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 Sikhs
rebuild mosque demolished in 1947
By Zafarul-Islam Khan
The
Milli Gazette
In a historic gesture, Sikhs of Punjab have rebuilt a
mosque demolished during the Partition riots of 1947 and handed it over to
the Muslims of the area. The mosque is situated in village Sarwarpur which
is situated at a distance of ten kilometers from Samrala town in Punjab. A
function was held in the village on 22 May in which executive member of
the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee Jathedar Kirpal Singh Khernian,
area MLA Jagjivan Singh and the Sikh community of the area took part. The
Shahi Imam of Punjab Maulana Habibur Rahman Sani Ludhianwi was invited as
a special guest. At the request of the representatives of the area, the
Shahi Imam presented the keys of the mosque to Dada Muhammad Tufail, the
eldest Muslim in the village.
Muslims raised the “Allah-o-Akbar” slogan and offered
the first prayer in the mosque since Partition under the leadership of the
Shahi Imam who congratulated the Sikhs for their noble gesture and said
that the Sikh people have proved with their magnanimous behaviour their
tolerance and brotherhood which has no match in the country. He said that
this gesture of the Sikhs is a message to all communalists in the country
that humanity means love not violence. Also present on the occasion was
Muhammad Usman Rahmani Ludhianwi, chairman of the religious committee of
the Punjab Waqf Board, who lauded this grand gesture of the Sikh brothers
and announced that the Al-Habib Trust will soon complete all pending work
in this mosque. Jathedar Khernian thanked the Shahi Imam for bonding
Muslims and Sikhs together.
Source:
The
Milli Gazette, 1-15 June 2010
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This article appeared on
page no. 1 of the 1-15 June 2010 print edition of The Milli Gazette.
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