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THE ORIGIN OF THE BORRAS THE famous Gujrati book Ras Mala says: "The Bhats are of opinion that the Brahmans and the Mahajans ( money• lenders) converted to Islam in the reign of Ahmad Shah I, ruler of Gujrat (813 A.
H. ) wnting incidentally of the Bohras in his book Majalistu'l-Mu'minin says that three hundred years before his time, a learned missionary of this sect, Mulla 'Ali came to India and made converts, who became numerous later on," This assertion is also not true, for we believe on the strength of M aja.
' "3 A book written by the brother of Muhammad Siddiq, the Bohra missionary of Ahmedabad, and contemporary of Nuru'llah Shustrl contains on the margin the following line: '\.
This gives us to suppose that this word is Arabic, and our supposition is supported by the origin of some of the Bohra families living in Ahmedabad, viz.
That Muslim traders came to India in the first century AH.
These evidences prove conclusively that Arab traders ( Bohras) came to India not in the 7th century A.
In the Introduction of this book, the author says that' one Sheykh Ahmad Qureyshi came to Khambat from Madinah and settled there.
He says that in India the Nee-Muslims call themselves Sheykh Siddiqi, because they believe they have followed in the true wake of Shevkh Abu Bakr As-Siddiq by adopting Islam.
Muhammad Amin Madani writes: " They ( the Bohras) came to India ( Gujrat and Sind) from Yemen and settled here.