Explaining Past Events

Our lament for the martyrs of Karbala is unlike any other grief. Although innumerable tragedies and calamities have befallen since then, whether they are atrocities or natural disasters, at some point they are relegated to the annals of history. Not Karbala. We mourn Karbala as though we had seen it with our eyes.

In the height of the full scale attack on Syedna Khuzaima Qutbuddin immediately after the wafaat of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin RA, there was a sea of calm but intense activity in the inner sanctum of Syedna Qutbuddin’s residence Darus Sakina in Thane

The darkness of the night after Syedna Burhanuddin RA passed away lasted for many days - the sun of our lives, Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin was no more. The thickness of the heavy clouds that darkened the skies seemed ever increasing as we faced the most testing hours, days and months of our lives.

The ascension of each Dai to the takht of Dawat, the throne of Imam-uz-zamaan’s vicegerency (niyaabat) is indeed a momentous occasion. No worldly coronation compares to it. This is not a...

The month of Rabiul Aakhar is indeed the month of Milads: the Milad of Imam-uz-Zaman on the 4th and the Milad of three Dais, the 52nd, 53rd and 54th Dai-z-zaman TUS (20th, 29th and 26th...

Immense grief, tragic and unbearable loss, and the enormity of the task ahead. When our Aqa Mola Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin RA passed away, his Mazoon and successor, now 53rd Dai, Syedna Khuzaima Qutbuddin RA was faced with one of the biggest challenges of his long and steadfast service of Dai and Dawat. But the weight of the responsibility lay on experienced and wise shoulders.

In summary, a delegation came to Rasulullah SA from Najraan and challenged his characterization of Eisa Nabi AS as Allah’s Prophet and servant (Abdullah). Rasulullah affirmed his position and the angel Jibra’il conveyed to Rasulullah Allah’s command to challenge the Najraan delegation to mubahalat.

On the 17th of Shabaan 1385 (10th December 1965), Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin RA took the first Misaq of Mumineen as the 52nd Dai al-Mutlaq. In the Majlis in Saify Masjid, Syedna Burhanuddin RA delivered bayaan before the recitation of the Ahdul-Awliya’ ibarat. In this bayaan he publicly appointed Syedna Khuzaima Qutbuddin RA as his Mazoon, referring to him thrice as his “most beloved son.”

As we observed the 40th day since Syedna Khuzaima Qutbuddin’s RA wafaat, Chehlum, our sorrow was renewed. We remembered that it was less than two and a half years ago that we mourned the wafaat of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin RA.

As in every journey in life, Syedna Qutbuddin’s reliance was on Allah Ta’ala in his final journey. Syedna Qutbuddin manifested the virtue of Ibrahim Nabi’s tawakkul both in life and in wafaat.