The Issue of Fatwa Application

THE ISSUE OF FATWA APPLICATION religious leaders of Kashmiri Muslims participated in the conference. There, in the form of a fatwa or statement, they unanimously passed a resolution. It stated that getting a mosque repaired by non-Muslims is forbidden in Islam. Therefore, this work under the “Sadbhavana Operation” amounts to interference in religion, and the Government of India should immediately stop it. This fatwa or statement is completely baseless. It is an attempt to use Islam for political purposes and has no connection to Islamic teachings. In Islamic history, and in India itself, mosques have repeatedly been built or repaired with the cooperation of non-Muslims, yet scholars have never described this as wrong. The greatest example in this matter is the Kabah itself, which may be regarded as the representative of all mosques. As is well known, the Kabah, or the House of God, was built in Makkah four thousand years ago by Prophet Abraham. The Prophet of Islam  was born in 570 CE. At that time, the structure of the Kabah there was according to the Abrahamic construction. History shows that before the mission of the Prophet of Islam , the Abrahamic structure of the Kabah collapsed due to rain. At that time, the people of Makkah rebuilt the Kabah. These people were not believers; they were idol worshippers. Thus, at the