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March 22, 2019       Share:    

Source: https://www.memri.org/reports/syrian-scholar-firas-al-sawwah-al-aqsa-quran-not-jerusalem-we-need-general-arab-muslim

Syrian Scholar: The "Al-Aqsa" in the Quran Is Not in Jerusalem

(MEMRI) Syrian scholar Firas Al-Sawwah told Al-Hurra TV on March 3: "The Al-Aqsa Mosque that is mentioned in the Quran is not the place we know today. The one who said that this place in Jerusalem is the Al-Aqsa Mosque was Abd Al-Malik Ibn Marwan. He wanted to build a holy place there and decided to call it the Al-Aqsa Mosque."

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