Why do muslims kiss and worship the black stone at the kabba for their pilgrimage isnt that idolatry? what is that stone there for anyways?
2006-09-26 13:01:21 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
why did muhammad do it then
2006-09-26 13:09:40 · update #1
VERY GOOD QUESTION!
I felt the same way when I first heard about the stone as a Christian, but I became Muslim on reading Quran for four years before actually going among Muslims.
After 19 years being a Muslim it was explained to me that one companion of the prophet kissed the stone and said he would not have done it if he did not see the prophet do it, which proves to me that the prophet's duty consisted only of reciting the Quran plainly and publicly and he was not authorised to legislate or advise on any matter that Quran did not authorise.
There are examples in the Quran of errors made by the prophet in his dealings with his adopted son and his wife and with his wives and with a blind man who went to him.
The Sunni and Shia have hadith that somehow authorise the stoning to death for adultery, which is not cammanded or condoned or even mentioned in Quran and they, Sunni and Shia, use hadith, or what they claim the prophet said, to make Islam what it is today, with their innovations and inventions and their priesthood (you hear them described as clerics and they accept this) which should have them outside of Islam.
You have therefore raised a very important point and Muslims should take note, in this Ramadan, that Islam is Quran as Ramadan is for Quran, and let us bring Islam into the twenty-first century as Islam and not as Sunni and Shia mockery of Quran.
The prophet died 14 centuries ago but the Quran is alive and well except for the falsification of the Word of Allah by the sheikhs and imams.
2006-09-26 13:28:03 · answer #1 · answered by mythkiller-zuba 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
They do it basically because Muhammad did it, thereby signalling approval of the practice. It is not considered idolatry. They are not worshipping it, but simply carrying out a tradition to kiss it. Kissing does not equal idolatry. If it did, then you would be committing "idolatry" every time you kissed your spouse.
2006-09-26 13:07:05 · answer #2 · answered by Heron By The Sea 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We kiss it but not worship it...we do this as we believe that the black stone will be brought in the judgement day and testify that we kissed it, touched it or pointed to it...but we don't worship it at all.
2006-09-26 13:06:30 · answer #3 · answered by mido 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
we do not warship the black stone in Kaaba, it has a story when Ibrahim was building the Kaaba and he needed a stone for the people to start from and he sent his son Ismail to look for one and when he came back he found his father already finished and he asked him where did you get this stone he told him that an angel from haven sent by god give it to him the angle was Gabriel, the stone was very white and shine and it was said that it terned black by the sens of humans
2006-09-26 13:13:12 · answer #4 · answered by ♥ amal_dxb ♥ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
worshiping a stone and kissing a stone are far different.
2006-09-26 13:04:51 · answer #5 · answered by Purple Rain 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
calm down
2006-09-26 13:03:37 · answer #6 · answered by ! 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It represents Satan's rear end. It's closer than Mohhamed's rear end.
2006-09-26 13:05:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
they don`t! they kiss the red dynamite..
2006-09-26 13:06:48 · answer #8 · answered by Sir Alex 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
because they have a black spirit.
2006-09-26 13:03:44 · answer #9 · answered by jp 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Why do WHITEY be kissin BLACK @$$!
2006-09-26 13:06:19 · answer #10 · answered by Tegghiaio Aldobrandi 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋