Chief Muslim Contends that Moses, Jesus 'really prophets of Islam'
Pastor Dale Morgan
Chief Muslim Contends that Moses, Jesus 'really prophets of Islam'*
Chief Muslim claims Jewish Temples never existed, Al Aqsa built by angels
Posted: March 15, 2007
News From Israel
JERUSALEM – The Jewish Temples never existed, the Western Wall really
was a tying post for Muhammad's horse, the Al Aqsa Mosque was built by
angels, and Abraham, Moses and Jesus were prophets for Islam.
All this according to Sheikh Taysir Tamimi, chief Palestinian Justice
and one of the most influential Muslim leaders in Israel. Tamimi is
considered the second most important Palestinian cleric after Muhammad
Hussein, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem.
In an exclusive interview, Tamimi, who preaches regularly from the Al
Aqsa Mosque, claimed Jews have no historical connection to Jerusalem or
Israel and that the Jewish Temples never existed.
"Israel started since 1967 making archeological digs to show Jewish
signs to prove the relationship between Judaism and the city and they
found nothing. There is no Jewish connection to Israel before the Jews
invaded in the 1880's," said Tamimi.
"About these so-called two Temples, they never existed, certainly not at
the Haram Al- Sharif (Temple Mount)," Tamimi said.
The Palestinian cleric denied the validity of dozens of digs verified by
experts worldwide revealing Jewish artifacts from the First and Second
Temples throughout Jerusalem, including on the Temple Mount itself;
excavations revealing Jewish homes and a synagogue in a site in
Jerusalem called the City of David; or even the recent discovery of a
Second Temple Jewish city in the vicinity of Jerusalem.
He said descriptions of the Jewish Temples in the Hebrew Tanach, in the
Talmud and in Byzantine and Roman writings from the Temple periods were
forged, and that the Torah was falsified to claim Biblical patriarchs
and matriarchs were Jewish when indeed they were prophets for Islam.
"All this is not real. We don't believe in all your versions. Your Torah
was falsified. The text as given to the Muslim prophet Moses never
mentions Jerusalem. Maybe Jerusalem was mentioned in the rest of the
Torah, which was falsified by the Jews."
He said Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Moses and Jesus were "prophets for the
Israelites sent by Allah as to usher in Islam."
Asked about the Western Wall, Tamimi said the structure was a tying post
for Muhammad's horse and that it is part of the Al Aqsa Mosque, even
though the Wall predates the mosque by over 1,000 years.
"The Western wall is the western wall of the Al Aqsa Mosque. It's where
Prophet Muhammad tied his animal which took him from Mecca to Jerusalem
to receive the revelations of Allah."
The Al Aqsa Mosque was constructed in about 709 to serve as a shrine
near another shrine, the Dome of the Rock, which was built by an Islamic
caliph. Al Aqsa was meant to mark what Muslims came to believe was the
place at which Muhammad, the founder of Islam, ascended to heaven to
receive revelations from Allah.
Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Quran. Islamic tradition states
Mohammed took a journey in a single night on a horse from "a sacred
mosque" – believed to be in Mecca in southern Saudi Arabia – to "the
farthest mosque" and from a rock there ascended to heaven. The farthest
mosque later became associated with Jerusalem.
The First Jewish Temple was built by King Solomon in the 10th century
B.C. It was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. The Second Temple
was rebuilt in 515 B.C. after Jerusalem was freed from Babylonian
captivity. That temple was destroyed by the Roman Empire in A.D. 70.
Each temple stood for a period of about four centuries.
Tamimi went on to claim that the Al Aqsa Mosque , which has sprung
multiple leaks and has had to be repainted several times, was built by
angels.
"Al Aqsa was build by the angels forty years after the building of
Al-Haram in Mecca. This we have no doubt is true," he said.