New Delhi. The atmosphere is hot these days regarding the Gyanvapi Masjid located in Varanasi, UP. The Muslim side is calling it their mosque. At the same time, during the survey on the orders of the court, people are demanding to give it to the Hindus after the Shivling-like figure, bells and other Hindu temple signs were found on the walls. Five women have applied in the court to worship Maa Shringar Gauri, located in the mosque premises, daily. What will be the decision of the court, it is a matter of later, but Supreme Court lawyer and BJP leader Ashwini Upadhyay has claimed that Gyanvapi is not a mosque, but a temple, citing the law.
According to Islamic law, a mosque cannot be built on the shrine of another community.
According to Hindu law, until the idol is immersed after the ritualistic worship, that place is called a temple.
That’s why the Gyanvapi temple is still a temple today!@AshwiniUpadhyay @blsanthosh pic.twitter.com/dwhR75Nv6T
— PIL Man of India (@PILManofIndia) May 17, 2022
According to Ashwini Upadhyay, a mosque can be built where the land has been bought, donated, virgin, that is, there is nothing there and the land is flat. He says that under Muslim law, the first brick can be placed in the name of the mosque at this place. If even one of these three clauses is not fulfilled, then a mosque cannot be built there. Upadhyay said in a debate on a TV channel that none of these conditions are fulfilled in the case of Gyanvapi Masjid. It has been erected on the ruins of the ancient temple by breaking it in half.
He has cited Hindu law in favor of calling Gyanvapi a temple. Ashwini Upadhyay says that the temple is called till that time, until the idol established there and the idol of life is not immersed, then it will remain a temple. Even if the idol should not be removed from there. Referring to the law, he said that even though the temple structure was demolished in Gyanvapi, the idol was never immersed. So this is the temple itself.