I Call His Highness Prince Husain Qutbuddin To Mubahalah!

His Royal Highness the Prince Husain Qutbuddin, the founder and spokesperson of Fatemidawat.com, sporting a black trouser and black striped shirt with a Dawoodi Bohra traditional cap known as the topi. He is holding the pen his father blessed for him and prayed upon. In Fatimi fiqh, white was the color of the Fatimiyeen and black was considered the official color of the Banul Abbas. The contrast between black and white of Husain Qutbuddin is very stunning and he looks dashing in both outfits (see below).

His Highness Prince Dr. Husain Qutbuddin, a renowned academic, wearing white and preaching to the Qutbi Bohras and invoking mubahala.

Dear Mr. Qutbuddin,

      I am officially calling your son, His Royal Highness Prince Dr. Husain Qutbuddin to mubahala. In a You Tube video shortly after the demise of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin RA (while the community was still in mourning), you and later your beloved son, Husain Qutbuddin, invoked mubahala, to call the Dawoodi Bohras (your former community) to a debate about who was the correct Syedna (although historically this has no precedence in intercommunal affairs and originated between Muslims and Christians.) The history behind this word goes back to the time of the prophet Muhammad Rasullullah SAW. The word mubahala refers to an ayat in the Qur’an 3:61-62 which translates as,

“This revelation, and this wise admonition, we recite to you. Jesus is like Adam in the sight of God. He created Him of dust and said to Him ‘Be,’ and He was. This is the truth from your Lord; therefore, do not doubt it. To those who dispute with you concerning Jesus after the knowledge ye have received, say, ‘Come let us gather our sons and your sons, our wives and your wives, our people and your people. We will pray together and call down the curse of God (la’nat) on the ones who lie.”

I think your son, Prince Husain Qutbuddin, has memorized the Qur’an so you and he should be well aware of the historical origins of this ayat. What occurred is that in 631, a Christian delegation from Najran which consisted of seventy members came to Medina to debate religion with Rasullullah SAW. The debate, as is evident from the ayat above, was related to the divine nature of Jesus Christ and the belief that Islam was the only one true religion. Both parties got a little charged in the debate and so the Prophet Muhammad recited the ayat above and called the Christians of Najran to come the next day on the 15th of January 631. The calling to the mubahala included men (the sons), womenfolk (wives), and members of both communities. The point of the invocation was so that the disputing parties, Muslims and Christians, could invoke Khuda Taala to pray la’nat and curse the party who was not correct. Therefore, the devil is in the details. Calling mubahala is a serious matter in Islam and results in la’nat. Dr. Husain Qutbuddin and most of your followers have maintained that they have taken the moral high ground and refrained from la’nat and such deeming it an archaic practice. Yet you and your son, His Highness, called to pray la’nat on the Dawoodi Bohra establishment and hierarchy in order to purport you, Mr. Khuzeima Qutbuddin, as the head of the community with your continuous calls to mubahala. Besides the theological problems in calling other Muslims to such a debate, as this was an intracommunal matter, it also is very odd that you chose to do this while everyone was mourning the loss of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin RA. Mubahala, according to the Quran, includes men from both sides, women from both sides, and followers from both sides as mentioned above. Therefore, you were ready to start a debate and pray la’nat on the 99.89 % of Dawoodi Bohras who don’t follow Mr. Qutbuddin (I assume you believe you are on the correct side) while they had just lost their spiritual father. Without saying too much, I hope you do understand the serious moral dilemma that this represents.

In any case, let us put that in the past. Today, I also invoke mubahala, and call your learned and eminent son, Husain Qutbuddin to mubahala as is according to your own Qutbi Bohra practices. I also invoke your  sons and our sons, your womenfolk and our womenfolk, your people and our people, to debate on this website to see who is right. I am sure that you will answer the call to mubahala now that I have invoked you.

Allah bless you all,

Yours truly,

Farazdaq

 (note to readers: please forward to info@fatemidawat.com so it might reach His Highness Prince Husain Qutbuddin and to other readers via social apps so that the call to mubahila is answered by the prince.)