The Changing the qiblah from Al-Aqsa Mosque to Al-Masjid Al-Haram
In this file, God willing, we will go over the interpretation of the verses, each verse separately, and what we can take from them, then a conclusion that may contain a summary of all that is mentioned in the verses.
Allah says
سَيَقُولُ السُّفَهَاءُ مِنَ النَّاسِ مَا وَلَّاهُمْ عَن قِبْلَتِهِمُ الَّتِي كَانُوا عَلَيْهَا ۚ قُل لِّلَّهِ الْمَشْرِقُ وَالْمَغْرِبُ ۚ يَهْدِي مَن يَشَاءُ إِلَىٰ صِرَاطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ (142)
Foolish people will say what turns them away from their qiblah, which they were upon ۚ Say to God the East and the West ۚ He guides whom He wills to a straight path (142)
Look at the word (he will say) and you know that God - the Most High - Himself knows that people do not stop talking no matter what happens, whether it is against you or otherwise, people talk at all times, and this is not the custom of the wise, but the habit of fools (speaking only for the sake of speaking) that has no great or benign purpose.
What do they care about their Qiblah?
These are feelings, dear reader, rather they are negative feelings that swept the hearts and minds of those who say them, and they have one of two goals. (Hate converts because the Islamic religion came from the descendants of Ismail, peace be upon him - not from the tribes, or it is a kind of underestimating the minds of Muslims that they do something like that), and if you walk in life, do not underestimate the mind of those in front of you, they may be better than you. Then do not prejudge people about what they did or did not do such and such. People have their own business, and your business is your business. Know that this way of thinking and representation is the work and words of fools, not wise men.
How do you respond to fools: as it came in the verse, and as it will come at the end of the verses: Do not look at formalities, dear reader, east or west, this is a Muslim
Indeed, the East and the West belong to God alone, and He alone guides whom He wills to a straight path, not with favoritism for anyone like Muslims or Jews, but with the virtues that are within you, if a trait is loved by you, He is will fix all your work in different ways, by giving at one time and by preventing the other. and God is superior and knows best.
Allah says
وَكَذَلِكَ جَعَلْنَاكُمْ أُمَّةً وَسَطًا لِتَكُونُوا شُهَدَاءَ عَلَى النَّاسِ وَيَكُونَ الرَّسُولُ عَلَيْكُمْ شَهِيدًا وَمَا جَعَلْنَا الْقِبْلَةَ الَّتِي كُنْتَ عَلَيْهَا إِلَّا لِنَعْلَمَ مَنْ يَتَّبِعُ الرَّسُولَ مِمَّنْ يَنْقَلِبُ عَلَى عَقِبَيْهِ وَإِنْ كَانَتْ لَكَبِيرَةً إِلَّا عَلَى الَّذِينَ هَدَى اللَّهُ وَمَا كَانَ اللَّهُ لِيُضِيعَ إِيمَانَكُمْ إِنَّ اللَّهَ بِالنَّاسِ لَرَءُوفٌ رَحِيمٌAnd thus have We made you a middle nation, that you might be witnesses to the people, and the Messenger will be a witness over you, and We did not make the qiblah that you used to face except that We might know, Whoever follows the Messenger, whoever turns upside down, and if it is great, except for those whom God has guided, and God would not have lost your faith, God is merciful to people.
And thus We made you a middle nation
You are witnesses to the people, and the Messenger will be a witness against you, and we did not make the qiblah that you were upon, except to know who will follow the Messenger, and who will turn back upside down, the center in everything is the substance, that is, against the extremes, right and left, the substance of the fruit: its middle and it is the sweetest in it. Perhaps the extreme parts of it are not the sweetest and perhaps bitter or pungent, the middle: in morals: see courage, for example: It is a mediator between recklessness and cowardice. And so on . So why did God Almighty choose this nation to be in the midst of it, when many of the heavenly religions were revealed? starting with the Messenger of Noah - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - and ending with our master Muhammad - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him. Him - but the divine will of Muhammad's message to be the last message, And you know when to put the stamp on the official papers, after all the formalities are over, right? All previous religions, one recognizes the other, whatever it was, the first and last monotheistic religions are the basket of God - the Most High - and if you look at this basket, He he most high- choose one of them and create a nation chosen by a middle nation, that is, the essence of all other religions, disclaimer: Our master Shuaib - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - came to correct people’s morals in measuring and weighing (this came in the nation of Muhammad) Lot - may God's prayers and peace be upon him - came to our master Lot as a war against the sin of homosexuality (this came in the nation of Muhammad), and thus the essence of this religion, then, must be the nation of this religion, A middle nation: to bear the essence of religions in good and evil, and God knows best, as for the reason for choosing moderation: the answer of the Lord of the Worlds - if the expression is correct -
You are God's witnesses on earth
In the gathering of the Messenger of God - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - and the Companions gathered around their beloved - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - a funeral was passing, and the people looked at it with their eyes, and if the tongues praise its owner well, the Prophet - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - said: ((proved, proved, proved)) Then he passed by another funeral, and when the tongues of people praised it with evil, The Messenger of Guidance said: ((It is proved, it is proved, it is proved)) In the face of this astonishment and questioning from the people, the prophetic comment comes by saying: ((If you praise him well, Paradise will be due for him, and whoever you commend evil on him, fire will be required for him, you are God’s witnesses on earth, you are God’s witnesses on earth, you are God’s witnesses on earth.”
The Messenger will be a witness against you: What is the meaning of these words? That is, if you're not a mediocre, you're not a far right or far left extremist, the Messenger will not be a martyr on the Day of Resurrection. Isn't logic calling us to this?
As for the subject of the qiblah: it does not increase or decrease a test that God Almighty knows - who believes in true faith and who does not believe? The question here: Are you a university teacher: are you saying that this student will take the exam and do A, this student will fail and you will be satisfied with your prejudice and do it with ease? Would the parents of these sons not judge you without testing their sons/girls? God - the Most High - is not asked about what he does and they are asked - but he only wants to know loyalty to Him, Glory be to Him. Rather, he wants the people around you to see you from the inside as they see you from the outside, because we agreed that I am a witness against you and that you are a witness against me as long as we are close or even hear about each other, And if it is a major issue, except for those who have been guided by God: See: The matter is great for me and yourself, if we are not believers, why? You and I didn't go through this quiz, did you? But surely once in your life did you try to make people laugh at your choices, especially if they have anything to do with what you believe in. Instead whatever it was you believed in, was it really that painful? Then you want to pay a lot and very cheap to get to those who doubt you: that you are not a fool - that you are of a good mind - and that whoever you worship will not stop loving you, right? Go back to the verse again: and see the accuracy of the Qur’anic pronunciation (Lkabeera: it;s big).
And God would not waste your faith, because God is merciful to people, and merciful: tranquility - mercy - sense of people - so to speak - with all mercy you will not waste your prayers, according to all your faith, you are one of a billion and a half Muslims and about 5 billion and half a billion infidels in the Lord of Muslims: Do you think that your belief in God is weak? lean, and God - Alimighty - didn't care about you?
(143) قَدْ نَرَى تَقَلُّبَ وَجْهِكَ فِي السَّمَاءِ فَلَنُوَلِّيَنَّكَ قِبْلَةً تَرْضَاهَا فَوَلِّ وَجْهَكَ شَطْرَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ وَحَيْثُ مَا كُنْتُمْ فَوَلُّوا وُجُوهَكُمْ شَطْرَهُ وَإِنَّ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ لَيَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّهُ الْحَقُّ مِنْ رَبِّهِمْ وَمَا اللَّهُ بِغَافِلٍ عَمَّا يَعْمَلُونَ (144)
The Messenger of God - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - was praying towards the house of Jerusalem with the Muslims after the night of the Night Journey and Mi’raj was imposed on him for a period of 16 months, He was leaning his face and heart every time towards the Sacred House, wanting the qiblah to be there. why? We don't know exactly, but it may be a customization of a new identity, He does not want to pray towards the qiblah of others, and does not even look at the same place they look at at the time of prayer, and God knows best. Then God assured his beloved Muhammad that he would give him a Quiblah that would satisfy him, Have you taken your Quiblah yet or not? Have you ever read the Qur’an and got confused about something you specifically wanted, and this verse appeared to you as if it was a treasure that was brought out before your eyes? whatever your condition, pray to God. To give you a quiblh that pleases you at work, marriage on travel etc.
وَلَئِنْ أَتَيْتَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ بِكُلِّ آيَةٍ مَا تَبِعُوا قِبْلَتَكَ وَمَا أَنْتَ بِتَابِعٍ قِبْلَتَهُمْ وَمَا بَعْضُهُمْ بِتَابِعٍ قِبْلَةَ بَعْضٍ وَلَئِنِ اتَّبَعْتَ أَهْوَاءَهُمْ مِنْ بَعْدِ مَا جَاءَكَ مِنَ الْعِلْمِ إِنَّكَ إِذًا لَمِنَ الظَّالِمِينَ (145)People with their beliefs neither see nor hear, and the word of faith came from the knot that tied the nerves of your heart, so you cannot unravel it, nor do it not be untied by itself, something great must come that does it, (Thinking about converting from one religion to another, or in a psychological traumatic event, you believed that God had not succeeded in keeping you away from religion, (or otherwise) see the verse again to understand what I mean, which is primarily and least the identity of the soul: do not follow the whims of other than your religion, especially after the knowledge has reached your ears, and if you did that you would be unjust to yourself (we ask God for forgiveness)
الَّذِينَ آتَيْنَاهُمُ الْكِتَابَ يَعْرِفُونَهُ كَمَا يَعْرِفُونَ أَبْنَاءَهُمْ وَإِنَّ فَرِيقًا مِنْهُمْ لَيَكْتُمُونَ الْحَقَّ وَهُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ (146) الْحَقُّ مِنْ رَبِّكَ فَلَا تَكُونَنَّ مِنَ الْمُمْتَرِينَ (147)
Whom did we give the book to? I mean the People of the Book, right? Do you know what it means to have a heavenly book? Of course you don't know because you are reading it, because you are most likely a Muslim or you have another divine religion, and maybe you loved learning about other cultures, it's great to have a book that goes with your personal life, and doesn't separate from it, and do not speak in one valley, and this book is in another valley, and to have contact with Heaven in any way, even if by meditation, People of the Book: They know Muhammad - may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - In their books, they know him as they know their children: Do you know your son? What bothered him, is there a birthmark on his body or not? Do you know his likes, dislikes, etc.? They know the Messenger of God like this, but not everyone, but a group of them, And look at the accuracy of the pronunciation (a group of them) and not all of them: God - Almighty does not generalize, generalization is blindness. Dear Reader: You did not generalize your judgments: Remember: the generalization is blind. This is true and it is from your Lord, so do not be among those who doubt Muhammad, O People of the Book, after you addresses this verse. and God knows best, better. The question remains: What does this verse have to do with changing the qiblah? What is the first goal in two respects (People of the Book and Muslims) with ridicule and idiots (the Messenger, may God bless him and grant him peace) saying accusatory looks even if they do not utter the word “Muslims” and if they do not - some of them left the religion - this is not a mockery of the People of the Book) Your Lord hasten to please the heart of His beloved Muhammad, may God bless him and grant him peace. Peace be upon him, even from this affliction that may distance the beloved and his beloved, Peace be upon him. And you: Do you consider the feelings of your loved ones? do you even feel the looks directed at them? Are you a person with whom God loves? He did that with his beloved - Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him - distinguished by what God Almighty does.
وَلِكُلٍّ وِجْهَةٌ هُوَ مُوَلِّيهَا فَاسْتَبِقُوا الْخَيْرَاتِ أَيْنَ مَا تَكُونُوا يَأْتِ بِكُمُ اللَّهُ جَمِيعًا إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ
Watch this for every destination: Did you get out of the house in the morning Was the street full of people of every color? Do you know their beliefs? Do you know their religions? Of course not, when you see this intense wave of human flow, remember that each one of them has a destination to turn to, Whether on this day or in life in general, who says these words: Creator of humanity, remember what you are doing (racing to do good) See: Where did you go towards Asia, Africa or Europe or migrated to Mars to God Return, go as you want and to the destination What you want, but put it in your mind: that God will bring you and those around you on the day He wills, and will gather me and bring you together, and we and they are from all scattered places.
وَمِنْ حَيْثُ خَرَجْتَ فَوَلِّ وَجْهَكَ شَطْرَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ وَإِنَّهُ لَلْحَقُّ مِنْ رَبِّكَ وَمَا اللَّهُ بِغَافِلٍ عَمَّا تَعْمَلُونَ (149)Do you own many villas, chalets and wonderful places, do you prefer one of them? God Almighty - Is that (the houses of God on earth are mosques) and chose out of all mosques (the Sacred House is a qiblah for Muslims, and this goal is true and God Almighty does not neglect us). different destinations, And if we say that Islam and the Kaaba are our destination, then how many Muslims did not die for the sake of Islam, and how many non-Muslims died as a Muslim, We ask God for safety until we meet him on a sound heart.مِنْ حَيْثُ خَرَجْتَ فَوَلِّ وَجْهَكَ شَطْرَ الْمَسْجِدِ الْحَرَامِ وَحَيْثُ مَا كُنْتُمْ فَوَلُّوا وُجُوهَكُمْ شَطْرَهُ لِئَلَّا يَكُونَ لِلنَّاسِ عَلَيْكُمْ حُجَّةٌ إِلَّا الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا مِنْهُمْ فَلَا تَخْشَوْهُمْ وَاخْشَوْنِي وَلِأُتِمَّ نِعْمَتِي عَلَيْكُمْ وَلَعَلَّكُمْ تَهْتَدُونَ (150) (البقرةThis verse is also reassuring, but only for the Messenger of God, but for all believers, so that people will not have an excuse for you to pray with a quiblh on which another religion (the Jewish religion) prays and the ruling except for those who have been wronged among them) suggests two signs (the first: that God does not generalize - the second: That in life always and forever are unjust and they will say and do what really harms you... I ask God for your safety and my safety from them) Amen.
لَيْسَ الْبِرَّ أَنْ تُوَلُّوا وُجُوهَكُمْ قِبَلَ الْمَشْرِقِ وَالْمَغْرِبِ وَلَكِنَّ الْبِرَّ مَنْ آمَنَ بِاللَّهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ وَالْمَلَائِكَةِ وَالْكِتَابِ وَالنَّبِيِّينَ وَآتَى الْمَالَ عَلَى حُبِّهِ ذَوِي الْقُرْبَى وَالْيَتَامَى وَالْمَسَاكِينَ وَابْنَ السَّبِيلِ وَالسَّائِلِينَ وَفِي الرِّقَابِ وَأَقَامَ الصَّلَاةَ وَآتَى الزَّكَاةَ وَالْمُوفُونَ بِعَهْدِهِمْ إِذَا عَاهَدُوا وَالصَّابِرِينَ فِي الْبَأْسَاءِ وَالضَّرَّاءِ وَحِينَ الْبَأْسِ أُولَئِكَ الَّذِينَ صَدَقُوا وَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْمُتَّقُونَ (177) (البقرة)
The verse urges you to rise above what people usually do, and pay attention to the formalities of religion (clothing - the destination - and other things that are an integral part of religion. But it is not the essence of religion: of course God is the Most High.) But do not look to the East or the West when you want Do good deeds, leave the formalities behind.
1 - The Belief in God: Do you believe in the God of Muslims? If that was the case, then you did the first righteousness in your life? (righteousness to yourself)
2 - The Belief in the Last Day: Do you think that there is a judgment on the Day of Resurrection? If you determine the pace of your actions on the account tomorrow as much as you can, and your strength is not like the ability of others, we are different and our circumstances are different and the account is different, and God does not hold us accountable for the problem or situation what you've been through one day, but he'll hold us accountable for the package, if so to speak , for everything you've been through in your life—your private and public feelings, etc.
3- The Belief in angels: We are in the era of revolution of ideas. I will not say an information revolution, because time is out of date with this term. Do you still think that there are angels surrounding you if you believe in God or even that angels write your works? Or angels from heaven support you if you are in need. I hear you say what is this madness? Here and here only: Review your good deeds, if you want to love them from the Lord of Muslims.
4 - The Book: We believe in our book, the Qur’an, but do you believe in the book of Jesus - peace be upon him? I hear you say: It is distorted. Have you not heard that the book of the Jews is distorted? ? Yes, we believe as Muslims that they distorted some of the verses mentioned in it, but they have a divine origin, So do you believe in it or deliberately reject it: The Messenger of God used to deal with them (People of the Book) on the principle: I do not believe them and I do not lie to them, so would you do the same with them? Rather, the divine books contain the papers of Abraham and the commandments of Solomon or others, so do you believe in all of them, and if you believe in some of them, then you are not on the righteousness that the Lord of the Muslims wants, Give the Beloved your money: To whom: Giving the Beloved money for the soul because of miserliness, or for the scarcity of resources for the following types, so that you perform the righteous deeds that the Lord of the Muslims will please you with:
(relatives - orphans - the poor: Note: God Almighty in the verse of truth did not mention the poor, but the needy, so what is the difference between the poor and the needy, the poor: the one who owns little but does not suffice him, and the needy: the one who has nothing at all - the son of ways who stole his money while he was in A journey and he could not return to his country except by giving charity - the askers - on the necks: liberating the slaves, for the sake of God, not for the sake of working for you.
The Praying: do you actually perform prayer? We all act prayer, but few of us preserve it with its pillars and essence.
The fulfilling promises: If you are one of those who pledged things to people and then did not bring them, then review your righteous deeds, for God does not accept righteous deeds unless your words and actions have one face.
The patient is in misery: poverty, hunger, need and their combination (with misery) may be in extreme cases such as general famine or the like, and God knows best.
The patient in adversity: distress: What is the quality of distress (illness - poverty - a big problem or something else)? Do you say praise be to God in the tongue and heart with pain, and this does not conflict with psychological or physical pain perhaps. If you do that, then you are among the afflicted patients, and it is on your way, but after the misfortune or problem has passed to the abode of reckoning, it will confess to you whether you were patient or apprehension.
Patience when powerless: Imagine in wars that you live a happy life, hot food, good sleep, a faithful wife and good children, and suddenly war breaks out in your country and you lose what you lose in ex and children. Your life probably starts from scratch, and people firmly believe in their comfort zone and start over It is a big problem for someone, so patience, in this case, is one of the types of righteousness that pleases God - the Most High. May God protect you from all harm.
See: All of these types are higher than being good and doing righteousness before God, and not only this, but with these previous qualities they are included in the encyclopedia of the truthful and pious before God - the Most High - it is not that you see that you do righteous deeds in front of people and people around you, they clap or point their fingers at you, but righteousness is another form. It is the gist of this verse. Now, are all righteous deeds contractual, or do you leave some dealings (of course, some of them are transactions)?
Doctrinal rituals in the verse (belief in God - in the books - in the messengers - in the angels - on the last day) These are actions that terrify the heart. If I don't, am I not righteous? Yes, before God alone.
The rituals of worship in the verse (Prayer - Zakat: This is not the usual alimony rather "charity")
The transactions of worship in the verse (spending the money that you love + patience) is hard worship, except for those whom Allah makes it easy for them. why ? Because you can have a lot of money and not feel when you spend a lot of it, but you feel happy, and if your needs are not met, and you take out some money from your money here (giving money is to give preference to the right of others over your wealth) and God knows what He means from His servants.
The question remains:
I am a Muslim and you are a Muslim: Why did God choose the first Muslims for such a great, decade-long test, when the people of Islam were weak in their beliefs and many of them were also devoted to Islam, and you and I got lost from this test? Is this for a reason? Does the Lord of the worlds favor Muslims at the end of time at the expense of their priorities? Do not be in a hurry, my Muslim brother. Public examinations have ended and have been replaced by special seismic tests. Shake it until God removes from you what He brought out of the best of people ( the Companions of the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace) And God knows best.
The story of changing the qiblah ended centuries ago
and the discussion ended here in this file, and it remains for us to rise above fools and not be among them by reason or speech, and not to pay attention. For the manifestations of the East or the West, and we pay attention to the remaining types of righteousness (the essence and not the formalities), so that we are truly a middle nation that takes the essence of all religions. God is behind the intention and He guides the way. Amen.