Excerpts from the book "The Al-Aqsa Mosque Lie"

The lie of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the city of Jerusalem

Written by Ahmed Subhy Mansour 

Translated by Amin Refaat

This book proves that what is called the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the city of Jerusalem is a lie and contradicts Islam, and that it is a mosque of harm built by the Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan on the ruins of the Israeli Temple.

Introduction

First:

 1- The purpose here is not political in writing about the myth of what is called the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. This does not concern us. What concerns us is the demolition of a sacred idol for the Muhammadans, which is what is called the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. It is a mosque founded by Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan on misguidance from the first day to divert people from the pilgrimage to the Holy House in Mecca. He founded it on the ruins of the Israeli Temple in Jerusalem. And because we are not talking about politics here, the discourse is primarily and only for those who claim to be Muslims. We address them in this book with the Holy Quran and through the history and heritage of Muslims.

 2- Because of this mosque of harm (Al-Aqsa) in Jerusalem, the true Al-Aqsa Mosque in Mount Sinai, which was mentioned repeatedly in the Holy Quran in the stories of Moses, was obscured. Then this abominable Al-Aqsa Mosque became sacred to the (Muslims) who consider it the first of the two qiblas and the third of the two holy sanctuaries. Centuries followed, sanctifying it from the Umayyad era to the Abbasid, Mamluk, and Ottoman eras until our present era.

 3- And because of this mosque of harm, Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem, the great religion of Islam was brought into the Arab Palestinian conflict, even though this mosque of harm has no connection to Islam except for a contradictory relationship. It is self-evident that a true believer refrains from using the great religion of Islam in politics and in the struggle for the ruins of the world. We have already published a book on (Warning Muslims against mixing politics with religion).

Second:

All we hope is that the reader of this book calms down, thinks rationally and calmly, and asks himself these questions:

1: Is the city of Jerusalem mentioned in the Holy Quran?

2: Is there a divine command in the Holy Quran to journey to what is called the Al-Aqsa Mosque (in Jerusalem)?

3: Was this (Al-Aqsa) in Jerusalem present when the Arabs conquered the city of Jerusalem? And was the name (Al-Aqsa Mosque) mentioned in the history of the conquest of the city of Jerusalem? And when the Arabs (Muslims) besieged the city of Jerusalem, were they chanting with longing to enter what is called the Al-Aqsa Mosque, from which they claim the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heaven? And when Omar ibn al-Khattab received the city of Jerusalem, did he pray in what is called the Al-Aqsa Mosque? Or did he pray in the mihrab of David, which is from the ruins of the Temple of the Children of Israel?

 4: Did any of the Rightly Guided Caliphs (according to them) journey to this Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem?

 5: Do the legends that were told about the sanctification of the rock of what is called the Al-Aqsa Mosque agree with Islam, in which there is no sanctification of humans or stones?

6: Is it in line with the majesty of Islam that we involve it in the current political conflict over what is called the Al-Aqsa Mosque, which has no origin in Islam?

7- The facts of history prove the subordination of the Temple of Solomon to the Children of Israel, and that the Arabs invaded Jerusalem as part of their conquests by which they occupied many homelands during the era of the Rightly Guided Caliphs, and that Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan is the one who usurped the place of the Temple of Solomon and built on top of it that mosque of harm called Al-Aqsa. That is, this place belongs to the Israelis. You may hate Israel, but you must, as a Muslim, speak a word of truth, it is not important whether it is for the benefit of Israel or the Palestinians. Here, as a Muslim, you adhere to the command of God Almighty mentioned in verse 8 of Surat Al-Ma'idah, you are commanded to adhere to the law of Islam based on seeking justice even if it is against your family and loved ones, He Almighty said: (O you who have believed, be persistently firm in justice, witnesses for Allah, even if it be against yourselves or parents and relatives. Whether one is rich or poor, Allah is more worthy of both. So follow not [personal] inclination, lest you not be just. And if you distort [the truth] or refuse, then indeed, Allah is ever, with what you do, Acquainted. (135) Al-Nisa) and He Almighty said among the ten commandments: (And when you speak, be just, even if it be to a near relative. And fulfill the covenant of Allah. That is what He has instructed you, so that you may remember. (152) Al-An'am). And because we obey the commands of God Almighty, we speak a word of truth and justice, and we are concerned only with the order of the Most Merciful Almighty, and we are also not concerned with the anger and wrath of the people that we face.

Second:

The Umayyad Caliph (Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan) and the establishment of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in his war against the Caliph Ibn al-Zubayr

• The Kaaba was subjected to humiliation and burning at the hands of the Quraysh: (the Umayyad army, and the army of Ibn al-Zubayr). Ibn al-Zubayr took advantage of the Hajj season to intensify his propaganda against the Umayyads, and its effect became clear on the people of the Levant who performed the Hajj and returned having heard the slander against the Umayyads. Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan feared that they would abandon him and join Ibn al-Zubayr, so his thinking guided him to establish what he called the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and made the pilgrimage to it, and used the mention of the name of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Surat Al-Isra in the call to sanctify this mosque of his, and the people of the Levant responded to him, especially those of them who had converted to Islam and still carried the influences of their old religion, and the sanctification of the Temple and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, in the place of which the Al-Aqsa Mosque was established.  
•  2- In his history book  (The beginning and the End) in Arabic ( Al Bedayah wa Al Nehayah ), the Levantine historian Ibn Kathir says:

  ( Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan began building the dome on the rock of Jerusalem and the construction of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and its construction was completed in the year seventy-three.

• And he says about the reason for its construction: (The reason for that was that Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr had taken over Mecca, and he used to give sermons during the days of Mina and Arafa, and the people's stay in Mecca, and he would slander Abd al-Malik and mention the evils of the Banu Marwan, and say: (The Prophet (peace be upon him) cursed Al-Hakam and his offspring, and that he is an outcast of the Messenger (peace be upon him) and his accursed one), and he used to call for himself, and he was eloquent, so most of the people of the Levant inclined to him. This reached Abd al-Malik, so he prevented people from performing the Hajj, and they were distressed, so he built the Dome on the Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque to distract them from the Hajj and to win their hearts. They would stand at the rock and circumambulate it just as they circumambulate the Kaaba. They would slaughter on the day of Eid and shave their heads, and about its construction and building he says: (When Abd al-Malik wanted to build Jerusalem, he sent money and workers to it, and he entrusted the work to Rajaa ibn Haywah and Yazid ibn Salim, his mawla, and he gathered craftsmen from all parts of the country and sent them to Jerusalem, and he sent a lot of money to it, and he ordered Rajaa ibn Haywah and Yazid to spend the money generously and not to hesitate in it. So they spent the expenses and multiplied them, so they built the dome, and it came out as one of the most beautiful buildings, and they paved it with colored marble, and there were workers for the dome, one of them was from red wood for the winter, and another from skin for the summer, and they surrounded the dome with various types of curtains, and they appointed guardians and servants for it with various types of perfume, musk, amber, rosewater, and saffron, and they made a mixture from it and fumigated the dome and the mosque at night. He put in it a lot of gold and silver lamps and gold and silver chains, and he put in it Indian oud covered with musk and paved it and the mosque with various types of colored carpets. And when they released the incense, its smell was smelled from a long distance.
•  - And about the people's infatuation with it, he says: (And when a man returned from Jerusalem to his country, the smell of musk, perfume, and incense would be found on him for days, and it would be known that he had come from Jerusalem, and that he had entered the Rock, and there were many guardians and caretakers in charge of it, and there was no building on the face of the earth more beautiful or magnificent than the Dome of the Rock of Jerusalem, so that people were distracted by it from the Kaaba and the Hajj, and they would not look in the Hajj season or otherwise except for the journey to Jerusalem. And people were greatly infatuated with that, and they came to it from everywhere, and they made many false signs and marks on it, such as in the Rock, they pictured in it the image of the Straight Path and the Gate of Paradise, and the foot of the Messenger (peace be upon him) and the valley of hell, and likewise in its doors and some of its places, so people were deceived by that and until our time. ) And Ibn Kathir says about the extravagance in decorating and gilding this mosque: (In short, when the Rock of Jerusalem was finished being built, it had no equal on the face of the earth in splendor and appearance, and it had a lot of gems, jewels, mosaics, and other things in it, and dazzling types. And when Rajaa ibn Haywah and Yazid ibn Salim finished its construction in the most perfect way, six hundred thousand dinars were left over from the money they spent on that. And it was said: three hundred thousand dinars, so they wrote to Abd al-Malik informing him of that, so he wrote to them: I have given it to you. So they wrote to him: If we could, we would have added to the construction of this mosque from the jewelry of our women. So he wrote to them: Since you refuse to accept it, pour it on the dome and the doors, so no one could look at the dome because of the old and new gold on it. ) End.