The whole Al Aqsa story and justification is a fairy tale built on a fairy tale. Mohammeds Night journey is exactly that on a winged horse ala Pegassus that was derived from Greek mythology, a centaur with the torso a human being and the face of a woman where he flies to the furthest Mosque, Al Aqsa in Arabic. No mention of Jerusalem as at that time there were only Mosques in Medina and Mecca. Logic will tell you that if you are in Medina, then the furthest Mosque is in Mecca or vice versa. Much much later when the Umayyad in Upon the capture of Jerusalem by the victorious Caliph Omar, Omar immediately headed to the Temple Mount with his advisor, Kaab al-Ahbar, a formerly Jewish rabbi who had converted to Islam, in order to find the holy site of the Furthest Mosque or Al Masjid al Aqsa which was mentioned in the Quran. Kaab al-Ahbar suggested to Caliph Omar to build the Dome of the Rock monument on the site that Kaab believed to be the Biblical Holy of the Holies, believing that this site is where Mohammad ascended to heaven during the Isra and Miraj miracle. (Jewish history is filled with the curse of traitors to this day). The actual construction of the Muslim monuments at the southeast corner, facing Mecca, near which the al-Aqsa Mosque were built 78 years later. The original building is now known to have been wooden and to have been constructed on the site of a Byzantine public building with an elaborate mosaic floor. In 691 an octagonal Islamic building topped by a dome was built by the Caliph Abd al-Malik around the rock, for a myriad of political, Damascus competing with Mecca, dynastic and religious reasons, built on local and Koranic traditions articulating the sites holiness, a process in which textual and architectural narratives reinforced one another. In short, fairy tales. The shrine became known as the Dome of the Rock. In 715 the Umayyads led by the Caliph al-Walid I, rebuilt the Temples nearby Chanuyot into a mosque which they named al-Masjid al-Aqsa, the al-Aqsa Mosque or in translation the furthest mosque, corresponding to the Islamic belief of Muhammads miraculous nocturnal journey as recounted in the Quran and hadith. The term al-Haram al-Sharif refers to the whole area that surrounds that Rock as was called later by the Mamluks and Ottomans.
Posted on: Sat, 29 Mar 2014 07:05:44 +0000
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