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What is wrong with smashing the idols?

Shad

Veteran Member
The idols in Egypt are there thousands years ago and Muslims during the middle ages were the superpower that no nation can defeat, so if they wanted to destroy the idols
in Egypt no one in that era have the power to stops them.

Might does not make right. It just gives you a better seat at the table.
 

FearGod

Freedom Of Mind

Rival

se Dex me saut.
Staff member
Premium Member
When you say they did it because of Islam then Islam was in Egypt 1500 years ago
and not now.

No relation between Islam and destruction of the idols.
Fearvag...

Here...

1. Muhammad is the prophet of Islam
2. Muslims are called to follow the sunnah of Muhammad
3. Muhammad smashed idols


comprenez-vous?
 

FearGod

Freedom Of Mind
Fearvag...

Here...

1. Muhammad is the prophet of Islam
2. Muslims are called to follow the sunnah of Muhammad
3. Muhammad smashed idols


comprenez-vous?

Do you have an evidence that he did?
Do you have a verse in the quran which instructed prophet Muhammad to smash the idols
or instructing Muslims to smash and destroy the idols, the temples..etc
 

Rival

se Dex me saut.
Staff member
Premium Member
The temple has been mentioned in the Puranas including the Kashi Khanda (section) of Skanda Purana. The original Vishwanath temple was destroyed by the army of Qutb-ud-din Aibak in 1194 CE, when he defeated the Raja of Kannauj as a commander of Mohammad Ghori. The temple was rebuilt by a Gujarati merchant during the reign of Delhi's Sultan Iltutmish (1211-1266 CE). It was demolished again during the rule of either Hussain Shah Sharqi (1447-1458) or Sikandar Lodhi (1489-1517). Raja Man Singh built the temple during Mughal emperor Akbar's rule, but orthodox Hindus boycotted it as he had let the Mughals marry within his family. Raja Todar Mal further re-built the temple with Akbar's funding at its original site in 1585.[4]

In 1669 CE, Emperor Aurangzeb destroyed the temple and built the Gyanvapi Mosque in its place.[5] The remains of the erstwhile temple can be seen in the foundation, the columns and at the rear part of the mosque.[6]

Kashi Vishwanath Temple - Wikipedia

One of many.
 

Rival

se Dex me saut.
Staff member
Premium Member
Do you have an evidence that he did?
Do you have a verse in the quran which instructed prophet Muhammad to smash the idols
or instructing Muslims to smash and destroy the idols, the temples..etc
Ahadith are not good enough now? :rolleyes:
 

sayak83

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
Are you guessing of what had happened?
Umm the wikipedia site I linked lists numerous cases of Muslim rulers explicitly destroying Hindu and Buddhist temples in South Asia with over 250 citations and references. What more do you want?
 

FearGod

Freedom Of Mind
... and there's the Taliban destroying the two Buddha statues in Afghanistan in 2001. So there's your material evidence.

Taliban doesn't represent Islam, Afghanistan was in the hand of Muslims 1500 years ago,
destroying the statues at our recent days doesn't mean it was because of Islam.
 

Rival

se Dex me saut.
Staff member
Premium Member
Taliban doesn't represent Islam, Afghanistan was in the hand of Muslims 1500 years ago,
destroying the statues at our recent days doesn't mean it was because of Islam.
Mate...

The temple has been mentioned in the Puranas including the Kashi Khanda (section) of Skanda Purana. The original Vishwanath temple was destroyed by the army of Qutb-ud-din Aibak in 1194 CE, when he defeated the Raja of Kannauj as a commander of Mohammad Ghori. The temple was rebuilt by a Gujarati merchant during the reign of Delhi's Sultan Iltutmish (1211-1266 CE). It was demolished again during the rule of either Hussain Shah Sharqi (1447-1458) or Sikandar Lodhi (1489-1517). Raja Man Singh built the temple during Mughal emperor Akbar's rule, but orthodox Hindus boycotted it as he had let the Mughals marry within his family. Raja Todar Mal further re-built the temple with Akbar's funding at its original site in 1585.[4]

In 1669 CE, Emperor Aurangzeb destroyed the temple and built the Gyanvapi Mosque in its place.[5] The remains of the erstwhile temple can be seen in the foundation, the columns and at the rear part of the mosque.[6]

Kashi Vishwanath Temple - Wikipedia

One of many.
 

FearGod

Freedom Of Mind
Mate...

The temple has been mentioned in the Puranas including the Kashi Khanda (section) of Skanda Purana. The original Vishwanath temple was destroyed by the army of Qutb-ud-din Aibak in 1194 CE, when he defeated the Raja of Kannauj as a commander of Mohammad Ghori. The temple was rebuilt by a Gujarati merchant during the reign of Delhi's Sultan Iltutmish (1211-1266 CE). It was demolished again during the rule of either Hussain Shah Sharqi (1447-1458) or Sikandar Lodhi (1489-1517). Raja Man Singh built the temple during Mughal emperor Akbar's rule, but orthodox Hindus boycotted it as he had let the Mughals marry within his family. Raja Todar Mal further re-built the temple with Akbar's funding at its original site in 1585.[4]

In 1669 CE, Emperor Aurangzeb destroyed the temple and built the Gyanvapi Mosque in its place.[5] The remains of the erstwhile temple can be seen in the foundation, the columns and at the rear part of the mosque.[6]

Kashi Vishwanath Temple - Wikipedia

One of many.

Many Hindus converted to Islam during that era, if they chose to build a mosque in the site
of the temple then why you see it as a problem, in Saudi Arabia the polytheists converted to
Islam and of course all ancient temples has no reason to exist, I can't see a problem with
converting the stones from one building to another one.
 
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