Category: Makkah

  • The Soul of Hajj

    What then is hajj? In essence, hajj is man’s evolution toward Allah; his return to Him. It is a symbolic demonstration of the philosophy of creation of Adam (AS: alayhis salam), the first man. To further illustrate this, it may be stated that the performance of hajj is a simultaneous show or exhibit of many…

  • Refu­ta­tion of P. N. Oak’s Claims Against The Ka’bah

    Refu­ta­tion of P. N. Oak’s Claims Against The Ka’bah

    Discover the truth behind P. N. Oak's claims regarding the Vedic religion's impact on Islam. This article delves into historical facts, exposing fallacies about Ka'bah's origin. Read now to separate fact from fiction and understand the real story!

  • The Ka’a­ba And The Abra­ham­ic Tradition

    The Ka’a­ba And The Abra­ham­ic Tradition

    The story of Prophet Ibrahim's migration from Babylonia to Syria-Palestine (Kan'an), then to Egypt, then his return to Palestine and subsequently his coming with his wife Hajar and son Isma'il to Makka is well-known. These epoch-making travels took place roughly at the beginning of the second millennium B.C. Ibrahim had at first called his own…

  • Do Mus­lims Wor­ship The Black Stone of the Kaaba ?

    Do Mus­lims Wor­ship The Black Stone of the Kaaba ?

    I believe that it is time that a response to this rather annoying polemic about the nature of the Black Stone (al-Hajar al-Aswad) and its significance in Islam by those who have an axe to grind about Islam (or otherwise known tenderly as the "Islamophobics") is finally needed. We will look at the common allegations…

  • An Opin­ion on The Hajj

    C. Snouck Hur­gron­je (1857−1936) was a famous Dutch ori­en­tal­ist as well as the main archi­tect of the Dutch colo­nial pol­i­cy towards Islam in Indone­sia, which, under his direc­tions, was much more inter­fer­ing in the inter­nal affairs of the Mus­lims than the British pol­i­cy in the Indi­an sub-continent. In those days when colo­nial­ism and slav­ery used to…