The Dome of the Rock: an academic study


This is certainly a really engaging supposition as well as quite formidable to boot though offer examination. The actuality which a marker talks about Jesus as well as a "Muhammad" in a inscription, if translated to "the praised one", can also be articulate about Jesus gives faith to this hypothesis.
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The Dome of a Rock is a tabernacle or commemorative located upon a Temple Mount in a Old City of Jerusalem. It was built by a Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik as well as was finished in AD 691.
The Temple Mount, well known in Hebrew (and in Judaism) asHar haByithand in Arabic (and in Islam) as theHaram Ash-Sharif(al-haram al-quds ash-sharfmeansNoble Sanctuary), is a single of a many critical eremite sites in a Old City of Jerusalem. It has been used as a eremite site for thousands of years. At slightest 4 religions have been well known to have used a Temple Mount as their holy site: Judaism, Islam, Christianity, as well as Roman paganism.
The inscriptions upon a Dome of a Rock can be seen below. The two 'key words' in those inscriptions would be"Islam"and"Muhammad".Hence, going by these two key words, a Dome of a Rock is believed to have been built by a Muslim -- a Umayyad Caliph Abd al-Malik -- as well as it is offer believed to have been built as a tabernacle or commemorative to a Prophet Muhammad, a soothsayer of Islam.
In Arabic, a word "Islam" means "submission"or "surrender", which is subsequent from a base word! "salam". From this base word, we can also get a difference "peace"and "safety". Many people feel which Islam implies some sort of "enslavement to Allah", though others find it some-more viable to define a word"Islam"as "surrender".
The word"Muhammad"is subsequent from a Arabic base word"hamd"or"praise".It is a fatiguing passive participle of which base as well as can be translated as "the Oft-Praised One". As for "Ahmad", it is a greatest form of a same base word"hamd",which means"the Highly Praised One".
If we were to appreciate a word"Islam"as"submission"or"surrender"and a word"Muhammad"as"the praised one", afterwards a inscriptions will take upon an wholly opposite meaning.
Western scholars have been beginning to question whether a Dome of a Rock is a commemorative to a Prophet Muhammad or a commemorative to Jesus Christ. For example, "Muhammad is a Messenger of God, a good fortune of God be upon him" can also be interpreted to mean: "The praised a single is a Messenger of God, a good fortune of God be upon him". "Muhammad is a menial of God as well as His Messenger" can also be interpreted to mean: "The praised a single is a menial of God as well as His Messenger".
Now, assuming which a "Muhammad" in a marker does not impute to Muhammad a person (the correct noun) though refers to "the praised one" (an adjective), whom, therefore, have been they referring to? If we were to demeanour durin! g a alte rnative tools of a inscription, it talks about "The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was usually a Messenger of God". Then it goes upon to say: "It befitteth not God which He should take unto Himself a son" as well as "There is no God though God".
Scholars hold which this is evidence which a marker is not articulate about Prophet Muhammad though about Jesus Christ as well as which this 'doctrine of faith' is meant to counter or brawl a Christian convictions which Jesus is a Son of God as well as a Lord (Jesus) -- as well as which Jesus was merely a follower or soothsayer of God.
If these scholars have been correct in their assumptions, this throws a whole new light upon a some-more than 1,000-year-old conflict as to who owns this holy site. Was this structure built as a commemorative to Prophet Muhammad or to Jesus Christ? And if it is a commemorative to Jesus Christ, was it built to counter a Christian convictions of a Holy Trinity as well as present Jesus as a small mortal as well as messenger/prophet of God rather than a Lord as well as Son of God?
This is certainly a really engaging supposition as well as quite formidable to boot though offer examination. The actuality which a marker talks about Jesus as well as a "Muhammad" in a inscription, if translated to "the praised one", can also be referring to Jesus gives faith to this hypothesis.
Nevertheless, it will be really formidable for many people to accept this supposition as a probability deliberation which for some-more than 1,000 years people have held upon to a sure belief as well as now we have been asking them to rethink this whole thing. You have been also revelation them which for some-more than 1,000 years what they believed might not have been correct after all.
One some-more 'troubling' thing about this supposition is which Caliph Abd al-Malik was! suppose d to be a Muslim. Therefore, if he had built this as a tabernacle for Jesus Christ rather than Prophet Muhammad, does this mean a Caliph was not a Muslim though a Christian? This would be a many formidable question confronting Muslims who might select to consider this supposition as a possibility.
we suspect this is because a Muslimulama' contend we must not think too most because too most meditative might upset we as well as lead we astray. Hmmmaybe we should stop meditative about this then.
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INSCIPTIONS ON THE DOME OF THE ROCK
INSCRIPTIONS ON THE INSIDE OF THE OCTAGONAL ARCADE
S: In a name of God, a Merciful a Compassionate. There is no God though God. He is One. He has no associate. Unto Him belongeth sovereignity as well as unto Him belongeth praise. He quickeneth as well as He giveth death; as well as He has Power over all things. Muhammad is a menial of God as well as His Messenger.
SE: Lo! God as well as His angels shower blessings upon a Prophet. O ye who believe! Ask blessings upon him as well as salute him with a estimable salutation. The good fortune of God be upon him as well as assent be upon him, as well as might God have mercy. O People of a Book! Do not elaborate in your religion
E: nor complete aught connected with God save a truth. The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was usually a Messenger of God, as well as His Word which He conveyed unto Mary, as well as a suggestion from Him. So hold in God as well as His messengers, as well as contend not 'Three' Cease!
NE: better for you! God is usually One God. Far be it removed from His transcendent majesty which He should have a son. His is all which is in a heavens as well as all which is in a ear! th. And God is enough as Defender. The Messiah will never scorn to be a
N: menial unto God, nor will a lucky angels. Whoso scorneth His service as well as is proud, all such will He arrange unto Him. Oh God, bless Your Messenger as well as Your menial Jesus
NW: son of Mary. Peace be upon him a day he was born, as well as a day he dies, as well as a day he shall be lifted alive! Such was Jesus, son of Mary, a statement of a law connected with which they doubt. It befitteth not God which He should take unto Himself a son. Glory be to Him!
W: When He decreeth a thing, He saith unto it only: Be! as well as it is. Lo! God is my Lord as well as your Lord. So offer Him. That is a right path. God is witness which there is no God save Him. And a angels as well as a men of learning. Maintaining His origination in justice, there is no God save Him,
SW: a Almighty, a Wise. Lo! sacrament with God Islam. Those who received a Book differed usually after knowledge came unto them, by misdemeanour among themselves. Whoso disbelieveth a revelations of God lo! God is swift during reckoning!
INSCRIPTIONS ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE OCTAGONAL ARCADE
S: In a name of God, a Merciful a Compassionate. There is no God though God. He is One. He has no associate. Say: He is God, a One! God, a evermore Besought of all! He begetteth not nor was begotten. And there is nothing comparable unto Him. Muhammad is a Messenger of God, a good fortune of God be upon him.
SW: In a name of God, a Merciful a Compassionate. There is no God though God. He is One. He has no associate. Muhammad is a Messenger of God. Lo! God as well as His angels shower blessings upon a Prophet.
W: O ye who believe! Ask blessings upon him as well as salute him with a estimable salutation. In a name of God, a Merciful a Compassionate. There is no God though God. He is One. Praise be to
NW: God, Who hath not taken unto Himself a son, as well a! s Who ha th no partner in a Sovereignty, nor hath He any safeguarding crony by dependence. And increase Him with all magnificence. Muhammad is a Messenger of
N: God, a good fortune of God be upon him as well as a angels as well as His prophets, as well as assent be upon him, as well as might God have mercy. In a name of God, a Merciful a Compassionate. There is no God though God. He is One. He has no associate.
NE: Unto Him belongeth sovereignty as well as unto Him belongeth praise. He quickeneth. And He giveth death; as well as He has Power over all things. Muhammad is a Messenger of God, a good fortune of God be upon him. May He accept his intercession upon a Day of Judgment upon interest of his people.
E: In a name of God, a Merciful a Compassionate. There is no God though God. He is One. He has no associate. Muhammad is a Messenger of God, a good fortune of God be upon him. The architecture was built by menial of God 'Abd
SE: of a Faithful, in a year two as well as seventy. May God accept from him as well as be calm with him. Amen, Lord of a worlds, regard be to God.
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