Holy and Blessed

S 5:21 People, enter the Holy Land which Allah has written for you and do not turn on your backsides. Then you turn as losers.

Israel is called the Holy Land. This is an anachronism. But why might it have been deemed holy? It would have been because God was supposed to be there. In Exodus 3:5 Moses when he has approached the burning bush is told to remove his shoes as the ground that he is standing on is holy.

And he said, Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground. https://biblehub.com/exodus/3-5.htm It was holy because of God's presence.

S 17:1 Praise be to the one who travelled by night with his slave at night from the Sacred Mosque to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, whose precincts we have blessed, to show him from our signs. He is the hearer, the seer.

This supposedly refers to a night journey from Mecca to the Temple in Jerusalem. The precincts of this 'mosque' were blessed. Why might they be called blessed? Well, God's presence was understood to be in the Temple. But why does the text not say that the Sacred Mosque, the Ka'bah, was blessed?

Further reading: Muhammad's Alleged Night Journey to the Jerusalem Temple

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