Reuters Even the Kaaba is tied to the Prophet Ibrahim, who built it with the help of his son under orders from God, who told him to invite people to make pilgrimage. It is said the black stone used to ...

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Yet an ancient Jewish legend predicts that when the Messiah comes and resurrection day occurs; the Kaab’a in holy Mecca, will go to join the Temple Mount’s Foundation Stone in holy Jerusalem ...

Houthi Politburo member Muhammad Al-Bukhaiti said on X that the performance's resemblance to the Muslim religious rituals indicated that de-facto Saudi ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was ...

How bowing to the Kabah is NOT bowing to an idol, or going round a stone and kissing a stone does not make them idol worshippers, it simply makes them stone kissers! Indeed Prophet Muhammad claimed ...

In pre-Islamic Arabia time of “jahiliyyah”, some pagan idols were placed around the Kaaba but in 630 CE, Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) led the believers from Medina to Mecca and cleansed the Kaaba ...

However, over time the Kaaba lost its monotheistic purity, and became a place of idol worship and polytheistic religious practice.

The Kaaba marked the location where the sacred world intersected with the profane world; the embedded Black Stone meteorite was a further symbol of for it fell from the sky and thus linked heaven ...

Cuddalore: Three stone idols including deities of Lord Krishna and Garuda have been found on the shore of a fishing hamlet near Parangipettai in Cudda.