Abdullah (Ismaili Mustaali Missionary): Difference between revisions

Moulai '''Abdullah'''<ref>{{cite book |title=The Tribes and Castes of Bombay |volume=1 |first=R. E. |last=Enthoven |page=199 |year=1922 |isbn=81-206-0630-2 |publisher=Asian Educational Services |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FoT6gPrbTp8C&pg=PA199}}</ref><ref> [https://books.google.com/books?id=2duQAAAAMAAJ The Bohras], By: Asgharali Engineer, Vikas Pub. House, p.109,101</ref><ref>[https://www.geni.com/people/Maulai-Abdullah/6000000014044077609]; www.geni.com/people/Maulai-Abdullah. </ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=r_FExBRnC3YC&printsec=frontcover&dq=mullah+main+frame+ahmed+jonah&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8ib2Xo6fPAhWFl5QKHaUtDAgQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=mullah%20main%20frame%20ahmed%20jonah&f=false]; p.33; ‘act of al Mustansir was sending  missionaries to Gujarat’</ref><ref>[http://www.amaana.org/articles/Ismailidawa.htm#Ismaili Survival Amidst Fatimid Collapse]; The Ismaili da'wa Outside the Fatimid dawla, by Daftary, F. "The Ismaili da'wa Outside the Fatimid dawla," in L'Egypte Fatimide: Son Art et Son Histoire, Marianne Barrucand (ed.) pp. 29 - 43. Paris: Presses de l'Universite de Paris-Sorbonne; ‘around 460AH/1067AD, Yamani da`is were dispatched to Gujarat under the close supervision of the Sulayhids’</ref> ({{Lang-ar|مولاي عبدالله}}) was the first [[Ismaili]], [[Fatimid]], [[mustaali]] [[saint]] who came to Cambay (Khambat), Gujarat in India in about 1067 AD (460AH) from [[Haraz Mountains]], [[Yemen]]. [[Syedi Nuruddin]] was his companion who also visited Imam [[Al-Mustansir Billah]], Egypt. He joined the Ismaili faith under Fatimid Dai [[Mu'ayyad fi'l-Din al-Shirazi]], and came back to Khambat, India to propagate the [[Taiyabi]] faith. His earlier name was Balam Nath.<ref>[http://ismaili.net/heritage/node/8200,] 12.0 The Fatimid Da'i Al-Mu'ayyad: His Life , by: Dr. Abbas Hamdani, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (U.S.A.): "The spread of the Da'wa in Deccan and its origin in al-Mu'ayyad is mentioned by Khwaj b. Malik in his Majmu' (p. 1 3) as follows:' In the district of Deccan there is a village called Daham Gam. lman (faith) spread in this district from this village, just as in Gujarat it spread from Cambay. In this village there were two .men who acquired knowledge, then proceeded from India, in the time of al-Mustansir, to Egypt and joined the lsma'ili faith at the bidding of Sayyidna al-Mu'ayyad from whom they acquired much knowledge. Their names were (Ba)Lam Nath(known as Moulai Abdullah) and Rup Nath (later called Mawla'i Nurad-Din). Both of them returned from Egypt to their native village, (Khambat(Cam Bay, and) Daham Gam(near Aurangabad), where their tombs still exist near Aurangabad."</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Sayeed|first=Ahmed|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8MknEAAAQBAJ&q=Baalam+Nath&pg=PA2|title=Burning Endurance|publisher=Sankalp Publication|isbn=978-93-90636-83-9|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-07-14|title=The Early Indian Islamic Missionaries|url=https://today.salamweb.com/the-early-indian-islamic-missionaries-and-what-you-should-know-about-them/|access-date=2021-04-25|website=SalamWebToday|language=en-US}}</ref>

The [[da'i]] named Ahmad once took two the Gujarati orphans (Abdullah and [[Syedi Nuruddin|Nuruddin]]) to [[Cairo]], trained them in the [[Isma'ilism|Ismaili]] doctrine, and sent them back to Gujarat as missionary. Abdullah laid the foundation of the [[Dawoodi Bohra|Bohra]] community.{{sfn|Blank|2001|p=37}} According to the Bohra myths, [[Jayasimha Siddharaja|Jayasimha]] sent an army to capture Abdullah, but Abdullah converted him to Islam by performing miracles and by exposing the purported miracles of Hindu [[pandit]]s as fake. There is no evidence that Jayasimha ever gave up Shaivism, but several of the Bohra [[List of Dai of Dawoodi Bohra#The Walī-ul-Hind|Walis and Da'i al-Mutlaqs]] claimed descent from him.{{sfn|Blank|2001|p=38}} These included [[Ismail Badruddin I|Syedna Ismail]], the 34th [[Da'i al-Mutlaq]].{{sfn|Blank|2001|p=44}}