shaheediyan Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 Koom Kalan mosque back with Muslims after 60 years Vimal Sumbly Tribune News Service Koom Kalan Khurd (Ludhiana), July 5 It is after 60 long years that the azan (the call to Muslims for prayers) has started reverberating in the skies of this small hamlet. The doors of the mosque were opened after it was handed over to the Al Habib Charitable Trust on June 25 by local residents led by sarpanch Karnail Singh Kelly. The mosque was opened in the presence of the trust members, who included Atiq-ur-Rehman, Mohammad Usman and Mufti Jamaludin, besides villagers led by the sarpanch. Although there are no Punjabi Muslims living in the village now, there are quite a number of others who have come here from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar as labourers. They have now started offering five-time prayers in the mosque regularly. The village had a sizeable population of Muslims till 1947. The entire population migrated to Pakistan after Partition. The mosque was converted into a gurdwara by the people who had migrated here from Pakistan. It was used as a gurdwara till 1971 when the locals constructed a new gurdwara there. Since then, the mosque had remained closed. However, recently sarpanch Kelly, who is also the organising secretary of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee, decided to return the mosque to the Muslim community as a goodwill gesture. He told The Tribune most of the village population was born much after Partition and there was no bitterness among them. Maulana Habib-ur-Rehman Sani, Shahi Imam of the Jama Masjid, said it was a great gesture on the part of the majority community. He said there were so many mosques in Punjab which were still closed. He hoped that these would also be returned to the community the way Koom Kalan mosque was handed over to them. He claimed that there were about 25,000 mosques in the united Punjab (Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh) at the time of Partition. Most of these were closed or converted into temples or gurdwaras. However, over a period of time, about 4,000 mosques had been opened and returned to the community. The Jama Masjid of Ludhiana was also returned to the Muslims at the behest of Pt Jawaharlal Nehru. Expressing gratitude to the Sikh community, the Maulana said it would go a long way in consolidating the mutual ties between the communities. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Javanmard Posted July 6, 2007 Report Share Posted July 6, 2007 Too bad the gave it to sunnis lol 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaheediyan Posted July 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2007 Why? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chatanga Posted July 7, 2007 Report Share Posted July 7, 2007 how are you sure they are sunnis javanmard? and could the sikhs actually say we willonly give it to sufis etc? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Javanmard Posted July 7, 2007 Report Share Posted July 7, 2007 Just look at the names...Sunni! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaheediyan Posted July 7, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2007 "Too bad the gave it to sunnis lol" Not all the Masjids in Punjab were Sufi/Shia veer ji. Many Sunni lived in harmony with Sikhs before the mind poisoning of the then politicians and dreaded partition. This is a fact that you most likely won't find in many (or any) history books, but those of us lucky enough to have known and spoken to the pre-independance generation, know the brotherly love that existed in villages between all faiths and factions of all faiths prior to the hate propagandists spreading their unholy incitement. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Javanmard Posted July 7, 2007 Report Share Posted July 7, 2007 Indian isn't just made of farmers and villagers my friend. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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