What is the Islamic view of Jerusalem?

Answer 1

According to Islam and Koran Jerusalem is a holly land and Koran says:

We blessed the around of Jerusalem

Also Jerusalem was the first place Muslims were praying to its direction and then that direction changed to Kaaba in Mecca.

Answer 2

First of all, the whole history there has been a big Jewish claim to the country. It was just that the world (the christian empire and the Muslim empire never lisned to a single Jew. Israel is the place of which was given by God to Avraham. There has been a Jewish precendence for thousands of years. The name Israel, geographically called The Land of Israel is another name of the region in the Southern Levant, just like the name Palestine. King Solomon and King David ruled over the Land 3000 years ago. After that the Israelite empire split into the Kingdom of Israel (Southern Lebanon, Northern Israel and West Bank nowadays) and the Kingdom of Juda, (Jerusalem, West-Jordan, the Southern West Bank and the Negev nowadays). The name 'Jew' comes from Juda. When the Romans conquered the kingdoms they first called it Judea. They thought the Jews would integrate and assimilate into the roman people (just like the Phoenicians (the original people of Northern-Lebanon) and the Old-Egyptians). But the Jews didnt want that. They wanted to keep believing in their only monotheistic God. So the Romans drove away most of the Jews in Judea and the Jews fled away al around the world. Then the Romans renamed Judea to PALESTINE. Which meaned Land of the Philistinians. (The Philistinians were an old enemy of the Israelites, and were seafaring people from Kreta/Cyrprus and didnt exist anymore for 1000 years at that time). The Jews created modern judaism without a country and without their ancient temple (Nowadays The Tower of David and the Western Wall is the only thing in Jerusalem what remained). In Russia, Europe and the Arab World the Jews sometimes had good times (in Morocco) but mostly had bad times of antisemitism. Already in the Middle Ages the christians burned them on pyres. Through the history there has been a large Jewish community in Northern Palestine till the Crusaders came in 1200. Later on a lot of European philosophers wrote there were in Gaza even more Jews then in Jerusalem. In Jerusalem the Jews were from 1830 again a majority. This was before the Zionist Movement was created. In Palestine there originally were just a couple of 100 thousands of people (not very much on 26.000 Square Kilometers) of which 50 % was christian. (So the now called 'Palestinians' are not only Muslims). The christians probably descended from the Romans and the Muslims from the Arabs and Ottomans. Only when the Zionists came the Arab population went bigger and bigger because the Jews made a modern hygienic country with modern hospitals and the Jewish National Fund planted trees (of which the most were cut away by the Ottomans). A lot of Arabs came from the slums and ghettos from Damascus and Beirut. The Ottomans and most of the Arabs never used the name Palestine, they called it Southern Syria.

In the beginning the Zionist Movement was a small movement. Most of the rich European Jews returned disappointed to Europe because of the bad conditions in which Palestine was. The direct motive for the Jews was, of course, the Holocaust. The Holocaust (in Israel called: Shoa) showed the people in Europe how the thousands of years of antisemitism could give rise to hate and genocide.

Ironically, something what most people don't know, the holocaust was already predicted by the Zionist Movement 100 years before. Israel wasn't directly created after WW2. In the 19th century Theodor Herzl wrote in 'Der Judenstaat' (= The Jewish National Home) that the Jews would never get peace in Europe and the Arab World and the hate against them would go worse. Emigration to America would cause assimilation (that nothing would remain of the Jewish culture, that they would disappear in the American culture). Theordor Herzl wrote that the Jews only could be save in their original homeland: The Land Of Israel. Where they could protect them self and where they freely could keep their religion and culture. When Hitler raise power in Germany a lot of Jews tried to escape to Palestine. When the Arabs threatned the British with oil, the British minimalized the emigration to Palestine. That resulted in that a lot of Jews couldn't escape and also were killed in the death camps of Auschwitz, Sobibor and Treblinka.

The main reson was the Holocaust which showed that Jews couldn't get peace in Europe. They wanted to live in peace like they did in the ancient times in the land of Israel. Because of the Jewish history they wanted to reconquer what was then called Palestine.

Read more: Why was Israel created after World War 2

Answer 3

A:Jews say they have a valid claim to Jerusalem because of its occupation by their ancestors for over a thousand years in ancient times. Balancing this is the Palestinian claim to Jerusalem because of their subsequent occupation of the city for almost two thousand years up to modern times. Ideally, this claim would be resolved equitably, giving both sides some satisfaction, but the balance of military and diplomatic power is with Israel and will probably result in a better outcome for the Jews.

Answer 4

Muhammad visited Jerusalem once in 620 CE on a spiritual Journey.