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" Jordan’s Islamic Holy Sites Attract Worldwide Interest "

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Jordan’s many important Christian religious sites have received worldwide recognition this year, in view of the pilgrimage by Pope John Paul II, other Jubilee Year 2000 activities and continued excavation and development of the site of Jesus’ baptism at Bethany beyond the Jordan. The many holy sites of Jordan are equally impressive for visitors and they also affirm the spirit of religious continuity and respect that defines Muslim Christian relations in Jordan and the wider Arab World. In fact, many of the Islamic holy sites in Jordan are also revered by Christians and Jew, because of the many prophets recognized by all three Abrahamic religions.

Jordan is a blessed landscape for Muslims because of events associated with two main time periods: the life and mission of the Prophet Mohammad during Islam’s formative years in the 7^th Century AD and earlier Abrahamic prophets (such as Abraham, Moses, David, Elijah, Jesus, and John the Baptist) whose lives touched the land of Jordan and whose missions are mentioned in the Bible and the Qur’an.  In fact, for Muslims the land of Jordan is the most blessed in the world after the Arabian Peninsula and Palestine  

The Prophet Mohammad passed through Jordan as a child and a young man during his caravan journeys between Mecca in Arabia and Damascus in Syria and twice met with Christian monks at Safawi and Umm Al – Rasas in Jordan Umm Al – Rasas is also identified as the place where Zeid bin Amr of Mecca heard the predication that a great prophet would arise in Mecca.  

The Prophet Mohammad also passed over the land of Jordan during his nocturnal journey to Jerusalem and to Heaven.  According to traditional commentators on the Qur’an and the life and sayings of the Prophet Mohammad, the Prophet twice mentioned Amman and the land of Jordan in comparison with Heaven: “Mohammad promises you gardens like the gardens of Al – Urdun (Jordan)”, and, “My pool (in Heaven) stretches for the distance (like that) which is between Aden and Amman of Al – Balqa.”

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