rylah
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This thread has become trite and devolved into nonsense person attacks.
So I must take my leave. ...
What you couldn't find 'Palestine' in the Qur'an?
Sad...
Hmmm! No mention of Palestine. No mention of Jerusalem. But Israel is stealing "their land." Go figure Palestinian mentality.
The whole story was fabricated when the Caliph of Mecca banned Muslims in Levant from attending the Hijra in Mecca for having a tendency to arrive drunk.
After advice the rulers in Damascus ordered to find an exchange, and a convenient story was tailored. This is known from early Arab historians themselves, not to mention the Muslim scholars who at the time scorned any notion of the city's importance to them.
Simply put, they're going against the will of Allah.
Jerusalem had zero sanctity in early Islam, evidenced by the complete absence of it in the Koran. Jerusalem appears 700+ times in the Jewish Bible. Also, Jerusalem has never been an Islamic capital, while Jerusalem has been Jews’ Capital since long before Muslims even existed.
Interestingly, early Arab Muslims referred to Jerusalem by its pagan Roman name Aelia, arabized as Iliya. Not very sacred, after all.
Yes, in fact the only city Arabs built in the land, Ramla was built as Caliphate's administrative military center, instead of Jerusalem, leaving it in the periphery.
The site was virtually abandoned by Muslims at the turn of the century,
until Jews started vastly rebuilding the land upon return.
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