"The state of Jerusalem is always the state of the world. Jerusalem is the mirror of the world. Salvation begins in Jerusalem or is completed in Jerusalem.
It is not possible to free Jerusalem by ignoring the persecution and distortion in the world. In order to save Jerusalem, it is necessary to end this injustice in the world. Nothing will change in Jerusalem unless the order in the world changes, let us not deceive ourselves. Jerusalem continuing to remain under this occupation today is the result of the fact that the world order insistently and stubbornly works for a history and international order that serves Zionism. It is the result of considering that the world is made up of only five [countries]. But beyond all this, Jerusalem's current state is a reflection of the fact that more than 1.5 billion Muslims do not live in line with Islamic practices and do not know whom to accept as enemy or friend."
The fast developments that have been taking place since July have even confirmed these words. As long as Muslims do not distinguish between who are friends and who are enemies, as long as they struggle with each other and pave the way for tyrants, Jerusalem will continue to cry in its present state of sadness.
Seeing is not like hearing. We need to go and see Jerusalem's state. Which of mankind’s mistakes and evil has caused Jerusalem to end up in such a state? We need to think about this in Jerusalem.
It is necessary to see how words about Jerusalem do not reflect the city’s state and how the words remain incompetent in describing the levels to which mankind can fall. To see it, we need to head out to Jerusalem.
Masjid al-Aqsa is the third major temple of Islam after Mecca and Medina, which the Prophet recommended and encouraged us to visit. This mosque should not be ruined there under the guardianship of the despicable Zionist occupation.
Israel’s ultimate goal is to completely annex Jerusalem with all the surrounding territory that it is keeping under occupation. Continuing to seize and occupy the land of Palestinian residents to open new settlements even during occasional peace talks, Israel has an evil intention. Everyone now knows that its intention is evil, but the leaders of the leading Islamic countries who are supposed to oppose it do not worry about it. They think that they are enjoying the days with the fantasy that they will further strengthen their own power to the extent they make Jerusalem available to Israel. They are not even aware of the fact that they feel hell in their own hearts every day, every hour and every moment due to this ambition.
When I was invited to the Jerusalem visit, organized by the head of the Turkish Parliament Friendship Group Chair Hasan Turan along with the members of the Jerusalem Friendship Group, I felt sad that it would clash with a Tunisian program that had already been scheduled. Because, the Tunisian Investment Forum was an important event that I promised to join. But just like the hajj pilgrimage and umrah, the Jerusalem visit is a matter of predestination.
When the visit ends and you assess the motion that visit has caused for you, you get an idea of what this predestination is like. I would say that you cannot quite understand it anyway. It is not possible for a person to notice in all aspects what kind of a process he is going through in such cases. I cut my Tunisia program short and joined 22 fellow deputies in Istanbul who would set out for Jerusalem.
The history engraved in the stones of Jerusalem and humanity’s interest in that history makes Jerusalem a broadband history area where the city is completely frozen in time. When you are here, you feel like you have witnessed everything. I reiterate that Jerusalem is the mirror of the world we live in. Jerusalem is also the mirror of history.
Prophet Musa circumnavigated his people in the mountains around Canaan for 40 years, expecting them to get rid of the slavery they had internalized for centuries under the Pharaoh's persecution. The moment they got rid of it, they started resorting to the heresy of slaving all people to themselves.
The scenes of intifada that Palestinian children repeat every day make you remember that Prophet Dawood challenged Jalut, against whom no one could dare to face, and that he defeated him with the weakest weapon, striking him with a slingshot.
Here, you also remember Prophet Suleiman’s temple construction and meeting with Balqis, Jews’ settlement and their consecutive exile.
You see prophets Ishaq, Yaqup, Al-Imran, Zechariah, and Yahya. Then you remember Mariam, the symbol of innocence, Isa who is the word of Allah, his apostles and the betrayal that he experienced.
You continue to remember Babylon, Rome, Byzantine, Prophet Muhammad’s ascension after coming from Mecca, Omar’s conquest and Islamic rule, the Fatimid empire, the Crusaders, Saladin, the Mamelukes and the Ottomans.
The story of none of these ends here forever.
As you remember all this by looking at each street and building, you continue to face today's bitter truth on all these layers of history at every corner: Zionist occupation.
Zionism is a form of perversion. It is precisely the extreme form of the feeling that what happened in Jerusalem is not actually over and that page will be reopened at any moment. Claiming to revert history, reconstruct a ruined building- temple, and go back to the beginning by ignoring what happened. Insisting on condemning the whole world to a reversed time cycle with the fantasy of reversing the time.
Is the main lesson to be learnt from the Jerusalem visit to go back to history, to relive historical experiences today, to always live in history and to carry the burdens of history to the present day?
Why should the visitors of Jerusalem do this when they compare past with present?
What lesson is there to learn from Jerusalem? In fact, this question must be considered with the questions of “why to resort to history” and “what to learn from it.”
Should we learn a lesson from Jerusalem, or make it say what we want?
