Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock, their Religious Importance and their Value in the Hearts of Muslims: A Historical Study

Abstract

This study deals with the historical importance of Jerusalem and its status

among Muslims by highlighting the most important historical and religious

sites located there which represent one of the pillars of the Arab-Muslim

presence and its association with them. The study highlighted Al-Aqsa

Mosque and the Dome of the Rock through the historical sources. Al-Aqsa

Mosque is one of the most important Islamic historical monuments in this

city; it’s the place where Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, ascended

to heaven. It is Islam’s first qebla, and Islam’s third holiest shrine. The rock,

which is located in the heart of Al-Haram Al-Sharif, features the important

Arab-Islamic civilization.

The Study also discussed the importance of these civilization

features, and their value in the hearts of Muslims as well as the historical

developments that have taken place in them. The study comes in a critical

phase for Al-Aqsa Mosque with The Jewish non stopping excavations beneath

it and in the surroundings, in search for a temple. The goal is to falsify and

cover the facts.of these excavations.

These attempts aim to create new realities that are based on false myths

and illusions.

The answer to these excavations can be found in the saying of Dr.

“Ze’ev Herzog,” the Israeli archaeologist: “After seventy years of intensive

excavations in the land of Israel, there was nothing at all, stories of parents

Are just myths”.