Muslim scholars know that the Temple Mount is Jewish, and they work overtime to change reality ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Muslim scholars know that the Temple Mount is Jewish, and they work overtime to change reality

Haredi Rabbi Menachem Brod wrote an article in "Haredi 10" saying that even Jews who would not visit the Temple Mount, like him, should still make the awareness of the Temple site a central part of their lives:

In recent decades, our enemies have been investing great efforts in trying to deny the existence of the Temples on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, in complete contradiction to Muslim tradition itself. Ancient Islam saw the Foundation Stone of the Temple as the location of Solomon's Temple, and the construction of the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount was intended to glorify Jerusalem and present Islam as the successor to Judaism. Today, Muslims are trying to rewrite history and erase any Jewish connection to the Temple Mount and Jerusalem.

In recent years, there are groups that have attempted to deepen the connection to the Temple Mount by visiting the site. Most Torah and mitzvot observant Jews do not support this approach, given the absolute prohibition of the great men of Israel to ascend the Temple Mount. But this does not mean, God forbid, that the Temple Mount should be left out of the consciousness.

This activity of our enemies should inspire us to take the opposite action. The attempts to deny the connection of the people of Israel to the Temple Mount should serve as a warning bell for us, if we have not fallen asleep a little in cultivating the connection to our holiest place.
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The attempts of our enemies to deny this are a signal from heaven that we must engage in deepening the awareness of the Temple and instilling it in the younger generation. We must know every detail of the Temple structure and be well-versed in the procedures for working in it. The very act of engaging in these issues will make us feel more strongly about the rebuilding of the Third Temple soon in our day [with the Messiah.]

He is not demanding Jews ascend to the Temple Mount - quite the contrary. He just wants Jews to study about the Temple and center it again in their lives.

If Muslims truly felt that the Temple Mount was theirs, this article wouldn't bother them. They don't believe in the Jewish messiah, and if Jews want to believe that the Temple will be rebuilt in messianic times, Muslims could just laugh and forget about it.

But there was a fierce reaction to this article from Egypt's Al Azhar Observatory.

In response to Rabbi Menachem Brod's claims, Al-Azhar Observatory affirms that the attempts of some rabbis and Jewish extremists to falsify history and claim absolute religious rights to Jerusalem and the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque are nothing more than an extension of a supremacist discourse that seeks to legitimize the occupation in the name of the Jewish faith.

The Observatory ...affirms that Jerusalem is an Islamic endowment, and that Al-Aqsa Mosque, whose surroundings God has blessed, is an inalienable right of the Islamic nation, not to be falsified by historical falsification or by force of arms.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks. If Muslims were secure in their belief that the Temple Mount is Islamic, then why would a major center of Islamic thought even bother with a response?

They know the truth. They know that the idea that there were no Temples on the Mount is only several decades old. Muslim sources discuss the Temple. The Dome of the Rock was built to replace it.

It was all a usurpation, and the Muslim world knows it. When they say that Jewish claims are lies, they are trying to convince themselves.