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Ayodhya verdict has a message of coexistence:
Jamia VC
Friday, October 01, 2010 08:12:46 PM,
Sarwar Kashani, IANS
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New Delhi:
The "underlying message" in the Ayodhya verdict is that of
coexistence, because India's Muslims and Hindus have to live
together and it is time for them to start praying together, Jamia
Millia University Vice Chancellor Najeeb Jung says.
"I believe the learned judges have actually presented a cocktail
of their own belief and a mixture of history and jurisprudence. I
think they were wrestling with expectations of the society and
they have tried to do a match of statesmanship and matchmaking,"
Jung told IANS in an interview at his office Friday. The Allahabad
High Court in its verdict Thursday gave two-third of the disputed
land to two Hindu litigant parties and a third to a Muslim group.
Not dissatisfied with the verdict that gives a go ahead for
construction of a Ram temple at the disputed site in Ayodhya, Jung
said the judges have passed "a message that you have to live for
thousands of years. There is a possibility, try and pray together.
There is an underlying message there".
Islam and Hinduism, Jung believes, "are in the DNA of India".
"If any part of the DNA is infected, the body gets cancer. So both
communities must see that they have a healthy relationship. That
healthy relationship is critical for the motherland."
He said Justice S.U. Khan, one of the three judges who pronounced
the verdict Thursday, had probably kept in mind the Prophet
Mohammed's Hudaibiya peace treaty which he signed in the 7th
century with then custodians of Kaabah, the holiest of the Muslim
shrines in Makkah.
"The Prophet could have fought them to conquer Makkah. But his
armies went back and he proposed that they will come peacefully.
And the next year they did a peaceful Hajj and entire Makkah was
theirs. That is the message of the Prophet. That is what Islam
teaches us," the vice chancellor said, "wishing we could travel
that extra distance today".
He said that the gesture of peace that Muslims "can make today
will wash away all the complexes of the (1947) partition of India.
That one gesture will wash away the charges of fundamentalism that
a part of you is facing today".
The former civil servant said that there was an opportunity for
Muslims "to convert this to a historic opportunity which nobody
expects from you.
"But there has to be an equal display of maturity from the
rightwing Hindu parties that are interested in building the
temple."
He, however, cautioned against any "great demonstration of glee,
gloating that we have won this case. There is no need for
triumphalism".
He said in law two plus two necessary doesn't make four and "here
both parties are dissatisfied".
"The point I am trying to make is that under the present judgment
you cannot make anything grand, because what you are forgetting is
that the judgment is only about 2.7 acres of land of which you are
only getting two-thirds and Muslims only one-third. You can
neither build a ‘bhavya (grand) temple nor a bhavya mosque.
"There are 70 acres of land near the disputed site which is owned
by the central government. Have you ever spoken of that? What can
you make in two acres? But it is possible if both communities come
together and talk, and tell the government to give us some or all
of the land it owns, they can make anything - a magnificent
temple, mosque and of course a magnificent history of India."
(Sarwar Kashani can be contacted at s.kashani@ians.in)
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