Islam and Peace
The Policy of Peace in Islam How to attain normalcy in Jerusalem
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We learn, however, from the Qur’an that in no part
of the world can political power be wielded
indefinitely by the same nation or group: ‘We bring
these days to men by turns’ (3:140). Given that
power changes hands from time to time between
different communities, how are believers to
worship at al-Masjid al-Aqsa? Whereas each
Muslim has a natural desire to enter this mosque
and prostrate himself before God as the Prophet
Muhammad and the other Prophets did.
According to the Qur’an, political power, by the
very law of nature, cannot forever remain with one
nation. In that case, if this act of worship is linked
with the notion that a Muslim can receive God’s
blessings only when this land is under Muslim
political rule, millions of Muslims would have had
to bury this desire in their hearts and leave this
world with this cherished desire unfulfilled, as it
happened with the former Saudi king Faisal ibn
Abdul Aziz (1906-1975). They would never have
had, the unique experience of prostrating
themselves before Almighty God at a place where
the Prophet Muhammad, along with all the
Prophets, had prostrated himself before his Lord.
