According to Saied
Shoaaib, “there is a consensus of interpretation among the most respected
Sunni and Shiite Muslim scholars of past centuries -- such as Al-Tabari, Al-Qurtubi, Ibn Kathir, Ibn Abi Zayd, Mahmud
al-Alusi, Al-Baghawi -- that, according to the Quran, God gave
to the Jews the land from the Nile to the Euphrates, territory that includes
not only Jerusalem and Palestine, but a large part of Egypt and Iraq, and all
of Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.”
Later Shoaaib states,
The reason this is relevant today is that it exposes the hypocrisy of those radical Muslims who claim to believe in and adhere to the letter of the Quran, yet use the claim that Palestine and Jerusalem are Islamic for political purposes and propaganda.
This is not to say that because the land of Israel was a divine gift to the Jews, they therefore have all rights to it. On the contrary, no future peace between Israelis and Palestinians, both of whom reside there, will or should be determined by scripture. This proclamation, however, is as good a reason as any to stop misquoting it.
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