HYDERABAD: A video of a woman dressed in black reciting Sathya Sai Bhajans is going viral on Whatsapp.
Users claim that these are Muslim women performing bhajans in Dubai. This post compares the tolerance of Muslims in Dubai with that of Muslims in Kerala.
“The Islamic community in Dubai is performing Sathya Sai Bhajan and their Muslim husbands are enjoying the pious bhajan. If the nationalists were in Kerala, the religious fundamentalists were He would have issued a fatwa stating that the country was at risk.”English translation of the text
Fact check:
NewsMeter performed a reverse image search and found a longer version of the video on YouTube that was uploaded by Sri Sathya Sai’s official channel in 2012. According to the description, this video is of an Arab-themed bhajan held at Sathya Sai’s Baba’s ashram. It is known as Prasanthi Nilayam in Puttaparthi village in Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh. The people in the video are pilgrims from the Middle East and the Gulf. “Devotes from Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates provided an Arabian flavor to Prasanthi Nilayam,” it reads.
The same video has been posted on Sri Sathya Sai’s official website, which states that the concert by devotees was titled ‘Sarva Dharma Swarupa Sai’. It celebrates his five fundamental human values - Sathya (truth), Dharma (justice), Shanti (peace), Prema (love) and Ahimsa (non-violence), which Bhagavan Shri Sathya Sai Baba embodied. did.
It was not only pilgrims from the Middle East and the Gulf who performed at Sri Sathya Sai. More than 120 devotees from various Russian-speaking countries performed 11 songs and bhajans in the choir. Devotees from Indonesia, Malaysia, Nepal, Singapore and Thailand performed traditional Indonesian dances to showcase the 2012 BA graduates. Nursing students from Sri Sathyasai Institute of Advanced Medical Sciences College of Nursing, Bangalore also presented musical bouquets at her sanctum in Prasanthinilayam.
NewsMeter also compared the background of the viral video with the infrastructural background of Prasanthi Nilayam and found that it is not a mosque but a Sri Sathya Sai Peace Center.
It is safe to say that this viral video is from an Arab-themed bhajan held by believers from the Middle East and Gulf at Prasanthi Nilayam in Andhra Pradesh in 2012. They are not Muslim women.
