Source: OneIndia
Manama, Jan 19 (ANI): To promote communal harmony in the state, a Qatar-based Hindu businessman is building a mosque in Kerala.
The mosque in Kozhikode will be the first to be built in the state by a Hindu in over 1,200 years. “Construction is going on. The mosque will be ready in two to three months. Over 400 people can offer prayers in that mosque at a time,” C K Menon told Qatari daily Gulf Times.
He said that the Cheraman Mosque constructed in the late eighth century by Chera ruler Rama Varma Kulashekhara is the first and only mosque built by any Hindu in Kerala. Menon, who is chairman and managing director of the Doha-headquartered Behzad Group of Companies, said he had taken approval from Muslim scholars and religious leaders for building the mosque. “I have already taken letters from Muslim religious leaders and scholars. They are fine with it. God is one and people should respect and work for the promotion of other religions also,” said Menon. Read more
Commendable ! And where will the kind Hindu businessman go? One Hadith says, ” One who builds a mosque enters heaven.”
May Allah grant that great Hindu the JANNAH – paradise in this world and in the hereafter.
A good example for others to follow.Muslims should follow the teachings of the Holy Quran and not only protect the worship places of others but also help them in the construction of their places of worship.Hope Muslims would respond the good act of a Hindu who is acting upon the teachings of Islam. Is he not the Muslim by his deeds and a challenge to those narrow minded extreem muslims who demolish Mosques of other sects in Islam and still call them selves Muslims.