AN APPEAL TO INDIAN MUSLIM LEADERS:

Let us Sacrifice Babri Masjid 
for the harmonious India

Unfortunately, Allahabad High Court verdict didn’t please the petitioners. It is ‘rare in the rarest’ judgment in the history of Indian judiciary. With good reason, the Wakf Board’s claim to the land where their Masjid stood for almost five centuries has been dismissed as time-barred. And it is not clear why they are being given a third of the land while two-thirds go to the two Hindu litigants. If it was a conciliatory gesture to end an impossibly politicized sectarian problem, the two communities should have got half-and-half.
Since the court has declared the site to be Lord Ram’s birthplace, what right do Muslims have on it? They want the whole plot for their grand Ram temple.


Sure, we can understand the danger of going against majority sentiment in an increasingly intolerant, polarised society was clear. The court had effectively taken on the task of providing a political solution to an incredibly politicised problem of faith. And allowed the majority‘s belief disregarding the Constitutional guarantee .
We know, the verdict undermines justice and contradicts the secular, democratic credentials of India.
In this circumstances I put forward this appeal before the Muslim leaders in India,who promised to accept court verdict, before it.
As an Islamic believer and a subordinate to Indian judiciary, I appeal to the Muslim leaders, to hand over their remaining right on one-third portion granted by the court in the disputed land. Especially in the wake of Justice D V Sharma’s exclusive ‘finding’ that ‘Babari Masjid was built against the tenets of Islam by Babar,whatever was the ultimate truth.
By doing this in this juncture, it will be ever memorable in the history of religious harmony in India. It is also good to keep the precision of Quranic sense that prayer will be accepted by Allah when it is only from the ‘halal’(serene) ground. . We could not know the genuineness of the ground on which Babar ordered to build the mosque and how much Babar was committed to Islamic faith. Babar is not our role model, but there were many historical evidences for the generosities&sacrifices from the life of prophet Muhammed(s.a) ,our role model and his colleagues. When 1 st Caliph Abubecker invited to inaugurate a Christian church by performing Namaz inside, he lovingly abstained from to do so fearing any possible claim in future by his followers for this prayer place. This is one of the examples of fidelity kept by the prophet and his colleagues.
Let us forget past mistakes and go ahead for the progress of the community and India.
We take good examples from history and it is not apt for our modern & future generations to unearth the ugliness of the history. Modern India should stand affirm on the Bill passed by Parliament in 1991 (Place of Worship Act 1991, Bill No. 124c).


For us, Babri Masjid is one of the mosques among thousands in India. No any peculiar holiness on it like Masjids in Mecca,Madeena & Kuds
If there will be religious harmony and more over, the good existence of our future generations in India, it is great than exists a mosque in an ever disputed place.
I remembering that Ayodhya itself was a place of religious harmony. During anti British rebellion of 1857 Hindus under the leader ship of Ram Gurucharan Das and Muslim under the leadership of Amir Ali joint-handedly participated in the struggle.British Govt. hanged to death both leaders together at a  tree in Ayodhya.
When this tree was becoming popular, British cut the tree as if to split the community. 
So my wish is that to plant another tree of mutual harmony in Ayodhya and in India for the well-being of our present and future generations by settling the issue amicably.
With prayers,
K P A Wahab,Payyoli
Ph: 9288192750 - Email: wahabkp@gmail.com