When
demolition of Babri Masjid took place majority of the Muslim community was
fuming on what had transpired without considering the facts that were
established beyond doubt by Ex-ASI Bhopal region's Superintending Archaeologist
K.K. Muhammed with the other team members in the memorandum submitted to Indian
Government that there was temple beneath their construction of the Mosque by
Babar.
A masjid
is only a place for prayer unlike a Hindu Temple Where the idol of the relative
God will be founded with Relative aura by Vedic Pundits. During the earlier
Yugas these rituals were headed by great sages like Vaishta, Viswamitra, atri,
jamadagni, agastya and the like.
Only in
India we see the hue and cry of certain major groups of Muslims for
reconstruction of Ram Mandir where Babri Masjid was built by destroying the
erstwhile Ram Mandir. The following are the examples of Mosques destructed in
the Muslim Countries by the respective Muslim Rulers.
The
destruction of sites associated with early Islam is an ongoing phenomenon that
has occurred mainly in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia, particularly
around the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
The
demolition has focused on mosques, burial sites, homes and historical locations
associated with the Islamic prophet Muhammad and many of the founding
personalities of early Islamic history.
The then
rulers Hejaz followed the tradition without deviation.
When the
power was transferred from the administrative authority of the Hejaz into the hands of Wahabi Muslims Wahabi Ulama (a body of Muslim scholars who
are recognized as having specialist knowledge of Islamic sacred law and theology.),
viewed local religious practices as unfounded superstition superseding codified
religious sanction that was considered a total corruption of religion and the
spreading of heresy.[5] What followed was a removal of the physical
infrastructure, tombs, mausoleums, mosques and sites associated with the family
and companions of Muhammad.
The
twenty-first century has seen an increase in the demolition of sites in Mecca
and Medina by Saudi authorities, alongside expansion of luxury development in
the place of tombs, mosques and sites associated with the family and companions
of Muhammad. (Google search)
More than
100 mosques will be demolished to make way for an expansion of the largest
mosque in Madinah, Islam’s second holiest city, the Ministry of Islamic Affairs
and Endowments said, according to the Saudi Gazette.
(https://www.arabianbusiness.com)
We come to
Portugal to see what had happened to mosques. Most of the former Portuguese
mosques were built and used as Muslim places of worship during the Al-Andalus
era when several Muslim Moorish kingdoms and empires ruled large parts of the
Iberian Peninsula including most of modern Portugal. Many former mosques and
Islamic religious buildings were either converted into churches or demolished
after the Christian Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula.
In
Mertola(Municipality) of Portugal which is in best preserved former mosque and
a mixture of Almohad and Manueline architecture, last rebuilt in second half of
12th century but some elements date to 9th century, was modified In 1532 as a church reducing its size from 6
sections & 20 columns to 4 sections & 12 columns.
Twenty
four years after the demolition of Babri Masjid, a former archaeologist has
come out with the allegation that Left historians like Irfan Habib and Romila
Thapar had thwarted an amicable settlement to the Babri Masjid issue. The
allegation made by Dr. KK Muhammed, former Regional Director (North) of
Archaeological Survey of India, in his autobiography titled Njan Enna
Bharatiyan (I an Indian) in Malayalam also claim that remains of a Hindu temple
were found during the excavation made by a team of archaeologists headed by
Professor BB Lal, then director general of the Archaeological Survey of India
during 1976-77, in which he was also a member.
The
autobiography released on Sunday has become a debating point among historians
in Kerala. While renowned historian MGS Narayanan fully agree with Muhammed,
Left centric historians like Dr KN Panikkar dubbed the arguments raised by the
author as baseless and aimed at giving leverage to the BJP which is making all
out efforts to open an account in Kerala assembly in the upcoming election. (First
Post, Thursday January 10th, 2019)
Swasthi.
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