Our historical right to Palestine is a divine decision. It is not a heresy nor a favor from anyone!

The follower of the sermons of the Secretary of the pulpit, Sheikh d. Ikrima Sabri finds it multidimensional; It deals with the affairs of the nation and the homeland, ranging from the general to the specific, and from the past to the present, including the concerns of the Palestinian local community and/or the nation on a broader scale, and hinting at the future, with its hopes and pains.

Accordingly, the last Friday (the orphan) of the month of Ramadan for this year (1444 AH / 2023 AD) came to include three main axes, which Al-Khatib - Sabri - identified as follows: the strategic depth of the Palestinians, the Abrahamic religion and the teachers' strike.

Based on the responsibility placed on the pulpit of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque towards Muslims wherever they are on the face of the earth, and based on the burden of trust placed on the preacher who ascends this pulpit, the preacher spoke in every axis of it, according to the vision of the true religion that the preacher realizes, and he is the former mufti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian lands. President of the Islamic Supreme Council in Jerusalem.

Immediately after this sermon, Karim's brother addressed the sermon, protesting against the historical dimension as mentioned in the sermon, considering that "the historical right in Palestine is heresy." Whereas, the Friday preacher was not limited in his sermon to the historical dimension only, but also dealt with the doctrinal and jurisprudential aspects as well, based on the noble verses and the noble hadiths of the Prophet.

And since I found the content of the hadith worthy of stopping by reading and analyzing it, in light of our struggle with the occupation on this blessed, good, pure land, I re-listened to the sermon, and it became clear that the historical dimension included information, data, and evidence in which the preacher sequenced it, starting with what was narrated by the honorable companion Abu Dhikr al-Ghafari May God be pleased with him, by saying: I asked the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace, about the first mosque built on earth. He said: The Sacred Mosque. He said: Then which? He said: Al-Aqsa Mosque, I said: How much between them? He said: Forty years. Al-Khatib - Sabri - proceeded according to the following:
- We as Muslims have our strategic depth throughout history. The Palestinian people are part of the Arab people, and the Arab people are part of the honorable Islamic nation.

 We say to the vexatious, impetuous person: Your claim that the Palestinian people has only been known for a hundred years is a misguided and misleading claim. As the Arabs in Palestine have a history that extends back to before (7500) years BC and who are the Canaanites, even the Torah mentioned the land of Canaan on several occasions to indicate that the Canaanites existed, and they are the oldest peoples in the world in Palestine.

- When the just caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab, may God be pleased with him, came to the city of Jerusalem in 15 AH / 636 CE, he received its keys from Sophronius, Patriarch of Rome; That is, the Muslims had received this city by treaty from the Romans only and not from others, and our master Umar, may God be pleased with him, issued at that time the Umaria Pact in which he preserved the churches of the Christians, because our great Islamic religion preserves the places of worship for non-Muslims, so if it was a synagogue for the Jews at that time, he would have preserved it. Umar did not find any traces except for those related to Christians only.

- Therefore, the people of Palestine are rooted in the blessed Holy Land, and the abundant Islamic monuments still exist, and confirm this, from the time of Umar to this day.

 Then our stationing in our land is by a divine, divine decision from the seven heavens, and that is in the miracle of Isra and Mi’raj, so the Al-Aqsa Mosque was the centerpiece of this miracle.

- Al-Aqsa Mosque is part of our faith, and defending it is a defense of faith.
- Accordingly, our association in this country is a connection of belief and faith, with the decision of God Almighty, and not with a decision of the body of nations or a decision of the Security Council. Emphasizing that Jerusalem is not for the people of Palestine alone, but rather for all Muslims around the globe, and he, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, says: No one should travel except to three mosques: the Sacred Mosque, this mosque of mine, and Al-Aqsa Mosque. And in a narration: The Grand Mosque, Al-Aqsa Mosque, and this mosque of mine.

- We return to this arrogant moron, whose name we refuse to mention, who falsifies history, to say to him: Whoever has a house of glass should not throw stones at others, then we say to him: Have you found antiquities in the city of Jerusalem, during the extensive excavations? As for our monuments, they are clear imprints of the whole world and speak of our existence through the years and days.

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After careful listening, good listening, and objective analysis of the historical dimension of this sermon, we find that the Friday preacher, His Eminence Sheikh Dr. Ikrima Sabri has referred to the historical dimension, in his response to allegations that the Palestinian people have known only for a hundred years. Thus, he broadcast direct messages to the occupation and its leaders, who boast of denying the historical depth of the Palestinian people on this land, that our historical right in Palestine came with a divine decision, and is not a heresy or a favor from anyone.

We also find ourselves in direct confrontation with the following questions/questions:

Is there anything wrong with saying that our Canaanite ancestors are the ones who brought us into this land, before we were Muslims?

Is there anything wrong with citing the Almighty’s saying: “Abraham was neither a Jew nor a Christian, but he was upright and a Muslim, and he was not of the idolaters” (Al-Imran: 67), when referring To our religious and historical depth that extends for thousands of years before the message of Islam brought by the Messenger of God, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him God bless him and grant him peace?

And is there any contradiction for those who research the historical right of the nation before the Hijri time that was adopted by Caliph Omar Ibn Al-Khattab, may God be pleased with him?

These questions remain to be answered, until we are certain that we are in a moment when we are in desperate need of the unity of the word, and the unity of the correct opinion based on belief and jurisprudence.