The Height Of Qutbi Hypocrisy

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.

Hope your health is improving,

Warm wishes,

Zainub Mansoor bhai.

Karachi, Pakistan