Lets read a little about this sacred land that combines n brings together the 3 largest religions of the world:
(Quoted from "Stories of the Prophets (Peace Be Upon Them) by Ibn Khatir)
The people of the book have mentioned that when Isaac married Rifqa (Rebekah), daughter of Behuel, he was forty years old. She was barren, so Isaac prayed for her . She got pregnant and gave birth to twin boys (Bible, Genensis 24). The name of the first child was Esau, whom Arabs called as Al-'Ais from whom Romans descended. The second son was Jacob whom the Children of Israel are related to.
It is said that Isaac loved Esau more than Jacob, bacause he was his firstborn son.However, Rebekah loved Jacob more than his brother . beacause he was the younger.
They have also mentioned that when Isaac grew old and his eyesight was too weak to see, he expressed his desire for tasty food to his son Esau, and asked him to go out and hunt him some wild animal and then cook it for him. And so Isaac could give him his blessing and pray for him. Esau was a hunter , so he went off to catch animal.
However, Rebekah overheard Isaac, and yold Jacob abt what his father said to Esau, and asked him to go out to his flock and bring her two well chosen young goats, so that she could prepare some tatsy food for his father, as he desired it, before his brother could come back. So Jacob went out, got a healthy goat, and slaughtered it and then brought it to his mother, and she prepared the food the way his father desired it. Rebekah than took the best clothes of Esau , and put them on her younger son Jacob. Esau had hairy skin and Jacob had smooth skin, so she covered his hands and the smooth parts of his neck with the goat skin.
When Jacob brought the food to his father, he asked him :" who are you?" he answered:" your son" so he asked him to come closer to him, and he touched him and said "The voice is that of Jacob but the hands are the hands of Esau". When he ate the food, he supplicated for him that he be the more honorable among his brothers, may his authority extend upon all nations, and that he may get abundance of provisions"(This story is mentioned in Bible Genensis 27)
As Jacob left his father after his blessings, Esau came in hunting. He prepared some tatsy food and brought it to his father, his father asked him "what is this, my son?" Esau replied " This is the food you desired for" Isaac replied "Didn't you come to me a little while ago (with food) and I ate from it and blessed you?" Esau said " by Allah, it wasn't me", And he kenw that his brother has deceitfully took his blessings. Esau held now a grudge against his brother , and threatened to kill him if their father died. Esau asked his father for another supplication, so he supplicated for him (with another request), that his progeny will be the rugged of the earth, and that they will have abundance of provisions and fruits.
When Rebekah , their mother , heard of this threat of Esau for Jacob, she asked Jacob to leave at once and go to her brother Laban in Haran, and sty there until his brother's fury subsides. She also asked him to marry one of his daughters, and asked hre huband Isaac to tell him to do this. Isaac called for JAcob and blessed him and commanded him to do so. So he did.
Jacob left at the end of the day and when he reached a certain place he stopped for the night . He took one of the stones there and put it under his head and la to sleep. He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth with its top reaching to heaven. Angels were ascendding and decending on it. There above it stood the Lord and said to him:"I am the Lord, I will give you and your descendants the land on which your are lying" He also blessed him , and promised that his children will spread out all over the world.
When Jacob awoke his sleep , he felt happy with his dream. He then made a vow saying that if he returend safely to his father's house, he would build a house for the worship of Allah at that place, and that whatever Allah would give him, he would give away of it one-tenth for Him. Then he took the stone and poured oil on top of it, so that he could recognise it. He called that place Bethel, meaning the House of Allah. This is the same place where bait-ul-Maqdis is situated now, which was built by him later on.
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