The "Furthest Mosque" Was NOT In Jerusalem

[HistoryBefore67]

The Muslims claim that Jerusalem is one of their three holiest cities. They claim this despite the fact that there is no reference to Jerusalem in the Qur'an.

The justification: there is a passage in the Qur'an about the Prophet's "Night Journey" to the "Furthest Mosque." Muslims today claim this is a reference to Jerusalem.

This is a lie.

Here are some of the reasons why we know this is a lie:

1. During the time of the Prophet, Jerusalem had not yet been conquered by the Muslims and contained not a single mosque.

2. The "furthest mosque" was apparently identified with places inside Arabia: either Medina or a town called Ji'rana, about ten miles from Mecca, which the Prophet visited in 630.

3. The earliest Muslim accounts of Jerusalem, such as the description of Caliph 'Umar's reported visit to the city just after the Muslims conquest in 638, nowhere identify the Temple Mount with the "furthest mosque" of the Qur'an.

4. The Qur'anic inscriptions that make up a 240-meter mosaic frieze inside the Dome of the Rock do not include Qur'an 17:1 and the story of the Night Journey, suggesting that as late as 692 the idea of Jerusalem as the lift-off for the Night Journey had not yet been established. (Indeed, the first extant inscriptions of Qur'an 17:1 in Jerusalem date from the eleventh century.)

5. Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiya (638-700), a close relative of the Prophet, is quoted denigrating the notion that the prophet ever set foot on the Rock in Jerusalem; "these damned Syrians," by which he means the Umayyads, "pretend that God put His foot on the Rock in Jerusalem, though [only] one person ever put his foot on the rock, namely Abraham."

http://www.danielpipes.org/84/the-muslim-claim-to-jerusalem

 

[Roudy]

The Muslims claim that Jerusalem is one of their three holiest cities. They claim this despite the fact that there is no reference to Jerusalem in the Qur'an.

The justification: there is a passage in the Qur'an about the Prophet's "Night Journey" to the "Furthest Mosque." Muslims today claim this is a reference to Jerusalem.

This is a lie.

Here are some of the reasons why we know this is a lie:

1. During the time of the Prophet, Jerusalem had not yet been conquered by the Muslims and contained not a single mosque.

2. The "furthest mosque" was apparently identified with places inside Arabia: either Medina or a town called Ji'rana, about ten miles from Mecca, which the Prophet visited in 630.

3. The earliest Muslim accounts of Jerusalem, such as the description of Caliph 'Umar's reported visit to the city just after the Muslims conquest in 638, nowhere identify the Temple Mount with the "furthest mosque" of the Qur'an.

4. The Qur'anic inscriptions that make up a 240-meter mosaic frieze inside the Dome of the Rock do not include Qur'an 17:1 and the story of the Night Journey, suggesting that as late as 692 the idea of Jerusalem as the lift-off for the Night Journey had not yet been established. (Indeed, the first extant inscriptions of Qur'an 17:1 in Jerusalem date from the eleventh century.)

5. Muhammad ibn al-Hanafiya (638-700), a close relative of the Prophet, is quoted denigrating the notion that the prophet ever set foot on the Rock in Jerusalem; "these damned Syrians," by which he means the Umayyads, "pretend that God put His foot on the Rock in Jerusalem, though [only] one person ever put his foot on the rock, namely Abraham."

The Muslim Claim to Jerusalem :: Daniel Pipes

There was no mosques in Jerusalem during Mohammad's life or death, and he certainly never set foot in Jerusalem. The Koran actually never even mentions Jerusalem, ever. And it gives Israel to the Jews. Any Muslim that says otherwise is going against the teachings of the Koran.

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

Mordechai Kedar at his very best, getting one up on Al-Jazeera.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHpMhAzj-Tk]Mordechai Kedar in al-Jazeera about Jerusalem & Islam - YouTube[/ame]

Dr. Mordechai Kedar of Bar-Ilan University defends the Jewishness of Jerusalem, the Jewish capital for over 3000 years. He also defends the right of Israelis to settle in Judea and Samaria, the West Bank.


"We were here when your forefathers were drinking wine, burying their daughters alive and worshipping idols" -- this was just one of Bar Ilan University political scientist Dr. Mordechai Kedar's ripostes to questions by an Al Jazeera interviewer in an interview that has received rave reviews from Israel-lovers the world over for its forcefulness. "They did not expect me to take the discussion to history and especially not to religion," Kedar told Israel National News. But discuss religion he did in the above video, reminding his interviewer that Jerusalem was not mentioned even once in the Koran and saying directly in fluent Arabic that "Jerusalem is not on the negotiating table," and that "Jerusalem belongs to the Jews, period."

"This was very aggravating" for the Al-Jazeera interviewer, Kedar explained, "because in the Islamic view, Islam came into the world to replace Judaism and Christianity, not to live side by side with them. And here, all of a sudden, the Jews are coming from exile and building their state again and G-d forbid they also regained Jerusalem." Judaism is thus regaining its meaning, and Islam is challenged by this, the Bar-Ilan professor explained. "The mere existence of the State of Israel and the fact that we are in Jerusalem is some kind of challenge to the legitimacy of Islam in their eyes," Kedar explained.

"This is not pro-Israel public relations," Dr. Kedar told Israel National News. "This is a battle for the Arab heart, which Israel is apparently losing because Israel gave up on the main tool which should have served it, which is an independent Israeli Zionist satellite channel in Arabic." Many Arabs, he said, would consider changing their views if such a channel were available.

Mordechai Kedar (born 1952 in Tel Aviv; Hebrew: מרדכי קידר*; Arabic: مردخاي كيدار*) is an Israeli scholar of Arabic literature and a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University. He holds the Ph.D. from Bar-Ilan University.
Kedar is an academic expert on the Israeli Arab population. He served for twenty-five years in IDF Military Intelligence, where he specialized in Islamic groups, the political discourse of Arab countries, the Arabic press and mass media, and the Syrian domestic arena.[1] The Los Angeles Times' Edmund Sanders described him as "one of the few Arabic-speaking Israeli pundits seen on Arabic satellite channels defending Israel".[2]

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

And here are them praying with their backsides facing the Dome of the Rock which they consider to be the holiest place in Jerusalem. They instead are praying towards Mecca, as Mohammed instructed his followers not to pray towards Jerusalem but towards the direction of Mecca instead.

 

[MJB12741]

They even built their Al Asqa Mosque on the land they stole from the holy site of Solomon's Temple.

And here are them praying with their backsides facing the Dome of the Rock which they consider to be the holiest place in Jerusalem. They instead are praying towards Mecca, as Mohammed instructed his followers not to pray towards Jerusalem but towards the direction of Mecca instead.

 

[Hossfly]

And here are them praying with their backsides facing the Dome of the Rock which they consider to be the holiest place in Jerusalem. They instead are praying towards Mecca, as Mohammed instructed his followers not to pray towards Jerusalem but towards the direction of Mecca instead.

The furthest mosque is in Monkeys Eyebrow, Kentucky. Unless they burnt it down. Yes, there is a Monkeys Eyebrow, KY. Been through there many times.

 

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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU9CauJP4Pg]Why Palestinians Want This Video Removed - YouTube[/ame]