A file photo of All India Muslim Personal Law Board member Zafaryab Jilani. | IANS
All India Muslim Personal Law Board member Zafaryab Jilani on Wednesday opposed the first architectural plan to build a mosque in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya city, saying it was against the Waqf Act and “illegal” under the Shariat or Islamic law, PTI reported.
The architectural plan for the project was released on December 19 by the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation, a trust formed by the Uttar Pradesh government and the State Sunni Central Waqf Board. The blueprint showed the design of a mosque and a hospital that will be built on the five-acre land allotted in Dhannipur village of Ayodhya, 29 years after the demolition of Babri Masjid. Besides this, a community kitchen and a modern library will also be set up in the complex.
Objection to proposed mosque in Ayodhya untenable, says trust
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AIMPLB member had claimed that it was impermissible under Shariah
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The design of a mosque and a hospital to be built on a five-acre land in Ayodhya’s Dhannipur village was unveiled on Saturday.
AIMPLB member had claimed that it was impermissible under Shariah
The five-acre land allotted for the construction of a mosque in Dhannipur in Ayodhya was not in any manner a barter or an exchange, but a relief carved out by the Supreme Court using its special powers, the trust set up to build the structure has asserted.
Ayodhya mosque against Waqf Act; illegal under Shariyat: AIMPLB’s Zafaryab Jilani
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December 23, 2020
Lucknow, Dec 23: All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) member Zafaryab Jilani said on Wednesday said the mosque which is planned to come up in Ayodhya following last year s Supreme Court verdict was against the Waqf Act and illegal under the Shariat laws.
Athar Hussain, the secretary of a trust formed to build the mosque in Ayodhya, however, said everyone interprets the Shariat in their own way and when the land has been allotted under the directive of the Supreme Court, it cannot be illegal.
The blueprint of the mosque and a hospital to be built on a five-acre land in Ayodhya s Dhannipur village was unveiled on Saturday at the Indo-Islamic Cultural Foundation (IICF) office in Lucknow.
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Ayodhya mosque land legal: Sunni Central Waqf Board
Wed, Dec 23 2020 09:20:44 PM
By Arshad Afzaal Khan
Ayodhya, Dec 23 (IANS): After the statement of All India Muslim Personal Law Board members that the mosque to be built by Sunni Central Waqf Board in Ayodhya is against the Shariat and Waqf Act, the chairman of the Waqf Board, Zufar Farooqi told IANS that the land for the proposed mosque is not exchanged land. For this land, the Waqf Board has paid stamp duty to the government and the land is the property of Waqf Board as its other properties like the Waqf Board s offices and some other properties that do not come under Waqf.