{"id":6785,"date":"2024-07-10T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/2024\/07\/10\/religious-centers-of-the-non-muslims\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T21:49:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T16:49:22","slug":"religious-centers-of-the-non-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/religious-centers-of-the-non-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Centers Of The Non-Muslims"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Question<\/h3>\n<p>What  do you say about construction of Hindu and Sikh temples? A Hindu friend  has asked me why in Arab countries especially in Saudi Arabia Hindus  are not allowed to construct their temples?<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div>Is there any example in the Hadiths or historical sources which shows that Muslims allowed polytheists to make their temples?<\/div>\n<h3>Answer<\/h3>\n<p>Since  we know that the Prophet (sws) and the Rightly Guided caliphs allowed  the non-Muslim citizens in the state to keep and maintain their temples  and worship there, this also implies that they can build new temples for  the same purpose. There is no prohibition in the Qur&#8217;an in this regard.  We cannot comment on what a particular Muslim state implements its  understanding of the divine laws. One thing is clear. The divine law and  the human interpretation of the laws are different things. Similarly  what Islam teaches and what the believers practice are also distinct  things.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Answered by:<\/strong> Tariq Mahmood Hashmi<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> 2015-03-01<\/p>\n<button class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"6785\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"\">Favorite <i class=\"sf-icon-star-empty\"><\/i><\/button>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What  do you say about construction of Hindu and Sikh temples? A Hindu friend  has asked me why in Arab countries especially in Saudi Arabia Hindus  are not allowed to construct their temples?<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<div>Is there any example in the Hadiths or historical sources which shows that Muslims allowed polytheists to make their temples?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1313],"tags":[2546,1192,2572],"class_list":["post-6785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-political-issues","tag-hinduism","tag-non-muslims","tag-tample"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Religious Centers Of The Non-Muslims - Al-Mawrid Queries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/al-mawrid.org\/questions-en\/religious-centers-of-the-non-muslims\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Religious Centers Of The Non-Muslims - Al-Mawrid Queries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What do you say about construction of Hindu and Sikh temples? 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