However, in a recent statement, al-Birr said he was taken out of context, that the "liberation" of Jerusalem at the hands of Morsi was not his prediction, but rather a tradition among the rabbis of Israel, who, according to the Brotherhood's mufti, knew that Israel's demise was inevitable, and that it would come not at the hands President Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat, nor Muhammad Hosni Mubarak, but the “third Muhammad”—the Muslim Brotherhood’s Muhammad.