The Truth about Islam and Jerusalem
The Truth about Islam and Jerusalem
By
James Scott Trimm
Since it is claimed that Jerusalem is a holy site for Islam, many are surprised that the truth is that the word “Jerusalem” never appears in the Quran. So why is this site "holy" to Muslims?... what the Quran does say will surprise you... it will even surprise many Muslims.
Many people have been led to believe that Jerusalem is equally important to both Judaism and Islam. This is actually not the case. The Temple Mount is the central holy location in Judaism. The central holy location for Islam is the Ka'aba Shrine at Mecca. So why is the Temple Mount in Jerusalem holy to Islam? This location is deemed as holy in Islam because Mohamed is believed by Muslims to have been transported there in a vision. This vision is recorded in Surah 17 of the Quran. However if most Muslim's REALLY studied the Quran they would understand what Surah 17 actually teaches about the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Ayeh 8 in Surah 17 (Bani Israil) is the Quran's prescription for the Jewish return to the land of Israel and the building of the Third Temple (given the first and 2nd Temples referred to in verses 1 to 7 of Surah 17) on the Temple Mount where al-Aqsa and Dome of the Rock are.
The Quran claims that when Mohamed was taken to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem (the word "Jerusalem" does not even actually appear), he saw a Third Temple actually standing there. He saw this the Quran says in ayeh 1 because Allah was showing him his "signs.":
Glorified be He Who carried His servant [Mohamed] by night
from the Inviolable Temple [in Mecca]
to the far distant Temple [Jerusalem]
the neighbourhood whereof We have blessed,
that We might show him [Mohamed] Our signs!
Behold, He, only He, is the Hearer, the Seer.
Ayeh 5 speaks of the Babylonian captivity and the destruction of the First Temple:
So when the time for the first of the two [Temples] came,
We roused against you slaves of Ours of great might
who ravaged (your) country,
and it was a threat performed.
Ayeh 6 speaks of the return from the Babylonian captivity and the building of the Second Temple:
Then We gave you once again your turn against them,
and We aided you with wealth and children
and made you more in solidarity.
Ayeh 7 speaks of the destruction of the Second Temple:
(Saying): If you do good, you do good for your own souls,
and if you do evil, it is for them (likewise).
So when the time for the second (of the judgments) came
(We roused against you others of Our slaves) to ravage you,
and to enter the Temple even as they entered it the first time,
and to lay waste all that they conquered with an utter wasting.
Ayeh 8 then begins:
"It may be that your Lord will have mercy on you..."
hinting at a further return to the land and the building of a third Temple, a Temple which the Quran says Mohamed saw as one of Allah's signs on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Then near the end of Surah 17 we read:
And We [Allah] said to the Children of Israel after him [Moses]:
Dwell in the land;
And when the promise of the hereafter comes to pass
We [Allah] shall bring you [Children of Israel] as a crowd
gathered out of various nations.
(Quran Surah 17:104)
Thus the Quran seems to say that the Jewish return to the land and the building of the Third Temple SHOULD be seen by the Islamic world as a prophetic sign of Allah's sovereign mercy upon the Children of Israel and that Allah has promised the Children of Israel that they will be regathered from the nations to dwell in the land! Moreover the Quran teaches that the very reason this location is "blessed" is because the building of a third Temple there will be a "sign" that Allah has had mercy on the Children of Israel and gathered them out of various nations to dwell in the land!
If Muslims would only accept what there own Quran says they would be huge supporters of Zionism!
By
James Scott Trimm
Since it is claimed that Jerusalem is a holy site for Islam, many are surprised that the truth is that the word “Jerusalem” never appears in the Quran. So why is this site "holy" to Muslims?... what the Quran does say will surprise you... it will even surprise many Muslims.
Many people have been led to believe that Jerusalem is equally important to both Judaism and Islam. This is actually not the case. The Temple Mount is the central holy location in Judaism. The central holy location for Islam is the Ka'aba Shrine at Mecca. So why is the Temple Mount in Jerusalem holy to Islam? This location is deemed as holy in Islam because Mohamed is believed by Muslims to have been transported there in a vision. This vision is recorded in Surah 17 of the Quran. However if most Muslim's REALLY studied the Quran they would understand what Surah 17 actually teaches about the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Ayeh 8 in Surah 17 (Bani Israil) is the Quran's prescription for the Jewish return to the land of Israel and the building of the Third Temple (given the first and 2nd Temples referred to in verses 1 to 7 of Surah 17) on the Temple Mount where al-Aqsa and Dome of the Rock are.
The Quran claims that when Mohamed was taken to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem (the word "Jerusalem" does not even actually appear), he saw a Third Temple actually standing there. He saw this the Quran says in ayeh 1 because Allah was showing him his "signs.":
Glorified be He Who carried His servant [Mohamed] by night
from the Inviolable Temple [in Mecca]
to the far distant Temple [Jerusalem]
the neighbourhood whereof We have blessed,
that We might show him [Mohamed] Our signs!
Behold, He, only He, is the Hearer, the Seer.
Ayeh 5 speaks of the Babylonian captivity and the destruction of the First Temple:
So when the time for the first of the two [Temples] came,
We roused against you slaves of Ours of great might
who ravaged (your) country,
and it was a threat performed.
Ayeh 6 speaks of the return from the Babylonian captivity and the building of the Second Temple:
Then We gave you once again your turn against them,
and We aided you with wealth and children
and made you more in solidarity.
Ayeh 7 speaks of the destruction of the Second Temple:
(Saying): If you do good, you do good for your own souls,
and if you do evil, it is for them (likewise).
So when the time for the second (of the judgments) came
(We roused against you others of Our slaves) to ravage you,
and to enter the Temple even as they entered it the first time,
and to lay waste all that they conquered with an utter wasting.
Ayeh 8 then begins:
"It may be that your Lord will have mercy on you..."
hinting at a further return to the land and the building of a third Temple, a Temple which the Quran says Mohamed saw as one of Allah's signs on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
Then near the end of Surah 17 we read:
And We [Allah] said to the Children of Israel after him [Moses]:
Dwell in the land;
And when the promise of the hereafter comes to pass
We [Allah] shall bring you [Children of Israel] as a crowd
gathered out of various nations.
(Quran Surah 17:104)
Thus the Quran seems to say that the Jewish return to the land and the building of the Third Temple SHOULD be seen by the Islamic world as a prophetic sign of Allah's sovereign mercy upon the Children of Israel and that Allah has promised the Children of Israel that they will be regathered from the nations to dwell in the land! Moreover the Quran teaches that the very reason this location is "blessed" is because the building of a third Temple there will be a "sign" that Allah has had mercy on the Children of Israel and gathered them out of various nations to dwell in the land!
If Muslims would only accept what there own Quran says they would be huge supporters of Zionism!
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