Two Sufis Made Babur Vow to Demolish Ram Janmabhoomi Temple

Before invading India, Babur had entered India in the disguise of a Sufi qalandar. Posing as a qalandar, he even met the Sultan of Delhi, Sikandar Lodi. He also went to Ayodhya, where two fakirs (Sufis) extracted a pledge from him that if he demolished the Shri Ramjanmabhoomi temple and built a mosque there, he would receive the blessings of the fakirs.

Such are these so-called Sufi fakirs!

Later, when Babur established control over North India, he fulfilled his pledge in Ayodhya. In the inscription on the Babri Masjid built at his command, Babur was referred to as "Babur Qalandar", that is, a Sufi fakir, and there was mention of the Babri Masjid being built by his commander Mir Baqi on Babur's order.

The grave of the fakir who instigated Babur to demolish the Shri Ramjanmabhoomi temple was also built right beside the Babri Masjid, in which the remnants of the temple were used.

Aurangzeb’s granddaughter recorded that Aurangzeb destroyed the fortress of Ramkot (within which lay Shri Ramjanmabhoomi) and built mosques in Awadh, Mathura, and Banaras. Aurangzeb razed Ramkot; the Shri Ramjanmabhoomi temple had already been demolished by Babur.

In Ayodhya, besides the Shri Ramjanmabhoomi temple, there were four other ancient temples. Historians say that one was washed away into the Saryu; of the second, no trace can be found; and the Shri Ramjanmabhoomi temple along with two others were converted into mosques. The Shri Ramjanmabhoomi temple was turned into a mosque by Babur, and the other two by Aurangzeb. In Ayodhya, bathing in the Saryu was prohibited, and apart from small private temples, the construction of temples was banned.

However, in 1717 CE, Raja Jai Singh of Jaipur purchased the entire land of the Shri Ramjanmabhoomi temple, or Babri Masjid, in the name of Ram Lalla, along with numerous other Hindu pilgrimage sites. Since then, legally, the Hindus have a right to that land.

Attached is a map of the Shri Ramjanmabhoomi site from the era of the Babri Masjid—dating to 1950, which was submitted to the Faizabad court: