Muslim scholars say that Abraham has built the Islamic Ka'aba with his son. If this is true, why it is not shown in the old or new testiments? Why did not Jews or Christians hear about the Ka'aba until prophet Muhammad's era?
2007-02-19 03:01:51 · 11 answers · asked by Bionimetiket 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
They will say because it was taken out of the Bible. I am surprised no one has said that they fact that their whole reace is supposed to come out of an illicit affair with a slave is not a fake version of the story.
2007-02-19 03:07:23 · answer #1 · answered by Love Shepherd 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There are many things that are not in the bible. The tanach(old testament) is nothing more than a history book. People of the jewish faith aknowledge this. In fact, the definiton of the bible is "book of stories" in hebrew. So that is self explanitory. It is a book of events and words of some of the kings and prophets. Most scholars believe that most of the bible(old testament) was written by the priest ezra. A couple of pages in genesis can not tell the whole entire life of abraham(pbuh). Impossible. As it is the truth that no book can explain your entire life from start to finish. In islam, there is such a book. But that is the book of allah. It belongs to none but HIm alone. In it has everything written that was and is to be. The quran states it that if the sea were ink, the pen would run out of ink because of all that is written. In the book of allah.
The story of the kabaa was revealed to muhammad(pbuh). That is how he knew that it was built by abraham(pbuh) and his son. Amongst many other things that were revealed, but not spoken or written down. Peace be upon the prophet muhammad(pbuh).
PEACE!
2007-02-19 03:59:36 · answer #2 · answered by xpected 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes Prophet Ibrahim(PBUH*) built the Ka'aba with Ishmael(PBUH*). Because the original Injeel that was revealed to Isa(PBUH*) and the original Torah that was revealed upon Musa(PBUH*) have long ago vanished. That is why the Christians and Jews don't know about Ibrahim(PBUH*) building the Ka'aba and being a Muslim.
2007-02-19 03:20:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Abraham never travelled to the area now known as Mecca, therefore it is impossible for him to have built the kaaba. Also, as the Kaaba originally housed the pantheon of Arab gods, it is unlikely that the first person to disavow idolatry would build such a thing.
2007-02-19 03:08:44 · answer #4 · answered by mzJakes 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He was the father of Ishmael who is the father of the whole Muslim community. It is shown in Genesis, Genesis 13 or 14 or so. It doesn't say directly, Ishmael is the father of the whole Muslim community. Ishmael was the son of Hagar, who was the result of a lack of faith for Abraham. God promised him a son and Abraham took the matter into his own hands. This created Ishmael and how many people have died because of this one sin? How many more are going to die because of one sin? And who said that their actions are never going to change the world. Obviously they can and will.
2007-02-19 03:39:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Mecca is a city. the present Kaaba is purely some hundred years old, the previous one grow to be badly broken in a hurricane. there has been a temple of a few style on the positioning for hundreds of years.
2016-10-16 00:26:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well as you probably know a controversy has raged between the people of the Bible and the House of Islam as to which of the sons of Abraham (pbuh), Ishmael or Isaac was offered as a sacrifice.
The Bible is quite clear in designating the offering:
"And he (God Almighty) said, take now thy son, THINE ONLY SON . . ., whom thou lovest, and et thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering . . ." Genesis 22:2.
If at anytime, an offspring of Abraham (pbuh) can be described as "thine only son: it could only be Ishmael, because for more than thirteen years, he was the only son and seed of Abraham.
God Almighty acknowledges Ishmael as the "son and seed" of Abraham in no less than twelve places in the Book of Genesis alone. At no time was Isaac the only son and seed of Abraham!
The false pen of the scribe was in the hand of the Jews who edited the Books of Moses (pbuh), as the prophet Jeremiah bewails:
"How do ye say, We are wise, and the law (the Torah) of the Lord is with us? Lo, certainly in VAIN made he it; the PEN OF THE SCRIBE IS IN VAIN." Jeremiah 8:8
When the Jews are found to convert an Israelite into an Ishmaelite when no motives are involved, then how much easier for them to change the word "you only son Ishmael" to : your only son Isaac!"
"Amasa was a man's son, whose name was Ithra an Israelite . . . " 2 Samuel 17:25
Contadicted by
". . . and the father of Amasa was Jether (dame as Ithra) the Ishmaelite." 1 Chronicles 2:17
There are many other things in the Bible which Muslims don't agree with and have their reasons for. But as you can see many things have been changed.
Even the Bible confesses to itself being changed by scribes:
How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain. (Jeremiah 8:8)
The Ka'aba was used for Idol worship, by the Pagan Arabs, so it did exist before the time of Muhammad (pbuh).
2007-02-19 03:15:11 · answer #7 · answered by By Any Means Necessary 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Christians and Jews have went to the Kaaba before, before prophets time. Muslims do believe that Abraham built it. The bible has been changed many times, and so did the Torah, so authentic writings are very rare to find in the bible.
2007-02-19 03:07:26 · answer #8 · answered by A broken puzzle 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Because Jim Darwin has kept this information secret.
2007-02-19 03:05:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
History says he did!...But hey...I dont give a **** about it lol
2007-02-19 03:06:15 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋