Following interview of Rohit Dodhia, Nairobi, by Mudar Patherya


I am a Jain and my fore fathers are from Jamnagar. We – muy wife and I – had been childless for many years and even as there was no medical complication, the general conclusion was that this was on account of stress.

Coincidentally, His Holiness Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin Saheb was in Nairobi in 1984 and our friend Amama Esufali took me to him for dua.

 His Holiness asked us to bring two bottles of water and a kilogram of sugar. We went to meet him again the following day. He prayed for us, gave us each a taaveez to wear and asked my wife to drink the water with three spoonfuls of sugar before brushing her teeth in the morning.

That water and sugar lasted for about three weeks. My wife conceived in three months.

My daughter is about 24 today. I would dearly like to go back and tell him a grateful ‘thank you’ but he is here for short visits and the programme is so tight that it is difficult to get an audience.

So I think will have to tell him a deeply grateful ‘thank you’ through this interview.

Thank you!

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