Who built the Kaaba in Mecca? Some muslims claim Abraham built it. Lol what the hell?

Question

I thought it dropped down from the skies as a gift from the moon god "Il illah" as the early pagan arabs believed it to be,soooo why did some muslims fit Abraham into this story of the pagan Kaaba? Abraham was a follower of Elohim and a strict monotheist. How could he have funded the building of a pagan monument?

Answer 1

The Kaaba was rebuilt a few hundred years ago a few metres away from the original site as the former building was almost a ruin. At some time, heavy rain collected on the flat roof, which collapsed, but I don't remember if it was the old or present building. That older building was not the first either. The latest restoration and repairs were about 20 years ago.



The Interior is lined with marble up about double head height, the upper walls and ceiling have a geometric pattern in what is probably silk. Three solid timber columns support the roof. A rod between the columns carries about 20 oil lamps. At one corner, behind a brass covered door, a staircase goes up to the roof. The walls have inscriptions from the Koran on gold or brass panels and some commemorating people who have restored or repaired the building. There is a marble covered cabinet more or less opposite the outer door.



On an outside corner, in a big silver mount there is a black stone which is almost certainly a meteorite, which was supposed to have been picked up by Abraham. It was broken when stolen centuries ago and has been very worn by thousands of people touching it.

Answer 2

Perhaps you should consult the Bible if you don't believe in the Quran. It mentions Abraham and Ishmael going to the desert. Also, they didn't make it for pagan gods, they made it for God. It was later taken over by pagans as time went by like the Second Temple in Jerusalem was for a short time under Antiochus IV Epiphanes of the Seleucid Empire (see source).



Also, "Li illah" makes no sense. Perhaps it could mean "a god" in a lesser spoken dialect. Pagan gods mentioned in the Quran include Illat, Uzza and Manat but these were all female and had nothing to do with the moon.



Finally, the Kaaba did not fall from Heaven. A small stone called "Hajr-e-Aswad" fell from Heaven and its main purpose was to mark the place to build the Kaaba upon.

Answer 3

According to Islam historical, the first Kaaba is build from an angel, but because of the mega flood during the Prophet Noah cause Kaaba being wipe away and need to be rebuild again. Yeah it is Prophet Abraham and his son Ismael who rebuild it but after that our Prophet Muhammad be a judge to his community repair the Kaaba. Something like that. :)

Answer 4

The Kaaba is a normal stone building. Built by local people. There are some small fragments of a broken up meteorite inlaid close to a corner of the building. THAT is what "fell down from the sky" (obviously) and is referred to as "the black stone", and not the Kaaba.

Answer 5

Long before the days of Muhammed, Mecca had been a sacred centre to which Arabs came annually on a pilgrimage to the sacred cube-shaped shrine known as the Ka'ba. In the shrine was a black stone traditionally believed to have been brought down to Abraham by the angel Gabriel, a stone so holy (according to legend) that its pure white radiance drew pilgrims to Mecca like a beacon until human wickedness turned it black. This stone is called al-Hajr al-Aswad.



In the sixth century the tribe of Quraysh inhabited Mecca and controlled the caravan trade. They promoted the status of the Ka'ba so that it came to be regarded as sacrosanct territory. Thus other Arab tribes hesitated to attack it. But under the leadership of Yazid I, uprisings at Mecca and Medina were swiftly suppressed by the Umayyad Syrian army. This was around 683 (the seventh century). Medina was plundered while Mecca was besieged and the Ka'ba, the sacred shrine, destroyed. I do not know whether the black stone was destroyed or taken away then. I do wonder!



However, Muslims know that later, in the 10th century, the Qarmatians raided Mecca and carried off the black stone from the Ka'ba. So even if the original stone was still in place, it was taken away then. Was it recaptured and restored? I do not know.



Muslims acknowledge that the stone is probably a meteorite. It is about 1.5 metres (or, 5 feet) high and is set in a corner at the south-east side inside the Ka'ba. It is because of the ancient tradition associated with it that Muslims consider it to be divinely special - brought down from heaven by the angel Gabriel. Yet, if it was originally radiating pure white, but became black through contamination with the sin of the people, one might feel it should not be venerated at all!



I add here part of an answer to a similar Yahoo question about 8 years ago, by catalyst:

"...the revered "black stone" (Alhajar Al-Aswad) is a special divine meteorite that pre-dates creation that fell at the foot of Adam and Eve.

It is presently embedded in the south eastern corner of the Kaba. Muslims touch and kiss the black stone during Hajj but non-Muslims are strictly forbidden to even touch it.

Before Muhammad appeared, the Kaaba was surrounded by 360 idols, and every Arab house had its god. Arabs also believed in jinn (subtle beings), and some vague divinity with many offspring.

Among the major deities of the pre-Islamic era were al-Lat ("the Goddess"), worshiped in the shape of a square stone; al-Uzzah ("the Mighty"), a goddess identified with the morning star and worshiped as a thigh-bone-shaped slab of granite between al Talf and Mecca; Manat, the goddess of destiny, worshiped as a black stone on the road between Mecca and Medina; and the moon god, Hubal, whose worship was connected with the Black Stone of the Kaaba."



A Muslim answered: "The black stone is not of this world, it is sent by god from heaven. The kaaba where we know the black stone is part of, was the first house of god on earth built by prophet adam, it was later updated by prophet ibrahim. Rituals which are performed at the kabaa go back to prophet ibrahim and the decendants prophet muhammad. No one who believes in one god ever worships anything or anybody else. The rituals which are performed are at the order of god. It is obediance to god and nothing more."



There are different answers to this question. I have given you my own, another person's, and a Muslim's.

Answer 6

Muslims believe Abraham and his son Ishmael built Kaaba, another school of thought believes Adam landed in Arabia he laid the foundations of Kaaba the first house of Allah.

Answer 7

The cubic structure suggests that it was originally a 'Holy of Holies'.

Answer 8

When Was The Kaaba Built

Answer 9

Rose whatever proof you will get you still disbelieve in God Revelation Elloh=Allah and Allaah in aramaic from christian dictionary i gave you before that you still disbelieve in your own source and insult god



now about Mecca



Quran

Surah Ali imran 3:96-99"Lo! the first Sanctuary appointed for mankind was that at Becca, a blessed place, a guidance to the peoples;In it are clear signs [such as] the standing place of Abraham. And whoever enters it shall be safe. And [due] to Allah from the people is a pilgrimage to the House - for whoever is able to find thereto a way. But whoever disbelieves - then indeed, Allah is free from need of the worlds.Say: "O people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians)! Why do you reject the Ayat of Allah (proofs, evidences, verses, lessons, signs, revelations, etc.) while Allah is Witness to what you do?"Say, "O People of the Scripture, why do you avert from the way of Allah those who believe, seeking to make it [seem] deviant, while you are witnesses [to the truth]? And Allah is not unaware of what you do.""





bible:

Psalm 84 :: New International Version (NIV)

1 How lovely is your dwelling place,

O LORD Almighty!

2 My soul yearns, even faints,

for the courts of the LORD ;

my heart and my flesh cry out

for the living God.



3 Even the sparrow has found a home,

and the swallow a nest for herself,

where she may have her young-

a place near your altar,

O LORD Almighty, my King and my God.

4 Blessed are those who dwell in your house;

they are ever praising you.

Selah



5 Blessed are those whose strength is in you,

who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.

6 As they pass through the Valley of Baca, "



that was about David pbuh according to the bible you use today that he was talking about it.





Ibn Ishaq, the 8th centuryArab Muslim historian , relates that during the renovation of Kaaba undertaken by Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, in 605 CE, the Quraysh found an inscription in one of the corners of the foundation of the building that mentions Bakkah. Composed in Syriac, it was incomprehensible to the Quraysh until a Jew translated it for them as follows: "I am Allah, the Lord of Bakka. I created it on the day I created heaven and earth and formed the sun and the moon, and I surrounded it with seven pious angels. It will stand while its two mountains stand, a blessing to its people with milk and water."



F. E. Peters (1995). The Hajj: the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and the holy places (Reprint, illustrated ed.). Princeton University Press. p. 47. ISBN 0-691-02619-X, 9780691026190.



here is Sirat Al of Nabi from ibn Ishaq as it above stated, but this one is the orginal from ibn ishaq of biography of the prophet it says it there but its translated as Mekka instead of Baca because Mekka have many names even that in arabic one its writen as Beca: بكة‎



https://archive.org/stream/Sirat-lifeOfMuhammadBy-ibnIshaq/SiratIbnIahaqInEnglish_djvu.txt



Abraham was pure monotheist unlike christian yes and the Kabah before those pagans under the time of the prophet when the religion wasnt done there was still idols there but when it got completed islam all idols was destroyed but mecca before long time ago before prophet was born they were monotheist without a singel idol there.



Most of the Arabs had complied with the call of Prophet Ishmael alaihi salam, and professed the religion of his father Prophet Abraham alaihi salam. They had worshipped Allâh, professed His Oneness and followed His religion a long time until they forgot part of what they had been reminded of. However, they still maintained such fundamental beliefs such as monotheism as well as various other aspects of Abraham’s religion.

Until the time when a chief of Khuza‘a, namely ‘Amr bin Luhai, who was renowned for righteousness, charity, reverence and care for religion, and was granted unreserved love and obedience by his tribesmen.

One day, he came back from a trip to Syria where he saw people worship idols. This is a phenomenon he approved of and believed it to be righteous since Syria was the locus of Messengers and Scriptures.

And then he brought with him back an idol (Hubal) which he placed in the middle of Al-Ka‘bah and summoned people to worship it. Readily enough, paganism spread all over Makkah and, then, to Hijaz, people of Makkah being custodians of not only the Sacred House but the whole Haram as well. As a result of this, a great many idols, bearing different names, were introduced into the area. [Mukhtasar Seerat-ar-Rasool p.12]



An idol called ‘Manat’, for instance, was worshipped in a place known as Al-Mushallal near Qadid on the Red Sea. Another, ‘Al-Lat’ in Ta’if, a third, ‘Al-‘Uzza’ in the valley of Nakhlah, and so on and so forth. Polytheism prevailed and the number of idols increased everywhere in Hijaz.

It was even mentioned that ‘Amr bin Luhai, with the help of a jinn companion who told him that the idols of Noah’s folk – Wadd, Suwa‘, Yaguth, Ya‘uk and Nasr – were buried in Jeddah, dug them out and took them to Tihama. Upon pilgrimage time, the idols were distributed among the tribes to take back home. [Bukhari 1/222]

Every tribe, and house, had their own idols, and the Sacred House was also overcrowded with them. On the Prophet’s conquest of Makkah, 360 idols were found around Al-Ka‘bah. He broke them down and had them removed and burned up. [Mukhtasar Seerat-ar-Rasool p.13-54]



There was 4 people of Arabs from mecca that believed in Allah before prophet was sent do you know who zayd ibn amr ibn nawfal who believed in god of Abaraham in oness of Allah and there were jews and Christians who worshiped Allah too



https://tasfiyatarbiya.wordpress.com/2011/02/23/zayd-bin-%E2%80%98amr-bin-nufail-al-quraishee/