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The Promised Land in the Quran | About Islam
October 19, 2024 - As for claiming that the Jews have a right to take Palestine as their promised land, we will say that the verse that reads, “Go into the holy land which Allah has ordained for you.” (Al-Ma`idah 5:21) means that the promise stands so long ...
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Does the Quran Acknowledge Israel as a Jewish Land?
July 31, 2025 - One of the clearest Quranic ... Land which Allah has assigned to you and do not turn back or you will be losers” (The Quran, 5:21)....
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The Koran says Israel is for the jews.
I don't care which fancy book says what, I don't care who has the historical right to the region, I don't whose great great great great great grandfather took the first shit in the Holy Land. It's completely irrelevant. The fact is neither Israel nor Palestine will be leaving, no matter who has the right to be there. They will be neighbours for life. Until the day WW3 bathes the region in nuclear hellfire, Israel and Palestine will be sitting right next to each other. Are the words of a book going to chase the other guy out? Is "historical right" going to make the other guy magically disappear? No? Then suck it up, and learn to get along. More on reddit.com
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Recently I was talking to a Jewish friend about which religion has more claim to Palestine. He was claiming that Jews do, since Jews come from Judea (an area in Palestine) and it was called this fo... More on islam.stackexchange.com
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What does the Quran say about the state of Israel?
65 votes, 127 comments. In the Quran, chapters 5:20 and 17:104, it seems to support the idea that Allah gave the promised land to the Jews. As an… More on reddit.com
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In the holy Quran, the land of Israel is promised to the Jews - discussion
In general you shouldn't rip quotes out of people's Scripture and use it against them. It's a cheap, lame tactic so no wonder that a nut like Bennett would use it. For example, Leviticus states that gays should be stoned to death. Which they aren't in Israel. Thus, using the same dumb logic as Bennett, we conclude that all Israeli Jews are hypocrites and not following their own religion! My point is that to understand what those verses mean, you have to ask Muslims and Islamic scholars. More on reddit.com
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Fall 2009 The Qur'an: Israel Is Not for the Jews: Claims to the Holy Land
has not recognized and will never recognize Jewish rights to this territory. In a second essay, Muhammad · Al-Hussaini, a Muslim scholar, understands the text of the Qur'an to award the Holy Land to the Jews for
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The Temple Mount
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The Qur'an and the Land of Israel
Moreover - and those who try to use Islam as a weapon against Israel always conveniently ignore this point - the Holy Qur'an explicitly refers to the return of the Jews to the Land of Israel before the Last Judgment - where it says: "And thereafter We [Allah] said to the Children of Israel: ...
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The Times of Israel
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The Blogs: The Quran Declared the Promised Land Belongs to Bani Israel 1,400 Years Ago | Tanveer Zamani | The Times of Israel
December 24, 2025 - Accordingly, the Quran affirms the Holy Land—including Jerusalem—as belonging to Bani Israel, and it leaves no scriptural basis for assigning or sharing this land with any other people on religious grounds.
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The Blogs: Zionist Quran: Allah Chose the Children of Israel Over All Nations | Micah Ben David Naziri | The Times of Israel
April 25, 2025 - The Qur’an can lay open right in front of them, and you can orate to them just as Muhammad did – in “clear Arabic” – the ayat which attest to the fact that the Qur’an calls the Land of Israel the “Holy Land” and claims Allah assigned it to the Jewish People.
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November 28, 2023 -
  1. Surah Al-Ma’idah (5:20-21): “And [mention, O Muhammad], when Moses said to his people, ‘O my people, remember the favor of Allah upon you when He appointed among you prophets and made you possessors and gave you that which He had not given anyone among the worlds. O my people, enter the Holy Land which Allah has assigned to you and do not turn back [from fighting in Allah’s cause] and [thus] become losers.’”

    2. Surah Al-A’raf (7:137): “And We caused the people who had been oppressed to inherit the eastern regions of the land and the western ones, which We had blessed. And the good word of your Lord was fulfilled for the Children of Israel because of what they had patiently endured. And We destroyed [all] that Pharaoh and his people were producing and what they had been building.”

    3. Surah Al-Isra (17:104): “And We said after Pharaoh to the Children of Israel, ‘Dwell in the land, and when there comes the promise of the Hereafter, We will bring you forth in [one] gathering.’”

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The Qur'an's Covenant with the Jewish People - Middle East Forum
September 29, 2009 - O my people, enter the Holy Land which God has prescribed for you, and turn not back in your traces, to turn about losers. [ya qawmi udkhulu’l-ar d al-muqaddasa allati kataba’llah lakum wa la tartadu ' ala ‘adbarikum fatanqalibu khasirina.][2] Islamic commentators simultaneously disdain and revere the Jewish roots of Islam; still some Muslim interpreters unambiguously understand the sacred territory as an Israelite inheritance through Islamic law.
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(Therefore it is forbidden to them for forty years; in distraction they will wander through the land.) When Musa supplicated against the Jews for refusing to fight in Jihad, Allah forbade them from entering the land for forty years.
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Quran: God gave Holy Land to Jews
According to the Quran, God gave the Holy Land to the Israelites (or the Children of Israel). This is mentioned in Surah Al-Ma'idah (5:21), where God tells the Israelites to enter the Holy Land which He has ordained for them · The Quranic verses, particularly Surah Al-Ma'idah (5:21-23), describe ...
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Quora
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It is written in the Quran that the Land of Israel belongs to the Jews, so why do the Palestinians deny it? - Quora
Answer (1 of 21): The status and ownership of the land known as Israel/Palestine is not a complex and contentious issue. It is clear, Palestinians claim the land which doesn't belong to them. In 1948 Israelites didn't have any plans to chase the Arab muslims away from Palestina/Israel but during ...
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The Koran in 5:20-21 says that Allah gave the Holy Land (Israel) to the Jews. How is it that Muslims don't know this? - Quora
Answer (1 of 19): How is it that Muslims don't know this? Very simple friend. They are being political, but the root of this all, is all about Islamic PRIDE - they throw Islamic allah under the bus in exchange by supporting Hamas & the PLO. (No offense) Many Muslims don’t apply proper logic, wh...
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Tablet Magazine
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Allah Is a Zionist - Tablet Magazine
March 18, 2010 - Far from negating the historical ... the building of Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem and supports the Biblical claim that the land of Israel was given to the Jews by God....
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What does the Quran say about Israel and Palestine?
January 1, 2026 - The Roman hordes under Titus attacked ... second time (Encyclopedia Biblica & Jewish Encyclopedia under ‘Jerusalem’). To this double disaster of the Israelites verses 17:5-8 of the Quran make a pointed reference.
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Does the Quran say that the land of Israel is for the Jews? - Quora
Answer (1 of 25): Yes it does , The Quran states the Holy Land belongs to Israel. Surah 5:20-26 And ˹remember˺ when Moses said to his people, “O my people! Remember Allah’s favours upon you when He raised prophets from among you, made ...
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As the other respondents have mentioned, the land of Palestine is not mentioned by this name in the Qur'an. At the time of the Roman Empire it formed the “Provincia Palaestina”. In early Islamic times it was called Jund Filasṭīn, that is “the (army) encampment of Palestine”, but soon it became part of the province of Shām (Greater Syria), and it remained thus until the First World War (with a brief interruption as the Crusader “Kingdom of Jerusalem”). After the First World War it became the British-ruled “Palestine Mandate”, reviving the name used in Roman Empire. The modern Palestinian movement has retained this name from the time of the British Protectorate.

The city of Jerusalem (not Palestine as a whole) is called Bayt al-Maqdis (House of the Sanctuary) in Classical Arabic. The shorter form al-Quds is modern.

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The Quran never mentions Palestine. The Quran calls it the Holy Land when speaking about the Jews:

Quran 5:21

يَا قَوْمِ ادْخُلُوا الْأَرْضَ الْمُقَدَّسَةَ الَّتِي كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَكُمْ وَلَا تَرْتَدُّوا عَلَىٰ أَدْبَارِكُمْ فَتَنقَلِبُوا خَاسِرِينَ

Oh my people! Enter the holy land which Allah has written to you, and do not turn back ignominiously, for then will ye be overthrown, to your own ruin.

The Arabic word of Palestine comes from the Biblical word Philistines, which originates from the Hebrew term Pelistim.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philistines

Arabs have always called that land in that area Alquds Jerusalem in respect of the Masjid Alaqsa. It wasn't until 80's that it was officially called Palestine by the PLO.

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Tafsir Surah Al-Baqarah - 58 - Quran.com
Allah admonished the Jews for avoiding Jihad and not entering the holy land as they had been ordered to do when they came from Egypt with Musa. They were also commanded to fight the disbelieving `Amaliq (Canaanites) dwelling in the holy land ...
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r/IsraelPalestine on Reddit: In the holy Quran, the land of Israel is promised to the Jews - discussion
July 30, 2020 -

I personally don't believe in religious justifications for modern day situations, and I'm also not a Muslim.

This idea is getting somewhat popular within right wing Israelis, and was even posted on MK Naftali Bennett's Facebook page. I would love to hear peoples' opinions and takes on this, Muslims and non-muslims alike.

I couldn't find the original but here's a copy of the post, translated (by me):


"Quotes from the Quran that show that the land (of Israel) belongs to the people of israel...

Beforehand, it should be mentioned that Jerusalem, "el-quds", isn't mentioned in the Quran once... Masjid "el-aqsa" = "the Extreme", the furthest away. Muslim scholars believe this place to be in the heavens and not on earth Also the word Palestine doesn't appear once in the Quran el kareem (originaly written like this)

And now for the quotes: 5:21 - Moses: "oh my people, enter this holy land which Allah has assigned for you" (https://quran.com/5/21-31) 10:93 - "And We had certainty settled the Children of Israel in an agreeable settlement and provided them with good things" (https://quran.com/10/93-103 17:104 - "And We said after Pharaoh to the Children of Israel, "Dwell in the land, and when there comes the promise of the Hereafter, We will bring you forth in [one] gathering" (https://quran.com/17/104)

And now in Hebrew (I'll skip this part, same but in hebrew)

Muslim scholars who know these verses, and other verses that show that the land of Israel belongs to the Jews, are relying on the fact that most Muslims don't read the Quran.

More surprises in the Quran that show that (the land of) Israel belongs to the children of Israel - on the matter of "el-aqsa" = "the most furthest away", notice the interpretation of Ibn Kathir in the "tafsir". He says that el-aqsa, that was mentioned in the Mohammed's nightly voyage, is a place in the heavens and not on earth. Aisha, Mohammed's wife, swore that all night Mohammed didn't leave his bed.

Another proof that it (el-aqsa) isn't Jerusalem, aside from not being mentioned in the Quran once, is that when the Quran was written, Jerusalem wasn't under Islamic rule."


Sorry for any mistakes in translation. Controversial title I know, hope this won't create a shitstorm. Would love to hear your thoughts about this. Will add in a second a photo of the original post.

Edit: the post in Hebrew https://ibb.co/hBnRz8L Edit2: the --- on the top and bottom

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Middle East Forum
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The Qur'an: Israel Is Not for the Jews - Middle East Forum
September 16, 2009 - The Land of Israel] has been given by God to the Jewish people as a perpetual convenant [sic]. There is no Islamic counterclaim to the Land anywhere in the traditional corpus of commentary.”[3]