The true story of the construction of the temple of mecca (5149 hits)

Islamic claims that Abraham and Ishmael founded the temple in the city of Mecca are recognized as false, when we study the black stone, which was the heart of the temple.
Abraham never went to where Mecca was eventually built, nor did his son, Ishmael, or Ishmael's son, Nabaioth.
This story was created by Muhammad's biographer and his companions (Ibn Ishak).
Asa'd Abu Karb was the True Builder of Kaabah in the Beginning of the 5th century A.D.
It is said that prior to the construction of the Kaabah, a tent existed on the spot where it was built{ii}.
{2} The tribe of Khuzaa'h came from Yemen around the second century A.D. In the fourth century A.D., they moved toward the area where Mecca was eventually built. Since they didn't find a temple there in which to worship, they pitched their tent in a field.
Information from the writers of the eight century A.D., who depended on information from the time of Muhammad, indicates the Kaabah was built at the beginning of the 5th century A.D. by a Himyarite pagan Yemeni leader named Asa'd Abu Karb. He is also called Abu Karb Asa'd, and he reigned in Yemen from 410 to 435 A.D. {iii}. The fact that the Islamic historians admit that Asa'd Abu Karb was the first ruler in history to dress the Kaabah is a significant indicator that he was the true builder of the Kaabah {iv}. Dressing a temple in Arabia was the second stage of its construction. It included decoratively finishing the inside walls, putting carpets on the walls and the floor, and adding textured and crocheted items on various parts of the interior building. (Arabians will not pray in a temple which is not dressed). Asa'd Abu Karb used Amer from Azed to build the inside walls of the Kaabah {V}. (Azed is a tribe which came from Yemen at the same time Khuzaah's tribe came.) So Asa'd Abu Karb, the first to build and dress the Kaabah, must have first built it when there was just a tent where the Yemeni tribe of Khuzaah's worshipped. Asa'd Abu Karb, also called Tubb'a, occupied the city of Yathrib before coming to Mecca {vi}. It seems he found many temples in Yathrib, but when he came to Mecca, he didn't find any temple there.
Because the inhabitants were recent emigrants from Yemen, Asa'd Abu Karb built them a modest temple im Yemeni style. He did this to connect the people with himself. He also wrote a poem in which he described the sun setting in a spring of black mud, something Muhammad included in the Qur'an.
Note: The Yemeni tribe of Khuzaa'h built the city of Mecca in the fourth century A.D. Yemeni pagan religious worship has left its fingerprints all over the temple, showing that Abraham and Ishmael could not have built it.
The important Egyptian scholar, Tah Hussein, has criticized Islamic tradition for linking the construction of Mecca's temple to Abraham and Ishmael. {xvi} Tah said:
"The case for this episode is very obvious because it is of recent date and came into vogue just before the rise of Islam. Islam exploited it for religious reasons." {xvii}
If Muslims search diligently in history, like the great Egyptian scholar did, they will reach the same conclusion.

References:
{ii} {2} Al-Azruqi, Akhbar Mecca, 1/6
{iii} A. Jamme, W.F., Sabaean Inscriptions from Mahram Bilqis (Ma'rib), the Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1962.
{iv} Al-Azruqi, Akhbar Mecca, 1:173; Yaqut al-Hamawi, Mujam al-Buldan, 4:463
{v} Ibn Saad, Tabakat 1, page 64
{vi} Ibn Hisham 1, page 20
{xvi} Quotation by Alessandro Bausani, L' Islam, Garzanti Milano, 1980, page 208
{xvii} Quoted in Mizan al-Islam by Anwar al-jundi, page 170; Behind the Veil, page 184. Posted By:
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