Ali Hammuda – Palestine Reimagined #07 What is the Temple of Solomon
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The Jewish claim is that the temple of Solomon is the temple of the temple, and the temple was destroyed by theying couldn't be found until the year 17 CE. The first step to dismantling the claim is to note that Al prep Alaysha in the first place, and that the temple was built on top of the ruins of the temple. The first step is to note that Alaysha was the first to build the temple, and that the temple is still being rebuilt. The second step is to note that the temple was built by the first minister of Jerusalem, Abraham Lincoln, and that the temple is still being rebuilt.
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What do we know of the Jewish claim
that beneath Al Masjid Al Aqsa, the Aqsa
Mosque, lays the ruins of the Temple of
Solomon or so they claim?
According to Jewish tradition, the one who lay
the foundations
for the temple was David, prophet Dawood.
And the one who actually built it was
his son Suleiman or Solomon.
The temple was destroyed for the first time
by the Babylonian ruler, Nebuchadnezzar,
in 586
BC.
They supposedly rebuilt it years later, but was
then yet again destroyed at the hands of
Titus, the son of the Roman Emperor Vespasian,
in the year 17 CE.
So that the Jews would not,
forget the temple, so that it would remain
alive in their memories, the rabbis introduced rituals
and ceremonies that every Jew performs in order
to remember the temple,
and its destruction.
At the time of birth, at the time
of death, at the time of marriage, when
painting the house there's always a ceremony to
remember the temple.
Now today the Jewish claim is that Al
Masjid Al Aqsa is built on top of
the ruins of this temple.
And Al Aqsa mosque is currently being controlled
by the Israeli army
for the ever increasing use of Israeli settlers
and for the preparation of the building of
the temple.
This means that there is of course no
alternative to destroying
Masjid Al Aqsa in order to rebuild to
the temple,
and that the kingdom of the Jews cannot
be established until that happens.
Because to them, Israel is nothing without Jerusalem,
and Jerusalem is nothing without the Temple of
Solomon.
Now from our perspective,
the very first step to the dismantling of
this allegation is to note that Al Masjid
Al Aqsa
was built 100 of years before the very
birth of prophet Solomon.
You see, scholars, they have 3 different views
about the identity of the first to construct
Al Masjid Al Aqsa. I'm gonna present in
chronological order.
The first theory suggests that angels
initially constructed Al Masjid Al Haram in Mecca,
followed by the building of Al Masjid Al
Aqsa in Palestine 40 years later.
The second opinion is that prophet Adam was
the pioneer of al Masjid al Haram in
Mecca, and then afterwards he established al Masjid
al Aqsa again 40 years 40 year
gap. According to the 3rd opinion,
the initial foundations of Al Masjid Al Haram
in Mecca were already laid there, and they
were raised by prophet Ibrahim,
who then went over to Palestine to construct
Al Masjid Al
also 40 years later. So
what does that tell you?
It tells you that even if we were
to take the 3rd opinion,
and that the first to have built Al
Majid Al Aqsa was prophet Ibrahim,
it's clear that he predates prophet Sunayman by
centuries.
So Muslims argue,
how can the claim be made that Al
Aqsa mosque is built above the remains of
a temple
of Solomon,
a Solomon who came into being many 100
of years after the original builder,
Abraham.
Having said that,
prophet Suleiman
did in fact play a significant role in
the history of Admetrokh Al Asad. Though not
by initially constructing it as we have established,
but rather by renovating it, by enhancing it.
Ibn Utemi and others, they've said,
He said Al Aqsa Mosque
has existed since the time of Abraham,
peace be upon him. But Sulayman
was the one who rebuilt it magnificently.
So, al Masjid al Aqsa had already been
a place of worship
long before
Suleyman's
era
And the building which he did eventually
rebuild
and refurbish
was none other than Al Masjid Al Aqsa
itself
not a separate place of worship that we
need to search for beneath it.
This was also confirmed by the Christian historian
Ibn al Abri, who died in the year
12/86,
who said
in the 4th year of his reign,
Solomon began to build
Baytul Maqdis, which is known as Al Masjid
Al Aqsa.
So the temple of Solomon is Al Masjid
Al Aqsa.
Nevertheless,
certain Jewish groups
who don't believe this, continue to argue otherwise,
As they try to justify risky excavations beneath
the Masjid, which has consistently
yielded zero evidence of a colossal
structure that once apparently occupied the space as
described in the Bible.
In 1961 Israeli authorities claimed to have discovered
what they termed the Stables of Solomon.
They enlisted Kathleen Kenyon, who is a distinguished
British archaeologist. To conduct a thorough investigation
in Palestine
near Al Masjid Al Aqsa.
After 6 years of extensive
excavations in Jerusalem, Kenyan concluded that these so
called stables were totally
impractical
for holding horses,
debunking the initial claims.
And then periodically
items such as stones or tablets are unearthed
during excavations and
promptly presented to the world as evidence of
the temple's remnants beneath Al Aqsa mosque. But
then again these findings are discovered to be
fraudulent
forgeries.
An example of this is the Jehoash inscription
discovered in 2003.
It's a stone tablet,
it bears Hebrew inscription that mirrored the biblical
description of Solomon's Temple.
And it seemed to be initially at least
very significant
archaeological
find. But then subsequent examinations revealed it to
be a forgery, to fetch millions for museum
collectors, and to bolster Zionist convictions about the
temple's historical authenticity.
And of course, you've got the Jewish archaeologist,
Israel Finkelstein,
who stated that the archaeologist did not find
any archaeological evidence indicating that the temple actually
existed, I. E. As described in the Bible.
And he regarded the idea of the existence
of the temple as a mere myth that
did not exist. And that the writers of
the Torah in the 3rd century added stories
that did not happen.
Putting all of this aside for a moment,
even if remnants of a different structure was
to be unearthed at any point from beneath
Al Mas'ud Al Aqsa,
that still wouldn't pose an issue for Muslims.
It simply would be remnants of Al Masjid
Al Aqsa of back then that has been
restored and refurbished all throughout the ages.
It's important to remember that the terms temple,
mosque,
masjid,
house should not distract us from the fact
that prophet Suleiman
was a messenger of Allah.
And that these names are in reference to
the same thing essentially, places
dedicated to the worship of the one Allah
alone.
And regardless of all of this.
Anything of the construction of prophets Dawood
or Surayman
or prophet Ibrahim before them.
Our belief is that we
the Muslims today
hold the strongest claim to it.
After all these prophets according to the Quran
were Muslims
knitters to Allah, worshippers of him alone who
never committed idolatry or obscene sins
as is attributed to them.
It is the Muslims today who are upon
their religion.
Muslims who do not associate partners with Allah
like them.
The Muslims who honor all of the prophets,
Moses and Jesus and those before them and
prophet Muhammad
We believe in them all. We do not
deem them as mere kings as others do.
We therefore lay claim to these prophets. We
lay claim to the places of worship that
they built, And we lay claim to being
their successors in religion till the end of
time.