President Abdel Fattah was keen Sisito honor Sultan of the Bohra sect in India, Mufaddal Saif Al-DinAnd he was awarded the Nile Ribbon in appreciation of his continuous efforts in Egypt.
Today, Monday, August 7, President El-Sisi received Sultan Mufaddal Saif Al-Din, Sultan of the Bohra sect in India, accompanied by his sons Prince Jaafar Al-Sadiq Imad Al-Din, Prince Taha Najm Al-Din, and Prince Hussein Burhan Al-Din, in the presence of Major General Abbas Kamel, head of the General Intelligence, and Mufaddal Muhammad, representative Sultan in Cairo.
Honoring Sisi
Counselor Ahmed Fahmy, the official spokesman for the Presidency of the Republic, said that President Sisi welcomed Sultan Mufaddal Saif al-Din as a dear guest of Egypt, praising the historical relations between Egypt and the Bohra sect, and Sisi appreciated the appreciated role of the Sultan and the sect in Restoration and renewal of the shrines of Al al-Bayt And a number of historical Egyptian mosques, as well as various charitable activities in Egypt, in a way that integrates with the state’s efforts to achieve development, and its keenness to develop historic Cairo and restore its ancient civilizational character.
Who is Sultan Mufaddal Saifuddin?
Favorite Saifuddin is Bohra Sultan The current, and the second son of the late Bohra Sultan, Dr. Muhammad Burhanuddin, Mufaddal Saifuddin was born in the Indian city of Surat on August 20, 1946, and belongs to a family that inherited the leadership of the Bohra sect for a long time and converted to Islam since the dawn of its sun in the Indian subcontinent. His father raised and taught him The late Sultan Dr. Muhammad Burhan al-Din, and he had five sons, three males, the first of whom was Prince Jaafar al-Sadiq, then Prince Taha, then Prince Hussein, and two daughters.
According to the belief of the children Bohra sect And what their books stipulate, a new sultan does not assume their leadership except with a text and appointment from the previous sultan, so the late Sultan of Bohras, Dr. Muhammad Burhanuddin, appointed his son Mufaddal Saif al-Din as his successor, two years before his death in 2011 in the city of Mumbai in front of hundreds of thousands of members of the sect.
Who are the Bohras?
The Bohras are considered one of the most famous Islamic sects that triumphed for the Fatimid imamate of Ahmad al-Musta’li, against his brother Nizar al-Mustafa for the religion of God, after the death of their father, the Fatimid caliph al-Mustansir Billah in 1094, who chose his son al-Musta’li to be a ruler, so a dispute arose between the two brothers, and the dispute ended in favor of the Musta’li sect that was defeated With the defeat of the Fatimid state at the hands of Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi, who established the Ayyubid state and defeated the Fatimids and expelled them from Egypt in 1174, the Bohra spread to many countries of the world.
Bohra teams
The Bohra sect is divided into several sects, including the Dawoodi Bohras, in relation to Dawood Burhanuddin bin Qutb Shah, and they spread to India and Pakistan after moving their center from Yemen in the tenth century AH. from 40 countries around the world.
Among the sects belonging to the Bohras is also the “Sulaymaniyah” in relation to Suleiman bin Al-Hassan, and it is spread in Yemen and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Over the centuries, the Dawoodi Bohras migrated around the world wanting to prosper with their trade, and their small settlements grew into large, formal communities in many countries of the world.
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The first delegation of Bohras immigrated to Egypt in the sixties of the last century, and their number currently in Egypt is about 750, and a high percentage of them work in trade, and the word “Bohra” means merchant. Because of their belonging to the Fatimids, they often gather to perform prayers in the Fatimid Mosque of Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah and other Fatimid mosques.
Revival of Fatimid graves and mosques
The Bohra sect seeks to restore all the tombs and mosques related to the Fatimids, and they pay a lot of money for that, and their sultan contributed with appreciable efforts to restoring and renewing the shrines of Aal al-Bayt in Egypt, and a number of historical Egyptian mosques, including the tombs of Sayyidah Nafisa, Sayyidah Zaynab, and al-Husayn, and many activities charity in Egypt.
The Bohra sect is the main reason for the restoration of the Al-Hakim Mosque, by the command of Allah, and it also had an important role recently in the renovation of heritage and archaeological buildings from the shrines of the Ahl al-Bayt and mosques related to their beliefs, such as the mosques of Al-Aqmar, Sayyidah Zainab and Sayyidah Ruqayyah.
Bohras in Egypt
Most of the Bohras in Egypt work in trade and have many charitable activities. In recent years, the sect has supported the Long Live Egypt Fund. The Bohras use an Islamic lunar calendar in a special formula, which was developed since the time of the Fatimids and relies on astronomical calculations to determine the beginnings of the months, so it is fixed and differs by a difference of one or two days from the Hijri date.
Bohras also celebrate Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, in addition to other celebrations, including the celebration of the Prophet’s birthday, and on the 18th of the month of Dhu al-Hijjah, on the day of Ghadir Khumm, as well as commemorating the day of Ashura on the tenth of Muharram every year, and they are distinguished by their customs and traditions.
2023-08-08 00:00:20
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