Bab Al Tawba & Al Rahma Gate
Landmark Location:
Located 200 meters south of the Asbat Gate in the eastern wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque present as a part of the eastern wall
of the old town.
Landmark Location relative to Dome of the rock:
East Dome of the Rock.
Landmark History:
One of the oldest Gates of Al-Aqsa Mosque, where it dates back to the Umayyad period in terms of elements architectural and artistic.
Reason of the name:
On the authority of Abu al-Awam, the muezzin of Bayt al-Maqdis said: I heard Abdullah bin Amr ibn al-Aas say: It is The fence mentioned by God in the Qur’an (the day the hypocrites and the opponents say to those who believe see us quote from your light is said, Return behind you, and seek light, and strike Among them is a wall with an inner Gate where mercy is and the phenomenon before him torment) is the eastern wall; inside the mosque and the phenomenon of the Valley of Hell.
Builder Name:
Said during the reign of Abdul Malik bin Marwan.
Details of the shape:
-Great closed Gate.
-The height of 11.5 meter.
-Walk down to him a long way from inside the maximum.
-The Gate shall consist of two gates: Al Rhma to the south and Al Twba to the north.
-Double Gate topped by two archways leading to a hall covered with contracts based on arches above huge Corinthian columns.
Additional Information about the landmark:
-Graveyard on both sides of the Gate from the outside in the name of the cemetery of Al Rahma (including my grave Sahaabeen Shaddad ibn Aws and Obada bin samet, may Allah be pleased with them).
-The Christians believe about the Gate they believe that Jesus entered this Gate on Easter that Heraclius entered it of Jerusalem after his victory over the Persians, and they called it the Golden Gate, which is the wrong translation of his name in Greek, which means beautiful Gate.
The Gate throughout the Ages:
The Crusader Occupation:
The Gate was opened twice only in memory of the entry of Jesus Hercules of the city (Feast of the Cross).
Early Islamic Period:
Use the building located inside the Gate on the side of the Al-Aqsa Mosque hall for prayer, according to the historian Mujir al-Din al-Hanbali, Imam al-Ghazali (may Allaah have mercy on him) in 489 AH (1.98 AD) worship in the Nasiriya school, which is higher than the Bab Al Rhma , and he was studying in Al-Aqsa Mosque and in his absence above Bab Al Rhma wrote part of his valuable book (revival of the sciences of religion).
The modern era:
The Islamic Heritage Committee has established the Gate and its floor, taken the place for religious activities within the mosque since 1992, the occupation authorities have suspended the Commission in 2003.
The Zionist claim about the Gate:
They claim that Bab Al Rhma and Al Twba is a Jewish heritage, and that it is considered one of the gates of the alleged temple.
In the 1967 war, the Zionist war minister (Moshe Dayan) attempted to open the Gate but failed.
An attempt made breaking it, which foiled in 2002 when a Zionist tried to open an adjacent tomb to the Gate from the outside, and dig a tunnel reach to Al-Aqsa Mosque.
When will the Gate close? And why?!
First Opinion:
The closure of the Gate by the Sultan Salah al-Din after the liberation of Jerusalem on 27–7-583 H / 2-10-1187AD in order to protect the city and the mosque from any possible invasion, and perhaps the goal of Salah al din economic and not militarily by pushing Who wants to visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque to enter the gates of city leading to the markets, getting exchange and benefit rather than direct access to the mosque yet visit the graves of companions buried near the Gate ..
Second opinion:
Historians attribute the closure of the Ottoman Gate because of the legend among the people that was then the Frankest hey will return to occupy Jerusalem through this section.
Third opinion:
-The old Gate closed and it was in two stages.
-In the early Islamic period (Abbasid or Fatimid), armored gates were closed lasting where it is inside the Gate to a chapel (for a religious purpose, which is the embodiment of the verse of Al-Hadid mentioned Formerly); where the Gate of the exits of the outside with iron sheets as a metaphor of the dark, while the interior of the shiny brass sheet is called light the Jerusalemite historian (379 AH-990M).
-Closing the Gate to prevent the Valley of Hell from outside the Gate and the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the gates remained closed until then Ottoman period where it was decided to completely block the stone in an attempt to get rid of the rumor that the Franks will return from that Gate.
As a result of analysis of historical accounts:
The third opinion is the opinion closest to the right.
Where the oldest mention of the Gate we discover the description of the traveler Nasir Khusrawa 438 AH / 1047 AD to Bab Al Rhma: “Once upon a time, they were a mosque, decorated with carpets, the vestibule (room The Gate) became a chapel after its carpet, and no longer, corridor leads, out of the mosque. But closing the Gate in the first stage like the Gate close to Nirvana (brother of the chain Gate), where it was the closure of the wooden Gate without the use of stones and testifies to that description Majir al-Din (900 AH /1495 CE) by saying: They are now illegal “That is, the wooden gates were offset, while he says about the old funeral Gate & quote; a cute brick Gate & quote; If Bab Al Rahma was blocked by building the time of the glorious religion to mention it.
It is also common to say that Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi is the one who closes the Gate is a statement that has no evidence or proof The ancient historians did not say it, For example, Mujir al-Din al-Hanbali said that he was told by an old man the ancients that closed Bab Al Rahma and AL Tawba is the Khalifa Omar ibn al-KHettab!
Important note:
Between Majir al-Din and Salah al-Din less than 300 years, and if Salah adin is the one who closed them this came to the knowledge of those who told Mujair al-Din, but because the closure was too old the order was attributed to Khalifa Omar ibn al-KHettab (although this is not true).
An Overview of the Landmark:
It’s a great closed Gate, Located 200 meters south of the Asbat Gate in the eastern wall of the Al-Aqsa Mosque present as a part of the eastern wall of the old town, east Dome of the Rock. It said during the reign of Abdul Malik bin Marwan. The height of it 11.5 meter. Walk down to him a long way from inside the maximum. The Gate shall consist of two gates: Al Rhma to the south and Al Twba to the north. Double Gate topped by two archways leading to a hall covered with contracts based on arches above huge Corinthian columns.
On the authority of Abu al-Awam, the muezzin of Bayt al-Maqdis said: I heard Abdullah bin Amr ibn al-Aas say: It is The fence mentioned by God in the Qur’an (the day the hypocrites and the opponents say to those who believe see us quote from your light is said, Return behind you, and seek light, and strike Among them is a wall with an inner Gate where mercy is and the phenomenon before him torment) is the eastern wall; inside the mosque and the phenomenon of the Valley of Hell.
Graveyard on both sides of the Gate from the outside in the name of the cemetery of Al Rahma (including my grave Sahaabeen Shaddad ibn Aws and Obada bin samet, may Allah be pleased with them).
-The Christians believe about the Gate they believe that Jesus entered this Gate on Easter that Heraclius entered it of Jerusalem after his victory over the Persians, and they called it the Golden Gate, which is the wrong translation of his name in Greek, which means beautiful Gate.
The Gate throughout the Ages:
The Crusader Occupation:
The Gate was opened twice only in memory of the entry of Jesus Hercules of the city (Feast of the Cross).
Early Islamic Period:
Use the building located inside the Gate on the side of the Al-Aqsa Mosque hall for prayer, according to the historian Mujir al-Din al-Hanbali, Imam al-Ghazali (may Allaah have mercy on him) in 489 AH (1.98 AD) worship in the Nasiriya school, which is higher than the Bab Al Rhma , and he was studying in Al-Aqsa Mosque and in his absence above Bab Al Rhma wrote part of his valuable book (revival of the sciences of religion).
The modern era:
The Islamic Heritage Committee has established the Gate and its floor, taken the place for religious activities within the mosque since 1992, the occupation authorities have suspended the Commission in 2003.
The Zionist claim about the Gate:
They claim that Bab Al Rhma and Al Twba is a Jewish heritage, and that it is considered one of the gates of the alleged temple.
In the 1967 war, the Zionist war minister (Moshe Dayan) attempted to open the Gate but failed.
An attempt made breaking it, which foiled in 2002 when a Zionist tried to open an adjacent tomb to the Gate from the outside, and dig a tunnel reach to Al-Aqsa Mosque.
When will the Gate close? And why?!
First Opinion:
The closure of the Gate by the Sultan Salah al-Din after the liberation of Jerusalem on 27-7-583 H / 2-10-1187AD in order to protect the city and the mosque from any possible invasion, and perhaps the goal of Salah al din economic and not militarily by pushing Who wants to visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque to enter the gates of city leading to the markets, getting exchange and benefit rather than direct access to the mosque yet visit the graves of companions buried near the Gate ..
Second opinion:
Historians attribute the closure of the Ottoman Gate because of the legend among the people that was then the Frankest hey will return to occupy Jerusalem through this section.
Third opinion:
-The old Gate closed and it was in two stages.
-In the early Islamic period (Abbasid or Fatimid), armored gates were closed lasting where it is inside the Gate to a chapel (for a religious purpose, which is the embodiment of the verse of Al-Hadid mentioned Formerly); where the Gate of the exits of the outside with iron sheets as a metaphor of the dark, while the interior of the shiny brass sheet is called light the Jerusalemite historian (379 AH-990M).
-Closing the Gate to prevent the Valley of Hell from outside the Gate and the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the gates remained closed until then Ottoman period where it was decided to completely block the stone in an attempt to get rid of the rumor that the Franks will return from that Gate.
As a result of analysis of historical accounts:
The third opinion is the opinion closest to the right.
Where the oldest mention of the Gate we discover the description of the traveler Nasir Khusrawa 438 AH / 1047 AD to Bab Al Rhma: “Once upon a time, they were a mosque, decorated with carpets, the vestibule (room The Gate) became a chapel after its carpet, and no longer, corridor leads, out of the mosque. But closing the Gate in the first stage like the Gate close to Nirvana (brother of the chain Gate), where it was the closure of the wooden Gate without the use of stones and testifies to that description Majir al-Din (900 AH /1495 CE) by saying: They are now illegal “That is, the wooden gates were offset, while he says about the old funeral Gate &; a cute brick Gate & quote; If Bab Al Rahma was blocked by building the time of the glorious religion to mention it.
It is also common to say that Salah al-Din al-Ayyubi is the one who closes the Gate is a statement that has no evidence or proof The ancient historians did not say it, For example, Mujir al-Din al-Hanbali said that he was told by an old man the ancients that closed Bab Al Rahma and AL Tawba is the Khalifa Omar ibn al-KHettab!
Between Majir al-Din and Salah al-Din less than 300 years, and if Salah adin is the one who closed them this came to the knowledge of those who told Mujair al-Din, but because the closure was too old the order was attributed to Khalifa Omar ibn al-KHettab (although this is not true).
