Moulatuna Fatema Shahaadat Night,

Husaini Masjid, Bombay

(Wednesday, 10 Jumadil Ula 1421h; 9 Aug 2000)

Bayan Highlights

This shahadat night of Mawlatuna Fatema AS, 10 Jamadil-ula 1421AH, such was the dazzling splendour and soul-enlightening shaan of waaz of Mazoon-e-Dawat-e-Fatimiya, that no words are eloquent enough to describe it. For two unbelievable hours in the lives of thousands of mumineen gathered at Husaini masjid Bombay, the barakaat of ibdai faiz of Syedna Taher Saifuddin and Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin was flowing to them through their beloved Mazoon Mola tus. I will try in my humble words to express at least some of those priceless words.

Mazoon Mola tus addressed mumineen by saying that you are the people who have given ahd, mithaq, to Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin tus and to Imam Tayyib AS. And are thereby living in the haram-e-aamin, the fortified sanctuary of Dawat Fatimiyya; with the doa of dai Fatimi, Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin tus. Syedna al-Muayyad al-Shirazi was muayyad of Allah taala and Imam AS. He then became muayyid to the duat mutlaqeen of satr. The doat who are moayyad thus, then themselves become muayyid, to the hudud of the dawat. Mazoon Mola tus said that I do this bayan with the barakaat of nazaraat from Daiz-zaman Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin Aqa tus.

Molatuna Fatema, as Syedna Taher Saifuddin says in his qasida, is the fifth of the panjatan paak. Her name has five letters. Mazoon Mola tus outlined five nisbat, attributions, of Molatuna Fatema AS:

1. She is the daughter of Syedul-mursaleen Mohammad SLA. A mumin who does mohabbat of Rasulullah, would he not do mohabbat of Fatema, his daughter? Of course he would, even more. Because of mohabbat of panjatan, mumin will ascend to the heavens. Human beings are many, but this nemat is for mumineen only, because they have firmly gripped the daman of Dai-e-panjatan Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin tus.
2. Molatuna Fatema is the dulhan of Aqa-e-dojahan Amirul-mumineen AS, whose shadi Allah taala first performed in the heavens and then Rasulullah in a procession of malaikat here. Because of that shadi Islam and Iman came together and were strenghthened. And because of it mumineen will receive the nemat of going to jannat. Shiato aliyyin hum-ul-faizoon.
3. She is the mother of Imamain aqdasain Hasan and Husain. Fatema was married to Ali two years from the time of hijrat to Madina. In the third year Hasan was born and 11 months later Husain. Molatuna Fatema took the feathers of Jibrail and put it in the tawiz of Hasan and Husain. Children should always be made to wear tawiz. Mazoon Mola tus said that one child was drowning, but he was saved by a tawiz; the others with him were not so fortunate. The child later said that at the moment I began to drown, I remembered Aqa Mola tus and was somehow saved. Fatema is also the mother of Aimmat Tahereen. The chain of Imamat will continue in the progeny of Fatema AS until the day of qiyamat. They are aale-Mohammad, the descendants of Mohammad Rasulullah SLA through her.
4. The doat Mutlaqeen of satr are Doat Fatimiyyin. When Aqa Mola tus puts down his signature, he writes: al-Dai al-Fatimi Mohammad Burhanuddin. Syedna Taher Saifuddin named one of his risalats Balagh al-Doat al-Fatimiyyin. One latif zikr is that Jibrail swept the house of Molatuna Fatema. Doat mutlaqeen in satr are sweeping the Dawat of Fatema's son Imam-uz-Zaman, keeping it clean of corruption, keeping the shariat clean from wrongful interpretation and practice, where so many other sects have gone that way. Aqa Mola tus often says that we pray namaz exactly as Rasulullah SLA did more than 1400 years ago, we do not tie our hands. Mazoon Mola tus fervently urged mumineen, that these doat are guiding you on the right path in the face of adversity and wrongfulness. Therefore be guided by their guidance, listen to it with your hearts, and practice it with your minds and bodies. As Molatuna Fatema is the Maa-saheba of Imams, so Molatuna Hurrat ul-Maleka is the Maa-saheba of Doat. She is of greatest shaan and her standing is high in the eyes of her Imam. It was on her hands that the doat were appointed.
5. Syedna Taher Saifuddin says in his qasida written in Molatuna Fatema's shaan that dawat is renowned as the Dawat Fatimiyya. When Syedna Taher Saifuddin once visited Lahore after being appointed Chancellor of Aligarh University, he visited their university there. In the Islamic history department he said that your curriculum is incomplete. All the officials, teachers and professors of the university were taken aback by what Syedna Taher Saifuddin said. He then said that you teach the history of the Umayyads and the Abbasids extensively, but you do not even make a mention of the Fatimids, who ruled in great splendour in Egypt and North Africa for 200 years, which were the golden years of that region. Mazoon Mola tus said that there was a muslim scholar in Beirut who said to him: I have studied the history of all the great muslim empires and all of them ruled with pomp, but none of them ruled according to Islam and shariat the way the Fatimiyyin did. A professor of Harvard University, USA, invited Mazoon Mola tus to lunch. He said that I am an expert in Islamic history and a professor of Harvard therefore I do not say this just to please you. Of all communities, he said, I have the highest respect and esteem for the Dawoodi Bohra Community. They have made prosper both deen and duniya. Mazoon Mola tus said that it is the guidance and benevolence of Doat Mutlaqeen that have brought such prosperity of both deen and duniya to mumineen, especially Syedna Taher Saifuddin and our Aqa Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin tus. Mazoon Mola tus recalled that Ibrahim was the most unworthy son of Adamjee Peerbhai, and a dushman of Dai and Dawat, who brought many cases against Dawat in court. Once when Syedna Taher Saifuddin's motorcade was passing by, Ibrahim was standing on the roadside with a renowned historian, an Englishman. The historian himself related that Ibrahim said to him at that time that the one sitting in this car is destroying the the name of the Fatimyyin. I immediately replied, the historian further related, saying that it is you who are the enemy of Fatimi Dawat. Syedna Taher Saifuddin Saheb is the one and only person today who has taken the Dawat Fatimiya to the greatest heights of splendour and prosperity. Mazoon Mola tus said that today Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin tus has flown the flag, the parcham of Dawat Fatimiya in the highest skies, and has spread it north south east and west.

Having concluded the five nisbat of Molatuna Fatema AS Mazoon Mola tus said that we mumineen are the most fortunate of this world that we have received the nemat of all of those five nisbat and attributions. May Khuda Taala give us tawfeeq and strength, that having given mithaq to this Dawat Fatimiyya, we may live every breath of our lives in the khidmat of Dai and Dawat, every aspect of it according to the shariat of Rasululluh SLA. So that what the Imam has said may come true in us: "May Allah taala make your lives our lives, and your end our end."

Then Mazoon Mola tus did shahadat zikar of Imam Husain and then Molatuna Fatema in such pur-dard andaz that every eye in the masjid wept tears and tears, and every voice in spontaneous expression of grief said Ya Husain and Ya Fatema.

May Allah taala give longest life to our Aqa Mola tus till day of qiyamat, and Mazoon Mola tus and give him afzalul-jaza from all those hearts and minds that were filled with the light of truth and aqida, and melted with the grief of Husain and Fatema, on that night. And may He keep by vasila of panjatan Aimmat and Doat all mumineen in His safekeeping and in happiness and prosperity always in the saya of Da'iz-zaman Syedna Mohammad Burhanuddin - "Zindabad."

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