{"id":59105,"date":"2025-08-26T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/2025\/08\/26\/al-aqsa-mosque-faith-identity-and-the-ummahs-duty\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T00:00:00","slug":"al-aqsa-mosque-faith-identity-and-the-ummahs-duty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/2025\/08\/26\/al-aqsa-mosque-faith-identity-and-the-ummahs-duty\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Aqsa Mosque: Faith, Identity, and the Ummah\u2019s Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><b><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\ncolor:#EE0000;mso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">Al-Aqsa Mosque: Faith, Identity, and the<br \/>\nUmmah\u2019s Duty<span lang=\"AR-QA\" dir=\"RTL\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">On the fourth day of the Global Scholarly Conference<br \/>\n\u201cGaza: An Islamic and Humanitarian Responsibility,\u201d an extensive academic<br \/>\nsession was held under the title: \u201cThe Status of Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Challenges<br \/>\nIt Faces, and the Duties of Muslims Towards It.\u201d The session brought together a<br \/>\ndistinguished group of scholars and thinkers from various Islamic countries,<br \/>\nwho presented more than forty research papers addressing the religious,<br \/>\nhistorical, political, and practical dimensions related to the Blessed Al-Aqsa<br \/>\nMosque.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><b><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\ncolor:#EE0000;mso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">The session focused on three main<br \/>\nthemes:<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><b><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\ncolor:#0070C0;mso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">1. The Status of Al-Aqsa Mosque in<br \/>\nIslamic Creed and History<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">Scholars affirmed that Al-Aqsa is a fundamental pillar<br \/>\nof faith, without which belief is incomplete. It is the site of the Isra and<br \/>\nMi\u2019raj, blessed in the Quran, a \u201csister\u201d to Mecca and Medina, and a symbol of<br \/>\nIslamic unity and the resilience of the Ummah. They emphasized that it is not<br \/>\nmerely a political or geographical issue, but a matter of identity and<br \/>\ncivilizational existence.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><b><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\ncolor:#0070C0;mso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">2. Challenges and Threats Facing Al-Aqsa<br \/>\nMosque<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">The papers highlighted more than twenty threats,<br \/>\nincluding daily incursions, attempts at temporal and spatial division,<br \/>\nunderground excavations, Zionist calls to build the \u201calleged Temple,\u201d<br \/>\nJudaization of the Old City, weakening of Islamic authorities, official Arab<br \/>\nnormalization, and international silence. Participants warned that the<br \/>\noccupation is steadily attempting to impose full Jewish sovereignty over the<br \/>\nmosque, amid the absence of serious Arab and Islamic stances.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><b><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\ncolor:#0070C0;mso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">3. Duties of Muslims Towards Al-Aqsa<br \/>\nMosque<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">Speakers stressed that supporting Al-Aqsa is both a<br \/>\nreligious obligation and a humanitarian and civilizational duty, with<br \/>\nresponsibilities distributed among individuals, scholars, and governments.<br \/>\nIndividuals are called upon to raise awareness, educate, and provide material<br \/>\nand moral support; scholars are tasked with issuing fatwas and renewing<br \/>\nreligious discourse on the issue; while governments must engage politically,<br \/>\ndiplomatically, and legally, and implement projects to support and strengthen<br \/>\nthe resilience of Jerusalemites.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">The session concluded by emphasizing that the Al-Aqsa<br \/>\nissue must remain a top priority for the Islamic Ummah, and that its liberation<br \/>\nand protection is a collective responsibility, renewed with each generation<br \/>\nuntil it is fully restored from the hands of the occupation.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">(Source: Al-Ittihad)<span lang=\"AR-QA\" dir=\"RTL\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span lang=\"AR-QA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size:1.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-bidi-language:AR-QA\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640\u0640<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"text-align: justify; line-height: 150%; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><b><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:20.0pt;\nline-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;color:#EE0000\">* \u0644\u0644\u0627\u0637\u0644\u0627\u0639 \u0639\u0644\u0649<br \/>\n\u0627\u0644\u062a\u0631\u062c\u0645\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0643\u0627\u0645\u0644\u0629 \u0644\u0644\u062e\u0628\u0631 \u0628\u0627\u0644\u0644\u063a\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a\u0629<\/span><\/b><span lang=\"AR-SA\" style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\">\u060c \u0627\u0636\u063a\u0637 (<b><span style=\"color:#EE0000\"><a href=\"https:\/\/iumsonline.org\/ar\/ContentDetails.aspx?ID=40034\" target=\"_blank\">\u0647\u0646\u0627<\/a><\/span><\/b>).<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\" style=\"font-size:\n20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al-Aqsa Mosque: Faith, Identity, and the Ummah\u2019s Duty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":59423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}