Where Is the Holy of Holies - the Ark of the Covenant - Kept?

 (Translated into English with the help of ChatGPT)

One of the most mysterious structures of the ancient world is the golden tower, 62 meters high, erected by the prophet-king Solomon. Its location has never been found. According to historical sources, it was precisely in this tower that the Ark of the Covenant — the tabut as-Sakina, containing the original Torah — was kept. For the Jews, this Ark is considered the most sacred relic connected directly with God. In this article, we will attempt to clarify where it is located. To understand the nature of these relics, we will also decode related symbols through the logic of the primordial language of humanity — the language “safa”, mentioned in the Torah and later known as Sufism. The Qur’an calls it “the language of the birds,” mastered by King Solomon.

According to the famous letter of Hasdai son of Ezra — the son of Aharon, king of Togarmah — written to Joseph, king of Khazaria and head of the scholarly council, “the tent containing the Presence of God” was created in the region of Ardabil, and the sacred objects — the Ark, the lampstand, the table, the altar, and the vessels — remain there to this day. Therefore, according to the Khazar king, the holy relics are hidden near the ancient Azerbaijani city of Ardabil.

It is known that these lands were inhabited since antiquity by the Turkic Azeri — those whom we call pir, bek, seyid, shykh, etc. Sources identify these Turks with the tribe Kadus, known to Muslims and Jews as the people of Quddus (Egdes), Kodash — meaning “the holy ones.” In Arabic sources, these Shiite saints are called batinids — those who know the hidden, inner meaning of the Qur’an and other sacred scriptures. In Sufism, those who possess the inner meaning are considered the chosen ones, and according to the Qur’an, God created no veil between them and Himself. Therefore, the Ark of the Covenant must be located on the land of the Khazar Turks — the keepers of ancient divine mysteries.

The Jewish book Talmud states that the House of God built by Solomon stands on the land of Moriah. It was here that Abraham bound the hands of Isaac; here Noah, after descending from the Ark, offered a sacrifice; here Adam, after being created, presented his first offering — and was himself created from this very soil (Talmud, Vol. V, St. Petersburg, 1903, p. 3).

It is known that Noah’s Ark came to rest on Mount Ararat — “Agry Dagh” — and the “land of Moriah” was understood as the land of the Medes — the mar/amorreans. In Islam, the mar/amorrean symbol appears as “amir”, and according to Shiite esotericism, these people were created by God’s command and ruled by Him. This is the lineage of the Prophet Muhammad, and even today, their names carry the symbol “mir” — meaning mar, amorrean.

The name of Solomon’s Temple — Qudus (Kudüs) — signifies that the House of God belongs to the Kadus/Quddus — the holy ones of Media (Madyam). In Sufism, every consonant carries symbolic meaning, and the letters K-D-S in both Qudus and Kadus share the same sacred essence.

The renowned English scholar Arthur Koestler, in his groundbreaking book The Thirteenth Tribe (USA, 1976), provides dozens of proofs that the Jews did not originate from the lands of modern Jordan, but from the Caucasus — the homeland of the Aryans. According to Arabic sources, the true Jews were the Khazar khagan and his Turkic beks. In Kitab-ı Dede Korkut, these Turkic beks are called “Erenlerin Evrəni,” “Adəmilər Evrəni” — meaning “the Jews of the Eren,” “the Jews of Adam.” In this epic, the eren-beks proudly declare: “Dünya mənimdir” — “The world is mine,” meaning that they are the masters of the world.

Thus, the Ark of the Covenant — the holy relics of the Turkic erens — must be located on the land of Azerbaijan.

According to historical sources, the city of Qudus was built from gold and silver with the help of the jinn. This indicates that the House of God is identical to the city of Irem dhat al-Imad, constructed by the son of Adam — Shaddad — from gold and silver. According to the book of the Yemeni “mad poet” Abdul Hazret, El-Azif (The Secret of the Necronomicon), the city of Irem dhat al-Imad — “the city of pillars” — was raised by the jinn, whom the Jews call Nephilim (i.e., giants). This city was created not in the physical realm, but in another dimension — “within the celestial plane.” Therefore, in Jewish sources, the city of Qudus is called the Heavenly Jerusalem, which indicates that the House of God was formed in the heavens. After its restoration, the city was given the name Ilya, which in Sufism corresponds to the symbol El — meaning that Qudus is the Heavenly world (El) of God.

In the Qur’an (89:7), the symbol of Irem is called “the city of pillars, the like of which was never created in the worlds.” However, in ancient Egyptian sources, the term “city of pillars” refers to Heliopolis — the solar city of Egypt, known as Hel, Iunu, Nu, or Annu. According to the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the god Ptah, who emerged from the city of Hel, is still alive, and it is here that the body of Osiris (Ozir/Osiri) rests. Texts state that on Bigge (in Islam — Bekke) — “the hidden high mountain” — there lies a secret cave containing the right leg of Osiris/Oziri, and that a temple was established on this site at a time when nothing yet existed in the world: the earth dwelled in darkness and obscurity.

According to Egyptian sources, the first peak from which God began the creation of the heavenly world of spirits was located in the solar temple of Ra in Heliopolis. This means that the “city of pillars” in the Qur’an refers to the Heavenly Jerusalem (Gök Yerushalim) — that is, Qudusi-Ilya.

The historian Movses Khorenatsi writes that after the construction of the city was completed, Jerusalem began to be called Hel. Thus, it becomes clear that the city of Irem — the city of pillars — is in fact the city of Hel, and that the body of Osiris, i.e., Oziri, rests precisely here.

The English Egyptologist Hornblower believed that Osiris/Oziri was not an indigenous Egyptian deity but one that came from the Near East. According to the conclusions of the renowned scholar David Rohl, the ancient Egyptian gods were in fact men of Mesopotamia. The historian B. A. Turaev notes that the kingdom of Aziru (Ozir/Osiris) was the land of the Amorites/Mar, known as Kadesh. And in Sufism, the term Kadesh means Kadus, that is, Quds — and this land belongs to the ancient land of Azer — Azerbaijan. Thus, the country in which Osiris rests is Azerbaijan, and the name “Azer” itself derives from the name Ozir, i.e., Osiris.

In ancient mythology, the “pillar” in sacred texts signified the support of the heavenly world — the Ghayb realm. According to Herodotus, the pillar of the heavens is the mountain of the Atlanteans — Mount Atlas (Atlantis). The symbol Atlas [TLS] in Sufism corresponds to the symbols Talas/Tilos [TLS], preserved in literature as the mountain inhabited by the Turks of Talas. In ancient Sumerian texts, the same symbol appears as Tilos — Tilmun/Dilmun, meaning “the place where souls taste the heavenly bliss.”

The well-known researcher Samuel Kramer considers Dilmun to mean “the monastery of the gods”, located beyond the peaks of the Zagros Mountains, on the territory of Iran. The epics say that it lies in a distant land “beyond the mountains — where the Sun rises.” Based on his own translation of Sumerian mythology about paradise, Kramer describes Dilmun as a land “pure,” “bright,” and “illuminating the dawn.” It is the “land of immortals,” where people knew neither sickness nor death. This earthly paradise of Sumerian literature is undoubtedly the very garden where Adam lived before his transgression — the place of happiness, peace, and safety.

On the Turkic monument Moyun Chor, the symbol Tolis represents El — the world created within God — and is attributed to the Turkic Khagan. Considering that the symbols Tolis/Tilos have been preserved in the name of the Talysh Mountains, where the Kadus people once lived, it becomes clear that the heavenly paradise was created precisely above these mountains.

The fact that the land of Dilmun, located in the Talysh Mountains, is described as “the place where the people taste happiness,” means that the inhabitants of this region were those very Turkic Daylamites known in historical sources as “those who surpassed time and attained perfect bliss.” According to Ibn Khassula, it was the Daylamites who surpassed time and reached complete happiness (“The superiority of the Turks over other warriors and the true worth of the great Sultan”). This proves that highly advanced Atlantis was created by the Turkic Daylamites who lived on the territory of Azerbaijan, and that the “Heavenly Jerusalem” (Gök Yeruşalim) mentioned in the sources is one of the names of Atlantis as the heavenly paradise. All of this shows that the ancient sources speak only of one land — the land where the Turkic er, the eren, created the Heavenly Jerusalem — the heavenly paradise.

In his work Politicus, Plato emphasizes that all ancient writings refer to one and the same great event. He states that all texts and thousands of extraordinary details are connected to a single phenomenon. But over time, much of it was forgotten, while the remaining parts became scattered and are now told separately. And yet the main thing — the essence underlying them all — is never spoken of (Plato, Politicus, 269c). This means that by identifying the exact location of the Ark of the Covenant, we simultaneously unveil all ancient mysteries.

The land in which Osiris, that is, Oziri, rests is called Isra-El, meaning Ozir-El (Osiri-El — Israel). This means El — the dominion, the land of the Hebrew, i.e., Turkic khagans and beks. The symbol “Jew” in Sufism is read as Ya-Huda (Eng. Gad) — meaning “O (Great) God.” According to the Qur’an, the hidden knowledge (batin) was given to the Israelites, and the Qur’an was revealed to them. The text clearly states that Allah granted the sons of Israel the Scripture, wisdom, and prophecy, blessed them with purity, and elevated them above the worlds. They were given clear signs and were exalted over nations according to their knowledge (45:16–17; 27:76; 2:47; 2:122; 44:32). From this it becomes obvious that esoteric, batini knowledge was given to the Israelites — that is, the Turkic beks of the land of Azer. Thus, the people of Israel are those very Daylamite batinids who “surpassed time and attained perfect happiness.”

The Daylamite batinids who lived in the region of Ardabil are considered sayyids and are known as the Shiite Nizarites. Among the Nizari Ismailis, Nizar is revered as the head of the lineage; it is believed that he is alive yet unseen, eternal, and reigning. This means that Nizar is an image of the immortal prophet Khidr. The symbol Khizr/Khazar (in Sufism Hu-Azer / God-Azer) is also recorded in ancient texts as Azar. Thus, behind the figure of Nizar we find the ancient Egyptian god Oziri — Osiris. In Egyptian sources, the symbol of Nizar appears as Nu-Oziri, meaning Osiris of the city Nu. Therefore, Nizar is the god Nu-Osiris, from the city of Heliopolis. In Sufism, the symbol Nizar [NZR] is identical to the symbols Nasar and Ansar [NSR]. The symbol Nasar refers in sources to Christians, and Ansar — to the companions of Prophet Muhammad.

Among Christians, the symbol Nasar [NSR] appears as Nasara [NSR], and we know that their prophet Isa (Jesus) comes from the city of Nasara. The symbols Nizar [NZR], Nasara [NSR], and Nazorey [NZR] in the Old Testament refer to people who dedicated their lives to God. In Islam, such people are the extreme Ismaili Shiites of Gelad — the lovers of Ali. Thus, it follows that the Nazoreans of the Old Testament were the Nizarite beks living on the territory of Azerbaijan.

According to the sources, the state of the Daylamite–Nizari Ismailis emerged in the Iranian fortress of Alamut. In different texts, the Ismailis are referred to as melāḥi, al-mulḥid, al-malāḥid, and other similar forms.

In Sufism, the symbol Alamut [LMT] corresponds to the sign El-Muta [L-MT], meaning “the land of Media.”

The symbols melāḥi / al-mulḥid / al-malāḥid [MLH / MLHD] point to melek / melekut [MLK / MLKT] — the “world of angels” (in Kabbalah, Malkhut). This means that the Ismaili beks are the “descendants of angels” living in the land of Media, above which the heavenly world — Melekut, the world of spirits — is built.

Media itself is the land of the Cadusians, that is, Quds — Jerusalem.

It is known that the Prophet Muhammad, Ali, and his lineage in Islam are called Ahl al-Bayt [L-BT].

In batini (inner, esoteric) knowledge, al-Bayt means not family ties, but “the lineage that possesses hidden knowledge, wisdom, and truth” (Bayt al-ʿilm wa-l-maʿrifa wa-l-ḥikma).

In Sufism, the symbol al-Bayt [L-BT] is identical to the sign of the Levites [LVT] — the chosen ones in Judaism.

In the Torah, God calls the Levites “My Levites,” meaning “My chosen ones” (Bible, Num. 3:12).

The symbol Levite [LVT] in Sufism corresponds to the word ta’wil [TVL] — “the batini interpretation of Scripture.”

This means that the Levites — the chosen people of God in Judaism — are the same as Ahl al-Bayt in Islam, that is, the Ismaili beks of Imam Ali. Possessing hidden knowledge, they are considered “the People of the House of God,” the keepers of the House of the Most High.

In the Torah, the term “Ishmaelites,” that is, Ismailites, refers to those who originate from the land of Gilead (Geliad / Gelad).

In the Old Testament, Gilead is considered a special land of God, and the Almighty Himself calls it “My Gilead” (Bible, Ps. 59:9).

In Scripture, the Ishmaelites are identified with the Midianites, that is, the Medes.

If we consider that the symbol Gilead/Gelat [QLD/QLT] coincides with the symbol “ghulat” [QLT] — the extreme Shi‘ites who recognized Imam Ali as God — this means that the lineage of the Gilead Ismailites is the lineage of the followers of the extreme Shi‘a of Ali.

From this follows the conclusion: the God-chosen Levites — the Ismailites of the House (al-Bayt) — live in Gilead, that is, in the land of Gel.

According to the Torah, over the Levites, as their head and guardian of the Temple, God appointed Eleazar (El-Azar), the son of Aaron.

This means that the House of God truly stands in the land of Azer.

The symbol Eleazar [LZR] has been preserved in the land of Cadus — that is, in the region of Ver-Geduz (modern Azerbaijani Yardymli) — in the name of the village Lezir [LZR].

The symbol Ver-Geduz is mentioned in the Torah as Kadesh-Barnea and is considered a paradisiacal land.

The well-known researcher David Rohl searched for Eden near Tabriz, but this is incorrect.

The historian Jordanes reports that the city Ur-Harran, the homeland of Prophet Ibrahim (Abraham), is located only two days’ journey from Tabriz.

The Ur-Harran of Ibrahim has been preserved in the land of Ver-Geduz in the names of the villages Urakharran and Aur…

In the Qur’an, the father of Prophet Ibrahim — Azer — is praised as the creator of idols and as one who “gave them life” in a manner similar to God (6:74).

In Greek mythology, this image corresponds to Prometheus (Pir-Madai / Pharaoh of Media), who brought the Divine Fire from the heavens, created humankind, and asked God to breathe spirit into it.

Al-Hamawi notes that the word Azer in Pahlavi means “fire,” and the symbol “nuri Azer” in Azerbaijani literature signifies the Divine Light.

According to Isidore of Charax, the celestial fire was preserved in the city of Asaak — the place where “Arsaces was first proclaimed king.”

Al-Kufi writes that the place Arshak, that is Arsak, is located approximately 45 km from Ardabil.

In various sources, the symbol Asaak also appears as Sisak or Sisakan, which means Sakin — the Tabernacle, the Tent of Divine Presence.

The correspondence between the symbols Sakin and Shekhinah provides grounds to affirm that the “Tabut as-Sakina,” the Ark of the Covenant, is hidden precisely here.

The fact that the Ark of the Covenant and other sacred objects were kept in a House crafted of gold and silver indicates that this treasury belonged to the “Erens” (Eren / Eran) — the Turkic Aranshahs (the Eren-kings).

Sources state that the gold of the Median kings was stored in the city of Ecbatana.

Assyrian texts say that the great treasury of King Sardanapalus, the son of Nina, is concealed underground.

Nizami Ganjavi associates this treasure with Kay Khosrow, noting that in the cave of Sarir, near Derbent, lies the throne of Kay Khosrow.

Another source states that the last shah of the Sasanian dynasty — Yazdegerd — after being defeated by the Arabs, withdrew to Khorasan and sent his golden throne and many treasures, along with his relatives from the lineage of Behram Chubin, into the Caucasus Mountains.

Yet the most important point is this: According to ancient Egyptian texts, the God Ba (in Islam — Billah / Wallah) resides here, guarding the “Book of All Existence” — the record of everything that was and will be.

In Islam, this book is known as al-Lawh al-Mahfuz.

The convergence of all these symbols leads us directly to the south of Azerbaijan — to the land of the holy Mar-Amorites, the Iranian Farnbag, the Frataraka, that is, the Pharaoh-beks, the Pharaoh-Turks.

From all that has been said — and from hundreds of other facts that cannot fit into a single article — it becomes clear:

The House erected by Prophet Sulayman for God, within which the Ark of the Covenant was hidden, is located on the territory of modern Azerbaijan.

Its discovery is only a matter of time.

This land is connected with Paradise and therefore is sacred to all religions.

Its unveiling will become the key to the mysteries of the ancient world.

All these truths are presented in full detail in my book “Batini-Quran.”

Firudin Gilar Beg

Sufi-Aggadist

20.11.2025