Re: Musharaf Buildozing Mosques in Islamabad
Going back to the issue ... A masjid is a house of Allah, to say they are temples, or illegal structures is not the issue. The issue is demolision of a masjid is not the only resort in the case of disputed land. There are other avenues that can be pursued. Any good Muslim leader would employ those avenues first.
So what are those avenues?: Reclaim the deeds of the disputed land, and resell them on condition that the masajid remain where they are. The original owners if found would have to be given residential and ownership rights to the homes developed in the vicinity of the masajid. However, demolision should not be the method of choice for such situations. I can see the only scenario where it would be correct to do this, would be if both conditions are true, in addition to being built on disputed land:
1) The masajid are not being used regularly
2) They are old and unsafe
You may be coming up with preferred methods based on your perspective, but one can not argue that what the govt is doing is wrong. What theya re doing is right. can they do better..maybe, maybe not.
Personally if some jackass decided to build anything on my land, panshop, hotel, whatever..they are breaking the law, and I would want them out.
Only where these three conditions are met should a masjid be taken down, and it becomes the responsibility of the government who is doing this to replace or publish a report for the benefit of it's Muslim populous as of the decision it has HAD to make. Otherwise the context as in the Qur'an is a clear as water. You can like that or lump it.
these only three conditions are from where, what is the precedence?
We should look at the purpose of life rather than the material nature of it. As for Zalimun building masajid that is new to me, I wonder which characteristic from Zalimun in the Qur'an you can show me that comes from.
forget material nature of life, that is not even the point. This is a simple real estate and property law issue. tomorrow if some mullah steals your car and starts using it for masjid related transportation, or steals your ac because he wants to put it in the masjid office, would that be right?
Mr Pir Sahib Fraudia you should know better! When we discuss an issue let's go to specific cases. If there is a specific case you can identify which fulfil the conditions above, then we can talk and agree, until then playing the devil's advocate does you no favours. As a general rule Muslims should preserve all things Islamic, that is all I am saying.
what specific case do you have? bring it, and lets discuss it then. until then I suppose you will be following your own advise and not talk?
I am not playing devil's advocate here. I am talking about law and justice. I am not goign to bother to find a specific case which meets 'your' conditions, because I dont agree with your conditions. To me an illegally constructed structure should be torn down.
If you can prove that these buildings are not on illegaly occupied land, then I am more than appy to back off, while maintaining that even in those cases a govt has teh right of eminent domain but the bar to employ that needs to be set high.