What is Hajr Aswad or the black stone?????
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What do you think of this , then,
Quranic Dictionary By Omar.
And lanes alsoHajr Aswad = the black stone.
Same Root for the following
Sada To be Lord/noble and Glorious
Aswad To beget a black boy, boy who is chief.Free-minds articl
To understand what really happened, we need to know that the examples that The God gives us in the great reading are directly relevant to our lives. In all the examples, the majority of people reverted to paganism and their misguided ways after they had received guidance. We know from the great reading that the people of the prophet venerated idols called Allat, Aluzza and Manat (5319-20) and this is confirmed by archeological evidence. We also need to know that there is nothing in the great reading that even remotely suggests that paganism was eradicated in Arabia and the fact that paganism continued to flourish under the Arab kingdom is confirmed by the evidence from manuscripts of independent non-Islamic sources.
With this in mind, let's observe what is going on in present day Mecca. If you go to Mecca, you will see that people are spinning seven times around a stone cube dressed in a black garment ("kiswah"). The focal point of the stone cube is what the pilgrims call the "Black Stone". It is set in the southeast corner of the stone cube precisely facing the winter sunrise. You will see the pilgrims compete to kiss the Black Stone. If you stop any of the pilgrims and ask them why they are performing the above rituals, they will answer that by performing the above rituals, their sins will be forgiven and they will return as if they are newborns.
The precise alignment of the Black Stone with the winter sunrise is not coincidental. Allat, the main idol of the prophet's people, was a fertility goddess and this is confirmed by archeological evidence from Nabataean sites. As typical of such fertility goddesses their symbols and rituals are related to the sun. In this case, the direction of the winter sunrise marks the location where the sun is "reborn". Now if you take a closer look, you will see that the enclosure of the Black Stone is in the shape of a dilated female vulva and the Black Stone is in the shape of the crown of the head of the newborn baby deity as it is coming out of the vulva.
Come closer yet and you will see that people are kissing the head of the newborn baby deity. Kissing the head is an ancient Arab tradition for asking for forgiveness. So kissing the top of the head of the newborn idol as traditionally done to ask for forgiveness, results in the pagan's sins being wiped out as if he or she was a newborn.
Hang around for a while and you will observe that people spin seven times around the Black Stone. A pre-quranic manuscript written by Epiphanius in the fourth century CE describes the ritual of spinning seven times as part of the birth festivals of the Nabataean idols Allat and Dhushara around the winter solstice. The number seven was considered sacred in Arab and pagan symbolism in general because of the five sacred planets plus the sun and the moon that the ancients venerated. To this day many people in the Arab world celebrate what is termed in Arabic Subu', which is a traditional festival that takes place on the seventh day after the birth of a newborn and on the seventh day after a pilgrims' return. Like the pagan pilgrimage that we observed and Epiphanius described, as part of the Subu' birth celebrations, people traditionally go around the house seven times while carrying the newborn baby.
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?Epiphanias, bishop of Salamis in Cyprus, writing in the fourth century, preserves the only illuminating information about the mythology of this great cult of the Nabataeans. As he was born and educated in Palestine, and served in a monastic order there, his statement must be taken authoritatively. He says that the Nabataeans praised the virgin whose Arabic name is Khaabou. In Nabatean the Arabic nominative ending in u is regularly preserved in proper names, and Epiphanius undoubtedly heard the word ka?bu, ?square stone,? symbol in Nabataean religion for both Dusares and the great Mother-goddess Allat of the Nabataeans.
?An Arabic writer says that a four-sided stone was worshipped as Allat, who in a Nabataean inscription was called ?Mother of the gods.? ... Suidas, the Greek lexicographer ... says that the object of Dusares? worship was a black stone, four feet high and two feet wide, standing on a base of gold. Moreover Epiphanius states that Dusares was the offspring of the virgin Chaabou and only son of the ?lord?. The panegyrarchs of Nabataean cities came to Petra to assist in the festival of his birth, which was celebrated on the twenty-fifth of December
?Strabo describes the Nabataeans as a particularly abstemious people; the Greeks and Romans called Dusares the Arabian Dionysus or Bacchus; and a statue of him found in the Hauran portrays him as a deity of the vine. The cornucopia and patera are also characteristic of Dusares on coins of Nabataean cities.
?As an Arabian Bacchus, Dusares is a Greek and Roman deity; as a god of Fertility, represented by a baetyl, he is a local Arabic Earth and Sun deity; and as son of the virgin Earth-goddess, he is a Babylonian deity. The celebration of his birth in December at Petra and the northern cities of Bostra and Adraa in the Hauran with games and festivities is a replica of the spring festivals at Babylon, when the death, burial, and resurrection of Marduk were celebrated with weeping, which was exchanged for rejoicing.? (193115-1.
?The meaning of the actia dusaria at Petra may be inferred from the similar festival at Alexandria in Egypt, there called after an unexplained Egyptian word Kik?llia, or in Greek the Cronia, which also occurred at night on the twenty-fifth of December. In this festival an image of a babe was taken from the temple sanctuary and greeted with loud acclamation by the worshippers, saying, ?the Virgin has begotten.?
?According to Epiphanus (Contra Haeres., LI, 22, 9-12), the Nabataeans celebrated on the sixth of January (formerly in the East the Christian feast of the Nativity) the feast of Dusares, the son of the virgin Chaabou (corrected for Chaamou). But Epiphanius?s account rests on a linguistic confusion Chaabou ?virgin? (in Arabic ku?ba, ka?iba) is in fact the Arabic ka?ba ?cube? (a word belonging to the same root), whence ka?ba ?stele? or ?bethel?, the term which designates the Ka?ba of Mecca. This tradition is perhaps only a reminiscence of the worship of the bethel personifying Dhu ?l-Shar?. According to Ibn Hish?m, the ka?ba or bethel of Dhu ?l-Shar? was a him?, a sacred enclosure, also called haram.? Ryckmans, G. (1960 246, 247).Salaams.
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Peace brother,
Thank you for your informatice post.
?The meaning of the actia dusaria at Petra may be inferred from the similar festival at Alexandria in Egypt, there called after an unexplained Egyptian word Kik?llia, or in Greek the Cronia, which also occurred at night on the twenty-fifth of December. In this festival an image of a babe was taken from the temple sanctuary and greeted with loud acclamation by the worshippers, saying, ?the Virgin has begotten.?
?According to Epiphanus (Contra Haeres., LI, 22, 9-12), the Nabataeans celebrated on the sixth of January (formerly in the East the Christian feast of the Nativity) the feast of Dusares, the son of the virgin Chaabou (corrected for Chaamou). But Epiphanius?s account rests on a linguistic confusion Chaabou ?virgin? (in Arabic ku?ba, ka?iba) is in fact the Arabic ka?ba ?cube? (a word belonging to the same root), whence ka?ba ?stele? or ?bethel?, the term which designates the Ka?ba of Mecca. This tradition is perhaps only a reminiscence of the worship of the bethel personifying Dhu ?l-Shar?. According to Ibn Hish?m, the ka?ba or bethel of Dhu ?l-Shar? was a him?, a sacred enclosure, also called haram.? Ryckmans, G. (1960 246, 247).Epiphanius talks about a virgin mother goddess called Chaabou. He was referring to Allat. Epiphanius doesn't make any connection between Chaabou and "ka'ba". As we see above, it is modern people who make this connection. On the other hand, the stone cubes like the one in Mecca were called "jinn blocks" and Epiphanius said that an Arabian scribe had said to him, that a stone with four sides (like the one in Mecca) was worshipped as "Allat". Notice that in 3441, we are told that people serve the "jinn" so one can see how the name "jinn block" came about for such stone cube. So what is now in Mecca is no the common noun "ka'ba" (base) but is a "jinn block". The people who go to Mecca are now serving the "jinn" as per 3441.
Peace,
Ayman
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Salam,
Can I get this in arabic to send to a friend who cannot speak english!?
Peace
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Salam Ayman,
Would you happen to know the historical background/findings/differecnces between Allah and Allat? What is the difference between Sallah and Sallat or zakah and zakat in comparison? In other words, I am discussing the relevancy of "h" and "t" in comparisions as well as meanings. Your feedback would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Peace Danish,
Would you happen to know the historical background/findings/differecnces between Allah and Allat? What is the difference between Sallah and Sallat or zakah and zakat in comparison? In other words, I am discussing the relevancy of "h" and "t" in comparisions as well as meanings. Your feedback would be appreciated. Thanks.
One thing that is a big problem and results in many misunderstandings is how one transliterates between Arabic and English. There is no common standard. Hence, the same word in Arabic " " can be either rendered as "al-salat", "al-salah", "alsalaah", etc. So there is no diffference between salat and salah and it is just in the transliteration.
On the other hand, Allah and Allat are two different words in Arabic. The first means The God and the second is the proper name that literally means the goddess.
I hope this helps.
Peace,
Ayman