Mel#3: DOME's Inscriptions are 100s of years TOO LATE! 

This is amazing 😻 Dr. Jay and Mel, what you always do and share it had been a real headache 🤕 for many Muslims who have been fed up with lies and the power of the sword ⚔️ that keep their head down

This location must be returned to rightful owners, the Jews. Period!

Praise the Holy Spirit for leading us to the truth. God bless Mel and Dr. Jay. Never stop teaching GOD’S Word.

Absolutely brilliant! God bless you both! 🙏🏽💕

The Total lack of verifiable history would be proof that the SIN was slowly developed over many centuries.

Very good research, keep up the good work. The quest for the truth goes on and on.

Fantastic job. I love it. Thanks.

The part outside of the dome acts as flying buttresses to move the stresses [lateral forces] from the dome to the foundations on the outer perimeter.

Loud and clear !!! Logical conclusion since the inscriptions,being the shahada, which is not only the pride of Muslims but also the foundation to Islamic beliefs and claims cannot go unnoticed or ignored!!!

The Damascus mosque was a church dedicated to John the Baptist

Great Work Mel!.

Its funny how 9th century was the time Mecca made the maps seems everything Islamic starts from the 9th century, Abd al-Malik never finished the Mosque he only started it. The knight Templar's had a temple headquarters on this site which was destroyed by the Romans.

It looks to me like the octagon is essentially a ring of flying buttresses that were roofed over.

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Excellent!!!

Chinese whispers always ends up wrong, you need facts not she said he said. If 20 people change the narrative in 10min just think of 200 years!!

God bless you always 🙏 Har Har mahadev 🙏

In Keter or in Heaven, Yahweh manifests as an uncountable amount of bald golden heads with white, glowing eyes. When God manifests himself to punish sinners, Yahweh manifests himself as a huge creature with a serpent-like body from the waist down, with from the waist up He is a creature with various types of heads of various animals, looking more like a Beast of Apocalypse than a Monotheistic God. In this form, the God's appearance is entirely dark with purple accents, giving him a dark appearance, as if a God of Darkness rather than a God of Light. This was the way Yahweh used to send the Flood, with the Prediluvian inhabitants getting a glimpse of what it looked like, filled with fear and terror, feeling the wrath of God upon them.

The arcades are not window dressing - they have to be there to bear the weight of the tower, and later dome.

One think should be taken into account, the temp and heat generated by such metal ! That may crack the masonry and wood!

Also the dome for a while was converted into church!

An online article, “Hashemite Restorations of the Islamic Holy Places in Jerusalem”, mentions 1) “The First Hashemite Restoration, 1922-1924: …In 1922, a non-governmental Islamic organization, the Islamic Higher Council (IHC) was established to preserve Islamic ideals and sanctuaries alike. The IHC was the institution which took responsibility for raising capital to restore the Dome of the Rock. In harmony with his religious responsibility, Sharif Hussein contributed generously to the restoration and took personal interest in its administration. This first Hashemite restoration was completed in 1924…”; 2) “The Second Hashemite Restoration, 1952-1964: On May 8, 1952, six days after the coronation of the young King Hussein, the Jordanian government again took action towards restoring the Dome of the Rock. The 1920s restoration, a replacement of the outer wooden dome with an aluminum, gold-coated dome, was unsuccessful in stopping water leakage into the interior. The dome was also losing its exterior golden luster. The new king made the maintenance of this symbol of Islamic pride among his primary responsibilities. In 1959, the second restoration commenced, funded by Jordan...with some support from other Islamic countries...The second restoration was completed on August 6, 1964”; 3) “The Third Hashemite Restoration, 1992-1994: By the late 1980s, the dome was again beginning to dull in brightness, and damage resulting from regional violence could be seen in both the interior and exterior. King Hussein again initiated actions towards preserving the holy sites. Under his instruction, Jordan’s Ministry of Awqaf commissioned the Irish construction firm Mivan for the unprecedented job of gilding the dome with 5000 glittering new gold plates, as well as rebuilding the roof supports, repairing the basic structure of the building and fireproofing the compound. Special attention was also paid to the restoration of the Salah Eddin’s minbar and to the selection of the materials, which most closely resembled those initially used…” Seemingly, the dome may “dull in brightness” and require restoration every 3 or 4 decades.

Correct me: I thought that the inscriptions show a deviant form of the "Quranic" texts which were thought to represent an early period when the Quran was still in part fluid. If the inscriptions are much later surely they would evince a more accurate representation of the Quranic texts? I can't keep up. I thought some inscriptions were early (the inside ones) and some late. What actual dates are we now suggesting for the complete collections and their development? 10th Century 11th century 18th Century? What about the crusader suggestion that an image was found under the temple mount?

Early on you mention huge stones around the rock. I've seen an infrared aerial photograph of Temple Mount showing 4 large rectangular objects buried around the Dome of the Rock. These could be the huge stones this refers to. The quotation you use to claim that the Dome of the Rock was destroyed in an earthquake was actually about the Al-Aqsa mosque. I've heard it claimed that the dome is on bedrock and so resistant to earthquakes.

Motivations for the construction of the Dome of the Rock At the time of its construction, the Caliph was engaged in war with Christian Byzantium and its Syrian Christian allies on the one hand and with the rival caliph Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, who controlled Mecca, the annual destination of Muslim pilgrimage, on the other hand. Thus, one series of explanations was that Abd al-Malik intended for the Dome of the Rock to be a religious monument of victory over the Christians.

Did the Church of the Holy Sepulchre also suffered damages due to the earthquake? Is it possible to locate cracks within the Holy Sepulchre to back up this theory?

The dome of the Rock was completed in 694

Why world body of historians is being mute witness to allow wrong narratives to survive....great job... BTW when were diacritic marks and vowels introduced??

This is great research. If this information is correct I am totally confused and the history of Islam and their claim on the significance of Jerusalem needs to be redefined. Can anyone explain where does Surah 17:1 fit into this? that is Muhammad's flight at night from al-Masjid al-Haram to al-Masjid al- Aqsa. It sounds hopelessly fabricated.

On slide presented at 27:02 onwards, I believe it is slide 16 of the presentation, after the highlighted text it says: "The cupola of the Dome is built in three sections: the inner is of ornamental plates; next come iron beams interlaced, set in free so that the wind may not cause it to shift; ...". I am not familiar with the construction of the cupola, is that an accurate description? If the description is accurate, the construction method used, i.e. iron beams, suggests that the cupola is no earlier than from the 18th century, and likely built later than on late 18th or 19th century.

Mel, as far as I know many European kings were illiterate and so were the peasants who joined the crusades. Unlikely that they would have read Arabic inscriptions, unless they got someone to translate it for them.... assuming the inscriptions and the structure existed at the time of the crusades.

It was a PALACE BEFORE AEOUND 1000 AD AND AFTERWARDS

Is there an historical record of the earthquake that destroyed the earlier building? It seems that many buildings would have been destroyed and the event would have been noted.

It looks like the building you all have called the Christian temple had a dome. Maybe the current dome structure is a continuation of that similar structure somehow.

Where is the link for the research by A J Deuce?

The Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (Latin: Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Salomonici), also known as the Order of Solomon's Temple, the Knights Templar, or simply the Templars, was a Catholic military order, one of the most wealthy and popular of the Western Christian military orders. They were founded in 1119, headquartered on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, and existed for nearly two centuries during the Middle Ages. Officially endorsed by the Roman Catholic Church by such decrees as the papal bull Omne datum optimum of Pope Innocent II, the Templars became a favored charity throughout Christendom and grew rapidly in membership and power. Templar knights, in their distinctive white mantles with a red cross, were amongst the most skilled fighting units of the Crusades. They were prominent in Christian finance; non-combatant members of the order, who made up as much as 90% of their members,[2][3] managed a large economic infrastructure throughout Christendom.[4] They developed innovative financial techniques that were an early form of banking,[5][6] building a network of nearly 1,000 commanderies and fortifications across Europe and the Holy Land, and arguably forming the world's first multinational corporation.[7] The Templars were closely tied to the Crusades; when the Holy Land was lost, support for the order faded.[8] Rumours about the Templars' secret initiation ceremony created distrust, and King Philip IV of France, while being deeply in debt to the order, used this distrust to take advantage of the situation. In 1307, he pressured Pope Clement to have many of the order's members in France arrested, tortured into giving false confessions, and then burned at the stake.[9] Under further pressure, Pope Clement V disbanded the order in 1312.[10] The abrupt disappearance of a major part of the European infrastructure gave rise to speculation and legends, which have kept the "Templar" name alive into the present day. So if the Templar's had a headquarters on the temple mount in 1119 to 1319 how did they have a Islam Mosque on the same site. In the mid-12th century, the tide began to turn in the Crusades. The Islamic world had become more united under effective leaders such as Saladin. Dissension arose among Christian factions in and concerning the Holy Land. The Knights Templar were occasionally at odds with the two other Christian military orders, the Knights Hospitaller and the Teutonic Knights, and decades of internecine feuds weakened Christian positions, both politically and militarily. After the Templars were involved in several unsuccessful campaigns, including the pivotal Battle of Hattin, Jerusalem was recaptured by Muslim forces under Saladin in 1187. The Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II reclaimed the city for Christians in the Sixth Crusade of 1229, without Templar aid, but only held it for a little more than a decade. In 1244, the Ayyubid dynasty together with Khwarezmi mercenaries recaptured Jerusalem, and the city did not return to Western control until 1917 when, during World War I, the British captured it from the Ottoman Empire.[24] The Templars were forced to relocate their headquarters to other cities in the north, such as the seaport of Acre, which they held for the next century. It was lost in 1291, followed by their last mainland strongholds, Tortosa (Tartus in what is now Syria) and Atlit in present-day Israel. Their headquarters then moved to Limassol on the island of Cyprus,[25] and they also attempted to maintain a garrison on tiny Arwad Island, just off the coast from Tortosa. In 1300, there was some attempt to engage in coordinated military efforts with the Mongols[26] via a new invasion force at Arwad. In 1302 or 1303, however, the Templars lost the island to the Egyptian Mamluk Sultanate in the siege of Arwad. With the island gone, the Crusaders lost their last foothold in the Holy Land.[27] With the order's military mission now less important, support for the organization began to dwindle. The situation was complex, however, since during the two hundred years of their existence, the Templars had become a part of daily life throughout Christendom.[28] The organisation's Templar Houses, hundreds of which were dotted throughout Europe and the Near East, gave them a widespread presence at the local level.[3] The Templars still managed many businesses, and many Europeans had daily contact with the Templar network, such as by working at a Templar farm or vineyard, or using the order as a bank in which to store personal valuables. The order was still not subject to local government, making it everywhere a "state within a state" - its standing army, though it no longer had a well-defined mission, could pass freely through all borders. This situation heightened tensions with some European nobility, especially as the Templars were indicating an interest in founding their own monastic state, just as the Teutonic Knights had done in Prussia[21] and the Knights Hospitaller were doing in Rhodes.[

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The Dome of the Rock was designed and built during the caliphate of Abd al-Malik, the 5th Umayyad caliph of Islam (685-705 ad), and its construction was completed in 692 ad under the supervision of Raja ibn Haywa and Yazid ibn Sallam who are thought to have been in financial and administrative control. Research shows that the former, from Beysan in Palestine and originally of the Kinda tribe of Yemen, worked as a treasurer and special assistant of Abd al Malik and also as advisor to two later caliphs, Sulayman (715-717 ad) and Umar II (717-720 ad). He was a renowned Tabi’, i.e., a scholar of the generation that followed the companions of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) known as Sahaba, a transmitter of hadith (the traditions of the Prophet) and was trustfully quoted by the later scholars (Ibn Asakir 1995, 359). In keeping with the tradition of the Sahaba’s contribution in the design of mosques of that period, it is likely that Raja ibn Haywa was also involved in the design of the Dome of the Rock. Yazid ibn Sallam was a local Jerusalemite. The religion of Islam introduced to the world of architecture a new type of building - the mosque - the basic plan of which was standardised by the time of the Dome of the Rock’s construction. Evolving from the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah (632 ad) typically it was a square or a rectangular building with an inner courtyard, the covered area towards the qibla (the direction to face for prayer) side being the main prayer hall, with narrow porticoes (riwaqs) on the other three sides. In the very earliest phase of Islam, all the mosques and other public buildings were very simple, made of sun-dried mud bricks and timber, providing the basic functional needs that satisfied the religious guideline for the practice of modesty in all aspects of life. Minor enlargements to the mosques were made during the rule of the pious caliphs (632-661 ad) who followed the Prophet to cater for the growing size of congregation. However, major extension to or reconstruction of the mosques with more durable and expensive materials began in the early Umayyad period - Basra 665 ad, Kufa 670 ad and Fustat 673 ad - and the mosque of Kufa was now 100 m (E-W) × 150 m (N-S) in plan built with stone columns specially cut from the mountain of Ahwaz, and its prayer hall was 16.2 m high with riwaqs surrounding the other three sides of the courtyard (Tabari, 4/46). These were the earliest examples of Umayyad attempts at the symbolic expression of the presence of Islam in a visually perceptible form. The only extant building of the period, the Dome of the Rock, which is ‘in all probability the first Islamic monument that was meant to be a major aesthetic achievement’ (Ettinghausen 1987, 28), significantly departed from the expression of modesty to that of ostentation and unlike the character of the earliest Islamic buildings, intended to be a prominent visual attraction. As it was not a mosque, a palace or a mausoleum, several hypotheses have been put forward over the years as to why Abd al-Malik built the Dome of the Rock why was it built? One of the reasons given for building this monument, conveniently linked with the historical accounts of the time, was initiated by the Shi’i historian Yaqubi in 874 ad. Abd al-Malik’s provincial governor for the region of Makkah and Madinah, Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr, considered himself independent and defied the authority of the Umayyad caliph based in the capital city of Damascus. To dissuade people from travelling to Makkah for Hajj, the annual event of Muslim pilgrimage, Abd al-Malik is said to have built the Dome of the Rock. The intention was to create an object of piety as an alternative to the holy Ka’ba in Makkah, a cubical structure which is circumambulated as a liturgical requirement for the Hajj. The element of piety for the new monument would have been provided by a number of traditions about the city of Jerusalem, the platform itself and the ‘rock’ lying at its centre. However, many scholars have refuted this reasoning and, according to a recent author, ‘When Abd al-Malik ordered the Dome of the Rock, Mecca was still in the hands of Abdullah ibn al-Zubayr, but it is unlikely that he intended it as a counter-Ka’ba, for such an act would have been anathema to a pious person like Abd al-Malik who had re-issued the standardised Uthmanic text of the Qur’an and pilgrimage continued throughout Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr’s occupation’ (Blair 1992, 84-85). After a century of Yaqubi’s record about Abd al-Malik’s supposed order forbidding pilgrimage to Makkah, the writings of the 10th century Jerusalemite scholar Muqaddasi (1892, 22-23) form the basis of a different reason for the building of the Dome of the Rock. According to him, the importance of the ‘rock’ or the platform was secondary to the desire of offsetting the influence of architecture in Syria, ‘a country that had long been occupied by the Christians’, of ‘churches still belonging to them, so enchantingly fair; so renowned for their splendour’, and ‘. . . Khalif Abd al Malik, noting the greatness of the dome of the Kumamah (the Church of the Holy Sepulchre) and its magnificence, was moved lest it should dazzle the minds of the Muslims, and hence erected above the Rock, the Dome which is now seen there’. Other reasons given for the building of this monument include (1) www.researchgate.net/publication/233604991_The_Dome_of_the_Rock_Origin_of_its_Octagonal_Plan

A powerpoint should never have more than four lines of text, more than that and the audience tunes out. Also, never read a powerpoint out loud.

How many videos did Mel make on the Dome of the Rock? AND ALL ARE DIFFERENT...HA HA HA Changing his theories and contradicting himself. THE QURAN IS CORRECT when it says that the Xtians will only follow conjecture.

Why Mel keep on saying Abdul al Malik. And not Abd al Malik 😀😃🙂

Mel makes a complete fool out of himself. The dome of the Rock inscriptions are in the Umayed script.

Why aren’t one of you contact someone in Istanbul and ask to search the Ottoman archives. Entire history of Islam is there. Then you wouldn’t need to speculate that much. When Ottomans left Jerusalem and Mecca, they brought everything notable to Istanbul.

Syriac church

The Israelis should dismantle that dome and donate it to Saudi Arabia.

The Dome of the Rock was erected by the Muslim ruler Abd el-Malik in 688-691. This shrine was covered by a lead dome from 691 until it was replaced with a gold-colored covering in the early 1960s. Because of rust, the anodized aluminum cover was again replaced in 1993 with a gold covering. Founding Inscription Inside the building in classical Arabic is inscribed, “O you People of the Book, overstep not bounds in your religion, and of God speak only the truth. The Messiah, Jesus, son of Mary, is only an apostle of God, and his Word which he conveyed unto Mary, and a Spirit proceeding from him. Believe therefore in God and his apostles, and say not Three. It will be better for you. God is only one God. Far be it from his glory that he should have a son.”

just wasting ur time on doom of rock it has nothing to do with islam islam is QURAN and holy places of islam r Makkah and Madina

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