1400 years status quo: "Al-Aqsa Mosque" and “Al-Haram al-Sharif” are identical terms. They must be consistently referred to as “Al-Aqsa Mosque / Al-Haram al-Sharif”. It is the, "Mosque that God Himself, exalted be He, named “Al-Aqsa Mosque,” in the first verse of Surat Al-Isra’ (The Holy Qur’an, Al-Isra’ 17:1).