Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Minister Azam Khan's proposal to build a temple for his party president Mulayam Singh Yadav seems to have hit a roadblock with an eminent Islamic institution today issuing a fatwa (edict), describing this act by a Muslim as un-Islamic and 'illegitimate'.

"In Islam believing in anyone other than Allah is illegitimate and so talking about building a temple is equally wrong," said Madarsa Manzar-e-Islam, affiliated to Dargah Ali Hazrat of Bareilly, in reply to a query sought on February 14, implying it was un-Islamic. "Activities of Muslims who propose to set up a temple are not right. He is guilty, liable to be punished and the wrong doer and should necessarily regret it. If he has a wife, he should express regrets and thereafter remarry her. Muslims should stop mingling, acknowledging his pleasantries and talking to him."