Is Taj Mahal a Muslim structure

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It is not necessary to agree with the writer, but the findings are interesting.

http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/modern/taj_oak.html

The Tajmahal is Tejomahalay

Excerpts………

Probably there is no one who has been duped at least once in a life time. But can the whole world can be duped? This may seem impossible. But in the matter of indian and world history the world can be duped in many respects for hundreds of years and still continues to be duped. The world famous Tajmahal is a glaring instance. For all the time, money and energy that people over the world spend in visiting the Tajmahal, they are dished out of concoction. Contrary to what visitors are made to believe the Tajmahal is not a Islamic mausoleum but an ancient Shiva Temple known as Tejo Mahalaya which the 5th generation moghul emperor Shahjahan commandeered from the then Maharaja of Jaipur. The Tajmahal, should therefore, be viewed as a temple palace and not as a tomb.

The term Tajmahal itself never occurs in any mogul court paper or chronicle even in Aurangzeb’s time. The attempt to explain it away as Taj-i-mahal is therefore, ridiculous.

The ending "Mahal"is never muslim because in none of the muslim countries around the world from Afghanistan to Algeria is there a building known as “Mahal”.

The unusual explanation of the term Tajmahal derives from Mumtaz Mahal, who is buried in it, is illogical in at least two respects viz., firstly her name was never Mumtaj Mahal but Mumtaz-ul-Zamani and secondly one cannot omit the first three letters “Mum” from a woman’s name to derive the remainder as the name of the building.

Since the lady’s name was Mumtaz (ending with ‘Z’) the name of the building derived from her should have been Taz Mahal, if at all, and not Taj (spelled with a ‘J’).

Several European visitors of Shahjahan’s time allude to the building as Taj-e-Mahal is almost the correct tradition, age old Sanskrit name Tej-o-Mahalaya, signifying a Shiva temple. Contrarily Shahjahan and Aurangzeb scrupulously avoid using the Sanskrit term and call it just a holy grave.

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Why do you want to tear it down like babri masjid?

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Mr. Oak might want to do a little bit of research before writing such a shamelessly flawed article.

1) Mahal literally means 'palace'. Any palace around the world would be known as a Mahal for urdu/hindi speaking ppl. I dont know about afganistan or algeria, but it definately exists in urdu/punjabi and perhaps even originated from persian.

2)Taj mahal would hence be translated as Taj Palace. Her surname does not come into the picture. If orginally it was taj-e-mahal, then that would simply mean Taj's Palace.

3) to this very day, taj/taz is a common shortened nickname for ladies with the name mumtaz.

4) the z/j variation is quite common in india, some say z, whereas others change it to j. Obviously the j variation stuck, perhaps because it was shahjahans way of pronunciation.

I suggest Mr. Oak go back to the drawing board and try all over again.

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:rotfl:

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every year the fanatic hindus keep adding muslim built structures to their (imaginary) temples....

r indians really that low in intelligence that some jerks think that they'd buy such crappy theories of theirs????

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Another attempt by a contemporary historian to belie Muslim history…:rotfl:

From the same line of Hindu historians who wrote books and articles about how Muslim rulers killed Hindus and plundered many ‘historical artifacts’…

Take out everything that Muslims brought to India and you’ll see how many ‘historical artifacts’ Hindus can lay claim to…:rotfl:

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Offcourse I dont believe this cock and bull story about Taj Mahal being a hindu temple
but it isnt a "islamic mausoleum" either there is nothing islamic about building huge/expensive palaces to bury queens/kings

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HinduNet.Org

Wow, what an accurate source of information, a perfect display of your true selves, let this show of venom for Islam, Muslims and anything remotely associated with Muslims be a reminder to the Pakistanis and Indian Muslims who are Hindus bum chums.

Theologically speaking we’re not supposed to build mausoleums because all graves whether they be of the king or the peasant are ought to be plain, wealth or status is of no avail in the hereafter because we only take our piety with us, but that doesn’t change the fact that this structure was built by foreign Moguls not Indians. It’s identical on all sides which is good because fateh-hind ke ba’d ham bibi mumtaz ki laash ko relocate kar ke taj mehal ko Masjid bana len ge.

Anything glamorous and of any value in India is foreign, the very name India (Hind) and Indian (Hindi) were given to you by foreign Muslim invaders who named you after the river Indus (Sindh) which is not even in India anymore, it is in Pakistan. Even the name of your archaic religion Hindu was given to you by foreign Muslims, before that there was no Hindu identity and each region followed it’s own pagan religion, sometimes different groups shared deities only because being primitive people they would start worshipping anything which looked pretty to them.

Muslims whether they were Persians, Afghans, Moguls or Arabs brought culture and civilisation to your land, before that you were filthy unwashed ascetics rolling in the dust, anointing your bodies with cow dung, drinking cow urine, burning widows alive, sacrificing live children to your goddess Kali, practicing the discriminatory caste system, forcing girls born into low castes to become prostitutes in the temples to serve the high caste priests and pilgrims. This is your great heritage and civilisation that you pride yourselves on.

Even the heritage you call your own is foreign ( [thread=205313]Click[/thread] ) the vast majority of India adopted (by aping) not inherited (through genes) Vedic Aryan culture, if anything Pakistanis have more Vedic Aryan blood, Sanskrit, Panini, Yoga etc. were all born in Pakistan, you simply adopted them by aping the culture of the Aryans from the northwest, all of north India might speak Indo-Aryan tongues but only a few northwest Indians like us Pakistanis have any considerable amount of Aryan blood in them. I don’t mention any of this because I’m hung up on race (I love Muslim Dravidians and Kaafirah Dravidnis) but rather to remind you bigheaded Indians that when you tell us Pakistanis we’re being Arab wannabes simply because we follow the same religion you should look to your own society, we adopted the same religion as Arabs because it is a universal religion whilst you adopted a bossy religion, language and culture from the Aryans because you felt inferior to them, this aping fitrat of pagans is still intact in you, when Muslims ruled you started copying them (many Hindu women started doing Hijaab for example), now that the west is a superpower you’re copying them, your women now wear unionjack or starstripes boobtubes instead of tiranga ones, now you’re adopting their culture, tomorrow it will be Muslims again.

May as well redeem yourself of such a shameful identity and embrace Islaam.

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Your lecture is very self esteemed and brilliant. Just few questions…

  1. How do you call yourself…a Hindu, Dravadian etc?
  2. Hindus adopted a superior culture re Aryans, today are running after the West. Do you accept that you adopted a superior culture??? of Arabs, while denouncing of your own pagans culture?
  3. You have adopted Arabs as your forefathers….are you sure if Arabs have adopted you as step child???
  4. Islam could influence and compel people leaving in dark ages. Why it failed in India? How come people living in dark ages, re Afghanistan, Central Asia are still remaining in dark ages after 1000 years of Islamic influence?
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abey oh pyar ke dushmaaannooon

pyar ko pyar hi rehne do koi ilzaaam na do.... aj agar shah jahan zinda hota to bechara apne kaan bhi nikalwa deta

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^ Actually I am gonna do a speech on Taj Mahal in my speech class!

Any ideas :p

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You can tell them at when muslims will recapture India again (which they will inshallah) this marble monstrosity will be dismantled and sold for scrap

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Wow, bulllcrap.net had a similar article.

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findings though interesting r open to interpretation

for example if we make idolatory a main characteristic of hinduism disregarding specific rites of worship then

*tomorrow hindus r gonna say kabaa had 360 idols in it so it was a hindu temple too.incidentally Bal Thakray is known to have made such a remark wen the case of babri masjid was hot.

*pharoahs who had their statues made were hindus too i think.

*buddhists r hindus too prolly.

native* indians**,wow they r hindus too then bcoz of their totem poles.

my point is that there is simply no point in claiming taj mahal as a hindu temple. why is a marble building with a woman buried in it a source of so much tension.
does it have religious value?

](http://www.hindunet.org/hindu_history/modern/taj_oak.html)

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First Babri Mosque now this, Hindus are so lowly.

So when will we see the massacre of Muslims in Agra like we saw Muslims massacred in Gujarat? Man you Hindus are sick, twisted mofos, you haven't got any culture of your own doesn't mean you can go around stealing other peoples heritage.

Smelly pundits.

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I like POPs idea better.

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Look at the architecture. Its of the Mugal style (similar to Masjids - Domes & Minarets). Mughals were Muslims, not Hindus. Why the hell would they build a temple?

Damnn..
Mods, please move this thread to the jokes section.

Mere Paas Paas (The Sequel)
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Hindu temples are supposed to be built to a certain code. The Taj doesn't look anything like a temple.

That said, it is pathetic to see how the roster of rogues take such cheap shots at Hindus and Hindu religion on some cooked up pretext. Why are you so insecure in you religious belief? If you had that confidence in what your religion is, you wouldn't be so compelled to be negative about others and make a fool of yourself. Such inferioity complex.

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Destroy one of the seven wonders of the world? :mudhosh:

Notwithstanding what it will do to my image and all you know muslim and talking about “destroying” something… :rotfl: :hehe:

K337
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That is a big problem here I once told one of my ex-colleague that I have a interest in the military history of WaffenSS and he always kept his distance after that…:frowning: (he was black)