"He directed that the ground where the temple stood be levelled so that the foundation for a ëGodís Houseí (bait- ullah) could be laid on it. Construction material needed for the project was collected at the place. In a few days, a mosque for praying and obeying the Creator came up on the site where a temple of the infidels and the Hindus previously stood. He appointed a person for calling people to prayers (muíezzin). He instructed a few sufis to take up their abode there. This was done to ensure that people were summoned to prayers five times a day and congregated in that mosque. He also instructed that awrard-e-fathiyyeh and ëasriyyeh (morning and afternoon recitations) be regularly chanted. A garden at the foot of the Koh-i-Maran (Hari Parbat) was the endownment property of the destroyed temple. After raising the mosque on the site of that demolished temple, he engaged himself in reclaiming the garden and in raising structures on it. Saplings of trees bearing a variety of fruit were planted in it. These were almond, walnut, pistachio and grapevines of husaini, and fakhri variety."
Tohfatu'l-Ahbab

January 1, 1970

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