An estimated 10,000 Dawoodi Bohra members from East Africa gathered in Mombasa for a week of celebrations and hearing sermons from world spiritual leaders.
The leader, His Holiness Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin, the 53rd Aldai Al-Mutlaq of Bolas, arrived in Mombasa on Friday after a brief stop in Nairobi. Al-Dai al-Mutlaq is the most senior spiritual position and office in the community and means absolute missionary. Dawoodi Bohras is a close-knit community of Shia Muslims.
Hamza Shula, Mombasa’s Bohra community coordinator, said there are more than 2,000 members of the Bohra community in the port city and more than 10,000 in total in East Africa.
Shura said the arrival of their spiritual leader was doubly gratifying because he had returned from Cairo where he inaugurated the shrine of Sayyida Zainab, a place of blessing and worship for the community. Told.
The death anniversary of the late Syedna Abdeali Saifuddin (42nd) is to be celebrated in Mombasa and is revered among the Bohra people for encouraging them to embrace East Africa as their new homeland.
“The 52nd leader, the late Syedna Mohamed Burhanuddin, together with Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin, laid the foundation stone for the academy’s Nairobi campus, which opened in April 2017,” Shura said. .
Shula, who spoke at Moi International Airport in Mombasa, said spiritual leaders, including the current one, have played important and influential roles in the country’s spiritual, business and educational communities.
“Our religious rituals are linked to social and environmental causes, so participating in these gatherings is a source of spiritual opportunity to serve humanity,” Quresh Zakir said.
