{"id":2680,"date":"2021-02-24T07:41:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T07:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alqudsmalaysia-001-site4.itempurl.com\/?p=2680"},"modified":"2021-02-24T07:57:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T07:57:31","slug":"what-is-the-meaning-of-al-aqsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.aqsapedia.net\/staging\/2680","title":{"rendered":"What is the meaning of \u201cAl-Aqsa\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">In order to understand the reasons behind the name of Masjid Al-Aqsa, we must first understand the meaning of the word \u201cAl-Aqsa\u201d in Arabic language, and it means &#8220;the farthest,&#8221; hence the name \u201cMasjid al-Aqsa\u201d means \u201cthe furthest Masjid.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Some scholars said: \u201cthe farthest\u201d means that it\u2019s the Masjid farthest from Masjid al-Haram in Mecca; in terms of the three Masjids that Mounts are not saddled for except to (travel to).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">It is also said that it\u2019s called al-Aqsa due to being distanced from filth and malice. The latter is stemmed from the name \u201cBeit al-Maqdis;\u201d the place where people are purified from their sins.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Al-Muqadas (the sacred) is the purified, close to \u201cAl-Baiet al-Muqadas;\u201d purified from any idols inside it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">We notice here that the reasons behind the name combine the purity of the place, its\u00a0highness, and being distanced from from dirts and filths whether physical or moral.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to understand the reasons behind the name of Masjid Al-Aqsa, we must first understand the meaning of the word \u201cAl-Aqsa\u201d in Arabic language, and it means &#8220;the farthest,&#8221;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-al-aqsa-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.aqsapedia.net\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.aqsapedia.net\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.aqsapedia.net\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.aqsapedia.net\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.aqsapedia.net\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.aqsapedia.net\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.aqsapedia.net\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.aqsapedia.net\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.aqsapedia.net\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}