{"id":46337,"date":"2021-03-08T13:35:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T11:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioislam.org.za\/a\/?p=46337"},"modified":"2021-03-08T13:39:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T11:39:34","slug":"al-aqsa-the-blessed-land-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/al-aqsa-the-blessed-land-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Aqsa: The Blessed Land: Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aqsa Week 6th \u2013 12th March 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n

Aqsa Week will coincide with al-Isra wal-Miraj to bring the love of Al-Aqsa to the global community under the banner of #LoveAqsa.<\/p>\n

Aqsa Week is about creating conversations on why we #LoveAqsa<\/p>\n

The aim is to deliver an exciting educational week in order to bring a global focus to Al-Aqsa and the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n

Aqsa Week brings to fore the centrality of Al-Aqsa and the plight of the Palestinians. The highlight of the campaign is to teach Muslims and non-Muslims of the great heritage of Masjid Al-Aqsa and how to support the occupied people around the world.<\/p>\n

In order to gain a complete understanding of Al Aqsa, the first thing we need to understand is \u201cWhat is Masjid Al Aqsa?\u201d<\/p>\n

A Blessed and Holy Land<\/strong><\/p>\n

THE \u201cBLESSED LAND\u201d under the Islamic ethos means land associated with barakah \u2013 the land over which Allah has endowed spiritual and physical blessings from which all of humanity can derive benefit. The barakah also extends to the people who reside within this land, on condition that they conform to the commands of Allah, i.e., practise Islam.<\/p>\n

Al-Aq\u1e63\u0101 Sanctuary has been honoured and glorified by Allah and showered with His divine blessings for the benefit, enlightenment and guidance of all mankind. The Qur\u2019\u0101n states that the blessings of this land are for \u201cal- \u2018\u0100lam\u012bn\u201d \u2013 which means for all the world\u2019s creatures until eternity. It implies that the blessings are not restricted to any specific group of people or species, rather encompassing all living and non-living things.<\/p>\n

The boundaries of this \u201cblessed land\u201d are not clear and there are differences of opinion about its exact extent. Some classical Islamic scholars of the Qur\u2019\u0101n and a\u1e25\u0101d\u012bth, including Ibn Kath\u012br, al-Qur\u1e6dub\u012b and Ibn al-Jawz\u012b, consider the whole area of al-Sh\u0101m (modern-day Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Palestine) as blessed. Other interpreters believe that the blessed land is contiguous from the \u1e24ij\u0101z (Saudi Arabia) through al-Sh\u0101m to Egypt. A further, and maybe a more logical opinion, is that within the area of the modern Middle East, there are pockets of \u201cblessed land\u201d like the compound of al-Aq\u1e63\u0101 Sanctuary, the Prophet\u2019s \ufdfa Masjid in Madinah and the Holy Masjid in Makkah. However, in all the opinions on the extent of the \u201cblessed land\u201d, al-Aq\u1e63\u0101 Sanctuary is included. The blessings of al-Aq\u1e63\u0101 Sanctuary in particular and alSh\u0101m area in general is expounded in the Holy Qur\u2019\u0101n and the traditions of the Prophet Mu\u1e25ammad \ufdfa:<\/p>\n

Al Aqsa in the Holy Quraan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Prophet Ibr\u0101h\u012bm (AS) and his immediate family were deported by his clansmen from the city of his birth, Ur, in a country called Sumer (modern-day Iraq), for preaching the taw\u1e25\u012bdof Allah. The Qur\u2019\u0101n informs us that Ibr\u0101h\u012bm (AS) was delivered by Allah to the land which Allah has \u201cblessed for the nations\u201d<\/em>. This land, which Allah eloquently refers to as \u201cblessed for the nations\u201d, is the glorious land of Palestine. Prophet Ibr\u0101h\u012bm (AS) is believed to have re-constructed the Masjid alAq\u1e63\u0101 in al-Quds (Jerusalem) with his son Is\u1e25\u0101q (AS).<\/p>\n

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And We saved him and Lot and brought him to the land upon which We had bestowed Our blessings for all the people of the world<\/em>. [S\u016brah al-Anbiy\u0101\u2019 21: 71]<\/p>\n

The verses of the Holy Qur\u2019\u0101n indicate that unlike any other place on earth, Allah has blessed the land of Palestine. Allah has blessed and honoured this area prior to any event or incident through His Great Mercy and through the subsequent events that took place there are further reasons by which the followers built their love and affection for this area. No doubt the presence of Prophets (AS) and the historical link to them builds a bond, but it is Allah through His Great Mercy and Wisdom, who has chosen the area around al-Aq\u1e63\u0101 Sanctuary to be blessed.<\/p>\n

Al Aqsa in the Ahadith<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Prophet Mu\u1e25ammad \ufdfa is reported to have said, \u201cAllah has blessed what lies between al-Arish (in Egypt) and the Euphrates and has made Palestine particularly holy\u201d.<\/em> [Kanz al-\u2018Umm\u0101l]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aqsa Week 6th \u2013 12th March 2021 Aqsa Week will coincide with al-Isra wal-Miraj to bring the love of Al-Aqsa to the global community under the banner of #LoveAqsa. Aqsa Week is about creating conversations on why we #LoveAqsa The aim is to deliver an exciting educational week in order to bring a global focus […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-special-feature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/alaqsa.jpg?fit=678%2C381&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pc0QIf-c3n","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 00:53:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radioislam.org.za\/a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}