JERUSALEM IN THE QUR’AN
By Imran N. Hosein
PART ONE
Chapter 5
DIVINE
CONDITIONS FOR INHERITING
THE HOLY LAND
“And We declared in the Zabur (i.e., the Psalms) which followed
(Our declaration in) the Zikr i.e., the Torah) that it is (only) those servants
of Mine who are righteous in their conduct who would inherit the (Holy) Land.”
(Qur’an, al-Anbiyah, 21:105)
Had Dr. Pipes been aware of the passage of the Qur’an
which declared that the Holy Land was given to the Jews (and it is impossible
that he was unaware of it) he should then have asked: What right do Muslims
have to dispossess Jews of a land (and the city which is its very heart) which
Allah Most High had given to them? The
reason he did not do so is because it would have opened a ‘Pandora’s box’.
Firstly, he does not want to direct attention to the Qur’an,
particularly as it deals with Jews and the Holy Land. Secondly, the answer to
that question is located in another verse of the Qur’an in which Allah
Most High recalled that the Jewish right to Jerusalem and the Holy Land was ‘conditional’
on faith and righteous conduct. Faith, of course, meant faithful observance
of the religion of Abraham:
“And We declared in the Zabur (i.e., the Psalms) which followed
(Our declaration in) the Zikr (i.e., the Torah) that it is (only) those
servants of Mine who are righteous in their conduct who would inherit the
(Holy) Land.”
(Qur’an, al-Anbiyah, 21:105)
It is clear that when the Qur’an used the word
‘earth’ or ‘land’ as above, it did not refer to the whole earth. If it did,
that would then have been a manifestly false statement. Those who control the
earth today, and whose representatives are gathered in New York for their
Millennium Summit even as we write, are the dregs of humanity. They are the
finest possible representatives of the deceptive, decadent, oppressive and
essentially godless, secular modern world order, representing the blood-sucking
elite that has now enslaved mankind in a new sophisticated economic slavery
based on Riba. Those like Fidel Castro who have been championing the
cause of the oppressed must feel totally out of place in such a gathering.
But the Word of Allah Most High is always Truth. Hence the
word ‘earth’ or ‘land’ in the verse does not refer to the whole earth. To which
land, then, does it refer? The answer is clearly present in the Torah and
Psalms. It is even there in the Gospel as well (In present translations of the Gospel
this is unrecognizable). It is the ‘Holy Land’!
But all translations use ‘the earth’:
“What man is he that fears the Lord? Him shall he
teach in the way that he shall choose. His soul shall dwell at ease; and his
seed shall inherit the (Holy) Land. The secret of the Lord is with them that
fear Him; and He will show them His Covenant.”
(Psalm, 25:12-14)
“But the meek shall inherit the (Holy) Land; and
shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.”
(Psalm, 37:11)
“The righteous shall inherit the (Holy) Land, and
dwell therein forever (i.e. provided that they remain righteous).”
(Psalm, 37:29)
“Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the
(Holy) Land.
(Matthew, 5:5)
The proof that the word ‘earth’ or ‘land’ in this context
refers to the Holy Land is to be found in the Qur’anic text that declared that
the Israelites would commit Fasad (awesome oppression and wickedness) in
the ‘earth’ or ‘land’ on two occasions:
“And We gave (clear) warning to the Israelites in the Book, that
twice would they commit Fasad (corruption and awesome oppression) on the earth
and be elated with mighty arrogance (and twice would they be punished)!”
(Qur’an, Banu Israil, 17:4)
By universal consent it is allowed that the word ‘earth’ or
‘land’ in the above verse refers to the Holy Land! And so the scriptures all
speak with one voice, that faith and righteous conduct are the conditions by
which the Jews could take lawful possession of the Holy Land and dwell therein.
Someone rewrote the Torah, however, to remove this
condition.
He wrote:
“Know therefore that it is not because of your
righteousness that the Lord, your God, has given you this good land to possess
it; for you are a stiff-necked people.”
(Deuteronomy , 9:6)
Dr. Pipes may not find it convenient to defend this
monstrous lie perpetrated against Allah Most High and the religion of Abraham (‘alaihi
al-Salam). But it does not take much, in terms of common sense, ethical
wisdom, and spiritual insight, to discern the above statement to be false. It
is incompatible with that perfect standard of justice that must come from a
perfect Divine Being. It is, in fact, a forgery! And it was designed to nullify
the divine condition imposed upon the Jews for them to inherit the Holy Land. If
this particular land was chosen by Allah Most High and was specially blessed by
Him, why then would He give it unconditionally to a “stiff-necked people” regardless of whether they acted
righteously, or stubbornly resisted conforming to the ethical standard of
righteous conduct?
Secondly, the historical record confirms that the Jews were
expelled time and again, by divine decree, from Jerusalem and the Holy Land.
This took place whenever they violated the condition of faith and righteous
conduct. The Qur’an made mention of these expulsions and then, after the
last expulsion, Allah Most High declared His intention to keep on expelling
them whenever they returned to the Holy Land with conduct which violated the
divinely stipulated conditions. (Qur’an,
al-Anbiyah, 21:105). Many Israelite Jews (who are not European) readily
admit that they brought upon themselves repeated Divine expulsions from the
Holy Land because of their sinful ways. The essentially godless secular European
Zionists refuse to accept such a theory.
The Jews respond by arguing that the quoted verse of Deuteronomy, 9:6 was meant to
simply remind the Jews that the grant of the land to them was in consequence of
the faith and righteousness of their ancestor, Abraham (‘alaihi al-Salam).
In other words, they did not earn or inherit it because of their own
righteousness.
This argument does not nullify the implication of the verse,
i.e., that the Land was granted to them unconditionally. And the Qur’an
declares such to be false. The Qur’anic declaration is clear. The Land was
given to Banu Israil conditionally. The
conditions were ‘faith in Allah and submission to Him’ and ‘righteous conduct’ (Qur’an,
al-Anbiyah, 21:105).
Some six hundred years after the last expulsion of the Jews
from the Holy Land, Allah Most High caused the Muslims to inherit that Land
when the Muslim army conquered it and the Caliph Umar was requested to come
personally to Jerusalem to receive the keys to the city. On that day the prophecy to that effect in
the Qur’an was fulfilled:
“It is He Who has made you inheritors of the (Holy) Land: He has
raised some of you by degrees above others that He might test you through that
which He bestowed upon you (Banu Israil got more than any other people): for
thy Lord is swift in punishment: yet He is indeed Oft-Forgiving, Most
Merciful.”
(Qur’an, al-An’am, 6:165)
Allah Most High ordained that the Muslims would inherit the
Holy Land. Thus did the Truth triumph over Falsehood. When they did take
control over the Holy Land they continued to rule over it (apart for a brief
period) for more than twelve hundred years. That was a clear Sign from the
heavens of Divine approval of Muslim rule over the Holy Land! Jewish
scholarship should offer an explanation for this uninterrupted Muslim rule over
the Holy Land for this long period of time - a Muslim rule both just and
God-fearing!
When European Zionists
deceived the Israelite Jews into joining them in a stubborn ‘pig-headed’ effort
to return to the Holy Land, in what they claimed was a divinely-ordained
restoration of the State of Israel, that was a clear Sign for the Israelite
Jews that the Zionist call was false. It was a lie! The divinely ordained
conditions of faith in the religion of Abraham and of righteous conduct were
plainly absent in the Zionist struggle for Israel. And when Israel itself was
established, the foundations of the State were the same as those of the modern
secular State. The foundations of the modern secular State are Shirk and
Kufr and these constitute the very negation of the religion of Abraham (‘alaihi
al-Salam). That subject is explained
in Part Two of this book.
to be continued....
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