AYODHYA: With two AIMPLB members calling the proposed construction of a great mosque in Ayodhya Dhannipur village against the Waqf Law and Sharia laws, the Sunni Central Board of Waqf on Wednesday he claimed that the next sanctuary is perfectly legal. All India Muslim Personal Law Board Member Zafaryab Jilani on wednesday he said the proposal mosque in ayodhya The next Supreme Court verdict from last year is against the Waqf Act and is “illegal” under Shariat laws.
“According to the Waqf Law, mosques or mosque land cannot be exchanged. The proposed mosque in Ayodhya violates this Law. It violates Shariat law as the Waqf Law is based on Shariat,” said Jilani, who He was also the coordinator of the Babri Masjid Action Committee.
Against Jilani’s accusation that the land for the next mosque in Dhannipur village was given to Muslims in exchange for the site of Ram Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya, Sunni Waqf Central Board (SCWB) Chairman Zufar Farooqi , said it is not a traded piece of land.
He noted that the land in Dhannipur village was allocated to the Sunni Waqf Central Board of Uttar Pradesh in compliance with the order of the Supreme Court and to take possession of it, the Waqf Board had to pay stamp duty.
“The Waqf Board has paid a stamp tax of Rs 9.29,400 to take possession of this land,” he said.
He also said that “the land is owned by the Waqf Board but is not itself a ‘Waqf”.
In elaborating the concepts of Waqf and Waqf Board, the SCBA president said that Waqf comprises property denoted in the name of Allah by a believer in Islam working for charitable purposes.
Therefore, only a believer in Islam can create Waqf, he said, adding that Waqf Board is not an individual and cannot create any Waqf on its own.
“The Supreme Court has not accepted Babri Masjid as Waqf, if it had accepted the land as Waqf, we would have won the case, but the court clearly said that the donation is not valid,” Farooqi said.
He added that five acres of land handed over to the Waqf Board does not replace the Babri Masjid land but as a “restitution” or relief from the high court.
“There is no handover of the then Babri Masjid, as the Babri Masjid facilities were handed over to the Hindu party by order of the Supreme Court last year. The land of Dhannipur became the property of the Sunni Waqf Central Board of Uttar Pradesh by the same order of the supreme court and it is not a Waqf land, “he explained.
Farooqi is also the chairman of the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF), which on Saturday unveiled in its Lucknow office the plan for the mosque and a hospital to be built on a five-acre parcel of land in the village of Dhannipur in Ayodhya.
Athar Hussain, the secretary of a trust formed to build the Ayodhya mosque, however, refuted Jillani’s accusations, claiming that everyone interprets the Shariat in their own way.
When the land has been allocated under the directive of the Supreme Court, it cannot be illegal, he said.
“The power of interpretation of the Shariya is not in the hands of some limited people. The mosque is the place to offer namaz. So what if we are building a mosque?” Hussain asked.
Countering Jilani’s accusations, Hussain also accused him of spreading misinformation.
“Jilani Sahab is such a competent lawyer. If we are violating any law like the Waqf Central Law, why not challenge it in court and stop our supposedly illegal acts?” I ask.
“If you are not doing it, you are simply spreading misinformation and doing what is against Shariat and the teachings of the Qur’an,” he said.
Another AIMPLB SQR executive member Ilyas also called the upcoming mosque only of symbolic value, while accusing the Central Sunni Waqf Board of working under pressure from the government.
“We have rejected the proposal to accept the land for the mosque elsewhere. We lost the title dispute and we do not need land for a mosque,” he said.
“Muslims have rejected this land in Dhannipur given in compensation. The mosque that is being built by the trust set up by the Sunni Central Waqf Board is simply symbolic,” he said.
The issue was first raised by MP Asaduddin Owaisi at an executive committee meeting of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board held on October 13.
All members were of the opinion that the exchange of land by the mosque was not allowed under the Waqf Law and, in turn, was “illegal” under the Shariat law.
The disputed Ram Janambhoomi-Babri Masjid structure was demolished in December 1992 by “kar sevaks”, who claimed that the mosque in Ayodhya was built by demolishing an old Ram temple.
After a lengthy legal dispute, the Supreme Court, on November 9 last year, ruled in favor of the construction of a Ram temple on the disputed site in Ayodhya and ordered the Center to assign an alternative five-acre parcel to the Board. Sunni Waqf for the construction of a new mosque in a “prominent” location in the holy city of Uttar Pradesh.
By order of the high court, the government of Uttar Pradesh allocated the five-acre plot in Dhannipur of Ayodhya for the construction of the mosque.
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