JERUSALEM IN THE QUR’AN
By Imran N. Hosein
PART ONE
Chapter 4
THE QUR’AN
DECLARED THAT THE HOLY LAND,
INCLUDING
JERUSALEM,
WAS GIVEN TO
THE ISRAELITES
“Remember
Moses said to his people: O my People! Remember the favour of Allah unto you, when
He produced prophets among you, made you kings, and gave you what He had not
given to any other among the peoples.
“O
my people! Enter the Holy Land which Allah gave to you, and turn not back
ignominiously, for then will you be overthrown, to your own ruin.”
(Qur’an, al-Maidah, 5:20-21)
Daniel Pipes, in his
article published in the Los Angeles Times (‘Jerusalem means more to Jews
than to Muslims’ July 21, 2000), attempts to dismiss the Islamic claim to
Jerusalem by declaring of Jerusalem, among other things, that: “It is not
once mentioned in the Qur’an or in the liturgy”.
It is true that the word ‘Jerusalem’ does not explicitly
occur in the Qur’an, but that appears to be in consequence of Divine
Wisdom. The Qur’an refers to Jerusalem in an enigmatic way (and
appropriately so) as a city that was destroyed, its people expelled, and
banned from ever returning to reclaim it. The ban would remain in force until
such time when Gog and Magog come forth (see Qur’an, al-Anbiyah, 21:95-6.) The Arabic name for Jerusalem ‘Bait
al-Maqdis’ occurs several times in the Ahadith. The Roman name
‘Aelia’ also occurs in a very important prophecy of Prophet Muhammad (sallalahu
‘alaihi wa sallam).
It is amazing, really, that Dr. Pipes should have chosen to
ignore those verses of the Qur’an that unambiguously declared that the
Holy Land (of which Jerusalem is the very heart) was given by Allah Most High
to the Jews. When Moses (‘alaihi al-Salam) took the Israelite people out
of slavery in Egypt, and they had miraculously crossed the sea and entered Sinai,
Moses (‘alaihi al-Salam) addressed them and ordered them to make the
effort to win control of the Holy Land. He said:
“Oh my people, enter into the Holy Land which Allah gave to you,
and do not turn back (since such will be a betrayal of your faith) for then you
will be lost (which also includes the loss of the Holy Land).”
“They replied: Oh Moses, there are ferocious people dwelling in
that land, and we will not enter it unless and until they depart from it. If
they leave, then we will enter it”(see also: Numbers 13:32-33).
“Then spoke two God-fearing men (Joshua and Caleb according to
the Torah) who had been blessed by Allah: Enter upon them by the gate (i.e.,
make a frontal attack) for if ye enter by it, lo! You will be victorious. So
put your trust (in Allah) if ye are indeed believers.”
(Qur’an, al-Maida, 5:21-23)
The Jews responded to Moses (‘alaihi al-Salam) with
an answer that was so insulting that Allah Most High immediately prohibited
their entry into the Holy Land:
“They said: O Moses! We will never enter (the Holy Land) while
they are in it. So go thou and thy Lord and fight! We will sit here. He said:
My Lord! I have control over none but my brother and myself so hold us apart
from these sinful rebellious people.
“(Their Lord) said: For this (act of betrayal) the land (i.e.,
the Holy Land) will surely be forbidden them for forty years. They will wander
in the earth (Sinai) bewildered. So grieve not (Moses) over these sinful
rebellious people.”
(Qur’an, al-Maida, 5:24-6)
The Qur’an actually reconfirmed elsewhere the
declaration that the Holy Land was given to the Jews:
("Pharaoh) sought to wipe them [the Israelites] off the
face of the earth. But We (Allah) drowned him (Pharaoh) together with all who
were with him. Then We (Allah) said to the Israelites: ‘Dwell in security in
the land (i.e., the Holy Land)’…”
(Qur’an, Banu Israil, 17:103-104)
and again:
“Whereas unto a people who (in the past) had been deemed utterly
low (and of no account), We gave as their heritage the Eastern and Western
parts of the (Holy) Land that We had blessed. And (thus) the fair promise of
thy Lord was fulfilled for the Children of Israel, because they had patience
and constancy in adversity, whereas We utterly destroyed all that Pharaoh and
his people had wrought and all that they had built (with such pride).”
(Qur’an, al-‘Araf, 7:137)
Again it amazes me that Jewish and Zionist scholarship
should so studiously have avoided quoting these plain statements in which the Qur’an
declared that the Holy Land was given to the Jews:
“Oh
my people enter into the Holy Land which Allah gave to you….”
“Then
We (Allah) said to the Israelites: ‘Dwell in security in the (Holy) Land’….”
“We
gave as their heritage the Eastern and Western parts of the (Holy) Land that We
had blessed.”
Our readers who sincerely seek the Truth in respect of the
subject of the destiny of Jerusalem should ponder over this reluctance on the
part of Euro-Jewish, Zionist and Israelite scholarship to refer to the Qur’an
on this matter. This book offers an explanation
for that strange behavior. The explanation resides in their reluctance to reveal
the corruption of the divine conditions in the Torah which Allah Most High had
ordained for inheritance of the Holy Land. The fraud in the rewritten Torah is
exposed in the Qur’an. What was that fraud?
to be continued....
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