Question by Darth Muhammad: Why do muslims have to pray in the direction of a temple built by pagans that contains a meteorite fragment?
Doesn’t this seem contradictory to a religion that preaches only one God and allegedly despises paganism?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_stone
LOL!!! the kaaba was NOT built by Abraham
by the way, can anyone explain the holy /spiritual significance of this– Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 4, Number 229?
Best answer:
Answer by theadvocate
I have never understood this, and have never met a Muslim to ask in person.
I’m curious as to the explanation, thanks for asking
EDIT-to the GENIUS above–I was referencing the METEORITE, you quick to judge…..well, anyways.
FYI, it was NOT built by Abraham. Who has a lack of info NOW?
Did you mother teach you to seek clarification before opening that trap of yours? Guess not!
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The Kaaba was built by Abraham and Ishmael. How pagan was their God?
Why do the Christians have to pray to the God they do? It’s just their religion. Don’t ever expect any religion to make sense to everyone.
Tradition
Just as logical and just as silly and just as foolish as everyone else’s belief system
expect mine….
(last comment is meant as an example of how silly you ALL think)
the pagans you speak of are actually pre-islamic arabs. from what i learned, after mohammed received the qu’ran, he went and destroyed the idols (as these pagans kept statues and worshipped their ancestors) and told the followers that they must not worship idols or dead relatives.
perhaps they pray to this because it is one of the first places mohammed really established islam?
There are allot of religions that believe there are earthly persons or things that you need to talk to God. Does that make it a Idol. I hope that the muslims don’t find out and blow it up.
muslims originally prayed toward Jerusalem, but when the Jews out right rejected the false teaching of islam mohammad the pedophile had them pray toward the above mentioned stone instead
Pagans!!!!!! It was built by ibrahim and his son ismail.
It’s not a temple, It’s a building arround a kind of black stone.
IT’s just as direction.
What’s to lol about, get your facts right than talk!!! It wasn’t built by pagans!!! the artice you have posted doesn’t even have the word pagan in it.
Muslims are not pagans, they believe in the same God as Jews and Christians.
Muslims pray towards Mecca because it is the Holiest place in the Muslim world, and where Mohammad returned to after his long exile to Medina (the second most holy site).
That piece of Meteorite is an object supposedly given to Mohhammad by the arch-angel, Gabrial.
I suggest that you read more about both Judaism and Islam, then the Christian Bible again and you will find they are similar in many aspects, especially the “Old Testament”.
Hi….
It is a bit of a gem, for the Muslims to try to make Humanity believe that Islam has been there forever and that even Judaism is a later form of Islam, but this is simply ‘not’ correct!
Islam ‘is’ the youngest of the three main religions and the Arabic peoples ‘before’ Islam evolved into what is known today…
Were Pagan and the shrine mentioned, certainly ‘was’ a Pagan shrine before being made Islamic!!!
Al-ah was the chief god, in a Pantheon of Arabic gods, it was only later, after Judaic and Christian influences, that the god Allah was conceived, being a solitary, Omnipotent Arab god!!
Religious deluded belief cannot be allowed to overthrow what we ‘know’ from True History!!!
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I can see no difference in Muslims facing Mecca to pray than it is for Jews to face toward Jerusalem when they pray. They face their holy places.