THE IMPORTANCE OF

MASJID AL-AQSA IN
ISLAM

Emaan Fatima
Grade 12
 The whole area counts as
Masjid Al-Aqsa was built 40 years after the Haram Al-Sharif, Masjid
building of the Kabah Al-Aqsa

Masjid Al-Aqsa is the 3rd Holiest Masjid in

Islam

Masjid Al-Aqsa became

the first Qibla in Islam
It is the only place which where
and remained the
Rasulallah ‫ ﺻﻠﻰ ﷲ ﻋﻠﯾﮫ وﺳﻠم‬led all the
Qiblah until Rasulallah
Prophets ‫ ﻋﻠﯾﮭم اﻟﺳﻼم‬in prayer
‫ ﺻﻠﻰ ﷲ ﻋﻠﯾﮫ وﺳﻠم‬came to
Madinah
 The surrounding areas are Holy to us,
Many Prophets and Sahabas ‫رﺿﻲ ﷲ‬ like Khalil or Hebron where Ibrahim
‫ ﻋﻧﮭم‬are buried there ‫ﻋﻠﯾﮭم اﻟﺳﻼم‬, Ishaq ‫ﻋﻠﯾﮭم اﻟﺳﻼم‬, and Yaqub
‫ ﻋﻠﯾﮭم اﻟﺳﻼم‬are buried along with their
lives

The reward for performing Umrah and

Hajj from Masjid Al-Aqsa is to have
their sins forgiven or Jannah
becomes obligatory upon them

If a person reads Salat in

Masjid Al-Aqsa, they get There is also Bayt Al-Lahm or Bethlehem
the reward of 500 times where Isa ‫ ﻋﻠﯾﮭم اﻟﺳﻼم‬was born.
O Allah! Protect
al-Masjid al-Aqsa,
and bestow on us
a prayer in it
before we die.