Do Muslims consider Al-Aqsa Mosque or the dome of the rock the third holiest site in Islam?

Question

from what I know I think its Al-Aqsa Mosque, but I am not sure.

Answer 1

Yeah

Answer 2

Yes because Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) went on the Isra' and Mi'raj journey up to the Heaven from Al-Aqsa. It's not like Jesus Christ (pbuh) ascended to Heaven and then return again someday as Christians believe. Its just a journey up to the Seventh Heaven on an animal called the Buraq in one single night. It's very important because on this journey, the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) received the five prayers Muslims do right now.

That is why Palestinians are fighting over the al-Maghreba gate excavations by Israel. Its threatening the foudations of the Mosque.

Answer 3

Al-Aqsa Mosque is the third holiest site in Islam

Answer 4

Dome of the Rock, from which Muhammad dreamed that he and his horse ascended to heaven.

Islam and Christianity, the "daughter" religions of Judaism, have hundreds and thousands of years of war and suppression to their names. The original, Judaism, is peaceful and never made a religious war on those who believe differently.

You have, of course, the Crusades as the prime example.

The reason for the conflict between Israel and the Arabs is that the Arabs, plain and simple, refuse to accept a Jewish state in their midst. They invented this whole idea of a "Palestinian people who deserve a state" just to use as a tool to dismember Israel.

Arab violence against Jews has been going on long before there was an occupation, long before there was a refugee problem--indeed, long before there was a political Zionist movement. Need I present more painful examples? Perhaps even further back, where I hope everyone will agree that the Zionist movement did not yet come into being:

In the centuries after Muhammad there have been periods when the Jews were able to live in relative peace under Arabs, but their position was never secure. They were generally viewed with contempt by their Arab neighbors, and their survival was always predicated on their abject subordination and degradation to them. Mass murders of Jewish "protected people" started in Morocco as early as the eighth century, where Idris I wiped out whole communities. A century later Baghdad's Caliph al-Mutawakkil designated a yellow badge for Jews (setting a precedent that would be followed centuries later in Nazi Germany), and synagogues were destroyed throughout Mesopotamia in 854-859. In Tripolitania, Jews were considered the property of their Arab masters, who would bequeath the Jews to their heirs upon death. In the 12th century, after anti-Jewish riots, the contemporaries commented that their population had 'greatly declined.' ( Middle East Digest, September 1999)

As to how to solve the problem, the only way would be for Israel to defeat the Arabs overwhelmingly, and then dictate the terms for peace. Otherwise, the Arabs will never stop trying to destroy Israel.


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Answer 5

Yes,they certainly do. That's why Sharon went to the temple mount in 2002. It was a deliberate provocation. Naturally,the negative response from Palestinians was used to justify the kind of measures Hitler used on German Jews after Herschel Grinspan shot the third secretary at the German Embassy in Paris in 1938,which was then used to justify the Cystalnacht pogroms. A staged provocation. Didn't fool anybody in either case.

Answer 6

An important Muslim shrine in Jerusalem. Read all about it below. It was on my Master's exams, so I'm not likely ever to forget it.

Answer 7

Ever been inside it?
The Dome of the Rock, from what I understand.
Odd; how they'd choose to worship from a Jewish holy site...but I doubt G-d cares!

Answer 8

Yeah and BTW it is indeed a mosque

Answer 9

I have heard that.