🌼 Facts and Marvels of Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin (RA)’s Life Part 02🌼
46. A second Al Jamea-tus-Saifiyah, Karachi – Arabic Academy is built by Syedna (RA) in 1983 in Karachi, Pakistan.
47. Aqa Maula (RA) has performed Haj five times.
48. Aqa Maula (RA) is the first Dai to perform the ziyarat of Maulana Ja’far ut taiyar (SA).
49. Aqa Maula (RA) has visited Egypt and England more than fifty times.
50. Aqa Maula (RA) has fasted ten years of 6Rajab-ul-Asab twice: once with Syedna Taher Saifuddin (RA) and later after becoming Dai-l-Mutlaq.
51. Twice every year on the 8th of
Moharram ul haram and the 19th of Ramadan ul Moazzam Aqa Maula (RA) invites each and every mumin throughout the world for niyaaz (Lunch/Dinner).
52. During his visit to North Africa, Syednaconfirmed the location of urf ud deek, literally the crest of the rooster from where Dajjal, the enemy of Imam Mansur (SA), fled.
53. Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin (RA) was the first Dai al Mutlaq to visit Europe and America and conduct Ashara Mubarakah in America.
54. “This is not the Key of the City, it is the key to our hearts.” This is what the Mayor of Houston said when he presented Syedna (RA) with the Key of Houston. Aqa Maula (RA) has been also presented with the key of Lahore, Dallas, Mombasa.
55. During his visit to Misr for the
dedication of the Zarih Mubarak ofMaulatena Zainab (SA), the President of Egypt, Mr. Anwar Sadaat appealed, “Egypt is your ancestral home. You must come here often.”
56. The chief protocol officer in Sydney, when he received Syedna (RA) said, ‘Ihave yet to see such a powerful and pious personality.’
57. Dr. Usman Yahya (now Mohammed Yahya) when he prayed namaaz with Syedna (RA) at Fatemi masjid, Mumbai, said afterwards, ‘today I felt like I prayed behind Rasulullah.’
58. Aqa Maula (RA) was once travelling on a ship. The captain came to know about his presence and paid a visit to Maula. Aqa Maula (RA) asked him what he would do in case his ship faced the danger of sinking. The captain, without any hesitation, replied, “As long as you are in my ship I need not fear that my ship will ever sink.”
59. Syedna (RA) is known in Arab countries as “Azamat us Sultan” meaning the “great soveriegn”.
60. Syedna (RA) is known in Kenya as “The Rain Maker.” Newspapers in Nairobi hailed him as “The Rain Maker” after the parched land of Kenya was blessed with rain due to Aqa Maula’s (RA) prayers.
61. During his visit to Jordan, Syedna (RA) is given the highest civic honour of the country, “Star of Jordan Class 1″.
62. Pakistan President Zia-ul-Haq states that the Syedna’s (RA) community is highly disciplined and that the world would be a better place if governed by Syedna (RA).
63. President of Yemen, His Excellency Ali Abdullah Saleh presents the sword to Syedna (RA).
64. Aqa Maula (RA) was known as the “Ambassador of Peace”.
65. Aqa Maula’s (RA)’s 25th and 50th Milaad Mubarak were celebrated in Mumbai.
66. Aqa Maula’s (RA) 75th Salgirah was celebrated in Surat along with the marriage celebrations of Aqa Maula’s (RA) youngest son, Shehzada Ammar Bhaisaheb Jamaluddin (DM).
67. Aqa Maula’s (RA) 80th Milaad Mubarak was celebrated by establishing the Burhani Foundation for the preservation of the environment. Mr. Arjun Singh, then Minister for the Environment along with other dignitaries and celebrities gathered at Turf Club, Mumbai to offer their felicitations.
68. Offering wishes on his 80th Salgirah, the Prime Minister of England Mr. John Major said, “Let’s celebrate his 100th birthday.
69. Aqa Maula (RA) was an excellent horse-rider and a skilled swimmer and shooter.
70. Syedna receives files and letters requesting benediction or counsel by the hundreds everyday. A file stays with Syedna for no more than 24 hours before it is answered.
71. “Take Bhai Burhanuddin with you; for beneath his feet lies wealth,” these are the words that Syedna Taher Saifuddin (RA) said to a mumin who had come to invite him to his house.
72. During one of his recent visits to London, Aqa Maula (RA) said, “I feel like home here.”
73. Aqa Maula’s (RA) Milaad Mubarak has been celebrated in Medina, Kerbala, Misr and Yemen.
74. Syedna’s audience for his community often runs into several hours as he personally listens to individuals, sometimes numbering 3000.
75. Aqa Maula (RA) was very particular about punctuality and maintains his schedules with clock like precision.
76. Aqa Maula (RA) has visited Norway and witnessed the phenomenon of the “Midnight Sun.”
77. Aqa Maula (RA) was the first Dai to visit Mauritius, and the Australian continent.
78. Aqa Maula (RA) has visited the Niagara Falls in Canada and the Victoria Falls in Zambia.
79. Never before have so many masajid been constructed as in Aqa Maula’s (RA) era.
80. Syedna (RA) spoke several languages: Arabic, Lisan ud Dawat, Gujarati, Urdu, Hindi, and English.
81. Aqa Maula (RA) personally supervised the annual examination of Al-Jamea- tus-Saifiyah, the Arabic Academy in Surat. He himself assigns the marks of shafahi, the oral examination.
82. Syedna (RA) personally tutored his children and grand-children in religious texts for several hours at a stretch.
83. Syedna (RA) has performed nikaah of mumineen in trains and even onboard a plane.
84. Aqa Maula (RA) has travelled in all forms of transport including the liner Queen Elizabeth, the supersonic jet “Concorde” and the world’s fastest train at that time, “The Eurostar.”
85. Syedna (RA) cruised in the Rotterdam to Bait uil Muqaddas and in the QE II to Singapore.
86. While travelling to remote villages in India, Aqa Maula (RA), accompanying his father, has also journeyed on bullock carts.
87. Syedna’s (RA) voice at the age of ninety plus was so clear that a computer analysis in Germany interpreted it to be the voice of a 40 year old.
88. Following the injunction of Quran, Aqa Maula (RA) has strictly and successfully prohibited the transaction of interest in the community. To help mumineen prosper in their businesses, Aqa Maula (RA) has established “Burhani Qardan Hasanah” and contributed crores of rupess to its corpus every year.
89. Aqa Maula (RA) has established a number of foundations for the benefit and upliftment of Mumineen like the Saifee Memorial Foundation, Amatullah Aai Memorial Foundation, Syedna Taher Saifuddin Memorial Foundation, Saifee Burhani Upliftment Trust to name to a few.
90. Aqa Maula (RA) has also established ‘Faiz Amaaken Anwar’ to enable Mumineen to buy houses of their ownership.
Iltemas Ud Dua.
