THE most notable thing about the judgment given by the Lucknow Bench of the Allahabad High Court in the matter of the Ayodhya Babri Masjid Dispute is that it has been taken-if not fully accepted-by all parties with a certain amount of equanimity, for which praise be to the Lord.
Not a single case of violence was reported from any part of the country and it has been attributed to several factors: One, that an entire new generation has come into being to which religion is of no special concern: two, that both the main parties to the dispute have come to realise that violence does not pay and may actually be counter-productive; three, that the judgment leaves both parties to the dispute in a win-win situation that has to be welcomed, four, that the Wakf Board had realised that it had a weak case and while it has apparently decided to appeal to the Supreme Court, it has shown no great fervour in doing so and five, the Hindus can now really build a temple on the spot long marked out at as the birthplace of Sri Ram, even though there are a couple of other hurdles to be crossed.
The emotional hurt suffered for over five centuries by Hindus, though not always overly expressed, has lain deep in the Hindu psyche and it has now been largely assuaged, thanks to a normative judgment. Our pseudo-secularists have gone on a spree to attack the three judges, as have some politicians like Mulayam Singh Yadav. These, and others of their ilk were the ones sickeningly responsible for preventing the long-drawn out negotiations prior to the demolition of the Babri Masjid, from arriving at an honourable settlement thereby leading to the demolition of the Babri Masjid.
Luckily the intellectual wretches-their names do not need to be mentioned here-have been sidelined by a wise public . These are the people who have done the utmost damage to the cause of Hindu-Muslim unity and the maintenance of peace in the country. All that one can say is: “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do”. Critics of the judgement have already started attacking the judges. One can’t expect anything better from these pathetic characters whose hatemongering can only be pitied.
But what made the judges come to their conclusions? The order of Justice DV Sharma, tops over 1,700 pages; that of Justice S Agarwal, with annexes runs to over 5,200 pages. And, along with the order of Justice SU Khan, the entire judgement exceeds 8,000 pages. Will our pseudo-secularists kindly shut up till they have digested all the facts presented in over a million words?
The judges relied on the reports of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) and surely, if the ASI’s report cannot be relied upon, whom should the judges turn to? Parts of that report reproduced in the media indicates the enormous research based on Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and Geo Radiology Survey (GRS) on which the judges depended to arrive at their conclusions. In the past, our secularists’ arguments have largely been on the following lines: One, Sri Ram is not a historical figure but a factitious creation of Valmiki’s imagination; two, if indeed he is real, is there any documentary evidence-such as a magistrate’s birth certificate-to prove it? We have idiots not only in Bollywood films but among our intellectuals as well. And just as stupid is the third question: the authenticity of Ram’s birth place.
The argument being that the Ayodhya considered as Sri Ram’s birthplace is not in Uttar Pradesh but in Afghanistan! One can never tell how the “crooked timber of the pseudo-secularist mind works”. Our pseudo-secularists want the Supreme Court not only to set aside the verdict of the Lucknow Bench which according to them “smacks of majoritarian arrogance” (Justice Khan, please note) but to “jettison it root and branch. If the Supreme Court takes that unsought advice, it will only have to thank itself for what may follow.
The tragedy of our pseudo-secularists is that truth is of no relevance to them. Puerility has many faces. The more they can damn the religion of their ancestors, the more is their sense of self-fulfillment. They primarily are psychiatric cases. Unable to come to terms with Reality, they prefer to forget the past and all the insults that Hindus have suffered from under centuries of Islamic rule. Forget the past, is their argument. They forget what Shakespeare said in his wisdom: “The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones”. The judgment of the Lucknow Bench is helpful in many ways for Hindus to come to terms with the past and look for a happier future. The judgment of the Bench should be taken for what it is: a remedial measure that should be accepted gladly both by Hindus and Muslims. The demolition of the Babri Masjid may have been criminal, but how would our pseudo-secularists describe the demolition of not one but several hundred temples either deliberate and planned intent by Islamic rulers? How would one describe the forced conversion of Hindus in their thousands by brutal Islamic rulers? Is one to draw up a list of all the atrocities committed by Islamic ruler to make a point ? What does one gain by it? One wants to forget the past and, as today‘s media suggests-move on. But our pseudo-secularists make it hard to do so by their bestial behaviour and insulting writings.
What the three judges have done will act as a panacea, one has long waited for, bless them. The law is not an ass even if our pseudo-secularists are. Justice is not the same as law. Justice goes beyond law to establish peace. To reduce law to a set of robotic acts is to negate justice and civilised conduct. And to destroy societal unity at which our pseudo-secularists excel. The majority of Muslims seems to have accepted the Lucknow Bench’s verdict. The best that the Supreme Court can do is to validate it and closer the doors to a painful past and open the windows to a sun singing paens for a united India to be, for the greater glory of our motherland.
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