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Jana · 10-14-2009, 02:23 PM

The First Mosque in India

This how this Mosque was built.

As is well known in Kerala, on a moon-lit night the king while walking on the rooftop of his palace along with the queen saw the moon suddenly splitting into two halves.

Later he came to know through the Arab traders that that a prophet called Muhammad(SWA) had wrought a miracle on that fateful night and sundered the moon before a crowd of dazed spectators. Impressed by this new messenger of God in Arabia, the king set out for the holy land after dividing his kingdom and assigning various territories to local chieftains to ensure smooth governance.

In Arabia he met the Prophet and embraced Islam in the presence of Abu Bakr Siddique, who later became the first caliph. Cheraman, who took a Muslim name, Tajuddin, died on his way back to India and was buried on the shore of the Arabian Sea at Salala in the Sultanate of Oman.

It is said that he had earlier written letters to the local rulers of Malabar and sent it through his ministers along with Malik bin Dinar, a companion of the Prophet. In the letters he had asked them to "receive the bearers of the letters and treat them well and help them to construct mosques at Kodungallur and elsewhere". The rulers of Kerala honoured the letters and permitted Malik Bin Dinar and his fellow Arab traders to build mosques in Kerala. The mosque built in the early 7th century at Kodungallur, known as Cheraman Malik Masjid, still exists with its original structure and is said to be the oldest mosque in the sub-continent. It is named after both Cheraman Perumal and Malik bin Dinar

World's Better Half: The First Mosque in India

Jana · 10-14-2009, 02:25 PM

Tuesday, September 15, 2009
The First Mosque in India

The 87-year-old Raja Valiyathampuran of Kodungallur in Central Kerala is a descendant of King Cheraman Perumal, the first Indian to embrace Islam in the early 7th century. Talking to him is like talking with history. In the following interview taken by A U Asif (right in the picture) in Ernakulam, he dwells in detail upon his great early ancestor and the oldest mosque (above) of the sub-continent. He also asks North Indians to come to Kerala and see how people of different religions are living there for centuries in an atmosphere of harmony, fraternity and peace.

How do you take your great great grandfather Cheraman Perumal?

Cheraman Perumal was not only a king and my ancestor, but the first Indian to come into the fold of Islam. He was actually the person who gifted Islam and the first ever mosque to the Indian sub-continent. This happened much before the advents of Muhammad bin Qasim and Mahmood Ghaznavi. This shows that Islam didn’t come to India with the sword.

http://www.muhammedyaseen.com/2009/0...ml]World's Better Half: The First Mosque in India

Zob · 10-15-2009, 05:48 AM

what the prophet split the moon in half?????? how come i never knew this....i need to read more into my religion!

Jana · 10-15-2009, 06:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Zob

what the prophet split the moon in half?????? how come i never knew this....i need to read more into my religion!

You realy dont know ?

Let me post something in urdu about this same mosque. There is some detail about the spliting of moon by Prophet Muhammad (SAW) when he pointed finger at it, it split into two. That was when non-believer asked the Prophet (SAW) to prove if he was realy a Prophet as according to then Prophets had some miracles so they asked the Last Prophet Muhammad (SAW) to show some miracle.

And i have seen there are some scientific pictures of moon where it is clearly seen that the moon has a dividing line it seems that it was stiched togather again.

DarkStar · 10-15-2009, 03:48 PM

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He also asks North Indians to come to Kerala and see how people of different religions are living there for centuries in an atmosphere of harmony, fraternity and peace.

This is exactly the point I was trying to make on another thread. The xenophobic attitudes of Northern Bharat can only be changed by letting go of the hatred, and following the example of those south of the Deccan.

Lady Macbeth · 10-15-2009, 04:19 PM

Scientists are still trying to explain the split.

vinod2070 · 10-15-2009, 07:40 PM

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This is exactly the point I was trying to make on another thread. The xenophobic attitudes of Northern Bharat can only be changed by letting go of the hatred, and following the example of those south of the Deccan.

The attitude of North Indians is obviously due to the fact that they were at the receiving end of horrible atrocities for hundreds of years at the hands of the intolerant and barbaric invaders. They see Somnath, Mathura, Kashi, the riots, remember all the atrocities and this forms their opinons.

Kerala received Islam in peace, not Northern India and that shapes the difference in opinions.

Again South of the Deccan is not all free from this thinking. Bahamani rulers carried out several genocides (each a minimum of 100,000 people) almost annually. The people at the receiving end of those have as hardened attitudes as North Indians. Same would be people near Humpi (the ruins of the beautiful Vijayanagar empire) that was destroyed so thoroughly, it is still in ruins and is a world heritage site now.

vinod2070 · 10-15-2009, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Lady Macbeth

Scientists are still trying to explain the split.

What do you think? ;)

Lady Macbeth · 10-15-2009, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by vinod2070

What do you think? ;)

Religiously I dont have any knowledge to say anything without making a fool out of myslef but scientifically......Well that line certainly doenst look like something we drew on the ground playing hopscotch....and it sure makes me wonder!

vinod2070 · 10-15-2009, 08:17 PM

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Religiously I dont have any knowledge to say anything without making a fool out of myslef but scientifically......Well that line certainly doenst look like something we drew on the ground playing hopscotch....and it sure makes me wonder!

The moon's surface is scarred because of the constant battering it receives from the thousands of meteors.

The author of the "torn asunder by a sword" bit obviously didn't know of the massive dimensions of the celestial body! Just because it looks the size of a small plate, it was mentioned as being torn by a sword.

Don't try and find any scientific logic, you won't!