Since we have asked that, let’s also ask this: How possible is it to return to history? Also, does history treat everyone who consults it in the same way? If history makes a call in any way, would everybody hear the same thing? Do those who go back in history really take what they hear or make it say what they want to hear?
According to the implication included in all these questions, history is not a very safe area. Whatever one’s intention, direction and cause, that is what they will find – or think they found – in history. Nobody looks at the incidents happening today in the same way, hence there is no use in waiting for a verse from history that will produce this common understanding.
Yet we had said that Jerusalem is not only a mirror that reflects the state of the world, but also history. The historical layers, one on top of the other, or positioned side by side, will give you an experience in which history can be experienced simultaneously, all at once. Without a doubt, this is a unique experience which you will not get to see anywhere else in the world. However, there is no such thing that experiencing this, being in Jerusalem, will necessarily enlighten everyone in the same way.
Those who delve into history take together with them all the burdens they shoulder from the present. Those who consult history, depending on the side they have taken in today’s world, will take the side most suitable to them in the fight there as well.
Jerusalem is a spectacular stage of history where no incident is completely concluded, which constantly repeats itself to onlookers. There, it is as though everything is clearly written in a book. For those who want to take a lesson, it is possible to witness the contents of all the books God revealed. However, it is also possible to distort the actual message of the history stage as if to distort God’s book. God’s verses do not open everybody’s eyes in the same way. They deviate some even further.
To reject the message brought by prophets, instead of opening your ears and listening to them and abiding by them, is not always the worst or most dangerous thing. What’s worse is to appear to receive the message and then make it one’s own property, monopolize that property and hinder people from seeing and hearing it. God’s message, mercy and compassion are for all of humanity. All prophets whose paths have crossed Jerusalem have fought for this. Yet, the reason why Jerusalem is directly the subject of a fight today is the aggressive, usurper, invasive attitude of those who want to take Jerusalem as private property against those who want to listen to it together with all the values it holds and do what is necessary.
The Zionist occupation that is jealous of anyone else experiencing God’s mercy and abundance, and hence want to transfer it, claim to be rebuilding the temple built by Prophet Suleyman (Solomon). In terms of its nature, a temple is a place of worship to God. God would never want to torture people, but building this temple is torturing millions of people every day. The most sacred temple is the human heart. The Zionist occupiers are destroying, in the most savage way, millions of temples in Jerusalem and around it on a daily basis to build this stone temple.
This arrogant, vulgar aggressiveness without the minutest respect for humanity, which they have been continuing for the last 70 years, is the most striking manifestation of how even God can be turned into property. Zionism is abandoning the claim of being God’s “favorite slaves,” and considering it a right to oppress God’s other followers with the ambition to be His “only acceptable slaves.” Perhaps, the sole mentality that needs to be kept away from Jerusalem is currently holding the city under occupation. All of humanity is experiencing the consequences of this occupation in the gravest way.
Israel is regression. In other words, it is directly reactionary. The stubbornness demonstrated to displace all stones in the entire world, claiming to place every stone in Jerusalem to its previous state, is reactionism that is nothing other than ambushing life, playing with human nature, sowing hostility, hatred, separatism and conflict to the world.
Those who want to see the cost of this reactionism on humanity should go to Jerusalem and see the areas held under Israeli occupation. They should go and see the state of the city of Al-Khalil, a legacy to humanity where Prophet Abraham, his wife Sara, his son Ishak (Isaac) and his wife, Prophet Yusuf’s (Joseph) graves are all located. After a Zionist medical doctor terrorist entered a mosque in 1994 during a Friday prayer and raked the praying congregation with automatic weapons, killing 29 people and injuring more than 100 people, Israel used this incident as an excuse to occupy the mosque and entire neighborhood – rather than punishing Zionist terrorism – and turned it into an open-air prison in which neighborhood residents can access their homes only by passing through a few checkpoints. What we call checkpoints consists of turnstiles used when entering prisons with the tightest security measures, and the arbitrary insolent, derogatory treatment by Zionist officers. The aim is to get people to give up and leave. It is not possible to witness this and not curse Israel, and through it, modern civilization. This so-called modern civilization is what gives an opportunity and aids and abets this inhumane treatment.
Of course, Jerusalem should be visited as a living stage of history, but it should be visited correctly - not like Zionists - by accepting that, just like history, it contains lessons for us today. One needs to return from there not hating and feeling hostility toward history, but on the contrary, by knowing that God embraces all of humanity with His mercy and compassion, without keeping Him from anybody, and hoping to serve humanity in the true sense.
It is interesting that God has granted His Great Name not to those who keep it with jealousy from other people, not to those who assume they are chosen by Him, but to the people they directly insult, calling them illiterate.
Of course, Muslims have been shown with examples from the state of the children of Israel that this is no reason for pride.
