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? asked in Society & CultureHolidaysRamadan · 6 years ago

Why did Allah in Islam associate himself with one last prophet and one black stone for worship? Any good logic or reason?

Update:

If that stone meant nothing in Islam and it was worshiped in Arab paganism before Islam, then Mohd or Islamic rulers should smash it like other idols in Mecca!

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  • 6 years ago
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    For some unknown reason, this rule is an order by Allah in Islam to turn the face to a stone idol for worship . But all unbiased studies can provide a good reason that is Mohammed inherited his previous Quarish Arab pagan rituals and habits before Islam was founded.

    Note that due to a deep ignorance about God in the OT, Mohammed did not know the prohibition of bowing down to any stone object for any worship existing in the OT.

  • 6 years ago

    As a Muslim, we believe that all messengers and prophets have preached the same message which is:

    "Denying the existence of any god except Allah "

    In Islam we don't believe that Muhammed is the only messenger of Allah, but he is the last one. The total number of Messengers sent by god is not known for us. But we know some of them as they are stated in Quran, such as Noah, Abraham, Jacob, Moses, David and Jesus (who is neither god or son of god).

    The main difference between Muhammed and all other messengers that he was sent to all peoples or nations around the world (arabs, white, black, indian, chinese,...etc ) till the day of judgement, while each other messenger was sent just to his own people. Although all messengers were carrying the same main message as stated above, they might have different ways for showing obedience to Allah (different ways for praying, fasting,...etc). We are asked to reject all these ways except the ones showed by the last messenger, Muhammed. I hope this answers the first part of your question.

    Muslims DO NOT worship any one or thing except Allah. Not even Muhammed. All substances and living organisms are created by god and we are allowed only to worship the creator not his creations. That is the main message of Muhammed and all other messengers. If someone worship the black stone then he is out from Islam, plain and simple.

    As far as I know the black stone was not worshipped by Arab pagans in the pre-islam era. It was a part of Kaaba. All its importance is that we believe that it was a part from heaven. However we also believe it is just a powerless stone. It can't control your destiny or forgive your sins, for example.

    Hope this helps.

    Sorry for the bad English.

  • 6 years ago

    The last prophet thing has the same explanation as for christianity

    if you aren't the last one, you lose credibility

    and the "black stone" was a holy worship site for polytheistic religion that existed at the time

    which couldn't not be eliminated back then without backlash

    and that turned into tradition and is still kept

  • 6 years ago

    The word allah is a hindu word dating back to 300 bc referring to their moon god

    that black stone. is a shiver stone form the hindu temple that was taken over by muHAMad after he killed his uncle who was a high priest at the hindu temple at the time

    The city of mecca and that entire region use to be all hindu's in pre-islam.

    It was more by convince. That moHamad took the temple at mecca and the stone and used it for his new founded cult. Which by the way that temple is covered in Hindu writings.

  • 6 years ago

    Mohammed is not the last prophet. Jesus was given the throne of God. and as having all authority, mohommed, bows down to Jesus.

    in these last days, Jesus has set up a church and kingdom of priests and elders that are the salvation of the world till Jesus, our Savior/Messiah shall appear.

    repent of the doctrine that is brain washed. Islam lost its glory even before it was started.

  • Mintee
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    ill bet you didnt know that muslims revere and honor Jesus very highly... Jesus is mentioned more times in our holy book the Quran than even Mohammed is..

    we do not worship any prophet, we dont worship any man, or any thing on earth, we certainly dont worship a black stone.. .. its just a cornerstone of the building there, nothing more or less.. it doesnt hold any mystical powers, it wont grant blessings or wishes.. and when we pray, we pray to God only.. the same God that Jesus prayed to (Jesus didnt pray to himself).. and the same God of Abraham, Adam, and Moses, and all the biblical prophets, (they are also prophets in our Quran also)

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Please don't blame the non-existent Allah for Mohammed's fiction.

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