Kitab-i-Aqdas/Elder85/Note3

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The Jews faced Jerusalem in prayer, and at first Muhammad in imitation of them led his followers in their worship facing Jerusalem. Later he made Mecca the prayer direction (cf. Enc. of Islam, ii, 985 ff., Wensinck, op. cit., p.125). Baha'u'llah says that God made Jerusalem the centre in order that men might there remember him (Baha'u'llah).

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