The former Grand Mufti of Egypt, Ali Gomaa, published on his official Facebook page, a post in which he asserted that the Ottomans, especially during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, stood “throughout their rule before the ambitions of the Jews and their repeated attempts to immigrate to Jerusalem.”
The former Grand Mufti of Egypt, Ali Gomaa, defended the Ottomans regarding their position on protecting Jerusalem from settlement ambitions, stressing that the Ottomans stood “throughout their rule before the ambitions of the Jews and their repeated attempts to immigrate to Jerusalem.”
In a post on his official Facebook page, Gomaa added that “the sympathy of the Ottomans with the Jews who survived the Spanish massacres” made them open before “the whole country, except for Mecca, Medina, and Al-Quds Al-Sharif.”
Juma’a pointed out that “the ambitions of the Jews” in Jerusalem appeared early in 1665 “at the hands of a Turkish Jew named Shabtai Tasfi, who began to collect and organize the Jews and alert them to emigrate to Palestine,” stressing that the Ottoman authorities at the time ordered the elimination of this movement. He ordered his followers to pretend Islam and work secretly to achieve their malicious goals.
The former Egyptian Mufti pointed out that many years later, because of the “Ottoman Empire’s fear of the city of Jerusalem falling under the control of the Jews. Laws relating to Jerusalem and Jewish immigration were issued by the Sublime Porte in 1882 AD, and their content was that the Jew was not allowed to enter Palestine except in one case which is the pilgrimage and the holy visit for a maximum period of three months.
He continued: “The Jews were pressured in various ways. Herzl, the president of the Zionist Society, met with Sultan Abdul Hamid to persuaded him to allow Jewish immigration to Jerusalem in return for huge sums that the Jews paid to the Sultan and the state; However, Herzl’s attempts did not succeed.. These demands did not see the light (until after) Sultan Abdul Hamid was deposed.”
Juma’a described Sultan Abdul Hamid II as “the man who stood as an impenetrable dam in the face of Jewish ambitions,” and that his removal was an event that brought pleasure and joy to the Jews at that time, and Jewish immigration began to flow into Jerusalem and other parts of Palestine.”
Juma concluded his publication by saying: “I am certain that the God Almighty will restore to the Muslims their renaissance and resurrect this age covenant to be a beacon to us when our honorable Jerusalem returns to us with love, harmony, security, and peace for the whole world.”
These remarkable statements from Sheikh Jumaa come after other statements in which he attacked the Kharijites of the Wahhabi era, as he said that the honorable Al-Azhar doctrine was and still is Sunni and Ash’ari, exalted to God Almighty. And they both (Al Azhar) are the same as Muslims, not a that of what news believe, and they both say that God is not biased in the sky and is not seated on the throne, rather than God Almighty does not need any creature to create him and that God Almighty exists forever and ever without a place.
