In kulgam Muslims of kashmir help perform last rites of Kashmiri Pandit
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In kulgam Muslims of kashmir help perform last rites of Kashmiri Pandit
Kashmir :12/12/2024
Syed Mushtaq
local Muslims in South Kashmir’s Distt. Kulgam jammu Kashmir helped in performing the last rites of 80 years old pandith of Kashmiri who passed away
Showing an example of communal harmony and brotherhood of Kashmir,the local Muslims in Adigam village Devsar hamlet in South Kashmir’s kulgam came together to help perform the last rites of their Pandit
A resident Mohan Lal Pandit of Chien Adigam village about 09 kilometer from Devsar town was a well known figure in the area as according to the locals, he used to help persons in need every time.
Only a few of his family members were around, Lal’s local friends and neighbours from the Muslim community took it upon themselves to help perform his last rites, locals said.
The local Muslims organised and performed his last rites and mourned his death as one of their own. They shouldered his coffin and arranged wood for the cremation in the village, said a local.
“pandith ji was one of us, We never thought of him as a strange figure We arranged everything needed for the cremation,” said Awqaf Sadar a middle-aged man from the locality.
“He has been living here among us for many years. We have lived alongside each other and done everything together,” he said, adding that people from other adjacent areas also visited the residence to sympathise with the bereaved family members.
Pandith ji’s relatives also said that Muslims of the village always help them in times of need and they don’t intervene in the religious affairs.
“They (Muslims) sit at a distance when a ritual has to be done by a Pandit, but the rest of the arrangements were arranged by them,”
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