choose to disregard people like her and her success. Women in the Dawoodi Bohra community are diverse – but you paint them with a blanketed bigoted picture. You know better than that.
On the flip side, we have your Qutbi Bohra example, your eminent daughter, the Princess Dr. Tahera Qutbuddin.
She is a renowned scholar. Received her PhD from Harvard. She taught at the University of Utah before receiving tenure at U Chicago. She regularly publishes and gives amazing talks and teaches as well on Islam, Islamic history and culture, and Arabic literature.
However, she chooses not to always do so in a rida which has been made clear by many who have seen her. Her dress appears more mainstream Muslim which probably helps her fit in perhaps. It is her choice and I personally can’t divulge her personal thoughts regarding her choice not to regularly wear rida as was Moula Burhanuddin’s khushi, however, I will say this – the actions of your daughter, the Princess, is something that you have condoned when you held the position of Mazoon during Burhanuddin Moula’s era and currently also do so as well. What you and your family does is your business and I don’t really care.
What I do care about, however, is your comments, your viewpoints, and your Islamophobic attacks and judgements on Dawoodi Bohras and our cultural and social ideologies and practices. Your comments are insensitive and unfair. You have painted our community as repressive against women. You have made it look like women don’t get educated and just cook and clean and worse – you have tried to say that this is the teaching and policy of Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin. You have really moved backwards in feminist thought. What you have done is set the premise – that if women follow tradition and learn how to make a home, make roti, and take care of their families and households that they are somehow backwards and unsophisticated. You have mocked our traditions and values all over the internet. You have taken a western – post-modern- feminist stance which was created in a completely separate cultural and historical setting in the west and used that paradigm on the Dawoodi Bohra way of life ; you did so not to compare but rather to condemn.
Also, your learned children, including Dr. Tahera Qutbuddin were complicit in this attack, even being academics. Yes- many academics use to do this once upon a time. We now call them Orientalists. In your country, in political power circles, they were called British colonialists. Anyhow, amongst this breed of scholars and colonists were those who looked at other cultures and their practices and values as somehow less valuable and primitive because they did not meet their elite western standards sprouting from Euro-Christian beliefs and practices. That type of thinking has been revealed for what it is in educated circles- a bitter fallacy and horrid racist ideology. We surely don’t believe that external colonialist powers have the right to judge us. You on the other hand, have taken our private religious and community affairs to judicial court as if we were still ruled by colonial powers and that the ‘powerful white man’ is more suited to judge than the actual practitioner themselves.
But unfortunately you and your learned children (who with PhD’s from great universities shouldn’t be doing this or thinking this way if they really valued their pursuit of universal knowledge with their doctorates) have still resolved to using prejudice, orientalist, and bigoted measures to try and prove your legitimacy and that you are somehow a more just and righteous leader. You and your children tried to attack the women in our community because you thought we were an easy target. It simply doesn’t work and people can see right through your ploy. We, Dawoodi Bohra women, never asked you to be our savior. We don’t need saving and we surely wouldn’t ask you or your family to fill that role – because your values are obviously different. We succeed in this world and reach to where we are because we follow Mufaddal Moula’s teachings. You – for whatever reasons I feel, can’t reconcile your own beliefs and cultural values with the modern world. You have chosen to adapt your identity and alter your principles regarding most things which we, the Dawoodi Bohras, cherish. You have a different view of the world which echos elitist, top-down, and superior rules inferior mentalities of a power structure. This is not what is prevailing in my experience within Dawoodi Bohra culture. It seems that you and your children find your own culture and its practices and values primitive while elevating other colonialist and prejudice ideologies and points of views above your own. Good for you. If it works for you then it works. I am glad that is how you get through life. But I equally find it irresponsible and reprehensible for you to think that we Dawoodi Bohra women are just stupid mindless disempowered people and that you somehow have to force your bigoted ideologies on us. You have painted us in the mainstream media in that way with interviews etc. in order to seek justification for what you’re doing. Mr. Qutbuddin, we are not your pawns. Don’t taint our impression in the world for something that we are not. You have distorted the message of Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin TUS for your own ploys and mischief. But its not going to work. We, the Dawoodi Bohras, have real women, with real lives, and real success stories which will prove you otherwise. And many of us have done so from humble roots and done it in a rida. Your daughters, with all their privileges and financial support that they have received from the community as having been part of your family, still couldn’t reconciliate their Bohra identity with their professional worlds. But they, and especially Tahera Qutbuddin shouldn’t judge those that value their own traditions and practices. So please try to use another tactic rather than your debased, amoral, and demeaning Islamophobic attacks on Dawoodi Bohra women and our cultural beliefs and practices. Just leave us alone and go about your own business!
Yours truly,
Zainab H.
A Strong Mumina Woman And Follower of Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin TUS
On your website and in other places you have raved about his eminence Taizoon Bhaisaheb Shakir as a true believer of your cause. He is currently your appointed Aamil in Las Vegas. In 2003 he launched a website voicing his confusion about your absence from Syedna Muhammad Burhanuddin’s TUS hazarat and the questions he had at that time regarding the position of the Mazoon. Without his sisters’ and cousins’ permission, he recorded their private telephone conversations and posted them all over the internet, claiming he was doing a noble khidmat for Dawat. That year he didn’t show up at Zikra, however his wife Nisreen came. A little ways after the Devdi Aqa Moula Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin was coming from someones house after a ziyafat, and his wife Nisreen was near. Burhanuddin Moula called her and said (paraphrasing) “Where is Taizoon? Has he come? Tell him that he has hurt me deeply (ehne kaho ke maru ghanu dil dukhayu che).” Moula’s words were most probably in reference to the awkward website of his personal questions that he made public. Where you are elevating his actions as a pious deed (as you have done the same by making Dawoodi Bohra community affairs public knowledge on the internet) Burhanuddin Moula did not hold his actions in any kind regard whatsoever.
Taizoon Shakir is also one of the only two people from the Qasre Aali (besides your intermediate family) who flocked to your call against the Dawoodi Bohra community. The other is Moiz Mohyuddin Poconoswala – another different Aamil (sans the wavy hair). So my question to you Mr. Qutbuddin is, is it fair to keep him as an aamil and in such an exalted position when his past actions caused so much turmoil to Burhanuddin Moula? Furthermore, I don’t think it is right that he get a such a position and it seems to me that nepotism and elitist mentalities have clouded your judgement for appointing him to such a high position. I have heard Aqa Moula Burhanuddin say in a waez once (again paraphrasing),
“Aamil ne ghanu showq hoi che ke pota na bachao ne agal bethawe. Magar ghani waqt bethawe ane lambha lambha baal hoi che. Ye durust nathi.”
So when I look at this picture (above), although I can understand that his job in Nevada might suit the identity and look he has chosen to have, on the other hand, I am pretty sure that Moula wouldn’t want an Aamil to be walking around without topi and sporting long wavy hair like he does. Furthermore is seems highly hypocritical that an Aamil do all of this and then come to the masjid at night and tell people to do the contrary. Aamils are suppose to be Moula’s baazoo, and strengthen his efforts and wishes. It is hard to do when they don’t want to do it themselves. Why is this kind of behavior acceptable by you? Is it because he is royal blood and gets a free pass to do as he pleases. I have never seen other Bhaisahebs and Aamils appear in this way? Why is everything so different on your side? Taizoon Bhaisaheb Shakir seems to be reaping all the benefits of belonging to a royal family, insisting he be made an Aamil of Nevada, and being one of the elite because of his birth – but it is certainly not because of his ‘amal. His past ‘amal did not make Burhanuddin Moula happy. On the contrary – his past deeds have hurt Burhanuddin Moula’s feelings deeply. My heart goes out to his poor wife and family. If you could possibly comment a bit on him I would appreciate it greatly. And do Aamils have to wear topi in your Da’wat? Is Qawmi libas out the window along with Qardan Hasana and other institutions that Burhanuddin Moula built?
I was looking up information for your markaz (community center) and masjid directories because I was interested in seeing the strength and cultural message of your Dawat and the scope of your new international places of worship. You always maintain that you’re continuing the true religion and message of Burhanuddin Moula and I just wanted to look into the veracity of that claim – just at its face value because convoluted theology can be fortified by speech and rhetoric to depict truth when actually reality is the only form of truth. What I mean to say is that when Burhanuddin Moula said that wearing topi, daari, and rida, and even when Taher Saifuddin Moula in a post-colonial era said that you shouldn’t shave or trim your beard if you love me and Imamuz Zaman, that message seems unequivocal. However, recently you wrote on your official website about your new masjids and community centers,
These community centers will help and support mumineen for religious and social activities. Each Markaz has aMas’ul (Coordinator) who is responsible for organizing and facilitating the following:
Ibaadat – Namaz and Majlis with Syedna’s TUS raza Mubarak.
Social Support (Zahra Hasanaat Activities) – Helping those who require medical, educational assistance (Qutbi Jubilee Scholarship Program).
Community gatherings – social g et-togethers
So I took a look at some of the heads and your new waali mullas [?], or whatever you are calling them according to your new policies and religion, whom you have designated for these centers –
For Pune you list
Mulla Shabbir bhai Haidermota
C 1004 Suyog Leher, Survey No.16 (2), Kondhwa, Budruk, Pune – 411048
Is this him?
Shabbir Haidermota – Pune
And for Boston you mention
“We are pleased present the Coordinator for Boston, Dr. Fehmida Chipty. Her detailed contact information is available here (on your website).”
Is this her?
For New Jersey you mention Munira Hamza,
Is this her?
For Detroit this person, Dr. Khairulla
Is this him?
Mufaddal Deesawala (Secundrabad)
Is this him?
Mukarram Patrawala in Toronto
Is this him?
There were others of this sort but I just wanted to inquire about the general selection of the heads of your communities and not about the individuals themselves. This is because I am just a little confused. Are these people the heads of your religious organizations and sort of like the acting waali Mullas? In Burhanuddin Moula’s era I just wasn’t use to seeing waali mullas who didn’t practice what Moula actually said. These people must be great people, however, if I looked at first glance and didn’t know them I really couldn’t tell that the teachings and principles of Burhanuddin Moula was emanating from them. Certainly, faith and religion cannot only be an inward identity – it should manifest on the outward appearance – especially in a culture that is structured around the ideas of a zahir and batin. I know for some people adopting this identity might be hard, but you would expect it from the leaders of community centers so they can act as an example for others to follow, no?
So I have a few questions for you, Mr. Qutbuddin. When will you have aamils at these centers and since no one from the Jamea accepts you how will you teach Aale Mohammed nu Ilm to Mumineen? Will you create a seminary school for these current religious leaders and other followers with your new Qutbi religious principles? Will it also be an online institution? I don’t understand the infrastructure of your organization and would really like to know more and I hope you can post something soon on your website explaining. Can Qutbi Bohras opt to not keep daaris and not maintain a cultural identity as long as they accept you as their religious leader. What else are you allowed to compromise in your faith? I find this all very fascinating. As for the members listed above, I also understand that they might channel their professionalism as an excuse for the absence of topis, ridas, and the presence of their trimmed daaris and goatees. That is their choice. However, you chose them as your community leaders and that was your choice. I am baffled – in Burhanuddin Moula’s era, the people who set out to establish the centers around the world just don’t look like the people who are currently leading your community centers and masjids. I feel that your message is clear – You’re Dawat seems to be about a certain moderation of practice and beliefs which is something really new. I was hoping you could share more on it as many are interested.
I hope you’re doing well, there haven’t been any personal updates or new videos of you on your website.
Sincerely,
Murtuza Ali
UAE
PS
Do you want to take Sk. Mohammed Raja off of your UK Manchester directory of Markaz since he has abandoned your cause?
Respected Prime Minister Modi paying his respects to Burhanuddin Moula RA and recently also to his Janisheen, Mufaddal Moula TUS.
Dear Mr. Qutbuddin 
