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Muslims welcoming Third Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount

[ Posted On: 2007-04-15 ]

Israel: Erroneous Search for Political Solution

The way to Peace could be short and easy, if all parts realize the nature of the conflict. In this regard, Israel has worked very little. By trying for too long to have Western support, it gave unnecessary political dimensions to a basically religious demand.

The return of the Jews to the Promised Land has always been a religious issue. It cannot be politicized, and if so, it leads to nowhere. Israel had great difficulty to be accepted by surrounding states, and it is clear that recognition, wherever it exists, is nominal, diplomatic, superficial, and absolutely ineffective and precarious.

Contrarily to what the real interests of Israel may have been, the perspective of a Pakistani recognition of Israel, which could have been achieved before 55 years, is now depicted as diplomatic success. In addition, it is very clear to all that, although anti-Israeli political rhetoric ran high in the 50s, the various Muslim religious authorities in Turkey, Iran, and India pronounced at that time only pale and modest discourses in an effort to just catch up with the vociferous political hysteria of the anti-Israeli and anti-Zionist puppet – kings and analphabetic dictators.

It would have been different, if Jewish and Muslim religious leaders had met around negotiation tables to discuss the issue of Aliya, the Jewish Return, which is not harmful to any Muslims. Judaism and Islam are the world's closest religions. Differences with Christianity are tremendous when it comes to the quintessence of Monotheism, and both religions view Christianity as a typical idolatrous polytheism. It would take a voluminous repertoire to list the common points of Judaism and Islam in terms of Dogmatic Theology, Hermeneutics, Philosophy, and Art. God should not be depicted, and God cannot be incarnate, divided and triple. There are no saints, and the cult is limited in very few rituals.

Except theoretical similarities, Judaism and Islam enjoyed a millennia long historical partnership to the benefit of Civilization and Culture, Philosophy and Arts, Sciences and Knowledge. Jewish philosophers had Muslim tutors, whereas trust and cooperation existed at all levels. Persecuted by the barbaric and murderous rulers of obscurantist Spain, thousands of Jews found good shelter in the Ottoman Empire. What was possible in 1492 could also happen in 1892 or in 1902. Of course, considerable changes had taken place meanwhile within the Islamic World, Civilization had collapsed, and Barbarism had prevailed following the slow rise of a theological school that derived from Hanbal, Ibn Taimiya and more recently Abdel Wahhab. The devious and outrageous sheikhs, who contributed to this satanic falsification of Islam, had started promoting anti-Semitic concepts among the local masses, besotting and controlling them; but there were still many religious and political authorities within the Ottoman Empire that would support a Jewish Return in the Promised Land.

Contrarily to what happened, a Jewish – Islamic rapprochement, if attempted in the late 19th century, would rather strengthen the pro-Jewish part of the political and the religious Ottoman establishments, resulting in collateral benefits. From an authentic Islamic viewpoint, there would not be a reason for not welcoming Jews returning en masse to Judea and Samaria. Through a religious rapprochement, permanent dialogue, and substantial negotiations before the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Ashkenazim Jewry would have obtained much more than by siding with the Colonial powers.

The Ultimate Solution: a Palestinian State for a Jewish Temple

The ultimate target of the Jewish Return is certainly the erection of the Third Jewish Temple. The epitome of the Jewish presence in the Promised Land consists in the rebuilding of what Babylonian, Greek, Roman and Christian Gentiles hated most and desired to destroy and keep in ruins throughout centuries of Anti-Semitism that ended with the arrival of Islam: the Most Sacred Temple at the Temple Mount.

Modern Muslim authorities like the Mufti of Jerusalem should realize that, by cultivating hatred of any type among Muslims, they only contribute to the fastest extermination of Muslims. As religion of freedom ('There is no compulsion in religion' being one of the top Islamic axioms), Islam brings death to anyone who may think that hatred of any sort is permissible.

The way to revitalize the Muslim societies and to upgrade the misery in which most of the Muslim populations live implies Love, Tolerance, Search for Truth and Knowledge, Justice, Equity and Humility.

The First Temple was built in a vast area between the two Islamic holy shrines on the Temple Mount, namely the Dome of the Rock and the El Aqsa Mosque. The best specialists in this regard agree on this. Since the Second Temple was built on the ruins of the First, the Third Temple is expected to stand on the very same place. Christian and Jewish groups publish apocalyptic literature according to which it is even biblically advised to have it built without razing the Court of the Gentiles, which is considered to be a reference to the two Islamic shrines. Islam would not be diminished or desecrated in anything, if Jews were allowed to have their Temple built without damaging the Dome of the Rock and the El Aqsa Mosque.

Instead of publishing Hatred literature inspired by sheer satanic guidance, Muslim religious authorities are urged by millions of modern, tolerant and progressive Muslims to accept the erection of the Third Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount.

This would be the first act of reconciliation of the two fraternal religions, opening therefore the way for a Palestinian state in Gaza and Jericho. If the political rights of the Palestinians must be respected by the Israelis, the religious rights of the Jews are to be respected by the Muslims.

Instead of leaving the search for peace to the hands of equally corrupt, ignorant, and disreputable politicians, a few enlightened sheikhs and rabbis should meet, exchange ideas, negotiate, and ultimately walk together in the only existing Path to Peace: the Religious Rapprochement.

Instead of taking into consideration either the words of treacherous caretakers like Sharon and Peres or the nonsensical propaganda of anachronistic bureaucrats like Peretz discrediting associations like The Temple Mount Faithful, enlightened Muslim sheikhs and intellectuals should disregard the comical and ineffective approaches of political puppets like Mahmud Abbas, and stretch out their hand to those among the Jews who "swear faithfulness to the G–d of Israel" and want to "immediately rebuild the Temple and to make it as G–d commanded us a house of prayer, worship and love for Israel and all nations (Isaiah 56)". Only this discussion, only this negotiation would open the Gates to Eternal Peace in Jerusalem.

Only religious Jews can appreciate the Islamic respect for Jerusalem, and recognize the greatness of the epithet Al Quds ash Sherif, and the importance of the Only True, First Islamic Qiblah (direction during the prayer), namely turning the head towards Jerusalem. Among enlightened Muslims and religious Jews, who can appreciate the Righteous Gentiles' way as the Torah stipulates, a Real Understanding can be established and help promote Eternal Peace in Jerusalem.

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About The Author: Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis - is Orientalist, Assyriologist, Egyptologist, Iranologist, Islamologist, Historian and Political Scientist. Dr. Megalommatis, 49, is the author of 12 books, dozens of scholarly articles, hundreds of encyclopedia entries, and thousands of articles. He speaks, reads and writes more than 15, modern and ancient, languages.

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