Fatwa by Lahore's #Deobandi seminary Jamia Ashrafia: In an Islamic state, non-Muslims are allowed to maintain and renovate their existing places of worship but they are not allowed to build new ones. https://twitter.com/IndepthPakistan/status/1277852326489980930

That's the traditional position of 4 #Sunni schools ( #Hanafi, #Shafii, #Maliki, #Hanbali) and Twelver Shias: non-Muslim citizens of an Islamic state can maintain and renovate their existing places of worship but not build news ones. https://twitter.com/SAMRIReports/status/1277991959907504130

#Salafi cleric Allama Hisham Elahi Zaheer: #Barelvi, #Deobandi, #Salafi and all Muslim schools agree that non-Muslims can't build news places of worship in an Islamic state. Pakistan govt has cancelled Hajj subsidy but spends public money on a Hindu temple in Islamabad.

Hammad Lakhvi, Dean of Islamic Studies at Punjab University: In an Islamic state, non-Muslims can renovate existing places of worship but not build new ones. To help them build new place of worship is to help propagate disbelief. A Muslim would rather die than assist disbelief.

#Barelvi cleric Mufti Munib-ur-Rehman: An Islamic state can't use taxpayers' money to build a Hindu temple. However, non-Muslims can buy their own lands and build their places of worship with their own money.

#Deobandi cleric Mufti Taqi Usmani: In an Islamic state, non-Muslims can maintain their places of worship and also build new ones as required. However, it is not permissible for an Islamic govt to build a Hindu temple using taxpayers' money. https://twitter.com/muftitaqiusmani/status/1278417568471097344

#Deobandi, #Salafi and @JIPOfficial leaders denounced the government’s move of building a Hindu temple in Islamabad and termed it against Pakistan’s ideology. They also announced that they would take up the issue in the Federal Shariat Court. https://nation.com.pk/02-Jul-2020/religious-parties-say-building-temple-in-islamabad-against-pakistan-s-ideology