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We have just left the hajj season behind
which means millions of muslims traveled to Mecca to perform the Islamic pilgrimage
Which is obligatory for every Muslim
Every single follower of Islam has to perform the Hajj
at least once in their lifetime if they are able to
and this is one of the five pillars of Islam
which means it is part of the foundation of Islamic religion and life
This is how fundamental and important this practice is
in fact Muhammad once listed the best three deeds
As; Believing in Allah in his Messenger
Jihad for the sake of Allah,
which does not mean struggling for equal rights for women
and third; The Pilgrimage
But what are the origins of this pilgrimage?
This is where we face a serious problem
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Let's get back to the pagan pilgrimage
Islam claims that the hajj goes back to Abraham
and that the same God who sent The Books of The Christians and Jews
also instructed humans to perform this pilgrimage
If we look at the history of the hajj
and that islamic sources from a non islamic point of view however
It rather looks like islam adopted the hajj
and much of its practices from pre-islamic arab polytheists
and then claimed it was based on Abraham and monotheism
If one of the central concepts in islam
is indeed a mixture of arab pagan practices
Then this heavily undermines Islam's credibility
Which is claimed to be the pure monotheistic religion
According to Islamic sources
The pilgrimage was first instated by Abraham on the orders of Allah
Abraham once came to the desert of Mecca
To leave his wife Hagar and their son Ishmael
in the desert with little food and little to drink
Abraham left and Hagar was desperate
but then Allah by a miracle caused water to gush from the earth
The Zamzam water
This water is holy. It does not only keep you hydrated.
It also satisfies your hunger and feeds you
I hear you ask. So can I survive by just drinking the Zamzam water?
Well only if you drink it with faith
So basically it's bullshit
Anyways, because of this water
tribes formed around the zamzam well and Ishmael grew up and married among these tribes
and later Abraham came back and said
Hey. What's up? Long time no see
and then Allah instructed Abraham and Ishmael to build this cube
The Kaaba for Allah
and for Abraham to go out into the world
and let the people know that they should henceforth
Visit the Kaaba for pilgrimage.
This is a whole weird story
First off, Abraham was never anywhere near Mecca
by any account ever before Islam
Abraham lived far in the north where Hebrew people lived
and built temples there and wandered in the wilderness far up there
and had his family there
Hagar was Abraham's concubine not wife
They were left and found water in the wilderness of Beersheba, which is here
Not here
They settled nearby in a place called
Desert of Paran
Which is around here
and Ishmael married a woman from Egypt not from some tribe far away in the south
to a place they have never been
moreover by no records ever that Abraham instruct people to go on a pilgrimage
to some place in Central or South Arabia
which is why no Jews or Christians ever performed any pilgrimage like that
to Mecca or to the Kaaba
in fact, nobody ever
Except Arabs in Arabia used to go to Mecca for a pilgrimage
Although Islam implies that Abraham was sent to inform the world to do so
This practice is completely foreign to Jews and Christians
and it has no place in their holy books or their history
Of course Muslims say that it is foreign to Jews and Christians
because they corrupted their books at some point
But no one can prove that
and why would they corrupt their own scripture and remove something from their texts
that was supposedly so central to their religion
and to their tradition
Firstly no one does that
People want to believe what they believe
They believe because they believe in the afterlife
and they want to be rewarded
They wanted to go to the good place
People don't just throw themselves into fire and annihilation willingly.
Secondly, it is virtually impossible
that that ever happened
And the Kaaba and Mecca and that pilgrimage were entirely removed from a religion
and vanished from Jewish scripture, history and practice with no traces at all
That's like Christians removing Jesus from Christianity completely
and no Christian today having anything to do with Jesus
No traces
Imagine
or Muslims completely removing Mohammed
And no Muslim today knowing who or what a Mohammed was
That's impossible.
Thirdly
Considering Islam's claim that it was also Allah who sent Jesus with a holy message
that would mean that Christians
Who evidently never had anything to do with the Kaaba in Mecca
adopted a wrong and corrupted religion from Jews
and that all Christians were always incomplete and misled
which would mean Allah and his actions failed completely
when it comes to Christians who demonstrably never knew of the Kaaba
or performed any pilgrimage like this
What this shows to me is very clear
The Kaaba isn't Abrahamic concept and the Islamic Hajj is an Islamic invention
What makes this more evident is
the fact that the Kaaba was not mentioned in the writings of any Jews,
Christian or other for example Greek historians, especially not as an Abrahamic artifact
Can you imagine?
The Kaaba was supposedly so important to Jews
It was a central part of their religion
But they completely left it alone down there in Arabia
If the Kaaba had been central to Jewish tradition
And according to Islam it must have been so
then Jews would know it as holy
they were protected by all means
They would reside around the Kaaba in masses
Jews still stayed in Jerusalem for hundreds and thousands of years.
There were no Jews in Mecca at the time Muhammad was around
although the local polytheists were weak merchants
who were totally tolerant of other people's religious beliefs
Now when we look at history
The first time we ever hear about anything like the Kaaba is in the sources of
Ptolemy II, Agathachides and Siculus
but they only mention a temple in arabia
that is revered by Arabs. Arab pagans
And although identified by some as the Kaaba
This is a misidentification and most likely refers to a temple of The Tsamud
an ancient civilization
Who resided far in the north in Madain Saleh
most prominently around mount Athlab where they had their holy temples and artifacts
So even this early source doesn't actually mention the Kaaba
At this point, it is still unknown.
What is mostly assumed is
Well, it's very cloudy
Many different sources Islamic or un-Islamic say completely different stuff
but a likely view
Is that the Kaaba was first established by Arab polytheist tribes
most likely from Yemen
and at some point in history not long before Muhammad
It was conquered by ancestors of the Quraysh tribe
Which Muhammad was a descendent of
It is unclear which deity or deities it was dedicated to before the Quraysh took it
But the Quraysh tribe placed their beloved idol Hubal into the Kaaba
The Kaaba was declared a sanctuary, where everyone
no matter their beliefs was safe and no fighting could take place
Interestingly, Islam continued this sanctuary practice
and even included it in the Quran
The pagans also had sacred months in which fighting was forbidden
and Islam adopted even that and inserted it in the Quran
most notoriously it tells the Muslims that after the sacred months have passed
They should hunt, ambush and slaughter the polytheists wherever they are found
Why does Islam adopt something like the sacred months from pagans
that has nothing to do with Abrahamic religion
In fact in Yemen, there was another Kaaba known as Dhul Khalasa
and guess what when Mohammed conquered Mecca and the Kaaba
He ordered his people to go to Yemen and destroy the other Kaaba
his army met with resistance and created a massacre
destroyed the Yemeni Kaaba and
returned to Muhammad in praise.
So besides the Kaaba in Mecca, which was at the time polytheists temple
there was another Kaaba in Yemen, which was also a polytheist temple
Dear Muslims
There was another Kaaba in Yemen
Which Muhammad wanted to destroy
How clearer could it be
Muslims nowadays turned toward the Kaaba, but initially they prayed towards Jerusalem
According to Islamic tradition and Allah announced in the Quran
that they should pray toward the Kaaba from now on
Which made Mohammed happy
The background to this seems that Jews used to make fun of the Muslims for imitating them
for praying toward Jerusalem as Jews do
which is why Muhammad wanted to change the direction toward the Kaaba
but in order to do that he had to make the Kaaba holy in Islam
The Quran then explained how the Kaaba was Allah's sacred house
The first building ever built for him
and that it is the center of attention
Where believers are supposed to turn when praying
and go to for the pilgrimage and turn around when doing the pilgrimage
Speaking of turning around the Kaaba
Isn't that interesting that Muslims circle the Kaaba on their pilgrimage?
Why do they do this?
in Abrahamic religion, there is no such practice as coming together
Everyone encircling a cube seven times
While pointing toward a black stone at its corner and greeting that stone
This is something Arab pagans used to do
even according to Muslim sources
biographies of Mohammed, traditions and more outside reports
The pagans used to reverse stones like the black stone.
They would greet it and pray with it
The black stone that is currently there
and that has been revert by Muslims for some reason
was placed there by Arab pagans
Mohammed adopted that practice and greeted and kissed the stone
Muslims today do the same when they go to the pilgrimage.
This is part of the pilgrimage
They greet it, touch it, kiss it
and hope for its intercession in the hereafter
This is a very pagan practice and has nothing to do with Abrahamic religion
one of Muhammad's most important companions; the second caliph Umar even said:
Verily, I know you are only a stone with no power to harm or benefit me
were it not that I saw the Prophet
(peace and blessings be upon him) kiss you.
I would not have kissed you
So one of Muhammad's most important companions
later the leader of Muslims
even said that he doesn't expect anything from the stone
and that he only kisses it because Muhammad kissed it
and Muhammad probably only kissed it because
polytheists used to do the same and he adopted their practice
in order to appease them and lure them into Islam
or just to establish a mixed religion by adopting different elements from different religions
because it makes so much sense.
In fact, if you ask Muslims why they do it
They will probably say because it is a Sunnah
The tradition of Muhammad because Muhammad used to do it
There is no sense to this, no explanation
According to the same reports
The pagans used to do the pilgrimage and come to the Kaaba every year and circle it
by Muslim tradition after Muhammad conquered Mecca
and took control of the Kaaba, polytheists used to still come to the Kaaba
and encircle it while naked or half clothed
Muhammad then banned polytheists from visiting the Kaaba
This order is even in the Quran
which tells people to keep polytheists away from the Kaaba because they are filthy
It is very obvious an undeniable fact
even by Islamic standards
that the Arab polytheists used to circumambulate the Kaaba
and no one else
if we want to look at other cultures that practice circumambulation
we find the practice among Hindus and Buddhists
who encircle altars to honor deities
Hinduism is a major non Abrahamic belief system
that shares a lot of similarities with
and maybe even influenced Arab polytheism.
This has nothing to do with Abrahamic monotheistic religion
it has also reported that the polytheists used to wear pieces of cloth during their pilgrimage,
Which is
required for Muslim pilgrims during the pilgrimage and is called the ihram
Muslims are supposed to wear it for the entire pilgrimage
and this practice was adopted from the pagans
Muslims sacrifice animals during the pilgrimage
and so did the polytheists
Muslims shave their heads for the pilgrimage and so did the polytheists
Muslims chant during their pilgrimage and so did the polytheists
Muslims walk between these two hills
Known as Safa and Marwah during their pilgrimage
and they explained that this is done to imitate Hagar walking between the two hills
looking for help when her son Ishmael was hungry and thirsty
This explanation is most likely an Islamic fabrication.
According to a well authentic Islamic Hadith
early Muslims disliked this practice
because this is a ceremony that the Arab pagans used to practice
in the pre-islamic period of ignorance
until Muhammad revealed a mysterious Quran verse
Indeed Safa and Marwah are among the symbols of Allah
So whoever makes Hajj to the house or performs Umrah
there is no blame upon him for walking between them
Notice the Muslims didn't have any reasonably Abrahamic Islamic explanation to this practice
they only knew it as an ignorant practice of the polytheists
and then Muhammad adopted it
all of this looks very much like a confirmation
of what people increasingly say
Islam is a mash-up of completely unrelated
incompatible religious practices
It based itself on Abrahamic religion claimed to be the purest Abrahamic religion
took so many elements from Arab paganism
and made them central to its own religion
and it even took elements from other religions and traditions besides these
and today Muslims go around
claiming this was the only absolute truth
coming from the one and Almighty Creator; Allah
It is really incredible how Muhammad sold all of this
Oh wait
It didn't actually sell very well
which is why they had to eradicate cultures and forcibly make them accept it
Islam is not an Abrahamic religion and the Hajj is not an Abrahamic practice
It is a semi Abrahamic
pagan cult created by ignorant Arab people in the seventh century
If you don't believe in pre-islamic Arabs paganism
You should probably also reject Islam.
I mean the pagan pilgrimage gives it all the way
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