Justice S U Khan said that although angels feared to tread the contentious land that was full of innumerable landmines, they decided to clear them
Justice S U Khan said that although angels feared to tread the contentious land that was full of innumerable landmines, they decided to clear themGiving some insight into the complex issues before the judges while giving the Ayodhya verdict, Justice S U Khan said they had decided to address it but not rush into it like "fools".
"Here is a small piece of land (1,500 square yards) where angels fear to tread. It is full of innumerable landmines. We are required to clear it," he said.
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Justice Khan said some very sane elements advised them not to attempt that. "We do not propose to rush in like fools lest we are blown. However, we have to take risk.
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It is said that the greatest risk in life is not daring to take risk when the occasion for the same arises," he wrote in the prelude to his 285-page judgment.
"Once angels were made to bow before man. Sometimes he has to justify the said honour. This is one of those occasions. We have succeeded or failed? No one can be a judge in his own cause," he said.
Justice Khan along with Justices Dharm Veer Sharma and Sudhir Agarwal on Thursday gave separate judgements running into over 8,000 pages.
The court held that two parts of the disputed site of 2.77 acres of land will go to Hindus and the remaining one part will go to Muslims.
Justice Khan was of the view that the verdict has given Indian Muslims a good opportunity to spread to the world the teachings of Islam.
Noting that Muslims here have been rulers of the land, also being ruled over and currently share power, he said Indian Muslims are in the best position to spread the teachings of Islam in the present time.
