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From the Holy Quran Chapter 17 , Verse 01 , we read this verse
"Holy is He Who
carried His bondman by night from the sacred Mosque to the Aqsa Mosque (Aqsa)
around which We have put blessings that We might show him Our grand signs. No
doubt, He is the Hearing, the Seeing".
*Masjid Aksaor Aqsa is
presently a 40 acre (approx) platform which is also known as Bait Ul Muqaddas.
(Masjid Al Quddus by Arabs).
When Allah has
blessed the place it becomes Haram sheriff.
It is the third
holiset place on Earth after,
1) Kaabatullah also
called Haram Sheriff .Mecca Mouizma
2) Masjid Nabawi
S.A.W also called Haram Sheriff .Medina Munavara
3) Bait Ul Muqaddas
also called Haram Sheriff .Palestine
In the centre of
Bait Ul Muqaddas is QUBBAT AS SAKHRA, MAQAM A SAKHRA in urdu (Dome of the rock
in english) which is a stone slab. ALLAH MADE THIS OUR QIBLA AWWAL.
MAQAAM A SAKHRA
was the QIBLA of many PROPHETS including Prophet DAVID or Hazrath Dawood (Peace be upon him) also Prophet SULEYMAN or SOLOMAN (Peace be upon him), and Prophet MOSES or MOUSSA (Peace be upon him),Prophet ABRAHAM or IBRAHIM (Peace be upon him).
Below MAQAAM A
SAKHRA is a small cave where the Many Prophets of islam used to pray and
rest.
Our Holy Prophet MOHAMED also prayed facing Maqaam a Sakhra and changed it to
KAABATULLAH during prayers from Masjid Qiblatian. in MEDINA Munavara
According to
Islamic Scholar's.
*In Islamic History Prophet DAVID or was the first Prophet to construct a Mosque at
Bait Ul Muqaddas , while Prophet SOLOMAN or Suleiman
later expanded this with the help of jinns.
He built a
raised Platform with huge stone blocks with Maqaam a Sakhra as its centre.
Prophet MOSES or MOUSSA was also commanded by Allah to make Maqaam a Sakhra his Qibla. And he
build a Grand Mosque around it.
This GRAND MOSQUE
was first Destroyed by the PHARAO of Egypt and later by the Romans, Byzantines,
Christians and other invaders.
On the night of
Asuncion or Meraj Our Holy Prophet MOHAMED led the prayers facing
Maqaam a Sakhra as KAABATULLAH had not yet been made the Qibla.
During the Kilafat
of OMAR ibn al khattab Hazrath , and in present PALESTINE, was for
the first time conquered by the Muslim army. He immediately started searching
for the sacred site,All he saw was a huge pile of debris, OMAR, looked around for Maqaam A Sakhra, he saw the stone slab
under the pile of debris,he recognised the same as it had been described by our
Holy Prophet Sallallahu Alhi Wa Sallam.
He removed his
cloak with which he cleaned the area.The Muslim army cleared the whole area with
great respect and looked at Caliph OMAR, as to what he
would do next.He stood in the small cave and facing KAABATULLAH bowed down in
Prayers.
Accompanied with
the other Prophet's Companions or Sahabas , he looked around for a suitable place to build a Mosque in the
vast platform and ordered a Mosque to be built with the Mehrab on the Southern
side of the platform since Palestine is to the north of Mecca. And a Mosque was
constructed.
*The Ommayad Caliph Abdel Malik ibn
Marwan later expanded the Mosque and also constructed a beautifull Golden Dome
on top of Maqaam A Sakhra.
The Crusaders
invaded Palestine and destroyed much of what Abdel Malik ibn Marwan had
built.The Christians placed a cross on top of the dome. The Mosque was converted
to a Church.
Sultan Salahuddin
or SALADIN as known in the west, reconqured Palestine and reconstructed the Mosque and Maqaam A Sakhra.And
he built a metal curtain around the stone slab.
The Turkey Sultans
of the Ottoman Empire ruled Palestine until 1928.
From 1929 to
1948 it was under British rule.
In 1948 the
Americans and British and handed it over to the jews, and the Downtrodden PALESTINIANS were just driven
out of their homes and many were killed , dispersed , tortured and Martyred.
*TO BE FOLLOWED...............