Gurugram: Namaz is not offered at Gurdwara Singh Sabha in Gurugram on Friday even when several members of the Sikh Community opposed the decision of the temple management committee to allow Muslims there.
They said they would protest if the Gurdwara Management Committee advanced with the decision to offer the Shrine place for Namaz.
Gurugram Gurdwara Association offers space for Namazzembers from the Radical Hindu Group, Sanyucta Hindu Sangharsh Samiti, reaching Gurdwara around 12 noon, distributed books entitled “Teacher Tegh Bahadur-Hind Ki Chadar” and stayed there until 2 noon.
Representatives from the Muslim community decided not to offer Namaz at Gurdwara to “avoid anything unwanted at the festival”.
“We have offered open space in the adjacent school and Gurdwara basement for Friday prayers but Muslim brothers decided not to offer Namaz.
They did not want a problem on Gurupurab’s occasion,” the spokesman said the Management Committee said.
Delegation, including Mohammad Salim Mufti, President of Jamiat Ulema Hind, Gurugram, and Altaf Ahmad, one of the founders of the Gurugram Muslim Council, met with a committee member on Friday afternoon to be grateful for their efforts to promote peace and harmony.
Ahmad said they did not want the inconvenience for members of the Sikh community but had offered Namaz “through the heart” Sikh Brothers.
Ahmad was also part of the Gurgaon Nagrik Ekta Manch, a citizen initiative Monday Sherdil Singh Sidhu, President of the Gurdwara Management Committee, and Akshay Yadav, who had offered a car workshop for Namaz in Sector 12.
It was the second Friday on trot Yadav, 40, offer commercial space for Namaz.
The Gurugram government had previously revoked permits to offer Friday prayers at eight of 37 public reasons in the city, quoting objections from the local population.
Kulbhushan Bhardwir, Sanyukta Hindu Sangharsh Samiti’s legal counsel, said they distributed 2,500 books entitled “Teacher Tgh Bahadur-Hind Ki Chadar” and paid them for Gur Nanak Dev.
“We didn’t go there to protest the decision of the Gurdwara Management Committee to offer their place to name Namaz.
We don’t oppose anyone offering prayers in the room, whether from any community.
We oppose Namaz’s practice offered in public places, ” he says.
“If someone offers an open space in their garage, a house or place of worship to Muslims for Namaz, it’s their own choice.
We don’t mind that,” he said.
However, everyone in the Sikh community does not seem to be on the same page on the decision to offer Gurdwara for Namaz.
“They can’t offer Namaz in Gurdwara.
Shri Teacher Granth Sahibji doesn’t allow.
Prabandhak Committee (Management) allows them to offer Namaz but we do not support it,” said Jowahar Singh, a local resident, a local resident said.
“People of all religions are welcome but there are only Gurbani in Gurdwara and nothing else.
The Gurdwara property cannot be used for any purpose that is contrary to ‘Maryada’ (customs of customs) from Shri Teacher Granth Sahibji,” said Gurcharan Singh.
Jowahar Singh claims the Management Committee told Sikh he would greatly review the decision after the celebration ended on November 21.
A spokesman for the Singh power committee said they did not allow any rituals (other than those permitted under Suchism) at Sanctum Sentous) in Sanctum Gurdwara but no one had to object to other empty spaces such as the basement and parking area used for Namaz.
About four kilometers away, Friday prayers continued without interruption at the Leisure Valley Ground in Sector 29.
About 4,000 people offered Namaz in three places in big land on Friday, said Mohammad Ibrahim Hussain.
“Local residents began offering prayers here in 2013.
They came here because there were no mosques nearby,” he said, turning his carpet after offering Namaz.
“Many waqf board properties have been interrupted.
We were forced to offer a name in the open.
People defecate on this land.
No one wants to pray sit near the dirt.
This is ‘Majboori’,” he said.
“All problems are about offering Namaz in public places in the residential area.
This is a wide land, far from the housing community.
Prayer here does not cause any discomfort for anyone.
There is no” controversy “here, Mufti Murshad Rehman said, Even as a gypsy police surround the area.