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islanders resort to curative waters from a healing well by
Juhan Samuel Lakshadweep:
Muslims in Lakshadweep believe that water from a well adjacent to the Ujra
Mosque at the Kavaratti Island off the Arabian Coast of India has curative properties.
This water, they believe, can cure everything from high fever, cough and cold
to even diseases like cholera, chickenpox and other skin diseases. The islanders
have so much faith in the properties of this water that they often bring their
ailing children to the well before taking them to a doctor. The well is believed
to have cured people in the past. "When our children get sick we have a belief
that by bringing them to this place and giving them a bath for three to seven
days removes all types of diseases. We have full faith in this mosque and its
water," said Rabada Begum, a resident. Ujra mosque, famed for its medicinal and
curative water well is also the most beautiful mosque in Kavaratti Island. It
is one of the fifty two mosques spread over the small pristine island. The mosque
has an ornately ceiling said to have been carved from a piece of driftwood. The
patterns are intricate, picked out in harmonious shades of pale green and dark
red. Lakshadweep comprising 12 atolls, three reefs and five submerged banks is
the smallest Union Territory. It is located about 250 kilometres west off the
Kerala coast. There are 36 tiny islands on these sub-marine banks, with a total
area of just about 32 sq. kilometres with a predominantly Muslim population of
over 75,000. -Jun
3, 2009 Go
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