Influential Islamic seminary Jamia Nizamia on Friday issued a fatwa declaring that “reason and Islamic faith“ do not allow Muslims to chant the slogan `Bharat Mata ki jai'. Explaining the rationale behind the ruling, Mufti Azeemuddin, who heads the fatwa centre of the seminary , wrote that according to the principles of reason, only a human gives birth to a human and treating the “land of Bharat“ as a mother is against “reason“.
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