Slanders By The Jews and Historians

Pilgrims circumambulating the Kaaba during the Hajj

The Holy Kaaba at night in Makkah, Saudi Arabia.

According to the definition of Ka'abah by Wikipedia,
the Kaaba (Arabic: الكعبة al-Kaʿbah; IPA: ['kɑʕbɑ] or IPA: ['kæʕbæ])^[1] "Cube" is a cuboidal building in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, and is the most sacred site in Islam.^[2] The building is more than two thousand years old, and according to Islamic tradition the first building at the site was built by Abraham (Ibrahim). The building has a mosque built around it, the Masjid al-Haram. All Muslims around the world face towards the Kaaba during prayers, no matter where they are.

One of the Five Pillars of Islam requires every capable Muslim to perform the Hajj pilgrimage at least once in their lifetime. Multiple parts of the Hajj require pilgrims to walk several times around the Kaaba in a counter-clockwise direction (as viewed from above). This circumambulation, the Tawaf, is also performed by pilgrims during the Umrah (lesser pilgrimage).^[2] However, the most dramatic times are during the Hajj, when two million pilgrims simultaneously gather to circle the building on the same day.

But there are some groups of people who intentionally want to slander and throw false accusations (fitnah) regarding the history of Kaabah. The main objective that they want to achieve is to mislead people, Muslims and non-Muslims alike to have wrong conceptions of Islam, Allah and the Prophet Muhammad SAW. One such fitnah or libel came from a
Dr Rafat Amari who is a Jewish. This is what he wrote on a website:

THE KAABAH AS TEMPLE OF THE ARABIAN STAR WORSHIP

By. Dr. Rafat Amari

The Kaabah of Mecca was one of many Kaabahs that were branches of the Kaabah of Taif; It was of the same building style and had the same religious pagan functions.

Islam is a form of the Arabian Star Family worship of Mohammed’s time. The veil which tries to hide this reality falls when we study the roots of the Islamic religion.

Ibn Abbas, the cousin of Mohammed, and one of the reporters of the tradition of Mohammed, called Hadith, speaks of two pilgrimages of the Quraish tribe. One of the journeys was to the city of Taif.

At Taif there was also a temple called Kaabah of Ellat, or Kaabah of the Sun. This Kaabah was more significant and much older than the Kaabah of Mecca. All Arabs, including the tribe of Quraish from which Mohammed came, venerated this Kaabah. The Kaabah of Taif was identical to the Kaabah of Mecca, and it had the same religious functions. Like the Kaabah at Mecca, it had a sacred valley where no animals or humans were allowed to be killed. The Kaabah of Taif had the same Sidaneh, or religious rituals, adopted by the Kaabah at Mecca. The Kaabah of Taif also had the Istar استار , a kind of dress to cover the sacred stones like we find at the Kaabah of Mecca. Both the Kaabah of Taif and the Kaabah of Mecca had a yard, or an area, which was inviolable. No one could cut its trees or hunt its animals. Anyone who entered there for refuge was protected. Both Kaabahs also had a well in which to put gifts.

In Hijaz, the region of western and central western Arabia where Mecca was built, there were many Kaabahs which were dependent on this main Kaabah.Was the Kaabah of Mecca just one branch of this famous Arabian Kaabah? It’s probable, for many factors point to that. First, the tribe of Tamim, which inhabited the city of Taif where this Kaabah was built, was of Yemeni origin. Second, the tribe of Tamim had preeminence over other tribes in the region, including the tribe of Quraish.

All this suggests that there were connections between some of the Kaabahs of Hijaz, even though they were built by Yemeni tribes and leaders at various times in history. We assume the Kaabah of Taif was the leading Kaabah of the ones dedicated to the worship of Ellat, the sun. This could explain why the Quraish neglected the Kaabah of Mecca and participated in an annual religious trip with other worshippers of Ellat to the main Kaabah at Taif. Members of Arabian Star Family Worship were venerated in all the Kaabahs, such as Allah and his daughters, al-'Uzza and Manat. But it seems each Kaabah had a particular emphasis on the worship of one of the members of the Arabian Star Family.

As in the Kaabah of Mecca, the Kaabbah of Taif had a large Black Stone around which the people circled.

The stone was the main element in Arabian Star Family Worship.

The Kaabah of Mecca was insignificant, even to the tribe of Quraish, until Mohammed imposed it as the exclusive place of worship for Muslims.

The Kaabah at Mecca was not Important to Other Arabian Tribes

Not only did the tribe of Quraish fail to hold the Kaabah at Mecca in esteem above the other Kaabahs, but many Arabian tribes felt the same way. We see that Thaqif, the main tribe of Taif, was not interested in preserving the Kaabah of Mecca. This was shown when Abraha, the Ethiopian, who controlled Yemen around 570 A.D., passed through Thaqif. They asked Abraha not to destroy their Kaabah, but instead to destroy the Kaabah in Mecca, because they knew his plans were to go there after occupying their city.

This shows that the Kaabah of Mecca was not important to the Arabian tribes because it was originally the Kaabah belonging to one tribe, the tribe of Khuzaa'h which built Mecca.

http://www.religionresearchinstitute.org/mecca/star.htm

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And he went on blabbering rubbish! Isn't it enough proof that The Jews like to lie and tarnish (fitnah) other religions' foundation especially Islam? They have innate vengeance on Islam since the Last Prophet didn't come from their Jewish descendant but came from the Arabs.

Another accusation came from a Historian who equalized the rituals of Muslim Hajj or pilgrimage to Mecca to the Hindus' rituals of pilgrimage to a temple. This is his illogical writing:

Kaaba a Hindu Temple?

[Note: A recent archeological find in Kuwait unearthed a gold-plated
statue of the Hindu deity Ganesh. A Muslim resident of Kuwait
requested
historical research material that can help explain the connection
between Hindu civilisation and Arabia.]

Was the Kaaba Originally a Hindu Temple?
By P.N. Oak (Historian)

Glancing through some research material recently, I was pleasantly
surprised to come across a reference to a king Vikramaditya
inscription found in the Kaaba in Mecca proving beyond doubt that the
Arabian Peninsula formed a part of his Indian Empire.

The text of the crucial Vikramaditya inscription, found inscribed on a
gold dish hung inside the Kaaba shrine in Mecca, is found recorded on
page 315 of a volume known as ‘Sayar-ul-Okul’ treasured in the Makhtab-
e-Sultania library in Istanbul, Turkey. Rendered in free English the
inscription says:

As the pilgrim proceeds towards Mecca he is asked to shave his head
and beard and to don special sacred attire that consists of two
seamless sheets of white cloth. One is to be worn round the waist and
the other over the shoulders. Both these rites are remnants of the old
Vedic practice of entering Hindu temples clean- and with holy seamless
white sheets.

The main shrine in Mecca, which houses the Siva emblem, is known as
the Kaaba. It is clothed in a black shroud. That custom also
originates from the days when it was thought necessary to discourage
its recapture by camouflaging it.

According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Kaaba has 360 images.
Traditional accounts mention that one of the deities among the 360
destroyed when the place was stormed, was that of Saturn; another was
of the Moon and yet another was one called Allah. That shows that in
the Kaaba the Arabs worshipped the nine planets in pre-Islamic days.
In India the practice of ‘Navagraha’ puja, that is worship of the nine
planets, is still in vogue. Two of these nine are Saturn and Moon.

In India the crescent moon is always painted across the forehead of
the Siva symbol. Since that symbol was associated with the Siva emblem
in Kaaba it came to be grafted on the flag of Islam.

Another Hindu tradition associated with the Kaaba is that of the
sacred stream Ganga (sacred waters of the Ganges river). According to
the Hindu tradition Ganga is also inseparable from the Shiva emblem as
the crescent moon. Wherever there is a Siva emblem, Ganga must co-
exist. True to that association a sacred fount exists near the Kaaba.
Its water is held sacred because it has been traditionally regarded as
Ganga since pre-Islamic times (Zam-Zam water)."Fortunate are those
who were born (and lived) during king Vikram’s
reign. He was a noble, generous dutiful ruler, devoted to the welfare
of his subjects. But at that time we Arabs, oblivious of God, were
lost in sensual pleasures. Plotting and torture were rampant.

The darkness of ignorance had enveloped our country. Like the lamb
struggling for her life in the cruel paws of a wolf we Arabs were
caught up in ignorance. The entire country was enveloped in a darkness
so intense as on a new moon night. But the present dawn and pleasant
sunshine of education is the result of the favour of the noble king
Vikramaditya whose benevolent supervision did not lose sight of us-
foreigners as we were. He spread his sacred religion amongst us and
sent scholars whose brilliance shone like that of the sun from his
country to ours. These scholars and preceptors through whose
benevolence we were once again made cognisant of the presence of God,
introduced to His sacred existence and put on the road of Truth, had
come to our country to preach their religion and impart education at
king Vikramaditya’s behest."

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.satanism/browse_thread/thread/46196670f6efb45d?pli=1

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This writing below is found on the website of an atheist historian. What he wrote is just so preposterous and prejudice!

Politics of the Kaaba in Mecca: How did Muhmmad Use the Kaaba to Promote Islam?

By Austin Cline, About.com

The Kaaba and the Kiswah: The Kaaba in the Courtyard of the Great Mosque in Mecca is Covered by a Black Robe, called a Kiswah

What is the Kaaba?:
The Kaaba is Islam’s holiest site and, as such, knowing more about it is critical to knowing more about Islam itself. The history of the Kaaba is intertwined with the origin of Islam because it appears that Muhammad used the Kaaba for political purposes, promoting new stories about the Kaaba's history in order to connect his new created religion with ancient Judaism. These efforts failed, but the stories remain and continue to feed the idea that Islam is the most valid religion. Knowing more about the Kaaba thus means knowing that not everything Muslims believe about Islam and Muhammad is true.

The Role of the Kaaba in Islam:
The Kaaba (Ka’aba, Ka’bah, “Cube,” “House of God”) is a Muslim shrine located in a square adjacent to the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam’s holiest city. The surrounding square has been enlarged to over 16,000 square meters and can accommodate over 300,000 Muslim pilgrims. When Muslims pray the required five times each day, they face not simply Mecca, but the Kaaba in Mecca; Muslims praying in Mecca turn towards the Kaaba instead of facing just any direction. The true origin and nature of the Kaaba is disputed, but Muslims treat it as holy anyway.

http://atheism.about.com/od/muslimholysitestexts/p/KaabaMecca.htm

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These are three examples of blatant lies (fitnah) thrown by the Jews and Historian orientalists to Islam and the Muslims since enmity among them existed. There are hundreds more that were written and spread in the websites and media. We must be aware of all these so that we can safeguard our beliefs in our religion and help make others realize that such dirty and malicious works of the enemies of Islam did exist.