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As Salaam Aleikum wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh.  (May Allah's Peace, Mercy and Blessings be upon all of you)

One of our brothers/sisters has asked this question:

assalamualaikum,
Br Burhan, ou might remeber me, I wrote to you some years ago. I am from Malaysia. This is not a queation, however, it is a request for permission.

I am planning to write and publish a book about my experience and some of the Bohra flasehood, insha Allah. Since we are publishers, I am encouraged to do it. There are many people who may not read from the internet and so it is necessary to reach them through books.

Since you have coverd some of the topics very well in the question and answers, I would like permission to use them in my book, due reference will be made to this website.

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Answer:

Sister from Malaysia

In the name of Allah, We praise Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright. We bear witness that there is no one (no idol, no person, no grave, no prophet, no imam, no dai, nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that Muhammad (saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.

Your Statement: Br Burhan, ou might remeber me, I wrote to you some years ago. I am from Malaysia.

Our beloved sister from Malyasia, Allah is our witness, not only we remember you, we constantly pray to Allah to bestow His Mercy upon you and grant you the steadfastness, the courage, and the wisdom needed to accomplish the noble mission you have taken upon yourself. May the Lord Most Majestic always keep you and your family in His infinite Protection and Mercy. Ameen.

Your Question: I am planning to write and publish a book about my experience and some of the Bohra flasehood, insha Allah. Since we are publishers, I am encouraged to do it. There are many people who may not read from the internet and so it is necessary to reach them through books.
You are absolutely right sister that there are a multitude of souls who have no access to a computer or might not even be proficient in the English language. Our only intention was, with the Help and Grace of our Lord Most Gracious, to reach as many of our beloved Bohra brethren as we can through the medium available to us. Allah is our witness sister, when we started this humble project, we only had a few subscribers and a thousand opponents who tried to shut down our site. Had the Lord Most Merciful not helped us and had mercy on us, never would we have been to able to continue our humble efforts in His Cause.

If you have access to publishers and distributers, it is indeed a brilliant idea to publish a book and try to propagate the Truth to the vast multitude of our brethren through books, and any other medium at your disposal. Beloved Sister, it is our ardent belief that if with our humble efforts, we are able to reach or save even one soul from their misguidance and bring them closer to their Lord and His Glorious Message, Allah is our witness, it would be amongst the most worthwhile effort of our lives.

Your Statement: Since you have coverd some of the topics very well in the question and answers, I would like permission to use them in my book, due reference will be made to this website.

Allah is our witness sister, we seek absolutely no fame or recognition or any reward for our humble efforts from anyone except our Lord Most Gracious; if our Lord accepts our humble and weak efforts in His service, we would consider ourselves amongst the most fortunate slaves of the Supreme and Majestic Lord.

Beloved Sister, we wish to have or hold absolutely no copyright, and any believer who wishes to further the Noble Cause of Allah and wishes to use any of our articles, they have our unconditional permission to copy any article they wish from our archives, regardless of whether they give due reference to our humble site or not.

If you believe that giving due reference to our humble site might help in bringing the person closer to their Lord and His Message, you may do so; but if you wish to give reference to our site only so that we might get some worldly credit for our works, honestly sister, we seek absolutely no worldly reward or fame or recognition for our humble and weak efforts. Our one and only desire is that the Truth of the Quran and the Sunnah reach as many souls as possible, and that our Lord Most Gracious may look at us with His Blessed Sight of Mercy and Forgiveness when we ultimately return to Him.

Thus my beloved sister, if your intentions are indeed the same as ours, use and copy as many articles from our archives as you wish without hesitation; and if there is anything we can do to help you in your noble mission, please do not hesitate in the least to write to us; we would consider it an honor and a pleasure if we are able to assist you in any way in your noble mission.

May Allah Subhanah accept yours and our humble and weak striving in His Cause, forgive us our short-comings, give you and us the patience, the wisdom, and the steadfastness needed to serve Him until our very last breath, and take you and us in His Sublime and Infinite Mercy; for indeed our Lord is the Most Merciful of all those who show mercy.

Whatever written of Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever of error is of me alone. Allah Alone Knows Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.

Your brother and well wisher in Islam,

Burhan