Thread by @Aabhas24

1/n @KaleemulHafeez , on @gauravcsawant 's show #IndiaFirst made an argument as below:

"The original building was a structure of the Din-i Ilahi faith."
& claimed, "Aurangzeb didn't break the Vishvanath Temple at Kashi. No farman talks of it."

Fallacies exposed in this thread

2/n The root of the Din-i illahi argument & many other non-historical ones comes from the opinions collected by Mary Searle-Chatterjee in 1993 (Religious division and the mythology of the past).

Check these snippets from doc. I've highlighted the Din-i Illahi part.

3/n So for the information of @KaleemulHafeez, even that argument what local Muslim gave to Mary held opinion that most certainly Aurangzeb had pulled down the structure for his hostility towards Akbar's religious policy.

So even Kaleemul need to do some readings before quoting.

4/n And Todarmal had nothing to do with building this Mandir for Din-i Illahi.

If that construction been under that very program, why it is nowhere spoken in primary source (Akbarnama) which talks about Din-i Illahi?

5/n Dear Mr @KaleemulHafeez , here is the link to Vol 3 of Akbarnama which has a part dealing with Ibadatkhana archive.org/details/in.ern…

Pl find me the thing mentioned.

6/n Then you disputed going against even the original argument of "Din-i Illahi" that was obtained by Mary in 1993 which actually accepted demolition by Aurangzeb.

Here is the farman establishing demolition of "Vishwanath Mandir" at Kashi (Persian "Maasir-i-Alamgiri")

7/n The English translation by Jadunath Sarkar.

Key statement: "It was reported that, according to the Emperor's command, his officers had demolished the temple of Viswanath at Kashi."

8/n Dear @KaleemulHafeez , you blindly follow "Fatawa-E-Alamgiri" for Sharia, then what stops you to disbelieve Maasir-i-Alamgiri which clearly states destruction of Vishwanath Mandir?