NEWS - ~ Did You Know About Masjid Al-Aqsa ?

Did You Know About Masjid Al-Aqsa ???
• Masjid Al Aqsa was the second Masjid on earth.
• It was built 40 years after the Ka'ba in Makkah.
• Most scholars are of the opinionthat Masjid Al Aqsa was first built
by Prophet Adam A.S.
• Ibrahim A.S. rebuilt the Masjid Al Aqsa in Jerusalem as he and
Ismail A.S. rebuilt the Ka'ba in Makkah.
• Prophet Daud A.S. began the rebuilding of Masjid Al Aqsa.
• It was Prophet Sulayman A.S. who finally completed the building of
Masjid Al Aqsa.
• Masjid Al Aqsa built by Sulayman A.S. was destroyed in 587 BC by
Nebuchadnezzar King of Babylon.
• The Jews call this same Masjid AlAqsa built by Sulayman A.S. as their Temple.
• The Jews re-built their Temple on the same site in 167 BC but was
destroyed in 70 AD and Jews banished from Jerusalem.
• The site of Masjid Al Aqsa remained barren and was used asa rubbish
tip for nearly 600 yearsuntil the Great Khalifah Umar bin Khattab R.A.
liberated Jerusalem in637/8 AD.
• The Khalifah Umar bin Khattab R.A. began the foundation of Masjid Al
Aqsa and a timber Masjidwas built.
• The Umayyad Khalifah, Abd' al Malik ibn Marwan in 691/2 [72/73 AH]
began the construction of, Dome of the Rock- today this is the Golden
Domed Masjid.
• The al Buraq Wall or Western Wall where Prophet Muhammad SalAllahu
Alyehe Wasallam tied his animal the Buraq on the night journey of al
Isra is what the Jews call the wailing wall.
• To Muslims it is the land or the Haram Sharif area which is most
Holy and important.
• The Haram area of Al Aqsa has within it the Masjid Al Aqsa [Black
Domed Mosque] and Dome of the Rock [the Golden Domed Mosque].
• Israel occupied Masjid Al Aqsa in1967.
• That, the fundamentalist Jews have made 100's of attempts to destroy
Al Aqsa since 1967 when they occupied it. A fire in 1967 started by
their help destroyed the 900 year old Mimbar installed by Slah ud Deen
Ayubi, the Great Muslim Hero.
• That, the fundamentalist want to blow up and destroy Masjidul Al
Aqsa and replace it with a Jewish Temple.
May Allah Subhana Taala protects Masjid ul Aqsa. May we see a free
liberated Masjid ul Aqsa/Palestine in our life time. May Allah
SubhanaTaala gives us a chance to Pray in Masjid ul Aqsa. IN SHA ALLAH
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