"Amr ibn Luhayy brought with him (to Mecca) an idol called ... "

Amr ibn Luhayy brought with him (to Mecca) an idol called Hubal from the
land of Hit in Mesopotamia.59 Hubal was one the Quraysh's greatest idols. So
he set it up at the well inside the Ka'ba and ordered the people to worship
it. Thus a man coming back from a journey would visit it and circumambulate
the House before going to his family, and he would shave his hair before it.
Muhammad ibn Ishaq said that Hubal was (made of) cornelian pearl in the
shape of a human. His right hand was broken off and the Quraysh made a gold
hand for it. It had a vault for the sacrifice, and there were seven arrows
cast (On issues relating to) a dead person, virginity and marriage. Its
offering was a hundred camels. It had a custodian (hajib). (Azraqi 1858:
73-74) Finally, among the pictures that decorated the interior of the Ka'ba
in pre-Islamic days, there was one, as Azraqi says, "of Abraham as an old
man." But because the figure was shown performing divination by arrows, it
seems likely that it was Hubal. The suspicion is strengthened by the fact
that when Muhammad finally took over the sanctuary, he permitted the picture
of Jesus to remain but had that of "Abraham" removed with the dry comment,
"What has Abraham to do with arrows?"" Has Hubal depicted as "Abraham the
Ancient" anything to do with the "Ancient House," as the Ka'ba is often
called? Or, to put the question more directly: Was it Hubal rather than
Allah who was "Lord of the Ka'ba"?" Probably not. The Quran, which makes no
mention of Hubal, would certainly have raised the contention. Hubal was, by
the Arabs' own tradition, a newcomer to both Mecca and the Ka'ba, an
outsider introduced by the ambitious Amr ibn Luhayy, and the tribal token
around which the Quraysh later attempted to construct a federation with the
surrounding Kinana, whose chief deity Hubal was. Hubal was introduced into
the Ka'ba, but he never supplanted the god Allah, whose House it continued
to be. (The Hajj, F. E. Peters, p 3-41, 1994)

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KILLFILES are great! Following is a list of "village idiots" bound and
gagged in the straitjackets of my KILLFILE: Firnando, Sabastawi, LeNoir,
FARIS JAWAD, ABU ALWAFA, Franko Pizza, Katrina , Mujahid , Nasser, Sinbad,
Saif Al-Islam, Free Palestine, Salem, Nidal, Si-Salah, Troll Hunter, R
Geovani, Rudolph W. Giuliani, Ilan Ramon, ªk½ü¤jªk¦n, Blondes Gaulloises,
Romero, Salim

Regarding Israel, GOD said: "I will bless those who bless you, and I will
curse him who curses you. All of the families of the earth will be blessed
in you."
(Genesis 12:3) <== (this is why the "Islamic world" is in ruins)

Regarding the reestablishment of Israel, GOD said: Now therefore thus saith
the Lord, the God of Israel . . . Behold, I will gather them out of all the
countries, whither I have driven them, in mine anger . . . and I will bring
them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely: and they
shall be my people and I will be their God .
.. . (Deuteronomy 32:36-38) <== (this expalins the miracle "rebirth" of
Israel in 1948)

God Bless Israel!

God Bless America!




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