Darul Ifta of Darul Uloom, Deoband was established to respond to all kinds of scholarly and spiritual questions sent to the organization from within the country and abroad. The issues are resolved in the light of Quran-e-Kareem and Sunnah. The Deobandi fatwa over the song Vande Mataram which raised a huge controversy recently in Marakpur in Deoband had been delivered 12 years ago by the Muftiyan. It is quite tragic that an old controversy is raised again; supposedly any anti-social elements who might have obtained the fatwa and issued it to press as any journalist would gladly like to publish a controversial fatwa issued by Darul Uloom, Deoband against Vande Mataram.
A particular section of the country considers singing of this song the sign of patriotism. The citizens who do not sing this song are considered traitors. After this fatwa was published recently in a Hindi daily in Meerut, the anti-national elements got an opportunity to attack the patriotism of Muslims as well as the status of Darul Uloom, Deoband.
A communal leader of Hindu Gujjar community of Marakpur in Deoband conducted a panchayat in the premises of Inter college and decided to organize a demonstration in Saharanpur district against the so-called anti-national attitude of Darul Uloom, Deoband and burn an effigy of the concerning organization on the 25th of Aug 2009. On that day, about 70 (seventy) people only from a village of 80 (eighty) houses gathered to demonstrate at the pre-announced site whereas their number was expected to be in thousands. It shows the majority of the Hindus are still peaceful-minded who believe in secularism and solidarity of the country. This malicious attempt was made by the supporters of the communal parties only, who keep trying to destroy inter-communal harmony by their anti-social activities. The demonstrators could only shout anti-Muslim slogans, but failed to burn the effigies as the Muslims had taken a hard stand. The district administration, too, was quite alert and sought to avert any untoward occurrence. The unholy mission was foiled but this left a few questions behind.
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