{"id":15098,"date":"2025-05-27T16:37:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T23:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/?p=15098"},"modified":"2025-05-27T16:37:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T23:37:31","slug":"why-do-muslims-care-so-much-about-palestine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/27\/why-do-muslims-care-so-much-about-palestine\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do Muslims care so much about Palestine?\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Palestine is home to one of the three most sacred sites on Earth to Muslims, Masjid al-Aqsa (The Aqsa Mosque). It is the epicenter and metaphorical \u201cbeating heart\u201d of the holy city of Jerusalem, and of the blessed region of the Levant (<em>Bil\u0101d al-Sh\u0101m<\/em>) more generally.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Masjid al-Aqsa served as the first <em>qibla<\/em> (direction of Muslim prayer) before God instructed the Muslims to pray towards the Ka\u02bfba in Mecca.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is the hallowed ground upon which Muslims believe the Prophet Muhammad led all of God\u2019s thousands upon thousands of prophets and messengers in prayer\u2013from Adam to Abraham to Moses to Jesus and beyond\u2013during his miraculous Night Journey (<em>Isra\u02be<\/em>) from Mecca to Jerusalem and Ascension (<em>Mi\u02bfraj<\/em>) to the heavens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Beyond Masjid al-Aqsa and Jerusalem, other locations across Palestine wield great sacred significance to Muslims for having been lands upon which the stories of countless prophets and messengers of God unfolded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestine is home to one of the three most sacred sites on Earth to Muslims, Masjid al-Aqsa (The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-islamqa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15099,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15098\/revisions\/15099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jislam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}