If Muslims are against pagan worship and idolatry, why do they pray five times a day in the direction of a cube with pagan origins?
Once every lunar year, the Bedouin tribes would make a pilgrimage to Mecca. Setting aside any tribal feuds, they would worship their pagan gods in the Kaaba and trade with each other in the city. Islam would later adopt the established traditions of the Bedouin tribes, such as encouragement of trade during the Hajj, but replacing the worship of their pagan gods with Allah.
They believe it is a Abrahamic place of worship because....get this, a tribe of Jews that settled in the area told them it was that after they observed the ritual preformed by the pagans in Medina.
Luke James
It's just a focal point and a place of pilgrimage. Muslim's believe god is omnipresent, invisible etc etc. Not some rock in a box.
Anthony Taylor
Where does the magic cube come from? What is it made of? What is inside of it? Will this questions be answered in our lifetimes?
Jayden Lewis
>be Muhammad >lead prayers facing Jerusalem >get message from God saying, "nah man, pray facing that cube you desert pagans used to worship and had pilgrimages to every year." >mfw my followers bought it
Jason Ortiz
Islam is just Arab nationalism modified to the monotheism of the day.
Monotheism was already popular, but then the romans were imposing their specific brand laced with european ideas. Muhammad wanted to make the Arabs a strong power, so he adapted the monotheism that already existed but with Arab ideals. that's why its basically the same as the old testament.
He added the pilgrimage to Mecca thing so that the Meccans would support him. Mecca prospered from trade, and by ensuring every Muslim had to make pilgrimage to Mecca, he ensured Mecca would stay a wealthy city.
You need to think of it from pragmatic reasons rather than from theological reasons.
Connor Wilson
If Jews are against paganism why did they perform sacrifices in a temple that had pagan origins? monotheistic religions share remnants of their pagan past. no news there.
Christopher Anderson
Are Jews actively destroying pagan artifacts to this day?
Hunter Hernandez
Its just a bunch of rocks. Pagans are lesser beings who need to be forgotten to make way for a better freer future
Blake Baker
We do not per say worship the very Cube itself. It is the setting of the Ka'aba that is of significance. The Prophet himself declared the Ka'aba as the holiest site on this materialistic world. It is a connection to the Holy above. Therefore it would only make sense to pray that direction. If ISIS or some other party decides to blow up the Ka'aba, then it won't be the end to our prayer. Then a chosen person will decide the next holy site, most likely being the Prophet's mosque in Medina.
Sebastian Thompson
>Where does the magic cube come from? Human build it
>What is it made of? Rock
>What is inside of it? There's a store room inside, they put a bunch of old stuff like armor, relic etc
>Will this questions be answered in our lifetimes? Maybe
Robert Stewart
Same reason a bunch of christians and jews call a canaanite founded town in canaanite land their holy city.
Caleb Harris
>not honouring the spirits of your ancestors
Jack White
>expecting a religion to be consistent
Landon Harris
>islam >logic
Ryder Rogers
>why do christians celebrate christmas on the day the romans celebrated the sun >what about the cult of cybele We also have pagan elements, get over it.
Angel Robinson
Melchizedek, King of Salem, a demon worshiping depraved incestuous pedophile Canaanite.
kek
Robert Jones
Or, you know, don't.
Benjamin Morales
Why is green the color of islam?
Brody Reed
Christians aren't actively destroying artifacts because of their pagan origins.
Christopher Cooper
Mo's favorite color. Kind of wish it were pink.
Wyatt Rivera
Dumbass the muslims believe that the stone is from heaven And that it was white and it turned black because of the sins of the humans and inside the Kabaa there are no relics lmao there's nothing in there
Dominic Ramirez
By the way, out of the 360 pagan gods that the arabs worshiped in the kaaba, only 359 were removed.
Hubal, the pagan god of Mohammad's family, is still there.
Hubal is better known as Ba'al.
Juan Campbell
>Then a chosen person will decide the next holy site >A chosen person The last time you had to choose someone it ended in the shia-sunni divide and sectarian warfare that goes on to this day, in a modern setting with the internet and even more power interests then back then the muslims world trying to choose someone can only end in desaster.
Jonathan Edwards
nice source you god there.
Kevin Morgan
Hubal
HaBaal in Hebrew
The Ba'al of the Moabites
Liam Stewart
Ibn Ishaq stated, "It is claimed that when ‘Abd al-Muttalib received such opposition from Quraysh over the digging of zamzam, he vowed that if ten sons were born to him who grew up and protected him, he would sacrifice one of them for God at the ka‘ba."
Eventually he had ten sons grown up whom he knew would give him protection. Their names were al-Harith, al-Zubayr, Hajl, Dirar, al-Muqawwim, Abu Lahab, al-‘Abbas, Hamza, Abu Talib, and ‘Abd Allah. He assembled them and told them of his vow and asked them to honour his pledge to God, Almighty and All-glorious is He. They obeyed, and asked him what he wanted them to do. He asked each of them to take an arrow, write his name on it and return to him.
They did so and went with them inside the ka‘bato the site of THEIR god HUBAL, where there was the well in which offerings to the ka‘ba would be placed. There, near Hubal, were seven arrows which they would use for divining a judgement over some matter of consequence, a question of blood-money, kinship, or the like. They would come to Hubal to seek a resolution, accepting whatever they were ordered to do or to refrain from." (The Life of the Prophet Muhammad (Al-Sira al-Nabawiyya), Volume I, translated by professor Trevor Le Gassick, reviewed by Dr. Ahmed Fareed [Garnet Publishing Limited, 8 Southern Court, south Street Reading RG1 4QS, UK; The Center for Muslim Contribution to Civilization, 1998], pp. 125-126
Gabriel Cooper
>muslims >better future
Xavier Parker
Hubal was the principle idol of the Quraysh.
Now what tribe did Muhammad belong to? You guessed it, the Quraysh.
Did Ibn Kathir say that the god of Muhammad’s family was Hubal? Yes he did.
Did Hitti claim that Hubal was the chief deity of the Kabah and also that Allah was the tribal (implying chief) deity of the Quraysh? You bet.
Can we therefore draw a valid inference from all of the above and conclude that Allah was the title or name of the chief Meccan deity, Hubal? Indeed we can. After all, you cannot have two chief gods, since chief means the head, the first, the premiere, the most prominent of the pantheon.
tl;dr If A=B, and B=C, then A=C
Chase Diaz
>Christians aren't actively destroying artifacts because of their pagan origins.
Christians aren't doing so at the moment because they succeeded in destroying those artifacts of pagan origin roughly some 1600 years ago.
Ryder Gonzalez
It's not a religious requirement to celebrate Xmas, broseph.
Evan Hall
What? Pagan temples, paintings, sculptures, etc. can be found all over Europe.
Nicholas Green
Breaking: religions are a bunch of made up bullshit traditions and fairy tales.
Henry Ortiz
Thats a lot of Rubbish. Hubal wasn't even the chief God for fucks sake.
Robert Parker
Among the gods worshiped by the Quraysh, the greatest was Hubal, this on the expert testimony of Ibn al-Kalbi: "The Quraysh had several idols in and around the Ka'ba. The greatest of these was Hubal. It was made, as I was told, of red agate, in the form of a man with the right hand broken off It came into the possession of the Quraysh in this condition, and they therefore made for it a hand of gold.... It stood inside the Ka'ba, and in front of it were seven divinatory arrows. On one of these was written the word "Pure," and on another "associated alien." Whenever the lineage of a new-born was doubted, they would offer a sacrifice to Hubal and then shuffle the arrows and throw them. If the arrows showed the word "Pure," the child would be declared legitimate and the tribe would accept him. If, however, the arrows showed "associated alien," the child would be declared illegitimate and would reject him. The third arrow had to do with divination concerning the dead, while the fourth was for divination about marriage. The purpose of the three remaining arrows has not been explained. Whenever they disagreed concerning something, or proposed to embark upon a journey, or undertake some other project, they would proceed to Hubal and shuffle the divinatory arrows before it. Whatever result they obtained they would follow and do accordingly. (Ibn al-Kalbi, Book of Idols 28-29 = Ibn al-Kalbi 1952: 23-24)
You just pinned on why ISIS and the other wahhabists wanna blow the thing up.
Lucas Richardson
King of Salem; King of what would become Jerusalem, in the days of Abraham, and to whom Abraham paid a tithe:
Hebrews 7
For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him, to whom also Abraham gave a tenth part of all, first being translated “king of righteousness,” and then also king of Salem, meaning “king of peace,” without father, without mother, without genealogy, having neither beginning of days nor end of life, but made like the Son of God, remains a priest continually.
Christian Collins
Not really. One prophet of God defeated 450 priests of Ba'al, and then had all their throats slit in the river. Oddly enough they let 400 priests of Ishtar leave/escape.
Ba'al being the devil is immortal, and will have to be confined forever.
Luckily there's a place for that.
Parker Brooks
Power struggles within Islam?
You don't say!
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Adrian Martinez
You I'm aware of the retrojecting of Hebrews and James
Gavin Gray
>IS destroys temple dedicated to Ba'al in Palmyra >after this happened a great storm hit Medina and a crane fell killing over a hundred people in the Holy city >Ba'al was a God of storms and lightning
Jose Morales
Let's not meme ourselves here, Yahweh is clearly a composite of El (going so far as to adopt the name Elohim) and Ba'al.
Throughout Genesis he comes off as a Nomadic pastoral deity, hence favoring Abel.
No doubt many of the Psalms were meant for El and Ba'al being referred to as "rider on the clouds" and getting into fights with sea monsters which is obviously edited out of Genesis >1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. Clearly there was meant to be a battle with the "deep" like every Middle Eastern religion but Yahweh is meant to be supreme and all-powerful and creates the world just by his own will so no need for a battle.
There's a few Psalms were Yahweh is with other deities and he has discussions with them and asked them what they think and then in on he's one of the gods and he says, "You know, you guys don't know what you're doing. Let me take over." And he stands up in the council and takes over.
The Psalms obviously had very strong traditional power and so were adopted into Yahweh worship to keep continuity
Aiden Lewis
Sounds shirk to me
Isaiah Gonzalez
>be Muhammad
That's Ali.
Wyatt Cox
I don't have a fedora pic big enough for this.
Christopher Hughes
Built by Abraham and his son. Foundations were already there. Idols were placed there by the Pagans as ignorance often leads to Shirk ( idolatry). First place of worship on earth.
"Righteousness is not that you turn your faces toward the east or the west, but [true] righteousness is [in] one who believes in Allah , the Last Day, the angels, the Book, and the prophets and gives wealth, in spite of love for it, to relatives, orphans, the needy, the traveler, those who ask [for help], and for freeing slaves; [and who] establishes prayer and gives zakah; [those who] fulfill their promise when they promise; and [those who] are patient in poverty and hardship and during battle. Those are the ones who have been true, and it is those who are the righteous."Quran
Muslims don't pray to the house but the lord of the house,
Dylan King
Cant tell if youre joking
Charles Wright
which Psalms are you talking about?
Andrew Peterson
Thank you brother
Logan Watson
I wholeheartedly agree with this The Sunni-Shia disputes may interfere, however the choices to choose from are very few, therefore they will most likely pick the same being Medina
Brandon Sanders
Shirk is affiliating another being or thing with God himself. I didn't do this and fear to do it for this is the biggest sin Islam.
Justin Price
How may I prove my credibility?
Landon Rivera
We would if we were retardedly religious as our ancestors were.
Kevin Ross
>was a god of storm and lighting Prepare to be hit in the head by a crane (unless you sacrifice 2 goats)
Christian Lee
I don't know about such psalms. Doesn't sound legit or at the most based on a theory about interpretation. But please link so we can all learn. YHBH was the Edomite god of war. One of the earliest dietis of the Israelites the one they worshiped the most in their tribal and nomadic violent stage.
Robert White
Because building a religion on pagan foundations is a whole lot easier than starting from scratch
Aiden Moore
Since there are islamists here, are there any good podcasts about islam and arab history? Not done by religious or nationalistic arabs but by some history proffesor or the like.
Joshua Murphy
I think what OP is getting at is muslims are destroying things because of their pagan ties, and yet they also pray in the direction of a pagan origin cube.
Isaiah Ross
The ka'ba was built by Prophet Abraham, but the teaching somewhat faded away and the ka'ba was misused to make a place for worshipping pagan gods.
Brayden Diaz
You don't know about the history don't you?
Jaxson Green
There are uzza and others in arab paganism. It's not about it at all, it is connected to the teaching of Abraham.
Nathan Garcia
Are those after the prophecy revelation?
Evan Martin
Not him, but is he wrong? Can you explain the shift?
Josiah Anderson
Do you have any image?
Alexander Miller
Christians had been celebrating the birth of Christ on the 25th of December for about 200 years before the Feast of Solid Invictus was introduced
Jackson Perez
>Solid
Parker Nguyen
wow, turns out religious beliefs aren't coherent and logical systems, who would have thought
Josiah Gray
>Solidus Invictus Nice
Don't forget the calendar changes
Isaiah Foster
Ba'al isn't a god, its just a title friendo. It means Lord.
John Howard
The beauty of islam is that everything is retroactively part of it. It's like if a child wrote a bible.