The Valley Of Bakka
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From the Quran
396. The first House appointed for men was that at Bakka Full of blessing and of guidance for all kinds of beings
397. In it are Signs Manifest; the Station (Maqam) of Abraham; whoever enters it attains security; Hajj thereto is a duty men owe to Allah,- those who can afford the journey; but if any deny faith, Allah stands not in need of any of His creatures.From Psalms
5 Happy is the man whose strength is in Thee; in whose heart are the highways.
6 Passing through the valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; yea, the early rain clotheth it with blessings.
7 They go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion.Could this Bakka / Bakka Valley is the one in Lebanon?
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekaa_ValleyAlso known as Baalbek
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BaalbekIt is quite strange; the romans erect many HUGE temple to their gods (Jupiter, Venus and friends) in this place; thousands miles away from their home.
Why would they even do that? They didn't build that kind of temple elsewhere..
From modern archelogocial point of view; little is known about this place before the romans and greek hellenism period..This place also hold a huge stone weighs approximately 1,000 tons - almost as heavy as three Boeing 747 aircraft.
http//www.world-mysteries.com/mpl_5b1.htmIntriguing, share your thought here..
Salam / Peace
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From the Quran
396. The first House appointed for men was that at Bakka Full of blessing and of guidance for all kinds of beings
397. In it are Signs Manifest; the Station (Maqam) of Abraham; whoever enters it attains security; Hajj thereto is a duty men owe to Allah,- those who can afford the journey; but if any deny faith, Allah stands not in need of any of His creatures.From Psalms
5 Happy is the man whose strength is in Thee; in whose heart are the highways.
6 Passing through the valley of Baca they make it a place of springs; yea, the early rain clotheth it with blessings.
7 They go from strength to strength, till each appears before God in Zion.Could this Bakka / Bakka Valley is the one in Lebanon?
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bekaa_ValleyAlso known as Baalbek
http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BaalbekIt is quite strange; the romans erect many HUGE temple to their gods (Jupiter, Venus and friends) in this place; thousands miles away from their home.
Why would they even do that? They didn't build that kind of temple elsewhere..
From modern archelogocial point of view; little is known about this place before the romans and greek hellenism period..This place also hold a huge stone weighs approximately 1,000 tons - almost as heavy as three Boeing 747 aircraft.
http//www.world-mysteries.com/mpl_5b1.htmIntriguing, share your thought here..
Salam / Peace
Another possibility is in the meaning of the Hebrew "Baca". It is an actual place, but it also refers to a shrub that weeps fluid when it is cut, hence sometimes a metaphor for tears. The reference in Psalm 84 gives the imagery of people passing through a desolate valley and their tears water the ground and make pools of water. It could be an allegory for penitential suffering or repentance. With this in mind, could the Quran be saying that the first house of worship for men was not a place or building, but in the kind of geniune repentance that sometimes manifests as sorrowful weeping? When we are "cut" by the sword of the word of God, do we weep, as the shrubs in the valley of Bakka?
Peace.
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Peace,
Yeah it's amazing is all I can say for the moment.
Sad though that alot of this old buildings have been destroyed.
So lets resume Abraham, His kiblah/direction was kaaba/spirit/body=system and He had hajj/debates in Bakka..... and ? Is this all?
Maria