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Eric H
Greetings and peace be with you brmm,
Instead of searching for our differences and striving to find faults in other religions, I believe we should try and find ways to work together. We are all created by the same God, and the same God hears all our prayers, despite all our differences.
Abraham, Moses and Jesus are central to Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and I believe God brings us together in other ways too.
In 2009 I had the privilege to go to Jerusalem, and stand by the Wailing Wall, which is a sacred place to the Jews. But when you walk back fifty paces and look above the wall, you see the golden dome of ‘The Dome of the Rock Mosque, and the Al Aqsa sacred to Islam. Most of the Christian holy places are within the Muslim quarters of Jerusalem, this in turn is surrounded by the Jews.
It is said in Judaism and Christianity, that God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his son in the region of Mount Moriah. It is also said that God commanded Solomon to build the Temple Mount on Mount Moriah, this is a huge structure, a small part of it is what we know as the Wailing Wall, or Western Wall. On top of the Temple Mount, God commanded Solomon to build a Temple, that will house ‘The Ark of the Covenant’ better known for the Ten Commandments. Jesus prayed on the Temple Mount, and when he healed people he sent them to the Temple to give thanks.
The prophet pbuh ascended to heaven in the region of Mount Moriah, in Jerusalem, on the spot were Abraham was said to have given his son as a sacrifice. It is also were Solomon was commanded to build the Temple to house the Ark of the Covenant of God, known as the Ten Commandments. It is were Jesus worshiped, The Temple was destroyed and rebuilt, then destroyed again and Two Mosques were built on top of the Temple Mount, The Dome of the Rock is built on were Solomon’s Temple once stood. The Dome is said to be the place where the prophet pbuh, ascended up to heaven on his winged horse.
It seems that God has linked Judaism, Christianity and Islam together on this one sacred place.
But why has God brought all these three religions together in so many ways?
In the spirit of searching for One God
Eric
Hello Eric, Assalam Alaikom
You have a nice message and nice words. Actually Allah have ordered us to call for His way in the right way. If I, as a Muslim, believe that I have the truth with me, I mean the right belief, then how the others will know it if I did not speak up ? My duty is to speak, and their right is to accept or not.
Allah says in the Holy Quran,
16:125"Call to the way of your Lord with wisdom and goodly exhortation, and have disputations with them in the best manner; surely your Lord best knows those who go astray from His path, and He knows best those who follow the right way."
and Allah says:
18:29 "And say, "The truth is from your Lord, so whoever wills - let him believe; and whoever wills - let him disbelieve",... "
Muslims say: Mohammed, Jesus & Moses PBUThem are brothers (since they were chosen prophets of God).
Christian say: Mohammed is a false prophet.
Jews say: Jesus & Mohammed are false prophets.
So, who is the fair side here ?
U know, if the Christian world, acknowledge Mohammed as a "prophet" then no one can be Christian. Because if Jesus was a prophet from God, then the people should follow and believe the prophet that came after him, which is Mohammed. And even if we need to go by Jesus was god, then Mohammed will be also the messenger and should be followed by the people. Both ways people <MUST> follow Mohammed.
To get rid of this huge problem, Christian say: Mohammed is a false prophet.
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Muslims believe that prophet Ishmael was the oldest son for prophet Ibrahim from Hajar, and prophet Isaac was the youngest son from Sara, and the story of Ibrahim were he got the order to slaughter his son Ishmael not Isaac, happened exactly in Mecca, where we have the Kaaba mosque. We have it in the Holy Quran also.
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About the story of prophet Solomon's Temple on Mount Moriah, I do not think I believe it, this is what the Jews say.
I am sure you have read in the Bible about the followers of Jesus, the Samaritans, who believed in him and took his message.
The good news is that we still have less than 1000 of them live together in a closed society in Israel (Palestine) in a city called Hebron.
The bad news (but not for us as Muslims) is that those people:
1) Pray like Muslims.
2) accept Mohammed as the last prophet. They are even have an old written document, they claim the prophet Mohammed gave it to them, that no Muslim should attack them because they are Jesus's believers.
3) They do not agree about the story of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem (Al Kods) and they believe that the Holy Mount, they call it Gerizim, was the place for that Temple and it is still there in their area and they are still doing their religious celebrations on it until today.
(I will attach videos for this).
4) they accept only the first 5 parts of the Torah and they do not accept neither the Christian Cross nor the Jewish star.
5) They do not consider Jerusalem as a holy city, because it is not mentioned in the Torah, while Gerizim Mount have mentioned 13 times as they say.
6) The religious Jews in Israel do not like them and they are straggling to get their rights as citizens.
Video 1, see the prays of the Samaritans (second 8)
youtube.com/watch?v=Ui8JguEffCA&feature=related
Video 2, the Samaritans claim over the Holy mount, they call it Gerizim.
youtube.com/watch?v=7psUMVdcywU&feature=related
Judges 9:7 When Jotham was told about this, he climbed up on the ...
When Jotham was told about this, he climbed up on the top of Mount Gerizim and shouted
to them, "Listen to me, citizens of Shechem, so that God may listen to ...
Deuteronomy 27:12 When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes ...
When you have crossed the Jordan, these tribes shall stand on
Mount Gerizim to bless
the people: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph and Benjamin. ...
Deuteronomy 11:29 When the LORD your God has brought you into the ...
When the LORD your God has brought you into the land you are entering to possess,
you are to proclaim on Mount Gerizim the blessings, and on Mount Ebal the ...
Joshua 8:33 All Israel, aliens and citizens alike, with their ...
... Half of the people stood in front of
Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of
Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the LORD had formerly commanded when he ...
John 4:20 Our fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews ...
... So tell me, why is it that you Jews insist that Jerusalem is the only place of worship,
while we Samaritans claim it is here at
Mount Gerizim, where our ...
I wish that was useful :)
BRMM