The Historical Relations between Egypt and the Bohra Sect: Sultan Mufaddal Saif Al-Din’s Role in Restoring Egyptian Mosques

2023-08-12 23:00:00

Sunday, August 13, 2023 02:00 AM

Al-Youm Al-Sabea TV broadcast, special coverage prepared by colleague Mahmoud Hassan and presented by colleague Muhammad Abu Laila, regarding the participation of Mufaddal Saif Al-Din, Sultan of the Bohra sect in India, in the opening of the Sayyidah Nafisa Mosque following its renovation work. The Official Spokesman for the Presidency of the Republic, “The historical relations between Egypt and the Bohra sect, praising the appreciated role of the Sultan and the sect in restoring and renewing the shrines of Aal al-Bayt and a number of historical Egyptian mosques.

President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi granted Sultan Bohra the Nile Ribbon in appreciation of his continuous efforts in Egypt on the cultural, charitable and societal levels.

Mufaddal Saif al-Din is the current Sultan of Bohras and the second son of the late Sultan of Bohras, Dr. Muhammad Burhan al-Din. In the literature of the sect, he is not called a sultan, but rather “the preacher” and he is the 53rd preacher of the sect, and his followers call him “the preacher or Maulana.”

Mufaddal Saif al-Din was born in the Indian city of Surat on August 20, 1946. His father, the late Sultan Dr. Muhammad Burhan al-Din, took over his upbringing and education. He has five sons, three males, the first of whom is Prince Jaafar al-Sadiq, then Prince Taha, then Prince Hussein, and two daughters.

According to what the people of the Bohra sect believe and stipulate in their books, a new sultan does not assume their leadership except with a text and appointment from the previous sultan. Therefore, the late Bohra sultan, Dr. Muhammad Burhanuddin, appointed his son Mufaddal Saif al-Din as his successor and crown prince, two years before his death in 2011 in the city of Mumbai in front of hundreds of Thousands of people of this sect.

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