Posted: Mar 31, 2012 9:33 am
Thanks for that confirmation paarsurrey. Homer: thanks, I didn't know that. It makes a lot of sense. Still, the facts of a made-up story are difficult to sort out!paarsurrey wrote:"ISRA" or"The Night Journey" and "al-Aqsa"mosque mentioned in Quran
It is true that Al-Aqsa was built in the time of Omer- the Second Caliph, when Muhammad had already died. Since it was far-off from Medina or Mecca, I think just for that it was named like that.
Muslims have built mosques around the world and have sometimes named them "al-Aqsa", I have seen some of them;