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In any time there's a conflict, any time there's tension, all the believers should be seeking

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clarity to understand what the issues are and to seek peace. We're told over and over again,

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both in the Torah and the Muslims are told in the Quran, that the key to be a believer is to

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imitate the character of the Prophet, to imitate, to do kindness and compassion the way the

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prophets did. And any time there's a conflict, I mean, if one would imagine, right now there's

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tension concerning the matter of Jerusalem, if people would imagine the prophets getting

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together and fighting over an issue, it's laughable, it's unbelievable that such a thing

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would happen. So we have to imitate the compassion and the kindness of the prophets who were assigned

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to us. The reason why Jerusalem is so important to the Jewish people is because of what the

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prophets did there. The prophet Solomon built the temple there. The other prophets did great

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works there and teaching. And all the times that it was built at the time of the prophet David.

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Jerusalem was a place where all people, not just the children of Israel, but non-Jews, people from Persia,

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from Syria, from Arabia, they were all invited to come to Jerusalem. This is the dream of the Jewish

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people, to bring it back to the glory of the time when it was when the prophets, that it should be a city of peace.

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And the word Jerusalem means the city of peace. And in Hebrew, the shalom has the idea of bringing opposites

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together to make peace. You bring things which are opposite and you bring them together into a whole.

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And that's what the city of Jerusalem is. It's the Jewish people's dream that it should be a place of unity

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where not just the children of Israel, but all people should come and pray.

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And sometimes it's painful for us to see the Temple Mount become a place of conflict or fighting or whatever.

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It should be a place of prayer. It should be a place where all people of all nations can come.

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And like the prophet says, it should be a house of prayer for all nations.

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Even Ezekiel, who gives a vision of the third temple, the final temple which has yet to be built, envisions one where all nations will come.

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And if you look at the verses in Ezekiel, you see that everything that's built on the Temple Mount today could fit into what's there.

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There are no changes, maybe a few things can be added, but nothing has to be taken away from what exists from the Temple now

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to completely fulfill what Ezekiel is talking about.

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İnşaAllah kararlıyız. Bu yüzyılda bunu bitireceğiz, bu konu hallolacak.

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Ve bu güzelliği göreceğiz.