The attendance here too has reduced to a mere 10-15 people who on their visits to the mosque, choose to leave immediately, instead of socialising with their counterparts.
The loudspeaker in the only mosque of Bisara, which has been for years used for calling out Muslims to offer prayers, has fallen silent. It has been silent ever since Mohamad Akhlaq was lynched by a mob on rumours of him having beef, last week.
The attendance here too has reduced to a mere 10-15 people who on their visits to the mosque, choose to leave immediately, instead of socialising with their counterparts.
But on Friday after the ritual prayer, the Muslim villagers exchange brief pleasantries with Mohamad Ilyas, the new Imam.
Ilyas was requested to lead the prayers after the Imam of Bisara failed to return to the village from him home in Muzzaffarnagar where he had gone to celebrate Eid. After Ilyas had left for his residence, people, while walking towards their homes discussed the latest situation of Bisara village in hushed up voices.
The latest news was about a marriage that was supposed to take place on Sunday, October 11. Apparently the groom's family at the last moment asked for a change of venue so the marriage of Mohamad Hakim's two daughters would be taking place at his relatives place in Dadri and many here might not be attending the same as the function now will be on a much smaller scale.
"The situation is better here and authorities have done a good job at maintaining peace but people are too afraid. A lot of them have left the village while those who haven't stay home," said Ali Jaan, a resident.
Jaan said that he heard Prime Minister Narendra Modi speak at rally in Bihar asking Hindu's and Muslims to fight poverty and not each other, but the 50-year-old was skeptical about the pace at which his village is limping towards normalcy.
Haneef, another resident told dna that he misses the evening prayers the most. "After prayers, we oldies used to sit around have bidis with our friends. Not only Muslims but Hindus as well. We used to discuss everything, problems at home, politics, cricket. But all that is gone," he said before disappearing into the narrow bylanes of his village.
Not far from the mosque is the temple which was used to announce that Mohamad Akhlaq had slaughtered a cow. Abhishek Sisodia told dna that even the temple's loudspeakers have not been used since the last announcement made by three men calling out villagers to attack Akhlaq.
"The temple will start using the loudspeaker when the mosque does," said Abishek Sisodia adding that people in Bisara should focus on building trust. Everything will be fine soon," he said with a hope.
However another resident, who wished not to be named said that the village had broken forever. "There was no riot here. But somehow we feel as we have gone through hell. The curfew, the police and media. We are tired but the worse is that we don't know what the future holds for us,"he said. "Fihaal Khamoshi mein namaz pad rahein hai" (For now we are praying in silence)
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