12-04-2004, 01:03 AM
There was no temple
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Zafaryab Jilani, Convenor, Babri Masjid Action Committee and member, All India Muslim Personal Law Board
I feel judgement by the court of law is the only solution for the Ayodhya dispute. All efforts for negotiations failed. Even a dialogue between the Shankaracharya, Jayendra Saraswati, and Chairman of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board and subsequently Shankaracharya's letter could not cut any ice. In my opinion we are now inching close to the final judgement by the High Court. After this most likely the aggrieved party, whosoever it shall be, may take up before the Supreme Court.
However, the High Court Judgement will definitely go in a long way in weakening the peoples' movement by both Hindus or Muslims. Ultimately the people would like an early judgement. They have already waited for 54 years, they should be patient and wait for another year or two for the final court order. The impression, that the Ayodhya-related cases will never be decided must be removed from the minds of the people.
I am optimistic that the court will take a decision based on evidence and not emotion. We feel that our evidences- documentary as well as oral - are so strong and weighty that there appears to be no chance of our losing. Among the oral evidences we have presented, eight are from eminent historians and archaeologists, including seven non-Muslims. They include professors Shirin Ratnakar from JNU, Suraj Bhan and Suvira Jaiswal. Prayers were offered in the mosque up to December 1949. Muslim scholars and theologians have deposed that mosques remain mosques even if the buildings are demolished or idols placed inside it.
Historians, including Hindu religious scholars, deposed the fact that the place was never considered Ram's birthplace up to December 1949. There is no evidence at all pointing to the veracity of the Sangh Parivaar's claim. If indeed a mosque had been built by demolishing a standing temple, and that too a famous one as claimed, then surely it would have figured in some official or semi-official document.
<b>From all that has come on record so far, we have historical as well as religious evidence to presume that the story of Ram's birthplace inside the masjid is likely to stand repelled and it maybe established that neither was a temple demolished to erect the Babri Masjid nor did Hindus believe before 1949 that Ram was born beneath the middle dome of the masjid. All this propaganda started only after the partition of the country and it was that very propaganda which led to idols being placed in the mosque on December 22-23, 1949.</b> After the Judgement of the Court, most Hindus will start realising that the entire campaign over Ram Janmabhoomi was not based on reality and as such the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and allied forces will stand reduced and marginalised.
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Is it just me or Jilani's hatred for idolators is showing through ?? <!--emo&:furious--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/furious.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='furious.gif' /><!--endemo-->:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Zafaryab Jilani, Convenor, Babri Masjid Action Committee and member, All India Muslim Personal Law Board
I feel judgement by the court of law is the only solution for the Ayodhya dispute. All efforts for negotiations failed. Even a dialogue between the Shankaracharya, Jayendra Saraswati, and Chairman of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board and subsequently Shankaracharya's letter could not cut any ice. In my opinion we are now inching close to the final judgement by the High Court. After this most likely the aggrieved party, whosoever it shall be, may take up before the Supreme Court.
However, the High Court Judgement will definitely go in a long way in weakening the peoples' movement by both Hindus or Muslims. Ultimately the people would like an early judgement. They have already waited for 54 years, they should be patient and wait for another year or two for the final court order. The impression, that the Ayodhya-related cases will never be decided must be removed from the minds of the people.
I am optimistic that the court will take a decision based on evidence and not emotion. We feel that our evidences- documentary as well as oral - are so strong and weighty that there appears to be no chance of our losing. Among the oral evidences we have presented, eight are from eminent historians and archaeologists, including seven non-Muslims. They include professors Shirin Ratnakar from JNU, Suraj Bhan and Suvira Jaiswal. Prayers were offered in the mosque up to December 1949. Muslim scholars and theologians have deposed that mosques remain mosques even if the buildings are demolished or idols placed inside it.
Historians, including Hindu religious scholars, deposed the fact that the place was never considered Ram's birthplace up to December 1949. There is no evidence at all pointing to the veracity of the Sangh Parivaar's claim. If indeed a mosque had been built by demolishing a standing temple, and that too a famous one as claimed, then surely it would have figured in some official or semi-official document.
<b>From all that has come on record so far, we have historical as well as religious evidence to presume that the story of Ram's birthplace inside the masjid is likely to stand repelled and it maybe established that neither was a temple demolished to erect the Babri Masjid nor did Hindus believe before 1949 that Ram was born beneath the middle dome of the masjid. All this propaganda started only after the partition of the country and it was that very propaganda which led to idols being placed in the mosque on December 22-23, 1949.</b> After the Judgement of the Court, most Hindus will start realising that the entire campaign over Ram Janmabhoomi was not based on reality and as such the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and allied forces will stand reduced and marginalised.
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Is it just me or Jilani's hatred for idolators is showing through ?? <!--emo&:furious--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/furious.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='furious.gif' /><!--endemo-->: