Submitted by: Doris Parker
"How Muhammad Stole the Judeo-Christian Tradition"
Let me give you an alternative take on what happened. This “theory” of mine is outlined in more detail in my book “Muhammad’s Anti-Religion: Book One,” so please bear with me if I try to be as brief as I can be with answering this question.
Have you ever wondered why Muslims claim that Jerusalem is Islam’s third holiest city after Mecca and Medina. It seemed quite odd to me, since Muhammad never set foot in Jerusalem during his lifetime.
Or did he?
According to the Hadith Muhammad did set foot in Jerusalem! He was magically transported riding the Buraq (a creature that is similar to a donkey/mule, with the face of a woman that was allegedly used to propel Muhammad into space) first to Jerusalem and from there to Heaven to meet with Allah. In Heaven, Allah gave him the commandment to do the five daily prayers.
But, let us look at the relevant passages from the Hadith (mind you, this Hadith is classified as sahihor realiable):
Muhammad travelled from Mecca to Jerusalem and allegedly found the Temple where he prayed two rak’ahs (two cycles of the Muslim prayers). The temple is called Bait al-Maqdisor Bait al-Muqqadas, a name that comes from the Hebrew Beit Ha-Miqdash, the original name of the Temple of Solomon, meaning "The House of the Holy."
If you know just a little bit of history, you know that we just caught Muhammad in a lie there! There was no Temple in Muhammad’s time. It was destroyed by the Romans in 70AD! And Muhammad, somehow, didn’t seem to have read the memo regarding this.
Even if we would believe that Muhammad took a trip on a flying donkey to Jerusalem, he would have found nothing there. Not a temple, or a mosque, or a ring on the wall of the Temple where all the other prophets were wont to tether each of their flying donkeys on!
However, this story became canon, and everybody believed Muhammad.
So, when only 50 years later Muhammad’s successors Caliph Abd al-Malik and his successor Al-Walid conquered Jerusalem they found that this Temple of Solomon Muhammad spoke of wasn’t there at all!
What they did was then to construct their own version of a “Temple”—the shrine that we call the Dome of The Rock—in 687 AD. The Dome of The Rock was NOT a mosque. It was not even constructed like a mosque. It is in fact one of the few buildings in Early-Islamic History that was not a mosque.
Archaeologists Assaf Avraham and Peretz Reuven discovered in 2016 (Archaeologists expose Muslim-Jewish ‘dialogue’ in Jerusalem from 1,300 years ago) that the Muslim conquerors of Jerusalem identified the Dome of the Rock with the Bait al-Maqdis and also with the historical Temple of Solomon.
Have you ever wondered why Muslims claim that Jerusalem is Islam’s third holiest city after Mecca and Medina. It seemed quite odd to me, since Muhammad never set foot in Jerusalem during his lifetime.
Or did he?
According to the Hadith Muhammad did set foot in Jerusalem! He was magically transported riding the Buraq (a creature that is similar to a donkey/mule, with the face of a woman that was allegedly used to propel Muhammad into space) first to Jerusalem and from there to Heaven to meet with Allah. In Heaven, Allah gave him the commandment to do the five daily prayers.
But, let us look at the relevant passages from the Hadith (mind you, this Hadith is classified as sahihor realiable):
Did you get that?Sahih Muslim Volume 1, Book 1, Hadith 309—It is narrated on the authority of Anas b. Malik that the Messenger of Allah said: I was brought al-Buraq Who is an animal white and long, larger than a donkey but smaller than a mule, who would place his hoof a distance equal to the range of version. I mounted it and came to the Temple [Bait Maqdis in Jerusalem], then tethered it to the ring used by the prophets. I entered the mosque and prayed two rak'ahs in it,and then came out and Gabriel brought me a vessel of wine and a vessel of milk. I chose the milk, and Gabriel said: You have chosen the natural thing. Then he took me to heaven. Gabriel then asked the [gate of heaven] to be opened and he was asked who he was. He replied: Gabriel. He was again asked: Who is with you? He [Gabriel] said: Muhammad. It was said: Has he been sent for? Gabriel replied: He has indeed been sent for. And [the door of the heaven] was opened for us and lo! we saw Adam. […]
Muhammad travelled from Mecca to Jerusalem and allegedly found the Temple where he prayed two rak’ahs (two cycles of the Muslim prayers). The temple is called Bait al-Maqdisor Bait al-Muqqadas, a name that comes from the Hebrew Beit Ha-Miqdash, the original name of the Temple of Solomon, meaning "The House of the Holy."
If you know just a little bit of history, you know that we just caught Muhammad in a lie there! There was no Temple in Muhammad’s time. It was destroyed by the Romans in 70AD! And Muhammad, somehow, didn’t seem to have read the memo regarding this.
Even if we would believe that Muhammad took a trip on a flying donkey to Jerusalem, he would have found nothing there. Not a temple, or a mosque, or a ring on the wall of the Temple where all the other prophets were wont to tether each of their flying donkeys on!
However, this story became canon, and everybody believed Muhammad.
So, when only 50 years later Muhammad’s successors Caliph Abd al-Malik and his successor Al-Walid conquered Jerusalem they found that this Temple of Solomon Muhammad spoke of wasn’t there at all!
What they did was then to construct their own version of a “Temple”—the shrine that we call the Dome of The Rock—in 687 AD. The Dome of The Rock was NOT a mosque. It was not even constructed like a mosque. It is in fact one of the few buildings in Early-Islamic History that was not a mosque.
Archaeologists Assaf Avraham and Peretz Reuven discovered in 2016 (Archaeologists expose Muslim-Jewish ‘dialogue’ in Jerusalem from 1,300 years ago) that the Muslim conquerors of Jerusalem identified the Dome of the Rock with the Bait al-Maqdis and also with the historical Temple of Solomon.
Further, these researchers confirm that the Muslims saw the Dome of the Rock as the next Temple of Jerusalem and that they were now God’s Chosen People:“Together with the Hadith tradition and [Arabic] literature praising Jerusalem [from the 11th-century], leads us to posit that the term Bayt al-Maqdis […] alludes directly to the Dome of the Rock.”
Accordingly, the Muslims of the Ummayad period even carried out rites that were imitating activities that were held in the Jewish temple. Or, at least, what they thought these rituals would be like. As I said earlier, the Dome of The Rock was never used as a Mosque:“[The Muslims] identified the mount again and again with David and Solomon’s temples” and “understood that the mount is the ancient temple rebuilt, the Quran is the true faith and the Muslims the true Children of Israel.”
Does that mean that Muhammad successfully established a counterfeit Temple on what Jews would consider the holiest site on earth? Yes. All the evidence points to that. It also means that the claim that Jerusalem is Islam’s third-holiest city is based on a lie made-up by Muhammad.“Performers of those rituals purified themselves, changed clothes, burned incense, anointed the stone with oil, opened and closed drapes and lit oil lamps.”
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