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Bibi Rajinder Kaur said the Muslims of Jakhwali colony had to spell for namaz to the adjacent village. ‘I thought of giving them 5 marlas of onshore truthful that they person a spot to pray,’ Kaur said.
JAKHWALI (FATEHGARH SAHIB): In the play of giving, a 75-year-old Sikh pistillate has donated onshore for the operation of a mosque successful a colony successful Punjab's Fatehgarh Sahib district, with Sikh and Hindu families besides pitching successful with money.
The heart-warming motion comes from Jakhwali, a predominantly Sikh colony (400-500 families) with sizable Hindu (150 families) and Muslim (100 families) populations. Located 55km from Chandigarh, the colony has a gurdwara and a Shiva temple, but until now, nary mosque."Our Muslim friends present didn't person a mosque and had to spell for namaz to the adjacent village. I thought of giving them 5 marlas of onshore (around 1,360 sqft) truthful that they person a spot to pray," Bibi Rajinder Kaur told TOI, adding with a smile, "We consciousness precise blessed that they volition beryllium happy."Her grandson Satnam Singh said Sikh, Muslim and Hindu families successful the colony unrecorded "like brothers" and person done truthful for generations. "Whenever determination is simply a spiritual event, everyone contributes and participates," Singh added.The lack of a mosque had agelong been felt, but with nary solution emerging astatine the panchayat level, Bibi Rajinder Kaur volunteered her land. "After discussions wrong the family, we felt we had a tract successful an country wherever determination is already a temple, gurdwara and different shrine.
We asked the Muslim assemblage if the spot suited them, and they said it was perfect," Satnam said. As the onshore was successful his grandmother's name, it was registered successful the sanction of the mosque committee."They enactment successful our events similar sabha langar and bash sewa. We judge each religion should beryllium respected," helium said. Satnam's member Monu Singh, a colony panch, said since authorities onshore cannot beryllium allotted for spiritual construction, the household decided to donate its ain land. "The full village, irrespective of religion, is contributing to the mosque's construction," helium said.Former sarpanch and section BJP person Ajaib Singh recalled that Muslims and Sikhs had contributed erstwhile the temple was built, conscionable arsenic each communities had supported the operation of the gurdwara. "This is however we live. We volition lend till the past ceramic is laid," helium said.Gursewak Kumar from the Brahmin assemblage said the village's unity was a substance of pride. Masjid committee president Kala Khan thanked the villagers for their support. "People of each communities unrecorded present successful harmony. We expect to implicit operation by February," helium said, adding that astir Rs 3.5 lakh has already been collected.Punjab Shahi Imam Maulana Usman Ludhianvi, who laid the instauration stone, said Punjab has agelong been known for specified examples of communal harmony.
