Where is Masjid Al Aqsa?

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Where is Masjid Al Aqsa?

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Is it worth dying for the Masjid in Jerusalem? Where is the
Then Masjid Al Aqsa?


Shabbir Ahmed (Quran As It Explains Itself)

17:1 Glorious is He Who initiated the migration of His servant by night, from the Sacred Masjid to the Remote Masjid whose environment We did bless that We may show him some of Our signs. He is the Hearer, the Seer.1

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This is the 17th Surah of the Qur’an. Some exponents refer to it as Surah Bani Israel. It has 111 verses. Asra (Night Journey) is often confused with Me’raaj (Ascension). Since God is Omnipresent, the notion of anyone going to meet with Him over the skies does not stand up to reason. Asra signifies night journey and it refers to the beginning of the exalted Messenger's emigration from Makkah to Madinah by night. Verses 20:77 and 26:52 use the same term for migration of Prophet Moses along with his followers across the sea. Also consider 17:2. Masjid Al-Aqsa means the Remote Mosque and refers to the ‘Remote Mosque’ in Madinah, the place where Muslims used to congregate before the Prophet's arrival to the city. Masjid may also be understood here as Madinah since it was the place of regular congregations. The famous Masjid Al-Aqsa, the so-called Qiblah Awwal, the supposed First Holy Sanctuary, is widely known as Haram Shareef in Jerusalem. But, in fact, it was built in 72 AH (691 CE) by the Umayyad Ruler, Abdul Malik bin Marwan, about 60 years after the exalted Messenger passed on. The First Sanctuary was nothing but Ka’bah in Makkah 3:96. Jerusalem, until the Muslim conquest under the second Caliph of Islam in 637 CE, had been under the control of Byzantine Christians for centuries, and there was no person worshiping in a Masjid anywhere in the world but Madinah. So, the question of the presence of a Masjid in Jerusalem during the lifetime of the exalted Prophet should not arise. Again, Muslims conquered Jerusalem in 637 CE during the Rule of the second Caliph of Islam, Hazrat Umar. When he visited the place, he along with his companions continued to pray in open grounds, although Pope Severinus gave him the key to the city and invited him to pray in the Church of Holy Sepulture. But Hazrat Umar feared that Muslims might start converting churches into Masjids, so he politely declined. If a Masjid were present, he would have prayed there. The word Me'raaj (physical Ascension) nowhere occurs in the Qur’an. Yet, under erroneous traditions, it is a popular, though non-Qur’anic, belief among many Muslims that the exalted Messenger was taken up physically to the Heights/Skies to meet with God! The Qur’an sets the records straight by asserting that the First ever blessed Sanctuary was the Ka’bah built by Prophets Abraham and Ishmael in Makkah. And that the Divine laws remain unchanged under all circumstances. Bodily Ascension is a Biblical and not a Qur’anic theme at all.



Qubbah-tas-Sakhra (Dome of the Rock)is an Islamic shrine and major landmark located on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, near Al-Aqsa. It was completed in 691 CE. Temple Mount is a holy site for Judaism as well. There is a very questionable history that the Dome of the Rock was constructed over the site of the Second Jewish Temple which was completely destroyed during the Roman invasion by General Titus in 70 CE.



The exalted Messenger never ascended to the heavens. Allah is everywhere. Our brilliant Muhaddithin and historians bring a lot of irrational and contradictory material on this subject:



01. Me’raaj happened in Madinah.



02. No sorry! It happened in Makkah.



03. It happened just before Hijrah.



04. Sorry! It happened 9 years before Hijrah.



05. The Prophet was sleeping at Umm Hani’s house - what? Gabriel held his hand and took him to Allah up there in the heavens.



06. Oh’ no! (That would be a slander). He was sleeping in the Ka’bah.



07. Gabriel opened his chest and poured faith and wisdom from a platter of gold before taking him up there.



08. Sorry! That surgery was performed when he was 3 years old.



09. Gabriel took him straight to the heavens. Sorry again! The angel first took him to Jerusalem.



10. No, it was not Gabriel. Burraaq (The Centauress with the head and face of a beautiful woman and the body of a horse) carried him to the heavens at lightning speed.



These are not even 10% of the insults. The real ascension of the exalted Messenger was his character, and not some kind of Greek Mythology.



With the Glorious Name of God, the Instant and Sustaining Source of all Mercy and Kindness



20:23. Signs that the Divine System will begin to prevail from there
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The First Qiblah Was Not a Divine Commandment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7TstAH ... WL&index=2
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The first qiblah argument is presented by Bukharians to prove that the Messenger had revelation from Allah that was not contained in the Qur'an and this gives them justification for believing everything in the hadith that has been attributed to him was divinely sanctioned.

What they say is that there is no command in the Qur'an for the Messenger to pray towards the 'first' qiblah, most scholars say Jerusalem, and the only reason he did this was because Allah had told him. If you have two brain cells that are able to communicate with each other, then even if we accept the praying towards Jerusalem happened, why did this need to be Revelation? The Messenger could have decided this himself and later looked to the heavens for somewhere better to turn.
Also, the Kabah was right in front of him so why was he turning towards Jerusalem in the first place? His whole life was around this and not a destroyed temple far, far away, irrelevant to the pagan Arabs as well.

We can see that to prove the hadith and sunnah are binding religious obligation upon 'muslims' they present zero evidence that perishes in front of truth and this includes "Obey Allah and obey the Messenger", "whatever the Messenger give you take it" etc, etc, precisely because there is no verse in the Qur'an saying anything other than Obey Allah by following the Message, the Qur'an, from the Messenger. No Bukharian hadith, no idolatrous sectarian Imam thought control sunnahs.
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A different perspective:
Off the beaten track!


https://youtu.be/RNJrsdggLWk
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