Earlier residents of Ayodhya used to call the Babri Masjid “Sita Rasoi Masjid”
In the first incident of confrontation between Hindus and Muslims in Ayodhya after fake misleading news of the demolition of the mosque at Hanuman Garhi in Ayodhya, a group of extremist Muslims staying inside the Babri Masjid were killed in the mosque. After this incident, the Babri Masjid turned into a controversial issue.
Uniquely, until that time, the residents of Ayodhya used to call the Babri Masjid “Sita Rasoi Masjid”. However, by that time the British had colonized India, so the controversy was controlled by the British.
The British allowed Muslims to offer prayers inside the Mosque while Hindus were to worship outside
In 1859, the British allowed Muslims to offer prayers inside the mosque, and Hindus were permitted to worship outside the mosque by building a platform of barbed wire. In 1877, the Mutawwali (Care Taker) of the mosque, Sayyid Mohammad Asghar, complained to the British about the construction of a Ram platform on the outer premises of the mosque, after which the British sent a team to investigate but did not interfere in the matter. On this platform, Hindus started chanting hymns and the matter seemed settled for a few days.
The fight against British had unified Hindus and Muslims
An important point to note was that this matter was restricted to Ayodhya only because in 1857 AD, the trumpet of revolution had sounded, and waving the flag of Hindu-Muslim unity, all came together against the British.
People like Rani LaxmiBai of Jhansi, Tantya Tope, Nana SahebPeshwa, Begum HazratMahal, Kunwar Singh, Mangal Pandey, Maulana Ahmed Ullah Shah, and Maulana Fazle Haque Khairabadi rose up to fight the British fiercely.
However, the rulers of India “betrayed Indians” and supported the British in this colonial battle, due to which Indians could not win the first war of independence. During this war, thousands of Indians gave their lives, thousands were hanged, many were gunned down and Bahadur Shah Zafar, who became a symbol of Hindu-Muslim unity, was arrested by the British rulers and sent to Rangoon.
The trumpet of revolution against British
After nearly a hundred years, once again the wave of Indianness unified Indians and took the form of a storm and in the second ten of the twentieth century, the trumpet of revolution again sounded against the British.
This time, names like Bhagat Singh, Chandra Shekhar Azad, Ashfaq Ullah Khan, Ram Prasad Bismil, Rajguru, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Raja Mahendra Pratap, Maulana Barkatullah Bhopali, and Maulana Hasrat Mohani featured strongly becoming part of the freedom struggle.
The second group of powerful Indian revolutionaries stood under the leadership of Congress and later in the form of Mahatma Gandhi, the Indians got a messiah and we became free in 1947.
The partition of India
Due to the conspiracy of the British, millions of Indians were slaughtered when the British divided India into two parts. This work was done in the name of religion and to divide the country, the British made Mohammad Ali Jinnah their agent.
It is a matter of surprise that the Hindus and Muslims of the country were not included in the important decision like the partition of India where only on the voice of Jinnah and the Muslim League, the country was divided into two parts, whereas a referendum (referendum) should have been conducted to get the public opinion about the partition of the country.
Many prominent Muslim bodies opposed the partition of India
The amazing fact was that Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, a very big religious leader and Union Minister of Sunni Muslims stood against the creation of Pakistan, and it is clear that Maulana Azad was not alone, there were millions of Muslims with him. Apart from them, Maulana Hussain Ahmed Madani, the famous religious guru of Jamiat Ulema, the largest organization of Sunni Muslims also opposed the creation of Pakistan.
On the other hand, from the stage of the All India Shia Conference, the biggest organization of the Shia class, the big Shia Ulema were opposing the partition of the country.
The first Chief Minister of Sindh, Allah Bakhsh Samru, was also strongly averse to Jinnah’s Two-Nation Theory, and he had told the largest representative assembly of Muslims of that time in Sindh that Indian Muslims did not want the partition of the country.
Apart from them, Syed Ata Ullah Shah Bukhari, a prominent leader of the Ahrar movement, was also very strongly opposing the formation of Pakistan.
During that time, a resolution was passed on behalf of the All India Momin Conference, an organization representing four crore Muslims of the country, opposing the partition of the country, but the British turned a deaf ear to the protests, ignoring the voices raised against the creation of Pakistan as they did not want a united expansive India to become a threat to the western countries in future.
The Ottoman Sultanate of Turkey was also divided into many pieces
Before the partition of India, the British and their allies had divided the Ottoman Sultanate of Turkey into many pieces with a cunning understanding that it was in the interest of the British government and its allies to divide their opponents into small pieces carrying on the policy of divide and rule.
(To be continued)