The episode (12/29/2024) of the program “Mawazine” highlighted the Bohra sect, its origins and beliefs, and the difference between it and other Shiite sects, as well as its diffusion, particularly in the Arab and Islamic countries.
Professor of comparative jurisprudence at Al-Azhar University, Abdel-Warith Othman, defines Bohra as one of the Ismaili Shiite sects, named after Ismail bin Jaafar Al-Sadiq. He said that this sect grew over the ages until it reached its present form. in Egypt, the western Arabian Peninsula, Yemen and Morocco.
Bassam Al-Amoush, professor of doctrine and contemporary doctrines at the University of Jordan, explains that the Bohra differs from the Twelver Shiite sect with regard to imams, such as it was with Ismail just like the Zaidiyyah with Zaid ( Imam Zaid bin Ali Zain Al-Abidin bin Al-Hussein bin Ali bin Abi Talib).
Also, the last Imam according to the Twelvers is Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Askari, whom they say is waiting, and this does not exist among the Bohras, who say that the Imam is not hidden and that no one wait. him.
The Bohra sect shares with the rest of the Shiite sects their belief in the infallibility of the Imams.
The professor of comparative jurisprudence at Al-Azhar University emphasizes – in his interview with the “Mawazine” program – that the Bohra sect is divided into two parts, the Bohra “Mustalili” and the Bohra “Nizari”, which both consider there others were infidels, and from these two sections were born the sects “Hashshashin”, “Ismaili” and “Batiniya” “And it was they who stole the Black Stone from Mecca.
Unlike the rest of the Shiite sects who believe that the pillars of Islam are 5 in number, as is the case among the Sunnis, the Bohras have made the pillars of Islam 7, adding to them “guardianship and purity.” These times are not obligatory, and it is in the first ten days of Dhul-Hijjah that Friday prayer is also canceled among them, so they do not pray it, as confirmed by the professor of comparative jurisprudence at the University Al-Azhar.
For his part, the professor of doctrine and contemporary doctrines at the University of Jordan claims that the Bohras destroyed the pillars of Islam, after demolishing the pillars of faith, and declared that their qibla is Mumbai in India , and not the Holy Kaaba.
The professor of comparative jurisprudence at Al-Azhar University warns that the Bohra sect “represents a serious threat to the Sunni sect”, stressing that this sect is active in the Islamic world in order to spread the principles on which it was founded, and “He gives people as much confusion as some ordinary people want.” Apart from all the Shiite sects – continues the same speaker – the Bohras have money and have achieved extreme wealth, and they spend lavishly on their intellectual project in Arab countries. And Islamic.
In the same context, the professor of doctrine and contemporary doctrines at the University of Jordan affirms on the program “Mawazine” that “the Bohras have no political objective, but they pay the price of the situation when they confuse people and make them doubt their religion,” but he stressed that true Islamic consciousness makes those who belong to this sect have no value, and he demanded that they be stripped and exposed.