Norms must govern places of worship or risk ‘anarchy’, Chishti–Nizami descendant says in Sabarimala case

The direct descendant in the Chishti–Nizami lineage associated with the Dargah of Hazrat Khwaja Nizamuddin Aulia in Delhi found common ground with the devotees and foster family of Lord Ayyapa, the deity at Sabarimala temple in Kerala, when he submitted in the Supreme Court on Tuesday (April 28, 2026) that the faith of a believer could not yield to the whim of a third-party interloper or a tourist to walk into the sanctum sanctorum.

Appearing before a nine-judge Constitution Bench headed by Chief Justice of India Surya Kant, Syed Altamash Nizami said the basti in which the dargah was located and the hill in which the Sabarimala temple was situated were unique in the minds of the believers.