The Ayodhya Temple-Mosque Dispute: Focus on Muslim Sources c3.9

c3.9

The mosque party insist that the real Janmabhūmi is either the Janmasthān Sīta Rasoī temple on the other mound to the north-west of the Bābarī mosque, the two mounds being divided by a road built during the British regime, or the Rāma Chabūtarā in the courtyard of the mosque. Even if one is inclinded to grant either of the two hypotheses, no reason is given why the mosque should have been built so as to enclose the Chabūtarā within its compound, when Muslims cannot brook ringing of the temple-bell while offering their prayer. Besides, according to a teaching of the Prophet cited by Shāh Walīullāh, ¹ infidels should be kept at such a distance from Muslims that the former's light falls outside the latter's range of visibility.