PART II: The Sunnite Religion Has Fabricated Pilgrimage Legislations

Contents

PART II: The Sunnite Religion Has Fabricated Pilgrimage Legislations: (eleven chapters). CHAPTER I: Tawatur between the Celestial Religion and the Earthly Religions: Firstly: two types of tawatur, Secondly: truthful tawatur in celestial messages and tawatur of falsehoods maintained by polytheists, Thirdly: using the Quran as a criterion to judge so as to differentiate between tawatur of truth and tawatur of falsehoods. CHAPTER II: Tawatur and the Religion of Abraham: Firstly: the religion of Abraham between ancestors and inheritors, Secondly: tawatur of falsehoods is authored by devils in all eras. CHAPTER III: Ownership Is the Basis of Tawatur in Pilgrimage: Introduction, Firstly: everlasting ownership is the basic instinct in human beings and reason for hardship and unhappiness, Secondly: ownership instinct is the basis of tawatur of goodness and Truth and tawatur of evil falsehoods, Thirdly: the Qorayish tribesmen chose the lowest level of misguidance: the Qorayish false claim of owning God's House. CHAPTER IV: Tawatur of the Pilgrimage Legislation Universality before Arab Conquests: Firstly: universality of pilgrimage to God's House before Abraham, Secondly: Abraham and the universality of pilgrimage to God's House, Thirdly: the universality of pilgrimage within progeny of Abraham, Lastly. CHAPTER V: Tawatur and The Qorayish Manipulation of Kaaba in Trade: Firstly: leadership of Qorayish because of the Kaaba, Secondly: Qorayish manipulated the Kaaba within winter and summer  trade caravans, Thirdly: a brief overview of how Qorayish fought Islam to go on manipulating the Kaaba, Fourthly: how Qorayish denied the Quran to go on controlling the Kaaba, Fifthly: how Qorayish arrogantly denied the Quran to go on owning the Kaaba. CHAPTER VI: Qorayish Repelled People from the Kaaba and God's Religion: Firstly: concept of repelling people from God's religion and the Kaaba, Secondly: combining repelling people from both the Kaaba and God's religion, Thirdly: Qorayish allied itself with misguided People of the Book to repel people from God's religion, Fourthly: using money to repel people from God's religion, Fifthly: penalty in this world and the next world for those who repel people from God's religion, Sixthly: repentance, Lastly. CHAPTER VII: Why Does the Qorayish Tawatur Dominate Pilgrimage Now?: Firstly: ''if it had not been for'', Secondly: immigrants and the question of alliance, Thirdly: how the Quran has dealt with the question of loyalty, Fourthly: how Qorayish manipulated Islam to unify Arabs to serve its interests and purposes. CHAPTER VIII: Tawatur of Immorality In Mecca and Other Cities: Introduction, Firstly: immorality and moral degeneration during the pre-Islamic era, Secondly: Quranic stance regarding such immorality, Thirdly: Arab conquests re-introduced immorality within the era of pre-Umayyad caliphs because of ill-gotten wealth looted from conquered nations, Fourthly: Arab conquests re-introduced immorality within the era of pre-Umayyad caliphs because of enslaving women from conquered nations, Fifthly: brief overview of immorality within the Umayyad Era, Lastly. CHAPTER IX: Qorayish Made Immorality A Religion: Firstly: earthly man-made religions are based on whims and desires, Secondly: religious roots of immorality of Qorayish: earthly, man-made religion of devilish narratives ascribed falsely to God, Role of the so-called saints in the assumed intercession, Using divine will as pretext. CHAPTER X: The Return of False Tawatur within Pilgrimage Rituals after the Death of Muhammad: Firstly: manipulation of the Kaaba and pilgrimage to promote immoral behavior (circling in the nude) and Qorayish trade, Secondly: circling in the nude returns in the Sunnite sharia, Thirdly: throwing pebbles, Fourthly: overview of immorality in Mecca and by the Kaaba within the Umayyad Era, Fifthly: pilgrimage to Yathreb. CHAPTER XI: Overview of Differences within the Sunnite Religion in Pilgrimage Rituals: Firstly: differences within the Sunnite pilgrimage and the many failed attempts of reconciling discrepancies, Secondly: general differences in Sunnite pilgrimage, Thirdly: differences in locational points of Ihram fabricated by Sunnites, Fourthly: differences in Sunnite prohibitions during Ihram, Fifthly: Sunnite differences about circling the Kaaba and about the so-called black stone, Sixthly: Sunnite differences about the so-called special Ihram clothes, Seventhly: Sunnite differences about how to circle the Kaaba, Eighthly: Sunnite differences concerning Safa and Marwa, Ninthly: Sunnite differences in pilgrimage rituals for women.

 

PART II: The Sunnite Religion Has Fabricated Pilgrimage Legislations

 

 

CHAPTER I: Tawatur between the Celestial Religion and the Earthly Religions

 

 

Firstly: two types of tawatur: 

1- We mean by the Arabic term ''tawatur'' any ''successive narratives''. This word has been adopted and used by ancient Arab scholars of jurisprudence or fiqh to loosely indicate all traditions and narratives inherited successively from one generation to another. Of course, all people worldwide have inherited higher values from older generations, such as courage, generosity, truthfulness, honesty, mercy, charity, justice, etc. This is a type of tawatur or inherited values and notions. Another tawatur is that all human beings worldwide have learned from their ancestors that there are negative and evil qualities to be avoided, such as telling lies, betrayal, injustice, cowardice, stinginess, cruelty, etc. Hence, human beings know that inside them there is both tendencies to goodness and evil; one is to choose either of them. Humankind is a mixture of both goodness and evil; they are neither pure goodness like angels nor pure evil like devils. Accordingly, human tawatur (successive traditions or narratives) is of major two types: narratives of goodness and truth and those of evil and falsehoods.

2- As per the Quran, we know quite well that all human beings are divided into two types.  There are among people who do such and such thing(s) and of course there is those who do not. Among the often used phrases in the Quran is the following ''Among the people…'', which indicates that as long as there are people on earth, among them will be those who so such and such thing(s). thus, this is phenomenon of any given human society anytime anywhere. In order to prove our point, let us confine our quoted verses to the Quranic Chapter Two. "Among the people are those who say, "We believe in God and in the Last Day," but they are not believers. They seek to deceive God and those who believe, but they deceive none but themselves, though they are not aware." (2:8-9). Of course, among this deceitful type of people are those who manipulate religion to deceive people; such mean type exists in all eras and locations. People in the Arab world now suffer from the existence of such mean type. Let us contemplate upon this verse to see what God says about those deceitful corruptors who use religion as a façade: "Among the people is he whose speech about the worldly life impresses you, and he calls God to witness what is in his heart, while he is the most hostile of adversaries. When he gains power, he strives to spread corruption on earth, destroying properties and lives. God does not like corruption. And when he is told, "Beware of God," his pride leads him to more sin. Hell is enough for him-a dreadful abode." (2:204-206). These verses expose many of the well-known and famous ones in our era, especially those who when one warns and advises to them to fear God in piety, they would turn into proud devils who brag of their sinning! In contrast, there are those who are faithful to God and submit themselves to Him: "And among the people is he who sells himself seeking God's approval. God is kind towards the servants." (2:207). God says the following about those who deify mortals and love them in the same manner and degree as they love God, as if these mortals were deities: "Yet among the people are those who take other than God as equals to Him. They love them as the love of God…" (2:165). This verse applies, of course, to those who deify prophets (e.g., Muhammad and Jesus), the prophets' contemporary companions and followers to them (e.g., the so-called disciples of Jesus and the so-called companions of Muhammad), and the so-called saints, imams, popes, monks, rabbis, and all clergymen of all sorts.                  

 

Secondly: truthful tawatur in celestial messages and tawatur of falsehoods maintained by polytheists:

1- The Quran is a book of pairs; see 15:87, and its verses explain one another as meanings are briefed in some, and are detailed in some many others. As far as our topic here, tawatur, is concerned, we discern clearly that the divine celestial message/tawatur is one type, while the tawatur of the polytheists, refuted by the divine message, is another type. The divine tawatur is the same type and content has been given to all prophets, as this verse addressing Muhammad tells us precisely and briefly: "Nothing is said to you but was said to the messengers before you…" (41:43).

2- The divine revelation is one to all prophets, and so are sharia laws or legislations as they are essentially to apply the one true religion, and NOT to be divided into doctrines, sects, and creeds within the earthly, man-made religions, as we discern from other verses as well: "We have inspired you, as We had inspired Noah and the prophets after him…" (4:163). "He prescribed for you the same religion He enjoined upon Noah, and what We inspired to you, and what We enjoined upon Abraham, and Moses, and Jesus: "You shall uphold the religion, and be not divided therein."…" (42:13). This one divine celestial revelation includes all details of faith and belief, such as the testament of (There is no God but Allah) and to dedicate acts of worship to God alone: "We never sent a messenger before you without inspiring him that: "There is no God but I, so worship Me."" (21:25). This divine tawatur also contains the forewarning to all prophets so as not to fall into the trap of polytheism so as not to render their good deeds annulled: "It was revealed to you, and to those before you, that if you idolize, your works will be in vain, and you will be of the losers." (39:65). Of course, this divine message shared by all prophets descended to each in the tongue of his people: "We never sent any messenger except in the language of his people, to make things clear for them…" (14:4). Within the final message of God, the Arabic tongue is used in the Quran, as God has said to Muhammad: "We made it easy in your tongue, in order to deliver good news to the righteous, and to warn with it a hostile people." (19:97); "We made it easy in your language, so that they may remember." (44:58). Therefore, the only truthful tawatur is confined to this one divine, celestial revelation to all prophets and messengers.

3- As opposed to the celestial tawatur given to prophets and from them to people, there is also the devilish, Satanist revelation of falsehoods and lies. Within Quranic stories of messengers of God, in the Quranic Chapters 7, 11, and 23 for instance, all messengers repeat the same call to their peoples within the same divine tawatur: the message of (There is no God but Allah), but the counter tawatur of the proud arrogant affluent retinue (or elite class) reject the call to God and adhere to their tawatur of falsehoods. Within the Quranic Chapter 26, we read details of both types of tawatur (i.e., the divine and the devilish), until we read these verses toward the end of the Quranic Chapter 26: "It is a revelation from the Lord of the Worlds. The honest spirit came down with it. upon your heart, that you may be one of the warners. In a clear Arabic tongue." (26:192-195). This means that Gabriel (i.e., the holy spirit in the Quran) came down with the Quran to Muhammad's heart in the Arabic tongue, as an endorsement and ratification of the previous celestial, divine books: "And it is in the scriptures of the ancients." (26:196). This is the reason why the Israelite scholars knew of it; hence, this sign should have made Qorayish believed in the Quran as revelation that came from God: "Is it not a sign for them that the scholars of the Israelites recognized it?" (26:197). God asserts that the Quran has not been revealed or sent down by the devils: "It was not the devils that revealed it. It is not in their interests, nor in their power. They are barred from hearing." (26:210-212). Within the same Quranic Chapter 26, God tells us about the counter tawatur; that of the devils and their cronies of liars and fabricators: "Shall I inform you upon whom the devils descend? They descend upon every sinful liar." (26:221-222). Therefore, this asserts that there is two types of tawatur or revelations: 1) the divine, celestial one from God that ended in the completion of the Quranic verses and in the death of Muhammad, the seal of prophets, and 2) the devilish Satanist revelation that goes on until this very moment and will continue till the end of times. Whereas the Quran is preserved intact by God Himself and expresses real truthful tawatur, the Satanist devilish revelation goes on until now as the foundation of earthly, man-made, fabricated creeds worldwide, the religions of falsehoods that contradict the Divine Truth: the Quran. 

4- Such contradiction between divine tawatur and tawatur of falsehood means veritable enmity from authors of Satanist revelation toward messengers and prophets of God. Hence, we clearly understand that fabricators of narratives/hadiths ascribed falsely to Muhammad are the real enemies of Muhammad. Those who follow such hadiths are following their forefathers and ancestors who were inveterate liars and fabricators among devils-dominated humans who spread falsehoods and lies authored by them while ascribing such lies to Muhammad and to God's religion; thus, such false narratives deny the Quran and call for rejecting, abandoning, and discarding it. This is why God tells us that Muhammad during the Last Day will disown those veritable enemies of Islam: "And the messenger will say, "My Lord, my people have abandoned this Quran." Likewise, to every prophet We assign enemies from among the wicked. But your Lord suffices as a Guide and Savior." (25:30-31). We discern from 25:31 that every prophet and messenger of God has their enemies; in our opinion, such enmity is now the tawatur of falsehoods and fabricated narratives that were authored by enemies of Muhammad.  Of course, such enemies exist in all eras until now and will go on existing in the future till Doomsday, and their specialty is to author devilish narratives and hadiths and to deceive people by claiming that such hadiths are divine revelation given to Muhammad beside the Quran! Deniers of Sunna, fiqh, hadiths, and Sunnite narratives and books in general are accused of apostasy! Quranists stand forward as deniers of the falsehoods of the so-called Sunna of the Sunnite religion and they take pride in this rejection of fabrications; Quranists believe only in the Quran as the sole source of Islam.        

5- God says the following about enemies of His messengers and prophets: "Likewise, We have assigned for every prophet an enemy-human and jinn devils-inspiring one another with fancy words in order to deceive. But had your Lord willed, they would not have done it. So leave them to their fabrications. So that the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter may incline to it, and be content with it, and that they may perpetrate whatever they perpetrate. "Shall I seek a judge other than God, when He is the One who revealed to you the Book, explained in detail?" Those to whom We gave the Book know that it is the truth revealed from your Lord. So do not be of those who doubt." (6:112-114). We notice in these verses that the present perfect tense is used plus the gerund in 6:112; this shows 1) the continuity of the devilish tawatur of falsehoods and lies spread and propagated in all eras to make people discard the Quranic Truth, and 2) in every era, there will be people, or masses, who adhere to such lies and falsehoods, because they deny the Hereafter and the Last Day and they fish for pretexts in the devilish tawatur to commit sins, as we read in 6:113. Therefore, God allows the existence of the devilish Satanist propagated by enemies of Muhammad and the Quran as a means to test people, since the time of expulsion of Iblis (aka Satan): "We created you, then We shaped you, then We said to the angels, "Bow down before Adam;" so they bowed down, except for Iblis/Satan; he was not of those who bowed down. He said, "What prevented you from bowing down when I have commanded you?" He said, "I am better than he; You created me from fire, and You created him from mud." He said, "Get down from it! It is not for you to act arrogantly in it. Get out! You are one of the lowly!" He said, "Give me respite, until the Day they are resurrected." He said, "You are of those given respite." He said, "Because you have lured me, I will waylay them on Your straight path. Then I will come at them from before them, and from behind them, and from their right, and from their left; and you will not find most of them appreciative." He said, "Get out of it, despised and vanquished. Whoever among them follows you-I will fill up Hell with you all." (7:11-18). That is why Satan and his progeny of devils find help from their cronies of evil human beings; all of them cooperate together to fabricate narratives and to author falsehoods, lies, and hadiths while ascribing them to the divine revelation; this is the foundation bases of all earthly, man-made religions worldwide. Hence, this devilish tawatur (i.e., successive inherited narratives with the passage of time) certainly contradict the Divine Truth of the Quran, the last message of God that contains the basic faith tenets and sharia legislations conveyed by God to all His messengers and prophets. Hence, devilish revelations disguise themselves by being ascribed to God's religion by force, and every prophet's and messenger's wish of guiding all his people did not take place because of such devilish tawatur, as we understand from this verse: "We never sent a messenger before you, or a prophet, but when he had a desire Satan interfered in his wishes. But God leaves what Satan interjects, and God affirms His revelations. God is Omniscient and Wise." (22:52). Why God leaves such Satanist revelations exist? This is a test for human beings: are they going to choose falsehoods as source of misguidance, or God's verses as source of guidance? This test entails that hadiths, discourses, and narratives of falsehoods spread all over horizons. Those misguided people will resort to them based on their choice, whereas those seeking guidance will resort to the only source of it: the Quran. Hence, the guided ones will increase their belief and faith, while the misguided ones will increase their errant, straying ways and their disbelief in their denying hearts and minds. We understand this from these verses: " In order to make Satan's discourses a trial for those whose hearts are diseased, and those whose hearts are hardened. The wrongdoers are in profound discord. And so that those endowed with knowledge may know that it is the truth from your Lord, and so believe in it, and their hearts soften to it. God guides those who believe to a straight path." (22:53-54).        

6- This is why God asserts in the Quran that the most unjust persons are those who are addicted to ascribe lies and falsehoods to God, as they deny and reject His Quranic verses and urge others to do the same thing: "And who does greater wrong than he who fabricates lies and attributes them to God, or calls the truth a lie when it has come to him? Is there not in Hell a dwelling for the blasphemers?" (29:68). In contrast, there are also the guided ones who seek the truth faithfully and devoutly: "As for those who strive for Us-We will guide them in Our ways. God is with the doers of good." (29:69). Of course, there is tawatur or narratives for both groups.

7- Tawatur of falsehoods and fabrications is more attractive to most people and is being spread and propagated more than the Quranic Truth. In fact, the Quran asserts that the vast majority of people are misguided and misguiding ones and they do not believe in the Last Day and the Hereafter; hence, they find comfort in tawatur of hadiths and narratives of falsehoods and lies to justify committing sins/crimes without feeling any qualms or pangs of conscience, while wrongly assuming they will enter into Paradise by intercessions of saints and/or prophets. God has addressed the following to Muhammad: "If you were to obey most of those on earth, they would divert you from God's path. They follow nothing but assumptions, and they only conjecture." (6:116). This verse was revealed as a commentary on devilish tawatur or revelation referred to within the previous verses in the same Quranic Chapter: "Likewise, We have assigned for every prophet an enemy-human and jinn devils-inspiring one another with fancy words in order to deceive. But had your Lord willed, they would not have done it. So leave them to their fabrications. So that the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter may incline to it, and be content with it, and that they may perpetrate whatever they perpetrate." (6:112-113). In real Islam (Quranism), there is no such a thing as clergymen at all; yet, such base, mean persons increase exponentially in backward societies and dominate and control the vast silent majority of the masses within a given society. The reason: the tyranny affluent ones in a backward society always use clergymen of all types to dominate and control the masses. Both retinues or groups of the clergymen and the affluent tyrants are major criminals who manipulate the earthly, man-made, fabricated religions to consolidate and fortify their hegemony and dominance. This bad habit has occurred in all eras and locations, until now; in such cases, clergymen become 'holy' men, such as quack doctors and sorcerers in African jungles as well as popes, monks, and priests of churches and all imams and sheikhs of the Sunnite, Shiite, and Sufi religions. Within all cultures, past and present, corrupt clergymen are major criminals who ally themselves to big criminals of the affluent classes within politics and economy. Together, they form one minority ruling class of every society (village or city, in Quranic terms) that controls and dominates everything at the expense of the masses that form the vast majority. Such bad habit is inherited as a tradition, or tawatur, and in fact, it is a disgrace in history of human beings past and present. This fact is referred to in this verse: "And thus We set up in every city its leading wicked sinners, to conspire in it, but they conspire only against themselves, and they do not realize it." (6:123). Even both groups of the affluent and the clergymen compete with one another for dominance and wealth and all transient gains, and sometimes cause trouble for one another, thus conspiring against one another and their fate is Hell, in case of not repenting before death. Personally, we tend to think that 6:123 applies to the terrorist MB, Salafists, and all Wahabis in our era. Those criminals and sinners are arch-enemies of prophets and messengers of God in all eras: even during the lifetime of Muhammad: "When a verse comes to them, they say, "We will not believe unless we are given the like of what was given to God's messengers." God knows best where to place His message. Humiliation and severe torment from God will afflict the criminals for their scheming." (6:124). After the eras of prophets and messengers ended, those criminals/sinners increase and base their crimes/sins on the devilish tawatur inherited from their forefathers, and they mock and ridicule the real believers in God's message (the divine tawatur) in all eras: "Those who committed crimes used to laugh at those who believed. And when they passed by them, they would wink at one another." (83:29-30). This of course will go on or generations to come until the end of this world, and within the Day of Resurrection, the criminals/sinners will suffer in Hell and be mocked by the believers who will reside in Paradise forever: "But on that Day, those who believed will laugh at the unbelievers. On luxurious furnishings, looking on. Have the unbelievers been repaid for what they used to do?" (83:34-36). God says the following about those sinners/criminals: "The Hell-Fire lashes their faces and therein they grimace. "Were not My revelations recited to you and you kept on rejecting them?" They will say, "Our Lord, our wretchedness prevailed over us, and we were a people astray. Our Lord! Bring us out of this. If we ever returned, we would truly be evil." He will say, "Be despised therein, and do not speak to Me. There was a group of My servants who would say, ''Our Lord, we have believed, so forgive us, and have mercy on us; You are the Best of the merciful.'' But you made them a target of ridicule, until they made you forget My remembrance; and you used to laugh at them." (:104-110). "Did you think that We created you in vain, and that to Us you will not be returned?"" (23:115).               

8- Part of devilish, Satanist tawatur is rejecting the celestial, divine message in all eras and locations, during the lifetimes of prophets and messengers and after them. We read about this recurrent pattern in the Quranic stories of prophets and messengers. The disbelievers used to accuse prophets and messengers of being sorcerers or madmen, as if they recommend the same accusations to all their generations in all eras; we read the following about how Qorayish accused Muhammad of the same accusations: "Likewise, no messenger came to those before them, but they said, "A sorcerer or a madman." Did they recommend it to one another? In fact, they are rebellious people." (51:52-53). This is God's response when Qorayish asked Muhammad to work miracles for them: "Those who do not know say, "If only God would speak to us, or a sign would come to us." Thus said those who were before them. Their hearts are alike. We have made the signs clear for people who are certain." (2:118). Rejecters of the Truth in all eras follow the devilish tawatur inherited from their ancestors: "Likewise, We sent no warner before you to any city, but the wealthy among them said, "We found our parents on a course, and we are following in their footsteps."" (43:23). 

9- All of the above points affirm and explain details of this verse: "Nothing is said to you but was said to the messengers before you…" (41:43). Surely, this asserts the existence of two types of tawatur: tawatur of truth and tawatur of falsehoods.

 

Thirdly: using the Quran as a criterion to judge so as to differentiate between tawatur of truth and tawatur of falsehoods:

1- Arab-world heritage, as far as religion is concerned, is a mixture of truthful tawatur and tawatur of falsehoods. This means that there are those persons who are real believers who have inherited meanings and acts of worship pertaining to the Quranic Truth: "Then We passed the Book to those of Our servants whom We chose…" (35:32), and there are those who follow notions and acts of worship contradicting the Quran. Hence, the Quran is the criterion or measure-stick to be used to judge any inherited traditions or tawatur. Using the Quran as the only criterion is a basic religious  duty that goes on for the sake of reform, as God commands us to avoid devilish hadiths/discourses ascribed falsely to God: ""Shall I seek a judge other than God, when He is the One who revealed to you the Book, explained in detail?" Those to whom We gave the Book know that it is the truth revealed from your Lord. So do not be of those who doubt." (6:114); this verse is a commentary on the preceding two verses: "Likewise, We have assigned for every prophet an enemy-human and jinn devils-inspiring one another with fancy words in order to deceive. But had your Lord willed, they would not have done it. So leave them to their fabrications. So that the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter may incline to it, and be content with it, and that they may perpetrate whatever they perpetrate." (6:112-113). God says the following about the Quranic guidance: "…But your Lord suffices as a Guide and Savior." (25:31). This verse is a commentary on the preceding fact about those who abandoned the Quran by claiming that it has been replaced by their falsehoods of Sunna hadiths and narratives: "And the Messenger will say, "My Lord, my people have abandoned this Quran." Likewise, to every prophet We assign enemies from among the wicked. But your Lord suffices as a Guide and Savior." (25:30-31).   

2- In general, God says the following about resorting to the Quran as a criterion to judge: "Whatever matter you differ about, its judgment rests with God…" (42:10). God as the Sole Judge means to use the Quran, the divine message, as the criterion, for the Quran is the messenger after the death of the last messenger of God: Muhammad the seal of prophets: "…And if you dispute over anything, refer it to God and the Messenger, if you believe in God and the Last Day. That is best, and a most excellent determination." (4:59). Of course, judging using the Quran must be based on true faith and belief in God and the Last Day, and NOT based on willful deceit as historically perpetrated by Amr Ibn Al-As within the strife between Mu'aweiya Ibn Abou Sufyan and Ali Ibn Abou Talib.  

3- Based on the Quran as the sole criterion to judge things, acts, and notions, we know for sure that the Quranic text is the ONLY discourse in Islam in which we ought to believe: "In what discourse, beyond this, will they believe?" (77:50); "…In what discourse, beyond this, will they believe?" (7:185); "These are God's Verses which We recite to you in truth; in which discourse, after God and His revelations, will they believe? Woe to every sinful liar who hears God's revelations being recited to him yet he persists arrogantly as though he did not hear them; announce to him a painful punishment." (45:6-8). Likewise, we know for sure that Muhammad  never falsely uttered anything in religion and ascribed to God: "It is a revelation from the Lord of the Worlds. Had he (i.e. Muhammad) falsely attributed some statements to Us. We would have seized him by the right arm. Then slashed his lifeline. And none of you could have restrained Us from him. Surely, it is a message for the righteous. And We know that some of you will reject it." (69:43-49). Likewise, we know for sure that Islam is perfected and its message is completed when the Quranic revelation stopped: "…Today I have perfected your religion for you, and have completed My favor upon you, and have approved Islam as a religion for you…" (5:3). Therefore, we are 100% sure that 1) all books of Sufis, Sunnites, and Shiites are devilish and Satanist myths and falsehoods that contradict real Islam: the Quran alone, and 2) the Quranic warning about tawatur of falsehoods by Qorayish and others applies to the present day and to our era as well; as tawatur of fabrications and lies, that contradict the God-preserved Quran, still goes on in modern times as was the case in the past centuries, before and after the revelation of the Quran itself.

 

 

 

CHAPTER II: Tawatur and the Religion of Abraham               

                         

 

Firstly: the religion of Abraham between ancestors and inheritors:

1- The religion of Abraham means, in dealing with God, to worship and obey God alone in total devotion, submission, and faithfulness, while dedicating oneself, one's acts of worship, one's faith, and one's religion to God alone: "We sent down to you the Book with the truth, so serve God, devoting your religion to Him. Is not to God that sincere faith is due? As for those who take guardians besides Him, "We only worship them that they may bring us nearer to God." God will judge between them regarding their differences. God does not guide the lying blasphemer." (39:2-3); "Say, "I was commanded to serve God, devoting my religion exclusively to Him. And I was commanded to be the first of those who submit." Say, "I fear, if I disobeyed my Lord, the punishment of a horrendous Day." Say, "It is God I worship, sincere in my faith in Him."" (39:11-14). The religion of Abraham means, in dealing with people, to compete and vie for goodness, righteousness, and charity deeds as well as striving for peace by avoiding sinning, immorality, and disobeying God.

2- Every type of tawatur has a beginning; the successive narratives of tawatur of the religion and call of Abraham began when he remembered how he left Ishmael and his progeny at the location of God's House: "Recall that Abraham said, "O my Lord, make this land peaceful, and keep me and my sons from worshiping idols." "My Lord, they have led many people astray. Whoever follows me belongs with me; and whoever disobeys me-You are Forgiving and Merciful. "Our Lord, I have settled some of my offspring in a valley of no vegetation, by Your Sacred House, our Lord, so that they may perform the prayers. So make the hearts of some people incline towards them, and provide them with fruits, that they may be thankful." "Our Lord, You know what we conceal and what we reveal. And nothing is hidden from God, on earth or in the heaven." "Praise be to God, Who has given me, in my old age, Ishmael and Isaac. My Lord is the Hearer of Prayers." "My Lord, make me one who performs the prayer, and from my offspring. Our Lord, accept my supplication."" (14:35-40). At the Sacred Kaaba Mosque during pilgrimage, there is a chance to apply the religion of Abraham and how it was inherited by his progeny within true tawatur, within Ishmael, Isaac, and Jacob: "And mention in the Scripture Ishmael. He was true to his promise, and was a messenger, a prophet. And he used to enjoin on his people prayer and charity, and he was pleasing to his Lord." (19:54-55); "And We granted him Isaac and Jacob as a gift; and each We made righteous. And We made them leaders, guiding by Our command; and We inspired them to do good works, and to observe the prayer, and to give out charity. They were devoted servants to Us." (21:72-73).

3- Yet, deviation in faith occurred in some of Abraham's progeny among the Israelites and the Ishmaelites; their tawatur of falsehoods followed the steps of Satan by reducing prayers to mere ostentatious and overt rituals without piety and accompanied with worship of mortals, alive and dead, tombs, idols, and stones as well as sinning, immorality, and disobedience of God. God tells us the following about both types of tawatur: the true one of the prophets and real believers: "These are some of the prophets God has blessed, from the descendants of Adam, and from those We carried with Noah, and from the descendants of Abraham and Israel, and from those We guided and selected. Whenever the revelations of the Most Gracious are recited to them, they would fall down, prostrating and weeping." (19:58); and the evil false one of their progeny: "But they were succeeded by generations who lost the prayers and followed their appetites. They will meet perdition." (19:59). This means that they have lost the value and piety of prayers by spending all their time in being engaged into worldly, transient lusts, but they have the chance to repent, as long as one is still alive, by following the only true divine tawatur: "Except for those who repent, and believe, and act righteously. These will enter Paradise, and will not be wronged in the least." (19:60).       

4- The repentance is of two types; firstly, in dealing with God: to cleanse one's heart from worship and deification of mortals and things by dedicating acts of worship to God alone and avoiding sins. One's heart and mind are involved in this case in performing zakat, prayers, pilgrimage, and the rest of worship acts. Secondly, in dealing with people: to act peacefully with all of them and never to harm them by any means of aggression and injustices; this is real prayers applied in terms of behavior: peaceful demeanor is the practiced application of acts of worship in real life, in a way combining Islam in terms of faith/belief (i.e., submission to God alone) with Islam in terms of behavior (peaceful demeanor with all people). Therefore, real repentant ones are those who reject disbelief and polytheism in terms of faith/belief in one's heart and mind and also in terms of behavioral disbelief (i.e., committing aggression, violence, and injustices against others). We read in the Quran how God gave aggressors among Meccan disbelievers the chance to repent if they stopped their attack on peaceful early believers in Yathreb: "Say to those who disbelieve: if they desist, their past will be forgiven. But if they persist-the practice of the ancients has passed away." (8:38). When some of these aggressors breached the agreements and truces by re-attacking Yathreb and its dwellers who converted to Islam willingly, the Quranic Chapter Nine was revealed to warn them and give them a chance to repent; if they repent overtly by stopping their aggression and adhering to peace, they would be deemed as brethren to believers, in terms of practiced or behavioral Islam (i.e. peaceful demeanor with everyone), regardless of their polytheism and pagan notions at the time in Mecca. The Quran asserts that establishing such peace is the application of prayers and zakat in real life: "…But if they repent, and perform the prayers, and pay the alms, then let them go their way. God is Most Forgiving, Most Merciful." (9:5); "Towards a believer they respect neither kinship nor treaty. These are the transgressors. But if they repent, and perform the prayers, and give the obligatory charity, then they are your brethren in faith. We detail the revelations for a people who know." (9:10-11). Of course, chance of repentance is allowed as long as one is still alive and wants ardently to return to the Truth and what is right; pilgrimage is an ideal occasion for real, sincere repentance.        

5- Within the progeny of Jacob, a.k.a. Israel, many prophets and messengers were sent by God with celestial, divine messages. This is truthful tawatur, of course, and simultaneously, the evil tawatur of falsehoods by sinners and the disobedient ones has existed. Thus, the Israelites included both sinning disbelievers and real, true believers for many eras until the advent of the Quranic revelation. The Quran tells us about the existence of true believers among the People of the Book (i.e., Jews + Christians); as such minority among the majority of sinners and followers of falsehoods followed the true tawatur of the religion of Abraham in terms of faith/belief, the acts of worship, and high moralistic level: "They are not alike. Among the People of the Scripture is a community that is upright; they recite God's revelations throughout the night, and they prostrate themselves. They believe in God and the Last Day, and advocate righteousness and forbid evil, and are quick to do good deeds. These are among the righteous. Whatever good they do, they will not be denied it. God knows the righteous." (3:113-115). Hence, those who performed good deeds like their ancestors were the ones who followed really true divine tawatur of the religion of Abraham. This tawatur included pilgrimage to God's House erected by Abraham the patriarch, and hence, pilgrimage is a chance to perform good deeds.      

6- In Arabia, many Arab tribes descended from Qahtan, their patriarch and forefather, lived there alongside with the Arab tribes descended from the Ishmaelites, who were progeny of their patriarch and forefather Ishmael, son of Abraham. Historically, some of the progeny of Jacob/Israel, lived in Arabia for some time, and they were known as People of the Book. Those Arabs had no prophets at all between Ishmael and Muhammad. In contrast, the Israelites as People of the Book had many prophets and divine, celestial messages. That is why Arabs were called at the time ''Umiyyeen'', which in Arabic tongue of the Quran is similar to the Jewish/Hebrew term "goyim'',  ''gentiles'' or ''the nations'', a term to designate non-Israelites in general or those who received no prophets conveying the divine messages. This was applied to Arabs in Arabia within the centuries between Ishmael and Muhammad. This term Umiyyeen is the antonym of the Quranic term ''People of the Book'' or ''People of the Scripture''. "…And say to those who were given the Scripture, and to the Umiyyeen, "Have you surrendered?" If they have surrendered, then they are guided; but if they turn away, then your duty is to convey. God is Seeing of the servants." (3:20)." Among the People of the Book is he, who, if you entrust him with a heap of gold, he will give it back to you. And among them is he, who, if you entrust him with a single coin, he will not give it back to you, unless you keep after him. That is because they say, "We are under no obligation towards the gentiles (i.e., Umiyyeen)."…" (3:75). Hence, Arabs before the advent of Islam were Umiyyeen/gentiles who wished to have an Arab prophet among their progeny like the Israelites who had many of prophets from Isaac to Jesus. Yet, when Muhammad was sent to them by God, in response to the call and prayer of Abraham, with the last divine message, the Quran, most Arabs disbelieved at the time: "Lest you say, "The Scripture was revealed to two parties before us, and we were unaware of their teachings." Or lest you say, "Had the Scripture been revealed to us, we would have been better guided than they." Clarification has come to you from your Lord, and guidance, and mercy. Who then does greater wrong than he who gives the lie to God's messages, and turns away from them? We will repay those who turn away from Our messages with the worst kind of punishment, because of their turning away." (6:156-157). Muhammad has been commanded in the Quran to follow the religion of Abraham: "Say, "My Lord has guided me to a straight path, an upright religion, the creed of Abraham the Monotheist, who was not a polytheist." Say, "My prayer and my worship, and my life and my death, are devoted to God, the Lord of the Worlds. No associate has He. Thus I am commanded, and I am the first of those who submit." (6:161-163). Pilgrimage is the best opportunity to apply the religion of Abraham.         

7- Therefore, the Quran was revealed by God to assert real features and tenets of the religion of Abraham, in terms of faith/belief notions and in terms of behavior that suits real sincere believers in God who perform lots of good deeds: "Those who, from awe of their Lord, are fearful, and those who believe in their Lord's Verses, and those who associate no partners with their Lord, and those who give what they give, while their hearts quake, knowing that to their Lord they will return. It is they who race toward goodness; it is they who will reach it first." (23:57-61). God asserts that people are to vie for good deeds: "To every community is a direction towards which it turns. Therefore, race towards goodness…" (2:148). Thus, instead of animosity and fanaticism between the People of the Book/Scripture and the People of the Quran, each party must vie for more good deeds: "… For each of you We have assigned a law and a method. Had God willed, He could have made you a single nation, but He tests you through what He has given you. So compete in righteousness. To God is your return, all of you; then He will inform you of what you had disputed. " (5:48). Of course, pilgrimage is an ideal occasion to perform many good deeds.   

8- Real, truthful tawatur of celestial messages and the religion of Abraham exists alongside with the evil, manipulated, distorted tawatur of devils: the Satanist revelation of misguidance. This is why People of the Book (i.e., Jews + Christians) are divided into three categories/groups as per the Quran; the first group are the true believers: "And when they hear what was revealed to the messenger, you see their eyes overflowing with tears, as they recognize the truth in it. They say, "Our Lord, we have believed, so count us among the witnesses." "And why should we not believe in God, and in the truth that has come to us, and hope that our Lord will include us among the righteous people?" God will reward them for what they say-Gardens beneath which rivers flow, where they will stay forever. Such is the reward of the righteous." (5:83-85). The second and third groups (i.e., the moderate ones who mixed good deeds with bad ones + the vast majority: the unjust immoral disbelieving) are mentioned in this verse: "Had they observed the Torah, and the Gospel, and what was revealed to them from their Lord, they would have consumed amply from above them, and from beneath their feet. Among them is a moderate community, but evil is what many of them are doing." (5:66). The same three-group division applies to People of the Quran; God says the following about the Quran to Muhammad: "What We inspired in you, in the Book, is the Truth, confirming what preceded it. God is Well-Informed of His servants, All-Seeing." (35:31). God says the following about the People of the Quran "Then We passed the Book to those of Our servants whom We chose. Some of them wrong their souls, and some follow a middle course, and some are in the foremost in good deeds by God's leave; that is the greatest blessing." (35:32). Hence, People of the Quran are three groups similar to the People of the Book/Scripture: forerunners in faith/belief and good deeds, moderates who mixed bad deeds with good ones, and a vast majority of sinning wrongdoers. Those sinners who reject and discard the Quran adamantly refuse to use the Quran as a criterion to judge all traditions and tawatur inherited from the forefathers and ancestors. Hence, they exactly imitated Qorayish in its stance against the Quran and in its preferring the tawatur of falsehoods that contradicts the Quran.    

9- Thus, God's call to use the Message of God, the Quran, as a  criterion to judge traditions was rejected by Qorayish tribesmen who at the time inherited the religion of Abraham in a distorted version. By the way, distortion here does NOT mean complete change or total transformation; rather, it means the existence of falsehoods, lies, and fabrications alongside with truths and facts. Of course, such distortions are typical throughout human history in all eras. Hence, God preserves His last message to humanity, the Quran, intact in its entirety, so as to refute any pretext by people that might justify their lack of belief, and the Quran will remain intact until the end of the world, Doomsday, so as to allow people who seek guidance to return to it in devotion, sincerity, and deep faith in God.  

10- For the sake of reform and to plant deeply the roots of reasoning minds of innovation, the Egyptian laws pertaining to the Cairo-based more-than-1000-year-old Al-Azhar religious institution/university stipulate clearly that Azharite teachers/professors undertake the mission to elucidate facts and tenets of Islam. Such laws imply the fact that there are facts and tenets of Islam which are ignored and hidden on purpose by never talking about them and by focusing on falsehoods, lies, and fabrications that accumulated throughout the past centuries. Such lies are made holy and sacred by never allowing anyone to question and refute them using the Quran. When we have exposed, during our residence in Cairo, most Azharite Sufi, Sunnite, and Wahabi falsehoods, by asserting and elucidating Quranic tenets and facts long supplanted by centuries-old falsehoods, we lost our post (as an Assistant Professor) at Al-Azhar University, though our intellectual endeavors have applied laws of Al-Azhar. Sheikhs, high-rank clergymen, professors, and deans of Al-Azhar University have punished us and caused (incited by the KSA authorities) the Mubarak regime to imprison us. Mubarak, his cronies, his corrupt people, especially at Al-Azhar University, are paying the price for it now. We fear that the Egyptian society might pay a heavy price one day for allowing Al-Azhar University to keep and preserve the Wahabi Sunnite religion disguised as Islam to deceive the masses.                         

 

Secondly: tawatur of falsehoods is authored by devils in all eras:

1- Because evil tawatur of falsehoods is authored by devils in all eras within the Satanist revelation, and because devils deceive people by mixing falsities with truths and ascribing lies to God's revelation, God has warned all humanity against such devilish tawatur that seem apparently beautified attractive discourses that appeal to the masses and they like it very much: "Likewise, We have assigned for every prophet an enemy-human and jinn devils-inspiring one another with fancy words in order to deceive. But had your Lord willed, they would not have done it. So leave them to their fabrications. So that the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter may incline to it, and be content with it, and that they may perpetrate whatever they perpetrate. "Shall I seek a judge other than God, when He is the One who revealed to you the Book, explained in detail?" Those to whom We gave the Book know that it is the truth revealed from your Lord. So do not be of those who doubt. The Word of your Lord has been completed, in truth and justice. There is no changing to His words. He is the Hearer, the Knower. If you were to obey most of those on earth, they would divert you from God's path. They follow nothing but assumptions, and they only conjecture." (6:112-116).    

2- Because evil tawatur of falsehoods is authored by devils in all eras within the Satanist revelation, God forewarns us against following the footsteps of Satan who is bent to deceive and misguide human beings by devilish whispers: "…and do not follow the footsteps of Satan. He is to you an open enemy." (2:168). Satan and his devils, allies, and followers (among humans and jinn/devils) spread and propagate forged revelation of falsities that they ascribe to God and to Muhammad to deceive others. Such corrupt tawatur urges immorality, sins, vices, evil actions, and wrongdoing that one are free to commit and one would be absolved by intercessions! Nothing could be further from the truth. Such false notions form the foundation of all earthly, man-made, fabricated religions on earth that encourage ascribing les to God and His religion; God says the following about Satan in the very next verse: "He commands you to do evil and vice, and to say about God what you do not know." (2:169). Such verses address Arabs at the time and all humanity at large in all eras. God commands people to use the Quran to obey God and to judge against the devilish tawatur of falsehoods that contradicts God's Word; but most people discard and ignore the Quran to favor the tawatur of lies and fabrications inherited from and passed on by their ancestors: "And when it is said to them, "Follow what God has revealed," they say, "We will follow what we found our ancestors following." Even if their ancestors understood nothing, and were not guided?" (2:170).    

3- Because evil tawatur of falsehoods is authored by devils in all eras within the Satanist revelation, God forewarns people in the Quranic text that the Satanist call and claims are followed by those who desire to be among followers of falsehoods who will suffer eternally in Hell: "And when it is said to them, "Follow what God has revealed," they say, "Rather, we follow what we found our parents devoted to." Even if Satan is calling them to the suffering of the Blaze?" (31:21). In contrast, there are those who follow the real religion of Abraham by submitting only to God: "Whoever submits himself wholly to God, and is a doer of good, has grasped the most trustworthy handle. With God rests the outcome of all events." (31:22).

4- Because evil tawatur of falsehoods is authored by devils in all eras within the Satanist revelation, followers of fabrications adhere to them fanatically and in an extremist manner instead of declaring and applying the fact that the Quran is the sufficient source of guidance: "Does it not suffice them that We revealed to you the Book, which is recited to them? In that is mercy and a reminder for people who believe." (29:51). Hence, they adhere an stick to fabrications and false endless, bottomless narratives to reject the divine celestial message of the Quran: "And when it is said to them, "Come to what God has revealed, and to the Messenger," they say, "Sufficient for us is what we found our forefathers upon." Even if their forefathers knew nothing, and were not guided?" (5:104). Thus, the ignoramuses assume that traditions of falsehoods coming from ancestral tawatur are enough for them and they wonder at those who are refuting and undermining ancestral tawatur; those ignoramuses would say: "We never heard of this in the former faith. This is nothing but a fabrication." (38:7). Hence, the ignorant ones at the lifetime of Muhammad used to describe the Quran as 'fabrication' and adamantly refuse to let go of ancestral traditions. This is typical of the Muhammadans today in the Arab world who reject and abandon the Quran.    

5- Because evil tawatur of falsehoods is authored by devils in all eras within the Satanist revelation, and because Satan and his devils accompany every single human generation to deceive and misguide as many persons possible in the same manner and ways, sticking to ancestral traditions of forefathers and refusing God's Word as criterion to judge such traditions is a bad habit repeated within all human eras, leading to the downfall of the vast majority of people when the affluent ones control and dominate a given society and insist that all individuals within such society stick and adhere to ancestral traditions. This is called for as the affluent manipulate such notions to consolidate and maintain their status, wealth, power, authority, and dominance. God says the following about Qorayish: "But they say, "We found our parents on a course, and we are guided in their footsteps."" (43:22). Such is utter by all the unjust domineering ones in all eras and societies: "Likewise, We sent no warner before you to any town, but the wealthy among them said, "We found our parents on a course, and we are following in their footsteps."" (43:23). Likewise, this is uttered by Wahabis in modern corrupt era in the Arab world now and all over the world. Here, we see the miraculous predictions; Wahabi Salafists refuse adamantly refuse to use the Quran as criterion to judge and as source of guidance by insisting on sticking to what they deem as 'what the Umma agreed upon'. It is a historical fact that this so-called Umma (i.e., literally and loosely in Arabic: people of the Sunnite creed within all eras and generations) never agreed on anything or any point in theology or fiqh in all its doctrines and sects; however, the only point the Muhammadans (especially Wahabis now) agree on now is to discard, ignore, and abandon the Quran by favoring to it all tawatur of falsehoods inherited from ancestors within countless books and tomes. Salafists brag of this and of their motto of 'following the Salaf' (i.e., in Arabic, Salaf literally means forefathers or founding fathers). Yet, Wahabi Salafists do not realize that the word Salaf comes always in a negative sense in the Quranic context: God says the following about Moses' Pharaoh and his retinue, cronies, and family: "And when they provoked Our wrath, We took retribution from them, and We drowned them all. Thus We made them a precedent (i.e., Salaf) and an example for the others." (43:55-56). Hence, this is Satan's ways of deceit and misguidance of the present generation, and they are the same ways used by devils to misguide older generations in the past. During the Day of Resurrection God will say the following to the losers in Hell among Adam's progeny: "Did I not covenant with you, O Children of Adam, that you shall not serve the devil? That he is your sworn enemy? And that you shall serve Me? This is a straight path. He has misled a great many multitude of you. Did you not understand? This is Hellfire, which you were promised. Roast in it today, because you persistently disbelieved." (36:60-64). In fact, sadly, those losers followed blindly their errant misguided forefathers without reasoning or logical thinking: "They had found their parents astray, and rushed along I their footsteps" (37:69-70). God says the following about their eternal torment in Hell: "Is this a better hospitality, or the Tree of Bitterness? We made it an ordeal for the unjust. It is a tree that grows from the bottom of Hell. Its fruits are like the devils' heads. They will eat from it, and fill their bellies with it. Then, on top of it, they will have a brew of boiling liquid. Then their return will be to the Blaze." (37:62-68). Does Satan and his devils and obeying them deserve such eternal torment?            

6- Because evil tawatur of falsehoods is authored by devils in all eras within the Satanist revelation, Satan and his devils always command their followers, allies, and worshippers to commit vices, sins, immoral acts, and to ascribe falsehoods, lies, and fabrications to God and His religion: "He commands you to do evil and vice, and to say about God what you do not know." (2:169). Because Satan and his devils commands sinning and immorality, when the evil tawatur of fabrications becomes dominant religion over the masses, it turns sins into religious duties kept by the forefathers and ordained by God! "Satan promises you poverty, and urges you to immorality; but God promises you forgiveness from Himself, and grace. God is Embracing and Knowing" (2:268); "And when they commit an indecency, they say, "We found our parents doing this, and God has commanded us to do it." Say, "God does not command indecencies. Are you attributing to God what you do not know?"" (7:28).

7- This what the Qorayish tribesmen's stance was and what used to do within Hajj and Ihram as per devilish tawatur of falsehoods that distorted pilgrimage rituals of the religion of Abraham; because of their favoring such distortions, they rejected the Quranic message.  

 

 

 

CHAPTER III: Ownership Is the Basis of Tawatur in Pilgrimage

 

 

Introduction:

  Satan is the real founder of the false tawatur that contradicts the tawatur of the Truth of the divine, celestial messages conveyed and applied by messengers and prophets and practiced by real believers in all eras. Hence, there is true tawatur and a false one as far as pilgrimage is concerned: the true one of Abraham's religion and he distorted one introduced by many generations and by Qorayish to serve their interests. The root of the distortions introduced by Qorayish tribesmen to rituals of Hajj is the feeling of ownership; they assumed that they ''owned'' the Kaaba. The true sense of ownership, as far as pilgrimage is concerned, is that pilgrims during Ihram shod feel they are owned by God and that they have chosen on their own free will to worship Him alone wholeheartedly within the locational and temporal sanctuaries. Thus, ownership in that sense is the root of tawatur of the Truth related to Ihram, while the false sense of Qorayish owning the Kaaba is the root of tawatur of falsehoods. We are discussing this topic in detail in this CHAPTER.        

 

Firstly: everlasting ownership is the basic instinct in human beings and reason for hardship and unhappiness:

1- The root of the false sense of ownership began when Satan deceived Adam and Eve in the Barsakh Paradise by falsely promising them immortality and everlasting ownership: "But Satan whispered to him. He said, "O Adam, shall I show you the Tree of Immortality, and a kingdom that never decays?"" (20:120). When Adam and Eve descended on earth, their progeny inherited the same desire of everlasting ownership and immortality on earth, and for the sake of owning the earthly possessions of this transient world, children of Adam engage until now in many wars and bloodshed throughout history. The ardent desire of eternal ownership is ingrained in human beings, and enmities because of it are incited by devils: "But Satan caused them to slip from it, and caused them to depart the state they were in. We said, "Go down, some of you enemies of one another. And you will have residence on earth, and enjoyment for a while."" (2:36); "He said, "Fall, some of you enemies to one another. On earth you will have residence and livelihood for a while."" (7:24).   

2- All human beings know for sure they are bound to die; if they are reasonable enough, they would realize the futility and absurdity of struggling for owning and getting wealth and possessions that they will leave eventually when they die. Yet, the instinct of greed and the ardent desire to own and amass material things forever makes people forget all about death which is waiting for them eventually. Those evil, greedy persons will feel, upon dying, that their struggles for possessing earthly transient materials and items will end in a big zero; they will take nothing from worldly matters with them into the grave. People tend to disregard preaching and drawing lessons about death during funerals; as devils incite within people the instinct of greed and the ardent desire to own and amass items forever as if they will live eternally on earth. That is why people fight and die for the sake of wealth and power, while forgetting death altogether. God will say this to Hell dwellers during the Day of Resurrection: "…Did you not swear before that there will be no passing away for you?" (14:44). God will rebuke them about how they were deceived by the desire to own and have power eternally on earth while forgetting death, while Hell is their final abode: "And you inhabited the homes of those who wronged themselves, and it became clear to you how We dealt with them, and We cited for you the examples." (14:45). Hence, people fight wars and die for the sake of gold, lands, precious possessions, etc. and after they die, other people would be still infatuated and tempted by such earthly things to die for the sake of owning them; few ones learn the lesson and focus on their future in the Hereafter. This foolish desire to own and amass is manipulated and incited by devils to wreak revenge upon all progeny of Adam by tempting them to commit sins and do evil deeds that pave their way to Hell: imagine a precious stone from the Pharaonic Age that was moved from one hand to the other for tens of centuries; it will remain the same piece of stone, while hundreds of people shed blood to possess and confiscate it. What folly! When will human beings realize all their lifetimes that they are mortals?!         

 

Secondly: ownership instinct is the basis of tawatur of goodness and Truth and tawatur of evil falsehoods:  

1- The worst, basest ownership instinct is when a group of people assume they own the Kaaba: God's Sacred House.

2- Ownership of things on earth is temporary to all people: "It is He who made the earth manageable for you, so travel its regions, and eat of His provisions. To Him is the Resurgence." (67:15). Yet, no one (and no country, tribe, group, etc.) is allowed to own the Kaaba: the center of the globe and locational sanctuary of God, owned by Him exclusively.

3- Accordingly, we discern the wisdom behind the fact that Mecca, in its mountainous location, has no sources fir for agriculture, mining, industries, etc. so as not to tempt people to struggle for owning anything there. We understand that from words of Abraham recorded in the Quranic text: ""Our Lord, I have settled some of my offspring in a valley of no vegetation, by Your Sacred House, our Lord, so that they may perform the prayers. So make the hearts of some people incline towards them, and provide them with fruits, that they may be thankful."" (14:37). Hence, it is a sign of God's mercy that this desert place is provided with pilgrims and goods to populate the location of pilgrimage defined by God. 

4- Hence, God created a water-well (called Zamzam) that goes on providing water centuries ago until now in Mecca, and He provided it with people who bring all fruits and provisions to this safe haven, especially sacrificial animals. Markets thrive in Mecca centuries ago and until now for the same reason and with God's permission: "You commit no error by seeking bounty from your Lord. When you disperse from Arafat, remember God at the Sacred Landmark. And remember Him as He has guided you. Although, before that, you were of those astray." (2:198). Hence, trade is permitted in Mecca, as we deduce from these verses about pilgrimage: "And announce the pilgrimage to humanity. They will come to you on foot, and on every lean beast of transport. They will come from every distant point. That they may witness the benefits for themselves, and celebrate the name of God during the appointed days, for providing them with the animal livestock. So eat from it, and feed the unfortunate poor." (22:27-28); "O you who believe! Do not violate God's sacraments, nor the Sacred Month, nor the offerings, nor the garlanded, nor those heading for the Sacred House seeking blessings from their Lord and approval…" (5:2). 

5- Hence, there is no room for anyone to own things in Mecca and the Sacred House; Zamzam is owned by God and goods and fruits of trade there are consumed there continually by temporary pilgrims all year long; thus, no one would own, hoard, amass, or monopolize goods there forever.  

6- Accordingly, no one needs a state or a country that declares its assumed ownership of the Kaaba and thus control pilgrimage and pilgrims; within Islam, what is needed is a foundation specialized in offering services and facilities to pilgrims, ensuring safety of pilgrims, protecting pilgrims, providing for pilgrims, and overseeing security of trade and the process of making acquaintance among people in Mecca all year long during both Hajj and Umrah. Hence, pilgrims are guests of God within God's House, and no one ''owns'' this House. During the state of Ihram, pilgrims are to feel they are owned by God, not by mortals, and this is the basis of the divine tawatur of the Truth conveyed by Abraham and Ishmael and real believers who followed them, as far as pilgrimage is concerned.        

7- False devilish tawatur of fabrications and wrong narratives has flourished by Qorayish tribesmen who led other tribes in Mecca; Qorayish controlled the Kaaba exclusively in order to enjoy both security and fruits of trade within winter and summer caravans, while other tribes around them suffered for long durations danger, fear, and hunger: "…Did We not establish for them a Safe Sanctuary, to which are brought all kinds of fruits, as provision from Ourselves? But most of them do not know." (28:57); see  the Quranic Chapter 106. Yet, Qorayish did not attribute these bounties to God and He has warned them – and those who follow their footsteps – against loss in this life and in the Last Day: "Have you not seen those who exchanged the blessing of God with blasphemy, and landed their people into the house of perdition? Hell, they will roast in it. What a miserable settlement!" (14:28-29). The Qorayish people in Mecca are made an example in the Quranic text for others to avoid following them and to draw the lesson of never imitating their evildoing and corrupt ways: "And God cites the example of a town that was secure and peaceful, with its livelihood coming to it abundantly from every direction. But then it turned unappreciative of God's blessings, so God made it taste the robe of hunger and fear, because of what they used to craft. A messenger from among them had come to them, but they denounced him, so the punishment seized them in the midst of their wrongdoing." (16:112-113). Of course, the KSA evil rulers never heeded such a lesson; when oil as a bounty of God has been discovered in the land and they grew rich with money and all imported goods, they have disbelieved in God by controlling the Kaaba in a worse way in comparison to the corrupt ways of Qorayish; this is why the Saudi rulers will face perdition and loss in this world (and the next) soon enough, as the KSA is on the verge of collapse now.  

8- The KSA royal family members have reached the worst, lowest level of disbelief when they assumed they own Mecca and the Kaaba and they control pilgrims fully, while preventing enemies of the KSA (e.g., Iranian pilgrims) from entering Mecca to perform pilgrimage; this is a gross transgression against God's laws; this is a flagrant violation as well against the religion of Abraham ordained by God: "As for those who disbelieve and repel from God's path and from the Sacred Mosque-which We have designated for all humankind equally, whether residing therein or passing through-and seek to commit sacrilege therein-We will make him taste of a painful punishment. We showed Abraham the location of the House: "Do not associate anything with Me; and purify My House for those who circle around, and those who stand to pray, and those who kneel and prostrate." That they may witness the benefits for themselves, and celebrate the name of God during the appointed days, for providing them with the animal livestock. So eat from it, and feed the unfortunate poor." (22:25-27). Hence, the Saudi royal family members are the worst sinners and immoral unethical people who disobey God by claiming, in deeds and in words, that they own the Kaaba.

9- In contrast to the above, the summit or zenith of piety during the state of Ihram means that real believers during pilgrimage must feel owned totally by God alone within the Sacred month and at the Sacred House; namely, combining the locational and temporal sanctuaries as well as the third and last sanctuary: the pious hearts of pilgrims. The four preordained inevitable aspects of fate that no one chooses, have to be accepted, and no one will be judged for them during the Last Day are as follows: 1) one's location and timing of birth, 2) one's location and timing of death, 3) calamities that befall one during one's lifetime, and 4) sustenance ordained and given to one by God. Real believers deal with those four fates with patience, satisfaction, approval, offering thanks to God, and feeling content with one's share granted to one by God as preordained fate. Away from these four aspects, everyone is absolutely free to pick and choose in this life. One may choose faith or lack of faith, belief or disbelief, righteousness or sinning, good deeds or bad ones, obedience and disobedience, etc. The worst, lowest, basest level of disobedience and defiance of God is to claim and assume ownership of God's House and controlling it fully along with controlling pilgrims; a grave sin committed by Qorayish in the past and by the Saudi authority at present. It is possible that human beings choose, based on absolute liberty, total submission to God alone by applying the state of Ihram during pilgrimage to the fullest degree to obey God's Quranic commands. This application entails choosing on one's own free will to submit to God and to obey Him during pilgrimage rituals and restrictions; a pilgrim's heart must be filled with God's remembrance within the whole duration of Ihram. Hence, this type of God's obedience and spiritual level will make a pilgrim feel like an electron circling the nucleus of an atom: just like circumambulation anticlockwise around the Kaaba, which is located in the center of Planet Earth. This complete devotion of one's own free choice is real piety and elevated, refined feelings as a pilgrim enjoys being owned by God as His guest at His House. This sense of being owned totally by God is the source of applying the tawatur of the Truth in the Quran, without other man-made sources assumed to be important but they are indeed devilish and Satanist narratives or tawatur. In contrast, it is so vicious and wicked for any type of authority to assume owning the Kaaba and controlling pilgrims. Such evil assumed ownership is the source of false, devilish tawatur related to pilgrimage.           

 

Thirdly: the Qorayish tribesmen chose the lowest level of misguidance: the Qorayish false claim of owning God's House:

1- Lines of evidence supporting the fact that Qorayish assumed it owned the Kaaba and reserved the 'right' to control pilgrims include the fact that it prevented Muhammad and early believers, at one point in time, from entering Mecca when they came as pilgrims, and God has forewarned them against His torment: "Yet why should God not torment them, when they are turning others away from the Sacred Mosque, although they are not its allies? Its true allies are the pious ones…" (8:34). In this verse, this is the only one time throughout the Quranic text that the notion of persons being allies to the Kaaba is mentioned. Alliance within other Quranic verses are of two types: 1) to ally oneself, as a believer in the Quran, to God and to perform jihad for justice to please God, and 2) to ally oneself, as a disbeliever in the Quran, to devils, Satan, and Taghut (i.e., false tawatur narratives). Accordingly, to ally oneself to the Kaaba is to ally oneself to God and to His True Religion: the Quran alone. This also means to choose on one's free will to be owned only by God during Ihram and performance of Hajj and Umrah rituals. Hence, those who have chosen to presumptuously assume to 'own' the Kaaba and control pilgrims; those persons (Qorayish tribesmen in the past and the KSA royal family at present) are real enemies of the Kaaba and God and they have allied themselves to Satan. The Qorayish tribe has chosen to step into the path of evildoing until the end, when it committed military aggression against early believers in Yathreb when they immigrated to it after being persecuted and chased out of Mecca. God asserts in the Quran that such aggressors and persecutors have allied themselves to Satan and Taghut: "Those who believe fight in the cause of God, while those who disbelieve fight in the cause of Evil. So fight the allies of the Devil. Surely the strategy of the Devil is weak." (4:76).      

2- Because Qorayish has chosen to wrongly assume its ownership of God's House, it has introduced new man-made sharia legislations to pilgrimage, which have nothing to do with God's sharia within the religion of Abraham. Such new man-made sharia legislations introduced by Qorayish have become devilish tawatur passing from one generation to another as 'holy' traditions, never discussed, criticized, or refuted and are much revered and honored, thus forming the basis of an earthly, man-made, fabricated religion that include controlling pilgrims and who would be allowed to enter Mecca and who would be prevented from entering it. when the Quran was revealed 14 centuries ago, it has corrected distortions that took place within the religion of Abraham. Even some Qorayish tribesmen had acknowledged that the Quran is the source of guidance, but they rejected it for fear of losing power, authority, dominance, control, and wealth, as other tribes might rebel or fight against them: "And they say, "If we follow the guidance with you, we will be snatched from our land." Did We not establish for them a Safe Sanctuary, to which are brought all kinds of fruits, as provision from Ourselves? But most of them do not know." (28:57). Because they have dared to assume they owned the Kaaba, the Qorayish tribesmen  denied the bounties granted to them by God and rejected the Quran, God's mercy, blessing, and gift to people, as they insisted to stick to the falsehoods and traditions of their forefathers to retain their stature, dominance, and wealth: "Do they not see that We established a Secure Sanctuary, while all around them the people are being carried away? Do they believe in falsehood, and reject the blessing of God?" (29:67).   

3- But why did Qorayish choose this the lowest level of misguidance by claiming its ownership of God's House? To what extent have this Qorayish legislation influenced and distorted the religion of Abraham and pilgrimage rituals? Answers are provided in the next CHAPTER.

 

 

CHAPTER IV: Tawatur of the Pilgrimage Legislation Universality before Arab Conquests

 

 

Firstly: universality of pilgrimage to God's House before Abraham:

1- From the very beginning, universality is linked to the Kaaba and pilgrimage: "The first house established for humankind is the one at Bacca; blessed, and guidance for all people." (5:96). Since all celestial messages include basics of God's religion, especially acts of worship, certainly pilgrimage has been an integral part of all divine messages conveyed via prophets and messengers sent by God to all people. 

2- We do not know the names of all prophets and messengers sent by God, as the Quran does not mention all of them: "Some messengers We have already told you about, while some messengers We have not told you about…" (4:164). Yet, we are sure that all ancient people had their own prophets and messengers sent by God: "…There is no community but a warner has passed through it." (35:24); "Say, "This is my way; I invite to God, based on clear knowledge-I and whoever follows me…" (12:108); "We sent no warner to any town, without its affluent ones saying, "We reject what you are sent with."" (34:34). Warners might be those who followed prophets: "Then a man came running from the remotest part of the city. He said, "O my people, follow the messengers." (36:20). Hence, those people knew from their prophets and messengers about the Kaaba and pilgrimage. 

3- Humanity at first was many nations and peoples within all parts on Planet Earth (Africa, Asia, Europe, the two Americas, Australia, New Zealand, and myriads of islands within oceans and seas), and within ancient times, the population on earth was small, but all peoples received prophets and messengers from God, as per the Quran, and left monuments and signs of civilizations that show their existence. "…There is no community but a warner has passed through it." (35:24). Hence, all people knew within these ancient times about the Kaaba as God's House.   

4- These peoples were at one point in ancient history one nation; linguistic studies prove that there are shared roots, features, and words among all civilizations related to religious heritage; this shows that divine revelations reached everywhere, but devilish tawatur of Satan has distorted religion for human beings in all eras. 

5- Human history related to divine messages is divided into two types: 2) those nations destroyed and smitten by God (e.g., some nations inside Egypt, Arabia, and the Levant; peoples of: Aad, Thamood, Moses' Pharaoh, Madian, Noah, etc.), and 2) those nations who were partially, not completely, destroyed, and these are the ones who knew about Mecca, the Kaaba, and pilgrimage. Those surviving peoples knew two types of pilgrimage tawatur: the false, devilish one and the true, divine one.    

 

Secondly: Abraham and the universality of pilgrimage to God's House:

1- During the era of Abraham, human groups and nations got to know one another; it is said that Abraham moved between Iraq, the Levant, Arabia, and Egypt, leaving his progeny here and there. Of course, Abraham did not invent such connections among these nations; they already existed within such ancient cultures without barriers of tongues and frontiers/borders. Within history of prophets, Abraham occupies a prominent phase, especially in relation to the Kaaba and the universality of pilgrimage advocated by him, within an outstanding stage of time. 

2- We deduce from the Quran the two main phases of the history of the Kaaba: before and after Abraham. Within the succession of the following two verses, we see that the Kaaba was built before Abraham at one stage, and he rebuilt it and showed its location to people in a later stage: "The first house established for mankind is the one at Bacca; blessed, and guidance for all people. In it are evident signs; the Station of Abraham." (3:96-97). Hence, Mecca was called in the first stage, before Abraham, Bacca, and when Abraham and Ishmael rebuilt it, people knew later on that Mecca is the station of Abraham.

3- Likewise, we deduce that there are two types of tawatur (the divine, true one vs. the devilish one of falsehoods) from this verse: "We showed Abraham the location of the House: "Do not associate anything with Me; and purify My House for those who circle around, and those who stand to pray, and those who kneel and prostrate."" (22:26). This means that Abraham moved from the Levant to Arabia to obey God's commands, and God has shown him the location of the Kaaba; Abraham had purified the location as per true, divine tawatur and rebuilt the Kaaba along with Ishmael, while removing all signs of paganism of heathens. This means that the Kaaba was known to people before Abraham; Abraham later on moved around many locations to call and preach to people within the ancient world, or known at the time, to urge people to come to Mecca from near and far places to perform pilgrimage. This is why camels and horses coming from so far within caravans became thin and lean because of long routes of travel: "And announce the pilgrimage to humanity. They will come to you on foot, and on every lean beast of transport. They will come from every distant point." (22:27). The phrase ''from every distant point'' indicates that pilgrimage is universal and Abraham played a major role in propagating this universality.    

4- We deduce again from the Quran that true pilgrimage rituals have been distorted by evil, corrupt tawatur, and this is why when Abraham and Ishmael were rebuilding the Kaaba, the implored God to show them real, true rituals, which came to be known as the pilgrimage of the religion of Abraham: "As Abraham raises the foundations of the House, together with Ishmael, "Our Lord, accept it from us, You are the Hearer, the Knower. Our Lord, and make us submissive to You, and from our descendants a community submissive to You. And show us our rituals, and accept our repentance. You are the Acceptor of Repentance, the Merciful." (2:127-128). 

5- Again, we deduce again from the Quranic phrase ''That they may witness the benefits for themselves…'' in 22:28 that the Kaaba has become, during the lifetime of Abraham, an international place for people of various races and nations to convene during pilgrimage, who were engaged in trade and mutual exchange of knowledge in all fields.  

6- Many factors that led to the universality of pilgrimage during the lifetime of Abraham include the following.

6/1: God has rewarded Abraham for his passing the tests, ordeals, trials, and tribulations by making him an imam (i.e., a teacher, a role-mode, a leader, or a guide) for all people whom he could contact and connect with, as we discern from this verse: "And when his Lord tested Abraham with certain words, and he fulfilled them. He said, "I am making you a leader of humanity." He said, "And my descendants?" He said, "My pledge does not include the wrongdoers."" (2:124). This leadership of Abraham was directly linked to the Kaaba and how both Ishmael and Abraham were responsible at the time to prepare God's House to receive pilgrims from all over the world: "And We made the House a focal point for the people, and a sanctuary. Use the station of Abraham as a place of prayer. And We commissioned Abraham and Ishmael, "Sanctify My House for those who circle around it, and those who seclude themselves in it, and those who kneel and prostrate."" (2:125). This leadership was earned by Abraham after his struggle and endeavors to preach God's true religion, and how he suffered from his people and his father, as his tribe tried to burn him alive, and how he roamed Iraq, the Levant, Egypt, and Arabia, facing ordeals and tests, especially the hardest one about the divine command to slaughter and sacrifice his only son (at the time) and first born Ishmael. Hence being an imam to all people crowned his lifelong striving for God's sake, especially while calling people to perform pilgrimage and teaching them how to perform its rituals based on true divine tawatur of God, and he spent the rest of his life dedicated to this promotion of the universality of pilgrimage.       

6/2: Abraham lived for long years, calling and teaching people about pilgrimage based on the tawatur of Truth, and after his death, all what he taught came to be known as the religion of Abraham. Of course, Abraham remained childless for years, until he begot his first-born son Ishmael, a prophet of God, from Hagar who resided with her son in Mecca. After Abraham returned to Sarah to live with her in the Levant for a while, he returned to his young son in Mecca, Ishmael, to rebuild together the Kaaba. This means that Abraham went to and fro between the Levant and Mecca several times. Growing older, Abraham and Sarah received glad tidings by the angels who told both of them that Sarah will bear Isaac, another prophet of God, in her old age despite being barren for years, and the same glad tidings included the birth of Jacob, a prophet who was the son of Isaac and the grandson of Abraham. This indicates that Abraham lived long enough to see his grandson Jacob: "His wife was standing by, so she laughed. And We gave her good news of Isaac; and after Isaac, Jacob. She said, "Alas for me. Shall I give birth, when I am an old woman, and this, my husband, is an old man? This is truly a strange thing." They said, "Do you marvel at the decree of God? The mercy and blessings of God are upon you, O people of the house. He is Praiseworthy and Glorious."" (11:71-73). We discern that Abraham lived for long years as he had said the following: "Recall that Abraham said, "O my Lord, make this land peaceful, and keep me and my sons from worshiping idols." "My Lord, they have led many people astray. Whoever follows me belongs with me; and whoever disobeys me-You are Forgiving and Merciful. "Our Lord, I have settled some of my offspring in a valley of no vegetation, by Your Sacred House, our Lord, so that they may perform the prayers. So make the hearts of some people incline towards them, and provide them with fruits, that they may be thankful." "Our Lord, You know what we conceal and what we reveal. And nothing is hidden from God, on earth or in the heaven." "Praise be to God, Who has given me, in my old age, Ishmael and Isaac. My Lord is the Hearer of Prayers." "My Lord, make me one who performs the prayer, and from my offspring. Our Lord, accept my supplication."" (14:35-40). Hence, we deduce that Abraham lived enough to see his grandchildren by Ishmael and Isaac, as he implored God to make himself and his progeny from among those who perform prayers all their lives. Hence, some of his progeny are Ishmael and his sons who lived in Mecca and its valley was soon filled with people to populate this location, and Abraham was happy and thankful as God gave him Ishmael and Isaac at his old age.       

6/3: Apart from what we know about the immense wealth of Abraham from the Book of Genesis in the Bible, we deduce rom the Quran that he was very rich; when angels took human forms to bring him glad tidings of Isaac and Jacob, Abraham at first (before he knew they were angels) brought to them a roasted beef. This indicates that he had servants, agricultural lands, pastures, animals, etc. despite the fact that he lived away from his first-born son, Ishmael, who was in Mecca. "Our messengers came to Abraham with good news. They said, "Peace." He said, "Peace." Soon after, he came with a roasted calf" (11:69). Within the last stage of his life, Abraham lived happily along with his son, Isaac, and his grandson, Jacob and the progeny of Jacob, and he enjoyed wealth and welfare as divine reward from God for his endeavors for His sake, as we discern from this verse: "And We granted him Isaac and Jacob, and conferred on his descendants the Prophethood and the Book, and gave him his reward in this life; and in the Hereafter he will be among the upright." (29:27). God says the following about the bounty and bliss granted by God and enjoyed by Abraham during his lifetime before he will enter Paradise in the Hereafter: "And We gave him goodness in this world, and in the Hereafter he will be among the righteous." (16:122). Hence, Abraham was an imam/leader for all people at his time; he was a prophet, a patriarch with good sons and grandsons, a wealthy person, and a leader and role-model to others. Abraham lived long years and even saw the progeny of Jacob and that of Ishmael. Of course, chief within this religion of Abraham is the universal pilgrimage to the Kaaba in Mecca by all people, as per 22:27.

 

Thirdly: the universality of pilgrimage within progeny of Abraham (People of the Book, Arabs, and Qorayish):

1- As we have written above, Abraham lived long enough to witness the beginnings of the forming of nations from his progeny, when he saw his grandchildren in Mecca and in the Levant; Jacob/Israel begot the twelve sons who are founders of the 12 tribes of the Israelites. Joseph brought them to Egypt, where they multiplied and became a strong link between Iraq, the Levant, Egypt, and Arabia, as all of them are progeny and issue of Abraham their great grandfather, and whom all carried the same culture and message: the religion of Abraham. This means that pilgrimage to Mecca became universal that way. God says about the family of Abraham: "…We have given the family of Abraham the Book and wisdom, and We have given them a great kingdom." (4:54).    

2- The Red Sea was – and still is – the  bridge between Mecca and Upper Egypt; as the Red Sea has witnessed the passage of some Arab tribes into Upper Egypt to reside in it and it was the route of pilgrims as pilgrimage flourished in many eras. Some historical narratives assert that a Coptic/Egyptian engineer was once hired by Qorayish to re-build the Kaaba within the pre-Islamic era. This means that there was strong relations between Meccans, especially Qorayish, and the Egyptian Copts before the advent of Islam. Let us remember that the Egyptian civilization was centered in Upper Egypt at the time, and we tend to believe that the Egyptian worship of the goddess Isis influenced Qorayish who worshipped her in the name of Al-Uzza; see 53:19. We tend to believe that when the Israelites left Egypt, they adopted some Pharaonic religious tenets and passed them to Arabia, especially within Qorayish in later eras. We cite the following evidence to support this theory: the Quran asserts that the Jews used to worship a ''son'' they ascribed to God and whom they named Osir; we see phonetically and linguistically that this name refers to Osiris the god of death worshipped by the Pharaohs. The writings of the Israelites influenced the narratives of the Sunnites; this god is made by the Sunnites as the angel of death, under the name Azrael. Another evidence to assert the Pharaonic influence on the Jewish thought and creeds is that once the Jews passed the Red Sea with Moses into Sinai, they worshipped a golden calf in Moses' absence.        

3- Within the north of Arabia, in the Levant, more communications and contact were established between the progeny of Abraham in the Levant and those in Arabia. Between the Levant and Arabia stretched deserts without mountains and with routes did not hinder any connections. Within the south of Arabia, Yemen had contacts within maritime trade with Persia, the Gulf, and the Red Sea. Some Yemenis immigrated to other areas as their Marib Dam collapsed long years before the advent of Islam; some of them went to Yathreb, the Levant, and the Gulf areas, and some of them established the small kingdoms of the Ghassanids in the Levant within borders with the Byzantines, and the Mandhari dynasty (descendants of the Lakhmids) in the Levant also within borders with Persia. The Christian Yemeni tribe named Kalb used to control the route of caravans within the direction toward the Levant. Such contacts and communications helped spread Judaism and Christianity in Yemen itself, and many People of the Book (i.e., Jews + Christians) were located within the south of Arabia, and this influenced the early history of Muslims in the first century A.H.       

4- Within the days of Joseph, the Israelites remained and settled in Egypt for long eras, especially within the Nile Delta away from the Red Sea. This was never posed as a barrier to hinder contacts between the Ishmaelites in Mecca and the Israelites in Egypt. We tend to believe that the following is never mentioned in history but mentioned in the Quranic Chapter 28 indirectly: Moses and Aaron moved with the Israelites from Sinai, during the 40 years of wilderness wandering in the desert, toward Mecca to perform pilgrimage, and Qorayish at the time controlled Mecca and pilgrimage. We tend to believe that once in Mecca, Moses and Aaron preached Qorayish to reform pilgrimage rituals by discarding the evil, corrupt tawatur and to follow the divine tawatur of the religion of Abraham, their great grandfather. Of course, Qorayish hauntingly and arrogantly refused and its tribesmen accused Moses and Abraham of being sorcerers who practiced witchcraft/sorcery. The same accusation was leveled by the Qorayish tribesmen to Muhammad, because Qorayish (descendants of the Ishmaelites) wished that a prophet who worked tangible miracles would appear from among them as was the case for centuries within the Israelites their paternal relatives. When Muhammad was sent by God with the Quran, they demanded from him to work a miracle just like Moses, and God has told them in the Quran that they (i.e., Qorayish tribesmen) had denied Moses and Aaron and their preaching after accusing them of being sorcerers: "…It was a mercy from your Lord, that you may warn people who received no warner before you, so that they may take heed. Otherwise, if a calamity befell them as a result of what their hands have perpetrated, they would say, "Our Lord, if only You had sent us a messenger, we would have followed Your revelations, and been among the believers." But when the truth came to them from Us, they said, "If only he was given the like of what was given to Moses." Did they not disbelieve in what was given to Moses in the past? They said, "Two works of magic backing one another." And they said, "We are disbelieving in both."" (28:46-48). Hence, since the underlines pronoun ''they'' refer to Qorayish and its ancestry, this shows that Moses and Aaron had been to Mecca, an stories of their coming there were traditions passing from one generation to another until Muhammad emerged as a Prophet of God.    

5- Within the era of the Qorayish hegemony and dominance, Arabia was influenced by strong cultural presence and religious influence of the People of the Book (i.e., Jews + Christians) among the progeny of Abraham, who of course performed pilgrimage as per the tenets of the religion of Abraham their great grandfather, even while retaining some distortions in these rituals. The signs that indicate such a strong presence include the following. 

5/1: The Quran divides the inhabitants and dwellers of Arabia into two parts: the People of the Book (i.e., the Quranic term for Jews + Christians) and Arabs (or the goyim, gentiles, or nations i.e., non-Israelites): the Ishmaelites who had no prophets after Ishmael died until Muhammad, the descendant of Ishmael, was sent by God). 

5/2: Because People of the Book were distinguished in Arabia, Qorayish (mostly descendants of Ishmael) and the rest of the tribes of the Arabs wished to have a prophet from Arab origin just like the Israelites had many prophets in ancient eras and they asserted that they would be better than the Israelites if this would occur one day. What the Arabs used to say in this respect is recorded in the Quran: "And they swore by God with their solemn oaths, that if a warner came to them, they would be more guided than any other people. Yet when a warner came to them, it only increased them in aversion." (35:42). The reason of this aversion is shown in the very next verse: "Priding themselves on earth, and scheming evil…" (35:43). We tend to believe that their pride and arrogance on earth was because they controlled the Kaaba, pilgrimage, and pilgrims and thus led and reigned over all Arabian tribes.

5/3: Misguidance reigned supreme among most People of the Book outside Arabia at the time; the Roman Catholic Church hid the true gospel and banned it as a false, heretic, apocryphal book, and it imposed the narratives/gospels of Mathew, Luke, etc. as if it were true and called them 'canonical' gospels. In contrast Arabia knew the true gospel revealed to Jesus by God, as followers of Jesus in Arabia at the 7^th century had the true gospel, as we discern from these Quranic verses: "In their footsteps, We sent Jesus son of Mary, fulfilling the Torah that preceded him; and We gave him the Gospel, wherein is guidance and light, and confirming the Torah that preceded him, and guidance and counsel for the righteous. So let the people of the Gospel rule according to what God revealed in it. Those who do not rule according to what God revealed are the sinners." (5:46-47). Likewise, Jews of Arabia had the true Torah, as we discern from these Quranic verses: "We have revealed the Torah, wherein is guidance and light. The submissive prophets ruled the Jews according to it, so did the rabbis and the scholars, as they were required to protect God's Book, and were witnesses to it..." (5:44). God says the following about the Quran as confirming the Gospel and the Torah preceding it: "He sent down to you the Book with the Truth, confirming what came before it; and He sent down the Torah and the Gospel. Aforetime, as guidance for mankind; and He sent down the Criterion…" (3:3-4). The criterion is one name of the many names of the Quran inside the Quranic text. When some of the Israelites demanded that Muhammad would judge within their cases in Arabia, God has told Muhammad the following: "But why do they come to you for judgment, when they have the Torah, in which is God's Law? …" (5:43). This means that the original Torah was in Arabia with the Israelites resigning there at the time.  

5/4: We notice that the Quran mentions a lot stories about the ancient Israelites, their prophets, and the People of the Book in general who lived in Arabia at the time, and there are many similarities with the Old Testament in the Bible. We notice that the Quran addresses the People of the Book a lot and calls them to use the Quran as a criterion: "This Quran relates to the Israelites most of what they differ about." (27:76). God praises in the Quran real believers among the People of the Book; see 28:52-55, 3:113-116, 3:199-200, and 17:107-109. God tells believers to compete with People of the Book in acts of righteousness: "… For each of you We have assigned a law and a method. Had God willed, He could have made you a single nation, but He tests you through what He has given you. So compete in righteousness. To God is your return, all of you …" (5:48)    

5/5: Within the Quranic discourse addressed to the polytheists among the People of the Book, we discern that many of them had distorted and corrupted the religion of Abraham, as we understand from the first half of the Quranic Chapter Two, 2:40-141, that included verses about pilgrimage. The same goes in the Quranic Chapter Three, as God has defied them in it to use the Torah they had as a judgment tool or criterion and has called them to follow the religion of Abraham and to perform pilgrimage to the Kaaba; see 3:93-100.   

5/6: We discern from the Quran that a close relation united the polytheists of Qorayish and some of the Quran-hating disbelievers from among the People of the Book, as both parties conspired and plotted many schemes and intrigues against early believers in the Quran while they were in Mecca and in Yathreb. God has commanded the believers to have patience and to bear with such intrigues and schemes by Qorayish  and People of the Book: "You will be tested through your possessions and your persons; and you will hear from those who received the Scripture before you, and from the idol worshipers, much abuse. But if you persevere and lead a righteous life-that indeed is a mark of great determination." (3:186). Leaders of disbelief among the People of the Book used to issue fatwas to Qorayish tribesmen, asserting to them that their corrupt, false tawatur was part of the religion of Abraham, which is better that the new religion conveyed by Muhammad. God has cursed those disbelievers among the People of the Book who dared to utter such falsehood: "Have you not considered those who were given a share of the Book? They believe in Gypt and Taghut, and say of those who disbelieve, "These are better guided on the way than the believers." Those are they whom God has cursed. Whomever God curses, you will find no savior for him." (4:51-52). We have asserted before in our writings that the Quranic term ''Gypt'' (which had not been introduced to Arabic language before the revelation of the Quran) refers to the bad, negative, corrupting influence of the Ancient Egyptian Pharaonic religion on the tenets and creeds of the People of the Book (i.e., Jews + Christians). We know from the Quran that Jews living near the Yathreb city-state led by Muhammad had violated the agreement with Muhammad and the early believers within the siege of Yathreb by the confederates of Mecca, as Jews helped Qorayish against dwellers of Yathreb. Those who breached the agreements were expelled from areas around Yathreb as a punishment. Those Jewish traitors allied themselves more to Qorayish in Mecca. We deduce then that Qorayish allowed these Jews to enter Mecca to perform pilgrimage at the Kaaba, while it prevented Muhammad and early believers from entering into Mecca to perform pilgrimage.     

 

Lastly:

This strong presence of the People of the Book inside Arabia and outside it at the time added to the spread of the universality of pilgrimage in many stages of the history of the religion of Abraham. Qorayish manipulated and made use of this universality to serve its financial purposes and interests within two major trade caravans of winter and summer  and its political purposes and interests of maintain hegemony and control of Arab tribes in Arabia. Such interests resulted in Qorayish intentionally distorting the religion of Abraham, especially concerning pilgrimage. Yet, trade also made pilgrimage universal and this brought economic benefits to Qorayish. To maintain such benefits, Qorayish fought and resisted Islam and persecuted Muhammad and early believers and prevented them from entering Mecca to perform pilgrimage (or Hajj). Years later, shortly before Muhammad's death, Qorayish saw that to maintain its political and financial interests and benefits, it had to feign conversion to Islam. Once Muhammad died, it managed to control all Arabs and used them to commit the sin of Arab conquests masterminded by Qorayish to invade the world. These conquests have changed the history of the Middle East and of the world. But what we focus on here in this book is that such conquests hindered the Quranic reform of pilgrimage rituals; devilish, corrupt, false tawatur returned soon enough as far as pilgrimage rituals are concerned, and what has been added to it is to prevent the People of the Book from ever entering Mecca and consequently from performing pilgrimage to the Kaaba. More details are found in the rest of the CHAPTERS of this book.    

 

 

 

CHAPTER V: Tawatur and The Qorayish Manipulation of Kaaba in Trade

 

 

 

Firstly: leadership of Qorayish because of the Kaaba:

1- Before the advent of Islam, Qorayish distinguished itself apart from the rest of Arabian tribes by its full control of the Kaaba and pilgrimage to manipulate them to serve its trade and financial interests as well as its political hegemony all over Arabia. Hence, the power, authority, and wealth grew as it dominated other tribes. The Qorayish tribesmen felt arrogant because of their power and affluence and they repelled people away from the righteous path of God, to the extent that God in the Quran has reminded them of ancient nations that were more powerful than Qorayish and the monuments, ruins, and remains of such ancient ones destroyed and smitten by God are there to draw the lesson from the end of arrogant, haughty ones who rejected God's commands and felt so powerful that they defied Him: "Have they not travelled the earth and seen how those before them ended up? They were more powerful than them, and they cultivated the land and developed it more than they developed it, and their messengers came to them with clear signs. God would never wrong them, but they used to wrong themselves." (30:9); "Have they not travelled through the earth, and seen the consequences for those before them? They were stronger than them, and they left more impact on earth. But God seized them for their sins, and they had no defender against God." (40:21); "Have they not journeyed through the land, and seen the outcome for those before them? They were more numerous than they, and had greater power and influence in the land. But what they had achieved availed them nothing." (40:82).

2- Thus, Qorayish had to choose between two options or routes: to return to the religion of Abraham corrected in the Quran, which include the tenet that the Sacred Kaaba Mosque must be open for all people without discrimination, thus Qorayish will be owned by God, or to continue the arrogant claim to 'own' the Kaaba to manipulate pilgrimage to serve the Qorayish interests and purposes, thus ignoring the religion of Abraham and defying God who "Who has fed them against hunger and has secured them against fear." (160:4).    

 

Secondly: Qorayish manipulated the Kaaba within winter and summer  trade caravans:

1- By the time Qusay Ibn Kilab conquered Mecca and established the full control by Qorayish of the Kaaba and pilgrimage, the universality of pilgrimage reached its zenith, and this coincided with huge trade relations between East and West; between the eastern bloc of Persia, India, and China and the western bloc of Europe (the Byzantines and Roman Empire). The borders of East and West met within the Levant and Mesopotamia (Syria and Iraq). At the time, struggle and conflict were fierce between the Persians and the Byzantines, a fact that hindered international trade and cultural exchange. Everyone at the ancient world needed another safer route. Camels were trained at the time by men to pass long routes amid deserts. Yemeni tribes immigrated and settled southern of Iraq and the Levant, and because of their experience in maritime routes between Yemen and India and beyond and their knowledge of desert routes in Arabia, the chosen alternative trade route was that Yemeni ships would carry goods and cargoes of eastern trade of India and China to Yemen and then camels would carry these goods and cargoes through the desert into the Levant, controlled by the byzantine, and then into Europe. The same camel caravans of Yemenis would carry goods and cargoes of Europe from the Levant through the desert again to Yemen, where Yemeni ships would carry them to India and China. Thus, trade caravans would avoid unsafe old-trodden routes in the unsettled regions of ongoing war between the Persians and the Byzantines. Yet, the only nuisance of desert trade routes of Arabia was some Arab tribes specialized in raiding and attacking those caravans seeking to loot their goods. To solve such problem and to avoid this danger, pilgrimage was manipulated by Qorayish. Since all Arabian tribes, the marauding ones and the rest, sanctify the Kaaba and perform pilgrimage to worship at it, they can be influenced, by Qorayish, to protect trade caravans. This entailed that Qorayish would have its shares from trade caravans; Qorayish used to buy goods carried to Mecca by Yemenis, and Qorayish would sent such goods within its own trade caravans of camels to the Levant, and the same Qorayish caravans would carry European goods from the Levant to Yemen to sell it there so that Yemenis sell them to the East countries. Such dual caravan journeys were called winter and summer journeys, protected against raids by the powerful Qorayish, who controlled all tribes at the time.                    

2- Qorayish protected its winter and summer journeys by writing agreements with desert-Arabs and all tribes to protect these caravans, in return for Qorayish allowing each tribe to put its pagan idols within the Sacred Kaaba Mosque to allow their deities to get part of the sanctity ascribed to the Kaaba. Qorayish was to protect these idols of the tribes provided that all tribes cooperate to protect its annual two caravans in winter and summer. Those tribes were allowed to raid and fight one another, but no one would dare to attack Qorayish and its trade caravans. Such trade was confiscated by Qorayish tribesmen alone as a shareholders who get profits as per their share in the trade. Within the profits margin, Qorayish would hold markets in Mecca to sell some of the goods of the East and Europe to pilgrims. 

3- Thus, Qorayish manipulated the Kaaba to protect its international trade and made use of pilgrimage to gain more profits by forcing pilgrims to buy food and clothes from markets of Mecca, as if this were parts of pilgrimage rituals! Consequently, Qorayish intentionally distorted the religion of Abraham and introduced paganism to the Sacred Kaaba Mosque after Abraham purified the sanctuary at the Kaaba. Paganism was embodied by idols as well as circumambulation in the nude! Qorayish forced male and female pilgrims to choose either to buy supposed Ihram clothes from Meccan markets or to circle the Kaaba stark naked! Pilgrims were forced also to buy food exclusively Meccan markets. This nudity circling of course led to encouraging sexual immorality and prostitution. Another distortion was to build a monument (a pillar) dedicated to Satan, under the alleged act of stoning it with pebbles as part of Hajj rituals. More details on that point will be mentioned later on in this book.

4- Qorayish deemed its distortions of the pilgrimage rituals and the religion of Abraham as taking care of pilgrims and maintaining the Kaaba, especially that they sell food to the pilgrims and organize watering of them from the Zamzam well. God has refuted their claims as real care and maintenance of the Kaaba and any other mosques should be by faithful belief and good, pious deeds: "It is not for the polytheists to maintain God's houses of worship while professing their disbelief. These-their works are in vain, and in the Hell-Fire they will abide. The only people who really maintain God's houses of worship are those who really believe in God and the Last Day, and pray regularly, and practice regular charity, and fear none but God. These are most likely to be guided. Do you consider giving water to pilgrims and maintaining the Sacred Mosque the same as believing in God and the Last Day and striving in God's path? They are not equal in God's sight. God does not guide the unjust people. Those who believe, and immigrate, and strive in God's path with their possessions and their persons, are of a higher rank with God. These are the winners. Their Lord announces to them good news of mercy from Him, and acceptance, and gardens wherein they will have lasting bliss. Abiding therein forever. With God is a great reward." (9:17-22).       

 

Thirdly: a brief overview of how Qorayish fought Islam to go on manipulating the Kaaba:

1- When the last celestial message from God was revealed to Muhammad to convey it to people, its main aim has been to correct the religion of Abraham distorted by people before the advent of Islam. Among these corrections are 1) the fact that the Kaaba is God's House for all people to visit and worship within pilgrimage rituals, 2) to ban and prohibit trading with religious tenets, and 3) the absurdity and futility of worshipping, sanctifying, and deifying mortals and things. Qorayish saw that Islam poses a veritable danger threatening its high-stature, authority, power, and wealth; it had to persecute Muhammad and the early believers until they were driven out of Mecca and sought safety by immigrating to Yathreb. Thus, the arrogant, haughty Qorayish felt insulted that its stature was shaken by the fact that Muhammad and the early believers fled its clutches. Losing its stature meant by default to lose tribal protection of its trade caravans, especially that tribes ridiculed Qorayish because it let go of Muhammad and his group to refute, undermine, asperse, and vilify pagan idol worship; Qorayish was bent on attacking Yathreb with military troops in an attempt to annihilate early Muslims. At first, believers of Yathreb were commanded not to defend themselves against such acts of aggression. Later on, self-defense fighting has been permitted in the Quran. Qorayish was surprised to see Muslim troops attacking its supposedly protected caravans. Such attack indicated that money and possessions of Meccan believers who immigrated to Yathreb were confiscated, sold, and had become part of the capital money of the Qorayish trade caravan. Believers in Yathreb had the right to retrieve their confiscated money. The battle of Badr ensued. Arabs of all tribes were indeed surprised to know that the Muslim military troops had defeated that of Qorayish. The Meccans were bent on taking revenge; Qorayish defeated the Muslim troops, and Qorayish took a step further as it insisted to eradicate all Muslims in Yathreb to gain back its awe, stature, and prominence among Arabian tribes. The troops of Qorayish sieged Yathreb within the battle of the confederates, but the Meccans were defeated, and the image of Qorayish was tarnished and shaken yet again, resulting in the fact that Arabs in all tribes reassessed the whole situation within a new angle.                

2- The Quranic message addresses the minds and hearts, and long before wars between Muhammad and Qorayish, Arabs admired the eloquence and unique language of the Quran, while being convinced by its words gradually, until they converted to Islam in groups and throngs. Of course, the Quran created a certain awareness among the Arabs; it became apparent that 1) it was silly to worship idols and dead people, 2) it was a bad thing that Qorayish distorted the religion of Abraham by its monopoly of the control of Mecca and the Kaaba, God's House made for all people, and 3) it was Qorayish who manipulated all tribes to protect its trade caravans. Thus, tribes converted to Islam willingly after being convinced that the Quran is the Truth. The awe and stature of Qorayish was violently shaken before their eyes with the Muslims in Yathreb had defeated Qorayish in their self-defensive wars to deter an stop the Meccan aggression led by Qorayish. Victorious early believers gained more terrain and strength within the peaceful call of the Quran to believe in God alone with no other deities beside Him. As more tribes converted to Islam, they realized they do not have to protect trade caravans of Qorayish for free anymore; even Qorayish cannot fight against all tribes together, as followers of the new religion defeated them many times. Arabs no longer care about idols stationed around the Kaaba. The tribes realized that they may attack and raid caravans of Qorayish to avenged their being duped, deceived, and tricked by Qorayish for years, and they were encouraged to think of that as the Meccan troops were defeated in the battle of Badr by the Muslims.        

3- Thus, Qorayish felt cornered in Mecca as it lost all its allies and felt that its trade, power, authority, stature, and wealth were threatened if it adamantly adhered to its enmity against Islam, which spread more with the passage of time. Qorayish had to convert to Islam, ostentatiously and overtly at least, to preserve its wealth and control of the Kaaba and pilgrimage and to regain its stature.

4- Of course, Qorayish did not surrender easily to Muhammad after they let him back into Mecca, entering it with all believers from Yathreb within peaceful victory as the Meccan welcomed him without bloodshed; extremist fanatics of Qorayish who feigned being new converts to Islam tried to regain full control of the Kaaba and breached agreements made with Muhammad and the early believers. The Quranic Chapter Nine was revealed at the time, warning the aggressors and giving them a chance to repent and stop their aggression and violation within the four sacred months of pilgrimage. When this period ended, Muslims has been commanded to engage into self-defense fighting to deter the extremists among the Meccan people against breaching agreements ever again so that the Kaaba will remain God's House available to all people as a safe haven. 

5- Leaders of Qorayish waited for a short while until Muhammad's death, and the Umayyads (among the Qorayish leaders of disbelief months before Muhammad's death who feigned conversion to Islam after long years of animosity toward it) allied themselves to the immigrants who remained in Yathreb. Within the era of the four pre-Umayyad caliphs, the Qorayish leaders controlled all political life in both Mecca and Yathreb. They marginalized the Supporters (i.e., dwellers of Yathreb who supported Muhammad and the immigrants), and they unified all Arabs under one goal: to conquer the neighboring regions to form an Arab empire. Of course, the conquerors used the banner of Islam as a unifying force to justify their aggressions, committed against neighboring regions, that have contradicted the Quran. Not only did Qorayish manipulated the name of Islam to form an empire by conquering the Levant, Iraq, Persia, India, Egypt, North Africa, Iberian peninsula, thus engaging into ongoing wars against the Byzantines and the Romans, but also to re-control the Kaaba and pilgrimage. This has been detrimental to many nations, and this heinous crime called Arab conquests has distorted Islam and twisted meanings of the Quran until now by the narratives that later on formed the fabricated, man-made, earthly religions of the Muhammadans (i.e., the Sufis, Shiites, and Sunnites). Before the advent of Islam, Qorayish distinguished itself apart from other Ishmaelite Arab tribes by the claim they ''owned'' the Kaaba. After Muhammad's death, such distinguishing apart from the rest of Arabia and the rest of the conquered nations increased by claiming to ''own'' the Kaaba, by bragging of the fact that Muhammad, the Seal of Prophets as per the Quran, was a Meccan man from Qorayish, and by controlling the pilgrimage and the caliphate and using them for political reasons and material gains. Hence, the Qorayish tribe went on with the trading of religion in return for money, stature, and worldly possessions. Shame on this tribe!          

6- Within such wars, conquests, civil wars, internecine strife, struggle for loot, bloodshed, etc., there was no time to focus on one of the main aims of the Quranic revelation: to correct the religion of Abraham after its being distorted, especially within the true pilgrimage rituals. Of course, stone idols were removed from the Sacred Kaaba Mosque, as it was ridiculous to worship them any longer, but the four pre-Umayyad caliphs were too busy committing bloodshed, engaging into military conquests and civil wars, and hoarding spoils and wealth to correct and reform the rest of pilgrimage rituals. This resulted later on, within the Umayyad Era, in the return of pagan rituals of the pre-Islamic era such as specifying a certain dress-code for pilgrims entering the state of ihram, throwing pebbles at a pillar dedicated to remember Satan under the pretext of punishing or 'burning' Satan, and encouraging sexually immoral behavior. Such distortions had to be protected by authoring and writing down hadiths and narratives to assert them during the Abbasid Era, the era that witnessed the formal formation of the full-fledged three earthly, man-made, fabricated religions of the Muhammadans (the Sufi, Shiite, and Sunnite creeds) which are still dominant today and have long ago replaced Islam.        

 

Fourthly: how Qorayish denied the Quran to go on controlling the Kaaba: 

  The Qorayish tribesmen believed that the Quran is the real guidance from God, but they told Muhammad that this guidance will make Arab tribes fight them and threaten their trade: "And they say, "If we follow the guidance with you, we will be snatched from our land."…" (28:57). This means that they rejected the Quran for economic reasons and so that they never lose their stature and wealth: "Is it this discourse that you take so lightly? And you make it your livelihood to deny it?" (56:81-82). Hence, they haughtily, unjustly, and arrogantly rejected the Quranic Truth, and their accusations leveled at Muhammad used to sadden him, and God has told him the following: "We know that what they say grieves you. It is not you they reject, but it is God's revelations that the wicked deny." (6:33). 

 

Fifthly: how Qorayish arrogantly denied the Quran to go on owning the Kaaba: 

1- The Qorayish control over the Kaaba made them assume they own it; hence, they arrogantly and tyrannically rejected and denied the Quran, despite the fact that they have sworn to follow an Arab prophet if God would send them one: "And they swore by God with their solemn oaths, that if a warner came to them, they would be more guided than any other people. Yet when a warner came to them, it only increased them in aversion. Priding themselves on earth…" (35:42-43). Hence, they were too proud to follow Muhammad as they will thus lose their stature among all Arabian tribes and lose their international trade. This was why they were keen on going on giving the impression that they own the Kaaba as they control Hajj.   

2- Some of the Israelites at the time believed in the Quran, whereas leaders of Qorayish were still adamant in their disbelief, pride, arrogance, and haughtiness: "Say, "Have you considered? What if it is from God and you disbelieve in it? A witness from the Children of Israel testified to its like, and has believed, while you turned arrogant…" (46:10). Some People of the Book believed in the Quran as it endorsed things mentioned in their scriptures, which told them about Muhammad as well and about the basics of legislations conveyed by previous prophets: "He prescribed for you the same religion He enjoined upon Noah, and what We inspired to you, and what We enjoined upon Abraham, and Moses, and Jesus: "You shall uphold the religion, and be not divided therein." As for the polytheists, what you call them to is outrageous to them…" (42:13). 

3- The Qorayish arrogance drove the tribesmen in Mecca to prevent Muhammad and the early believers from performing Hajj: "It is they who disbelieved, and barred you from the Sacred Mosque, and prevented the offering from reaching its destination. Were it not for faithful men and faithful women, whom you did not know, you were about to hurt them, and became guilty of an unintentional crime. Thus God admits into His mercy whomever He wills. Had they dispersed, We would have punished those who disbelieved among them with a painful penalty. Those who disbelieved filled their hearts with rage-the rage of the days of ignorance…" (48:25-26).

4- This Qorayish arrogance drove the haughty, defiant, and jealous tribesmen to demand from Muhammad to make them see angels and see God Himself: "Those who do not expect to meet Us say, "If only the angels were sent down to us, or we could see our Lord." They have grown arrogant within themselves, and have become excessively defiant." (25:21).

5- God says the following about the fate of the Qorayish disbelievers within the Last Day as they rejected the Quran out of pride though they know it endorses previous divine messages, and how followers of Qorayish will blame its leaders in Hell: "Those who disbelieve say, "We will never believe in this Quran, nor in what came before it." If you could only see the wrongdoers, captive before their Lord, throwing back allegations at one another. Those who were oppressed will say to those who were arrogant, "Were it not for you, we would have been believers." Those who were arrogant will say to those who were oppressed, "Was it us who turned you away from guidance when it came to you? No indeed, you yourselves were sinful." And those who were oppressed will say to those who were arrogant, "It was your scheming by night and day; as you instructed us to reject God, and to set up rivals to Him." They will hide their remorse when they see the retribution. We will put yokes around the necks of those who disbelieved. Will they be repaid for anything other than what they used to do?" (34:31-33). God will tell them when they enter Hell how they rejected the Quran in arrogance and they used to mock in in their gatherings: "My Verses were recited to you, but you turned back on your heels. Arrogant towards it-talked nonsense about it-disregarded it." (23:66-67). Such arrogance and ridicule brought to them eternal humiliation and torment in Hell: "On the Day when the faithless will be paraded before the Hell-Fire: "You have squandered your good in your worldly life, and you took pleasure in them. So today you are being repaid with the torment of shame, because of your unjust arrogance on earth, and because you used to sin."" (46:20). 

6- Leaders/imams of misguidance were more proud and arrogant that the rest of Qorayish who bought distracting discourses to make people move away from the Quran, which was mocked by them: "Among the people is he who trades in distracting tales; intending, without knowledge, to lead away from God's way, and to make a mockery of it. These will have a humiliating punishment. And when Our Verses are recited to him, he turns away in pride, as though he did not hear them, as though there is deafness in his ears. So inform him of a painful punishment." (31:6-7). This type of Quran deniers exist in all eras and God describes them as sinful liars: "These are God's Verses which We recite to you in truth. In which message, after God and His revelations, will they believe? Woe to every sinful liar. Who hears God's revelations being recited to him, yet he persists arrogantly, as though he did not hear them. Announce to him a painful punishment. And when he learns something of Our revelations, he takes them in mockery. For such there is a shameful punishment." (45:6-9).  Terrorist Salafists, terrorist MB group, and other Wahabis of today are the ones who follow the footsteps of Qorayish, especially in arguing to attempt to refute and undermine the Quran: "And among the people is he who argues about God without knowledge, or guidance, or an enlightening scripture. Turning aside in contempt, to lead away from the path of God. He will have humiliation in this world, and on the Day of Resurrection We will make him taste the agony of burning. That is for what your hands have advanced, and because God is not unjust to the servants." (22:8-10). Arrogance of deniers of the Quran is asserted in the phrase: "…turning aside in contempt…".

7- Some Arabs of Qorayish used to admire immensely the eloquence and style of the Quranic text, but soon they would return to their usual arrogance and would accuse the Quran of being sorcery. God has warned such deniers of the Quran because of their haughtiness and pride: "Leave Me to him whom I created alone. And gave him vast wealth. And children as witnesses. And smoothed things for him. Then he wants Me to add yet more! By no means! He was stubborn towards Our revelations.  I will exhaust him increasingly. He thought and analyzed.  May he perish, how he analyzed. Again: May he perish, how he analyzed. Then he looked. Then he frowned and whined. Then he turned back and was proud. And said, "This is nothing but sorcery from the past. This is nothing but the word of a mortal." I will roast him in Saqar." (74:11-26).  

8- Arrogance and haughtiness of Qorayish went on for centuries; when it unified all Arabs in Arabia under the banner of Arab conquests to form an Arab Empire within many caliphates: the pre-Umayyads four caliphs, the Umayyads, the Abbasids, the Fatimids, etc. This arrogance is reflected until now within many narratives of the so-called hadiths, such as (… Rulers and imams must be from Qorayish alone …). Another sign of the Qorayish arrogance that persisted within the eras of the Umayyads and the Abbasids was sanctification of Qorayish as a tribe controlling Kaaba and leadership, to the extent that many ambitious adventurers who sought the throne of the caliphate claimed falsely to others that their ancestors are Meccans from Qorayish.    

9- This Qorayish arrogance and haughtiness expressed themselves more within endeavors to repel people from the Kaaba and Islam, God's religion. More details on that subject will be tackled in the very next CHAPTER.

 

 

 

CHAPTER VI: Qorayish Repelled People from the Kaaba and God's Religion 

 

 

Firstly: concept of repelling people from God's religion and the Kaaba: between Islam and disbelief:

1- Qorayish prevented Muhammad and the early believers from entering Mecca to perform Hajj to defend its assumed ownership of the Kaaba and its control of pilgrimage; this was also an act of defiance against God and the Quran, as the Quran asserts that the Kaaba is God's House for all people alike and as the Quran refutes pagan idols that were used by Qorayish to protect its trade caravans. This was why Qorayish did its best to repel people from both the Kaaba and Islam: God's religion. Hence, Qorayish knew that the Quran is God's path of guidance but it insisted to repel others from this Path: "Those who disbelieve, and hinder from the path of God, and oppose the Messenger after guidance has become clear to them-they will not hurt God in the least, but He will nullify their good deeds" (47:32). God has warned Qorayish tribesmen against wasting their good deeds that they have performed in the past: "Those who disbelieve and repel from the path of God-He nullifies their good works." (47:1). God has warned Qorayish tribesmen against repelling people away from His House: "As for those who disbelieve and repel from God's path and from the Sacred Mosque-which We have designated for all mankind equally, whether residing therein or passing through-and seek to commit sacrilege therein-We will make him taste of a painful punishment." (22:25).  

2- We have mentioned before that the Quranic term ''people'' indicates all people in all eras, and it is used in the Quranic legislations of pilgrimage to indicate that visiting the Kaaba is for all people regardless of their faiths as long as they are peaceful, non-violent persons. God prohibits that aggressive  warriors and fighters get near the Kaaba, as God has said to the peaceful ones in terms of their behavior: "O you who believe! The polytheists are polluted, so let them not approach the Sacred Mosque after this year of theirs. And if you fear poverty, God will enrich you from His grace, if He wills. God is Aware and Wise." (9:28). In this verse, the Quranic term ''polytheists'' refers to violent aggressive murdering ones, not to polytheists in terms of faiths and beliefs, judged by God alone during the Last Day, as we have explained before. Thus, we cannot possibly declare one another as 'infidels' and coerce one another in religious matters by inquisitions, compulsions, driving away innocent ones from their homes, engaging into wars to fight against them, and other types of persecutions. Persecution types include to repel others from God's religion or path (i.e., the Quran) and away from God's House unjustly, which is made for all people equally.  

3- Peaceful persons who believe in religious freedom for themselves and all others are NOT committing the grave sin/crime of repelling people from God's path/religion, even if those peaceful persons are atheists, or non-violent polytheists believe in deified mortals and things beside God, or believers in any set of ideas or creeds of any type. What matters most is to respect religious freedom of others: this is first meaning of real Islam in terms of peaceful demeanor regardless of types of beliefs or lack of them. The second meaning of real Islam in terms of faith/belief is submission to God alone without partners, associates, or other dead or alive deified beings: "Say, "My prayer and my worship, and my life and my death, are devoted to God, the Lord of the Worlds." (6:162). This second meaning is judged only by God in the hereafter and no mortal is to meddle or interfere in that belief by compulsion or coercion of others. Hence, in terms of demeanor, Islam is peaceful behavior, and people are allowed to judge if a person is peaceful or not and had the right to stop the violent, aggressive ones in the name of the law to protect human rights.   

4- Repelling people from God's religion is extremis behavior by forcing others to disbelieve; those coercers not only disbelieve in the Quran, but also practiced the bad habit of compulsion in matters of religion, a worst crime/sin never forgivable if the criminal dies without repentance: "Those who disbelieve and repel from God's path have gone far astray. Those who disbelieve and transgress; God is not about to forgive them, nor will He guide them to any path. Except to the path of Hell, where they will dwell forever. And that is easy for God." (4:167-169).

5- Types of repelling others from God's religion vary indeed; the least-harmful ones (in terms of real, physical harm) is to peacefully propagate certain ideas by any means to make people discard the Quran. as long as such ones call for their ideas peacefully, no one is to stop them as they practice freedom of thought and religion. Yet, their punishment is by God in the Hereafter if they die without repentance.  Hence, verbal repelling from the Quran by preaching an earthly, man-made religions (e.g., the Sunnite, Wahabi, Shiite, and Sufi religions) is not punishable on earth by anyone. The worst type of repelling is to force, fight, coerce, and terrorize others to follow a certain set of beliefs. In the Quranic text, this sin is called ''persecution'' or ''fitna'' in Arabic. Such people who do so are  aggressors and criminals whom peaceful ones cannot marry, as per this verse: "Do not marry female polytheists, unless they have believed. A believing woman is better than a polytheistic one, even if you like her. And do not marry male polytheists, unless they have believed. A believing man is better than a polytheistic one, even if you like him…" (2:221); in this verse, ''believing'' means peaceful, non-violent ones, and "polytheists" means aggressive, violent, terrorist, warring ones, 2:221 does not talk about different faiths, denominations, or doctrines at all. Intermarriages between persons who have different faiths is OK as long as those persons are civilized, respect religious freedom, and are peaceful, non-violent ones. Those who repel others from God's path, the Quran, by practicing the bad habit of compulsion in religion are aggressors whom one cannot marry. Yet, we deal with such people fairly and kindly if they do not commit violence or incited aggression, for instance, by driving others out of their homes: "As for those who have not fought against you for your religion, nor expelled you from your homes, God does not prohibit you from dealing with them kindly and equitably. God loves the equitable." (60:8).    

6- God prohibits believers to ally themselves to such aggressors who persecute believers because of religion; such aggressive polytheists should not be helped financially, verbally, or by any other means: "But God prohibits you from allying yourselves to those who fought against you over your religion, and expelled you from your homes, and aided in your expulsion. Whoever takes them for friends-these are the wrongdoers." (60:9). Alliance here in times of war is treason; a real peaceful believer should cut all relations and sever all ties with aggressive polytheists. That was why a believing spouse had to immigrate and leave the aggressive spouse who persecute others in matters of religion: "O you who believe! When believing women come to you emigrating, test them. God is Aware of their faith. And if you find them to be faithful, do not send them back to the unbelievers. They are not lawful for them, nor are they lawful for them. But give them what they have spent. You are not at fault if you marry them, provided you give them their compensation. And do not hold on to ties with unbelieving women, but demand what you have spent, and let them demand what they have spent. This is the rule of God; He rules among you. God is Knowing and Wise." (60:10). 

 

Secondly: combining repelling people from both the Kaaba and God's religion:

1- To repel others from God's path, the Quran, includes repelling from the Kaaba, God's House, as the Quran is the last divine, celestial message from God to all human beings, and this message corrects distortions that occurred to the religion of Abraham in previous eras. Part of such reform is to correct pilgrimage rituals. God's House is for all people equally and freely; it was and is a distortion to think the Kaaba is owned by a certain group of people; this is akin to repelling people from both the Kaaba and the Quran, as Quranic teachings are discarded in that case as well. Thus, both types of repelling are intertwines and overlapping in that case; Hell is the eternal residence of those who die without repentance from this grave sin of repelling.

2- Both types of repelling were practiced by Qorayish: "They ask you about fighting during the sacred month. Say, "Fighting during it is deplorable; but to bar others from God's path, and to disbelieve in Him, and to prevent access to the Holy Mosque, and to expel its people from it, are more deplorable with God. And persecution is more serious than killing. They will not cease to fight you until they turn you back from your religion, if they can…" (2:217). We see clearly here in 2:217 that Qorayish practiced all types of aggressive actions and fought early believers to force them to reconvert to ancestral distorted religious traditions. This is religious persecution, or ''fitna'' in Quranic terminology. The Wahabi Salafists follow now the footsteps of Qorayish in repelling people from both the Quran and the Kaaba, and these verses apply to them as well: "Other messengers before you were rejected, but they endured rejection and persecution until Our help came to them. There can be no change to God's words. News of the messengers has already reached you. If you find their rejection hard to bear, then if you can, seek a tunnel into the earth, or a stairway into the heaven, and bring them a sign. Had God willed, He could have gathered them to guidance. So do not be of the ignorant. Only those who listen will respond. As for the dead, God will resurrect them; then to Him they will be returned." (6:34-36)  

 

Thirdly: Qorayish allied itself with misguided People of the Book to repel people from God's religion:

1- To protect its trade and financial interests, and to increase its wealth, Qorayish allowed some People of the Book to perform pilgrimage while preventing Muhammad and the early believers from entering Mecca to perform pilgrimage, as we have mentioned above. Qorayish made pacts with the Arabian Christian tribes, especially Kalb, that controlled trade routes to the Levant and other pacts with clergymen among Arab Jews and Christians who hated Islam inside Arabia, as per the Quran. all of these parties gathered their efforts and money to repel people from the Quran, and God has warned them in the Quran: "Say, "O People of the Scripture, why do you hinder from God's path those who believe, seeking to distort it, even though you are witnesses? God is not unaware of what you do."" (3:99).     

2- The Qorayish tribesmen's attempts to repel people away from the Quran they hated were unsuccessful, as the Quranic message spread in spite of their scheming: "They want to extinguish God's Light with their mouths; but God will complete His Light, even though the disbelievers dislike it. It is He who sent His messenger with the guidance and the true religion, to make it prevail over all religions, even though the polytheists dislike it." (61:8-9). The allies of Qorayish among the Quran-hating People of the Book in Arabia did their best to repel people from the Quran but they failed, as we discern from the following verses: "They want to extinguish God's light with their mouths, but God refuses except to complete His light, even though the disbelievers dislike it. It is He who sent His messenger with the guidance and the religion of truth, in order to make it prevail over all religions, even though the polytheists dislike it." (9:32-33). God asserts in the very next verse that clergymen among People of the Book trade in distorted religions to deceive people and repel them away from God's Path: "O you who believe! Many of the rabbis and priests consume people's wealth illicitly, and hinder from God's path…" (9:34).   

 

Fourthly: using money to repel people from God's religion:

1- The Quranic verse 9:34 reminds us to talk about using money to repel people from God's path/religion: the Quran itself.

2- In fact, using money to repel people from God's religion is and old habit that goes on until now and will go on in the future. This sin was committed by Qorayish and other Quran-hating Arabs, and it has been going on after the era of Qorayish; money plays a pivotal role in repelling others away from God's Path and to manipulate and distort religious notions to gain more money. It is a fact known to the world that the evil, cursed KSA, which claims to 'own' the Kaaba, as it fully controls pilgrimage and pilgrims, has spent more than 50 billion $ to spread Wahabism (disguised as if it were Islam) worldwide, despite the existence of very poor Arabian citizens whose money and rights are confiscated by the Saudi authority. The KSA spread Wahabi extremism, bigotry, and fanaticism even among the West countries, which adopt secular ruling systems and never spend a quarter of a dollar to proselytize Christianity, even churches in the West that proselytize spend billions on charity works, education, humanitarian aid worldwide. In contrast, the KSA is the axis of evil in the globe, following the steps of Qorayish  by spending billions to repel others from the Quran by spreading Middle-Ages Wahabi culture of terrorism and fanaticism worldwide.      

3- The evil scheming of Qorayish to repel other from God's House and God's Path entailed spending money: "Yet why should God not punish them, when they are turning others away from the Sacred Mosque, although they are not its allies? Its rightful allies are the pious; but most of them do not know." (8:34); "Those who disbelieve spend their wealth to repel from God's path. They will spend it, then it will become a source of sorrow for them, and then they will be defeated. Those who disbelieve will be herded into Hell." (8:36).

4- God has commanded the People of the Book not to trade in religion and discard God's verses in return for money, but most of them disobeyed God: "God received a pledge from those who were given the Scripture: "You shall proclaim it to the people, and not conceal it." But they disregarded it behind their backs, and exchanged it for a small price. What a miserable exchange they made." (3:187); "Do you not know that to God belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth? He punishes whom He wills, and He forgives whom He wills. And God is Capable of everything. O messenger! Do not let those who are quick to disbelief grieve you-from among those who say with their mouths, "We believe," but their hearts do not believe; and from among the Jews-listeners to lies, listeners to other people who did not come to you. They distort words from their places, and they say, "If you are given this, accept it; but if you are not given it, beware." Whomever God has willed to divert, you have nothing for him from God. Those are they whose hearts God does not intend to purify. For them is disgrace in this world, and for them is a great punishment in the Hereafter. Listeners to falsehoods, eaters of illicit earnings. If they come to you, judge between them, or turn away from them. If you turn away from them, they will not harm you in the least. But if you judge, judge between them equitably. God loves the equitable. But why do they come to you for judgment, when they have the Torah, in which is God's Law? Yet they turn away after that. These are not believers. We have revealed the Torah, wherein is guidance and light. The submissive prophets ruled the Jews according to it, so did the rabbis and the scholars, as they were required to protect God's Book, and were witnesses to it. So do not fear people, but fear Me. And do not sell My revelations for a cheap price. Those who do not rule according to what God revealed are the unbelievers." (5:40-44). Some of the People of the Book obeyed God: "Among the People of the Scripture are those who believe in God, and in what was revealed to you, and in what was revealed to them. They are humble before God, and they do not sell God's revelations for a cheap price. These will have their reward with their Lord. God is swift in reckoning." (3:199). The same commands has been mentioned of the People of the Quran: "And do not use your oaths to deceive one another, so that a foot may not slip after being firm, and you taste misery because you hindered from God's path, and incur a terrible torment. And do not exchange God's covenant for a small price. What is with God is better for you, if you only knew." (16:94-95).

5- The Qorayish leaders and imams of disbelief were addicted to repelling others from God's Path using money till the end of their lives; some used to buy mythological narratives to distract others away from the Quran: "Among the people is he who buys and trades in distracting tales; intending, without knowledge, to lead away from God's way, and to make a mockery of it. These will have a humiliating punishment." (31:6). Such cultural counterattack failed or brought little effect; this drove Qorayish to resort to military fight, like the case in the battle of Badr: "And do not be like those who left their homes boastfully, showing off before the people, and barring others from the path of God. God comprehends what they do." (8:47). The last revealed verses of the Quran say the following about their breaching pacts and treaties and their ongoing aggressions: "How? Whenever they overcome you, they respect neither kinship nor treaty with you. They satisfy you with lip service, but their hearts refuse, and most of them are immoral. They traded away God's revelations for a cheap price, so they barred others from His path. How evil is what they did. Towards a believer they respect neither kinship nor treaty. These are the transgressors." (9:8-10).  

 

Fifthly: penalty in this world and the next world for those who repel people from God's religion:

1- Those who repel others from the Quran, i.e., God's religion, are punished in this life by God, and they will be punished in the Afterlife in Hell if they die without repentance. Qorayish was punished in this life and disbelievers and aggressors among them will dwell forever in Hell after being punished in this life, as we deduce from the following verses: "And they said, "Our God, if this is the truth from You, then rain down on us stones from the sky, or visit us with a painful affliction." But God would not punish them while you are amongst them. And God would not punish them as long as they seek forgiveness. Yet why should God not punish them, when they are turning others away from the Sacred Mosque, although they are not its custodians? Its rightful custodians are the pious; but most of them do not know. Their prayer at the House was nothing but to repel and scheme - so taste the punishment for your blasphemy." (8:32-35). Their punishment in this life stated in 8:34 is never mentioned in history books; historians disregarded this fact which is mentioned only in the Quran. God forewarns us when He says the following about Qorayish: "Yet they play around in doubt." (44:9); God has said to Muhammad about this punishment in life using smoke: "So watch out for the Day when the sky produces a visible smoke. Enveloping people; this is a painful punishment." (44:10-11). The Qorayish tribesmen implored God for deliverance after they accused Muhammad of being a crazy person: ""Our Lord, lift the torment from us, we are believers." But how can they be reminded? An enlightening messenger has already come to them. But they turned away from him, and said, "A crazy teacher!"" (44:12-14). God delivered them from the torment of the smoke, knowing very well they are liars as far as repentance is concerned, and He has warned them against greater torment during the Day of Resurrection: "We will ease the punishment a little, but you will return. The Day when We launch the Great Assault - We will avenge." (44:15-16). God has said to Muhammad the following about Qorayish repelling others from God's Path: "Or are you asking them for a payment? The revenue from your Lord is better, and He is the Best of providers. You are inviting them to a straight path. But those who do not believe in the Hereafter are swerving from the path." (23:72-74). God has said the following about Qorayish undeterred by torment suffered in this life: "Even if We had mercy on them, and relieved their problems, they would still blindly persist in their defiance. We have already gripped them with suffering, but they did not surrender to their Lord, nor did they humble themselves. Until, when We have opened before them a gate of intense agony, at once they will despair." (23:75-77). Combining punishments of this world and the next, God says the following about the Qorayish disbelievers: "Those who disbelieve spend their wealth to repel from God's path. They will spend it, then it will become a source of sorrow for them, and then they will be defeated. Those who disbelieve will be herded into Hell." (8:36). This means that after spending their money in evil schemes, they were defeated and felt deep sorrow, and those who died without repentance will enter Hell for eternity after the Last Day.        

2- God says the following about dwelling forever in Hell as a punishment for those who commit the grave sin of repelling others from God's religion: "Those who disbelieve and repel from God's path have gone far astray. Those who disbelieve and transgress; God is not about to forgive them, nor will He guide them to any path. Except to the path of Hell, where they will dwell forever. And that is easy for God." (4:167-169). Hence, because they are not content with peaceful, non-violent choice of disbelief, but they choose to repel others as well from good faith, they will be tormented in Hell more and more: "Those who disbelieve and obstruct from God's path-We will add punishment to their punishment, on account of the mischief they used to make." (16:88). 

3- We believe that among those who will be tormented in Hell are religious scholars, imams, and sheikhs of misguidance among the Muhammadans (if they die without repentance and showing the Truth), because they hide the Quranic Truth and trade in religion to earn money; God will be their Foe during the Last Day and will force them into Hell as a just punishment: "Those who conceal what God revealed in the Book, and exchange it for a small price-those swallow nothing but fire into their bellies. And God will not speak to them on the Day of Resurrection, nor will He purify them, and they will have a painful punishment. It is they who exchange guidance for error, and forgiveness for punishment. But why do they insist on the Hell-Fire?" (2:174-175); "Those who exchange the covenant of God, and their vows, for a small price, will have no share in the Hereafter, and God will not speak to them, nor will He look at them on the Day of Resurrection, nor will He purify them. They will have a painful punishment." (3:77). 

 

Sixthly: repentance:

  

  Repentance is available all the time as long as one breathes, i.e., before one dies. Even those who fought and persecuted others for religious causes can repent and stop their aggression, and thus, believers stop their self-defense fighting against them: "Say to those who disbelieve: if they desist, their past will be forgiven. But if they persist-the practice of the ancients has passed away. Fight them back until there is no more persecution, and religion becomes exclusively for God. But if they desist-God is Seeing of what they do." (8:38-39). This law applies and is repeated within the context of the Qorayish aggressions shortly before the death of Muhammad when the tribesmen breached the treaties in Mecca, and God has given them the chance of the sacred months to repent or to be fought fiercely in case they did not stop their aggressions; see 9:5-11. Of course, repentance in one's heart is judged by God only; the repentance needed in 9:5-11 was to stop aggressions, transgressions, and violence against peaceful believers. Repentance of those who repelled others from the Quran and the Kaaba is never acceptable when someone among them is dying or already dead: "Those who disbelieve, and hinder from God's path, and then die as disbelievers-God will not forgive them." (47:34) 

 

Lastly:

  

  Qorayish was bent on going on repelling people away from god's religion and from God's House using false, devilish, ancestral tawatur in order to retain its wealth, stature, hegemony, control, and political leadership. Qorayish tribesmen spent lots of money to buy and trade in false discourses to make them a source of distraction and deviation. They spent  lots of money to wage military wars against the early believers in Yathreb to wipe them out from the surface of the earth. Qorayish was defeated during Muhammad's lifetime, but once he died, Qorayish soon retrieved its hegemony, authority, and control as the Umayyads (a faction of Qorayish) took over rule and the tyranny of Qorayish reigned supreme for a long time. Factors leading to such state of affairs include local tribalism that matched Middle-Ages culture of tyranny, enslavement, injustice, and trading in religious false notions and narratives. This culture contradicts Islam (Quran alone). Hence, once Muhammad died, the Qorayish tawatur returned with a vengeance, especially the false one related to pilgrimage a la pre-Islamic era, besides new false tawatur added to rituals of pilgrimage that still persist until now. More details on that topic are in the following CHAPTER.     

 

 

CHAPTER VII: Why Does the Qorayish Tawatur Dominate Pilgrimage Now?

 

 

Firstly: ''if it had not been for'':

1- The Islamic call was a great chance for the weak and the marginalized in Mecca to get their rights and treated as equals. They liked values of Islam: equality, justice, religious freedom, peace, etc. and they admired the fact that peaceful behavior is urged always. This was new in the Middle-Ages Arabian peninsula. Hence, many of the weak and the marginalized in Mecca converted to Islam. Those people thought that their low status would make leaders and affluent ones of Qorayish condone and ignore them and leave them be. This did not occur.  

2- If it had not been for the arrogance of Qorayish, who felt insulted by those poor ones leaving the ancestral polytheistic religion, persecution would not have occurred. But it did occur; Muhammad and the weak ones had to immigrate to Yathreb to flee persecution. In Yathreb, those immigrants enjoyed religious freedom, but some of them disobeyed Muhammad many times, and they disregarded warnings of God in 8:20-28. This means that they had committed disobedience, betrayal, and treason, and God has warned them in the Quran against Hell, as obedience is linked to piety and in the fear of God. Many of them did not believe in the Hereafter; they left Mecca to avoid tyranny of Qorayish, and those persons enjoyed religious freedom in the Yathreb city-state. They even returned to their polytheistic acts of worship like worshipping tombs and idols; the last verses to be revealed have commanded them to avoid this among other things and to obey God, as Muhammad's sole mission is to convey the divine message, NOT to enforce it: "O you who believe! wine, gambling, mausoleums, and idol-worship are abominations of Satan's doing. Avoid them, so that you may prosper. Satan wants to provoke strife and hatred among you through wine and gambling, and to prevent you from the remembrance of God, and from prayer. Will you not desist? Obey God and obey the Messenger, and be cautious. If you turn away-know that the duty of Our Messenger is clear communication." (5:90-92). This indicates that those believers/Muslims were so in terms of peaceful behavior, not in terms of belief in the Quran within their hearts and acts; they had obeyed God by doing acts prohibited in 5:90. They had not believed fully in the Quran at the time, and God has warned them many times: "O you who believe! Believe in God and His messenger, and the Book He sent down to His messenger, and the Book He sent down before. Whoever rejects God, His angels, His Books, His messengers, and the Last Day, has strayed far in error." (4:136). In 4:136, the first verb ''believe'' means to act peacefully and non-violently, and the second verb ''believe'' means the order to believe in terms of faith and belief. Thus, those polytheists hoped to enjoy religious freedom in Yathreb, if it had not been for the military attacks of Qorayish.          

3- Qorayish never left the Yathreb immigrants in peace; it gathered and mobilized all their money, efforts, and military might and prowess in an attempt to eradicate Muslims altogether. These passive immigrants did not heed the Quranic commands to engage into self-defense fighting; if it had not been for these commands, they would have enjoyed peace they sought by living in Yathreb and pretending to be Quran-believing ones.     

4- The felt troubled by the self-defense endeavors against Meccan aggressors of Qorayish who previously confiscated their possessions and drove them out of Mecca and protested against such endeavors: "Permission is given to those who are fought against, and God is Able to give them victory. Those who were unjustly evicted from their homes, merely for saying, "Our Lord is God." Were it not that God repels people by means of others: monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques-where the name of God is mentioned much-would have been demolished. God supports whoever supports Him. God is Strong and Mighty." (22:39-40). Their reluctance has been responded to by God and His warnings: " Have you not considered those who were told, "Restrain your hands, and perform your prayers, and spend in regular charity"? But when fighting was ordained for them, a faction of them feared the people as God is ought to be feared, or even more. And they said, "Our Lord, why did You ordain fighting for us? If only You would postpone it for us for a short while." Say, "The enjoyments of this life are brief, but the Hereafter is better for the righteous, and you will not be wronged one bit." Wherever you may be, death will catch up with you, even if you were in fortified towers. When a good fortune comes their way, they say, "This is from God." But when a misfortune befalls them, they say, "This is from you." Say, "All is from God." So what is the matter with these people, that they hardly understand a thing? " (4:77-78).

5- They would have evaded self-defense fighting, if it had not been for their having to choose between defending themselves or to get killed by the Qorayish troops without resistance and fighting.

6- If it had not been for the Qorayish military aggression, those persons would not have felt troubled to be fighting their kinsmen and those with whom they had strong tribal ties. The inevitability of fighting forced them to choose: either to belong to Islam and its higher values (e.g., equality, freedom, dignity, justice, etc.), or to belong to Qorayish with its arrogance, pride, wealth, etc. And this made them shaken with hesitation over the question of loyalty. This is never mentioned elsewhere in history of that period; this is only mentioned in the Quran. history never mentions such oscillation and fluctuations in loyalty because historical accounts follow false Qorayish tawatur narratives, not the Absolute Truth of the Quranic narrative of the true, divine tawatur. This Qorayish tawatur was imposed in pilgrimage rituals to move aside the divine tawatur of the Quran. 

 

Secondly: immigrants and the question of alliance:

1- According to the above, we assert here that loyalty and alliance is a question of vital importance in cases of war; real peaceful believers should not ally themselves to aggressive enemies at all.

2- Conflicting alliances and loyalties pose a serious problem, and there is no exceptions to this rule within Arabian tribes in the 7^th century A.D. before and after the advent of Islam. This is mostly because of the factor of tribalism; one's tribe was one's home, financial resource, military army, folks and relatives, identify and belonging, pride and in-laws, etc. This was ingrained in the Arabian culture of Arabs at the time; let alone within arrogance, haughtiness, dominance, and affluence of a tribe like Qorayish.  

3- The problem of loyalty and alliance exacerbated as immigrants to Yathreb felt home-sickness; Mecca was their homeland of pride and ancestral traditions and memories, unlike other tribes that used to move incessantly within Arabian deserts. Such suffering, impecuniousness, and home-sickness made some of the immigrants forget about their being persecuted previously in Mecca: they have to face the reality that they were about to fight their kinsmen to prove they are real believers in the Quran that commands them to engage into self-defense fighting against aggressors. They were torn between feeling loyal to Muhammad and to their Meccan folks. 

4- We dare to assert here that this problem of loyalty and alliance occurred with varying degrees to all immigrants to the Yathreb city-state. Nostalgia, the sense of belonging, and home-sickness are very powerful emotions; let alone how strong they are when one's faith is weak and oscillating. As a historian, we deduce that many of the well-known names of the so-called companions of Muhammad in Yathreb suffered the same problem of conflicting alliance and loyalty, and once Muhammad died shortly after the Meccans feigned conversions to Islam, they eagerly reunited with the Umayyads in all their plots to form an Arab/Qorayish empire and the Umayyad dynasty later on. Such Arab conquests were a crime that flagrantly violated the Quranic teachings; this crime is deemed disbelief, in terms of aggressive behavior that contradicts Quranic commands to adhere to peace. 

 

Thirdly: how the Quran has dealt with the question of loyalty:

  We have discussed this problem before in detail within an article of ours about the Quranic Chapter 60 and the problem of loyalty and alliance. The following brief points below are a summary of that article, covering the topic of this CHAPTER in this book you are reading.

1- Reluctance of some immigrants to engage into self-defense fighting was paralleled by Muhammad's inciting them to participate and obey the Quranic commands: "Let those who sell the life of this world for the Hereafter fight in the cause of God. Whoever fights in the cause of God, and then is killed, or achieves victory, We will grant him a great compensation." (4:74). God promises here rewards and then reminds them of persecution of Qorayish against them in Mecca: "And why would you not fight in the cause of God, and the helpless men, and women, and children, cry out, "Our Lord, deliver us from this town whose people are oppressive, and appoint for us from Your Presence a Protector, and appoint for us from Your Presence a Victor."" (4:75). God asserts that those who obey Him are real believers and those who fight aggressively and unjustly are following Satan: "Those who believe fight in the cause of God, while those who disbelieve fight in the cause of Evil. So fight the allies of the Devil. Surely the strategy of the Devil is weak." (4:76). This is why God has told Muhammad to incite them to engage into self-defense fighting; to deter the aggressors: "So fight in the cause of God; you are responsible only for yourself. And rouse the believers. Perhaps God will restrain the might of those who disbelieve. God is Stronger in Might, and More Punishing." (4:84). "O prophet! Count on God, and on the believers who have followed you. O prophet! Rouse the believers to battle. If there are twenty steadfast among you, they will defeat two hundred; and if there are a hundred of you, they will defeat a thousand of those who disbelieve; because they are a people who do not understand." (8:64-66).

2- Of course, such urging them in the Quran had little influence on those whose faith was weak, and the Quranic urging turned into rebuke and warning later on, within the last revealed verses in the Quran: "O you who believe! What is the matter with you, when it is said to you, "Mobilize in the cause of God," you cling heavily to the earth? Do you prefer the present life to the Hereafter? The enjoyment of the present life, compared to the Hereafter, is only a little. Unless you mobilize, He will punish you most painfully, and will replace you with another people, and you will not harm Him at all. God has power over all things." (9:38-39).

3- Thus, God in the Quran has accused some immigrants of being loyal allies to military aggressive Meccans of Qorayish; this is equal to high treason by our modern terms. To ally themselves to the unjust ones because of nostalgia, friendly ties, kinsmen, etc. posed a huge problem and this alliance and loyalty drove them after Muhammad's death to join forces with Qorayish to form an Arab Empire, by committing heinous crimes of aggression that surely they knew to be contradictory with the Quran.   

4- Within the Quranic Chapter 60, God has rebuked such alliance with the warring enemies who combine aggression with disbelief, and God has warned the against the treachery of the aggressors who wanted to force them to re-convert to paganism and polytheism and asserted to them that He is the Omniscient Who knows what is indie their hearts; later on, God urges them to imitate the model of Abraham, assuring them that such alliance is forbidden in cases of warring enemies/aggressors who started persecution and injustices and that peaceful ones are to be treated kindly regardless of their different faiths that contradict Islam. "O you who believe! Do not take My enemies and your enemies for supporters, offering them affection, when they have disbelieved in what has come to you of the Truth. They have expelled the Messenger, and you, because you believed in God, your Lord. If you have mobilized to strive for My cause, seeking My approval, how can you secretly love them? I know what you conceal and what you reveal. Whoever among you does that has strayed from the right way. Whenever they encounter you, they treat you as enemies, and they stretch their hands and tongues against you with malice. They wish that you would disbelieve." (60:1-2); "You have had an excellent example in Abraham and those with him; when they said to their people, "We are quit of you, and what you worship apart from God. We denounce you. Enmity and hatred has surfaced between us and you, forever, until you believe in God alone."…" (60:4); "As for those who have not fought against you for your religion, nor expelled you from your homes, God does not prohibit you from dealing with them kindly and equitably. God loves the equitable. But God prohibits you from befriending those who fought against you over your religion, and expelled you from your homes, and aided in your expulsion. Whoever takes them for friends-these are the wrongdoers." (60:8-9).     

5- Some immigrants disregarded and disobeyed such Quranic commands, and God has warned them that those who ally themselves to aggressors/enemies of God were not real believers: "You will not find a people who believe in God and the Last Day, loving those who oppose God and His Messenger, even if they were their parents, or their children, or their siblings, or their close relatives…" (58:22). 

6- Immigrants went on disobeying God for a long time; the Quranic Chapter Nine urges real believers to disown them, while giving them the period of the sacred months as a chance to repent; otherwise, self-defense fighting would be the option to deal with their aggression: "A declaration of immunity from God and His Messenger to the polytheists with whom you had made a treaty. So travel the land for four months, and know that you cannot escape God, and that God will disgrace the disbelievers. And a proclamation from God and His Messenger to the people on the day of the Greater Pilgrimage, that God has disowned the polytheists, and so did His Messenger. If you repent, it will be better for you. But if you turn away, know that you cannot escape God. And announce to those who disbelieve a painful punishment. Except for those among the polytheists with whom you had made a treaty, and did not violate any of its terms, nor aided anyone against you. So fulfill the treaty with them to the end of its term. God loves the righteous. When the Sacred Months have passed, kill the polytheists wherever you find them. And capture them, and besiege them, and lie in wait for them at every ambush. But if they repent, and perform the prayers, and pay the alms, then let them go their way. God is Most Forgiving, Most Merciful. And if anyone of the polytheists asks you for protection, give him protection so that he may hear the Word of God; then escort him to his place of safety. That is because they are a people who do not know." (9:1-6). We tend to think that such tone adopted in these verse imply a huge revolt organized by Qorayish to scheme and plot to undermine Islam; as Meccans of Qorayish breached treaties with Muhammad and drove away Muslims out of Mecca temporarily, in order to retrieve control over the Kaaba. It is noted firstly that reluctance of some immigrants in Yathreb to fight the Meccan aggressors of Qorayish who breached treaties was the reason that the Quranic urging to fight in self-defense is coupled with rebuke and warning: " Will you not fight a people who violated their oaths, and planned to exile the Messenger, and initiated hostilities against you? Do you fear them? It is God you should fear, if you are believers." (9:13). The Qorayish transgressors had crossed all limits, and God has said the following to the believers to remind them of such transgressions: "Fight them. God will punish them at your hands, and humiliate them, and help you against them, and heal the hearts of a believing people. And He will remove the anger of their hearts. God redeems whomever He wills. God is Knowledgeable and Wise." (9:14-15). Sadly, the historical accounts do not record such breaching of treaties and aggressions  committed in Mecca to regain control of the Kaaba, shortly before Muhammad's death. We know only about such events from the Quran itself. This shows that historians were bent on hiding some events to serve purposes of Qorayish. Besides, historians shied away from exposing their grandfathers who witnessed such events that the Quranic Chapter Nine tackles and records for all believers.  It is noted secondly that the Quranic rebuke for those reluctant to fight in self-defense battles is linked to the rebuke of alliance with the enemies among the aggressors from Qorayish: "O you who believe! Do not ally yourselves with your parents and your siblings if they prefer disbelief to belief. Whoever of you allies himself with them-these are the wrongdoers. Say, "If your parents, and your children, and your siblings, and your spouses, and your relatives, and the wealth you have acquired, and a business you worry about, and homes you love, are more dear to you than God, and His Messenger, and the struggle in His cause, then wait until God executes His judgment." God does not guide the sinful people." (9:23-24). This means that such high treason and betrayal went on even until the time when the last Quranic verses were revealed, within a critical situation, as Qorayish breached treaties and caused violence to occur in Mecca. It is noted thirdly that Muhammad was inside Mecca when the Qorayish breaching of treaties and committing aggression occurred, as they were about to drive Muhammad out of Mecca and the Sacred Kaaba Mosque, but they failed to do it. God has recorded such event in the Quran; this fact is never mentioned in historical accounts. "Will you not fight a people who violated their oaths, and planned to exile the Messenger, and initiated hostilities against you? Do you fear them? It is God you should fear, if you are believers." (9:13). We discern from 9:13 that suddenly, Qorayish breached treaties and raised arms within the Sacred Kaaba Mosque. Apparently, Muhammad was inside the Sacred Kaaba Mosque at the time, and God had protected him from their aggression. Eventually, Qorayish was defeated, and the Quran prohibited all aggressors from approaching the Sacred Kaaba Mosque: "O you who believe! The polytheists are polluted, so let them not approach the Sacred Mosque after this year of theirs. And if you fear poverty, God will enrich you from His grace, if He wills. God is Aware and Wise." (9:28). It is noted fourthly and lastly that the similarity of Quranic rebuke in the Quranic Chapter Nine and the Quranic Chapter Sixty (see 9:13 and 60:1) signals the facts that in both cases, the Qorayish aggressors repelled Muhammad out of Mecca or attempted to do so, that Qorayish began the aggression in both cases, and that in both cases, the overt and overt alliance and loyalty of Meccan immigrants to Yathreb remained the same, despite aggression committed by Qorayish.

 

Fourthly: how Qorayish manipulated Islam to unify Arabs to serve its interests and purposes: how Qorayish re-introduced its false tawatur of pilgrimage:

1- During the lifetime of Muhammad, Qorayish was divided in two parties: those who specialized in aggression and injustice as they adhered to false tawatur to control the Kaaba and pilgrimage, and those who immigrated to Yathreb but kept overt and covert loyalty and alliance to Meccan aggressors of Qorayish. Once Muhammad died, most Qorayish tribesmen committed the sins of many aggressions that came to be known as Arab conquests; hence, the loyalty and alliance to Qorayish made most of them  discard the Quran (real, divine tawatur) to follow the false, devilish Qorayish tawatur.   

2- Because of the Arab conquests, the false, devilish tawatur returned with a vengeance sponsored and spread by Qorayish, as new fabricated narratives as well as falsehoods and lies were added and accumulated. We quote some of them below.  

2/1: Preventing the People of the Book from performing pilgrimage: the caliph Omar Ibn Al-Khattab forced all Arabian People of the Book to leave Arabia forever; he committed this sin, even though they were innocent and did no harm to him and to Muslims. The Arab conquests resulted in the formation of an Arab empire. The false tawatur made Arab lands as the camp of peace and belief of believers, whereas the Byzantines were the camp of war and conquests of infidels and disbelievers. Since the Byzantines were Christians, Omar prohibited all People of the Book from entering Mecca to perform pilgrimage. 

2/2: Lessening the pilgrimage/Hajj season, from the four sacred months to just the very first ten days of Zu Al-Hijja. This was made out of necessity as Arabian tribes threatened pilgrimage caravans with raids as they sought to loot them. This discard of the sacred months has been a flagrant violation of God's religion; this violation goes on until now.  

2/3: The notion of the sacred months, when wars are supposed to be forbidden, has been obliterated altogether within the era of Arab conquests followed by Arab civil war, followed in its turn by rebellions against Arab rulers by Copts, Berber, Persians, Shiites, Alawites, Al-Khawarij, etc.

3- Awareness raised by the Quran prevented other Arabian tribes from accepting the return of the Qorayish hegemony; Arab civil war ensued. Even Musaylimah, who pretended to be a prophet, when he led this civil war of the renegades, he said that Qorayish can control half of Arabia and the other half must fall under his control. When this civil war of the renegades ended and Qorayish emerged victorious, the Qorayish leaders channeled the bellicose, belligerent nature of Arabs into the sin of Arab conquests, after convincing immigrants that jihad is to fight peaceful non-aggressor non-Arabs in the regions around Arabia to force them to convert them to Islam and occupy and invade their lands and get money tributes, taxes, etc., and to go on fighting them until they surrender to Arab rule. Arab conquests led to invasions, occupations, settlement of Arabs in conquered lands, enslavement of people, looting, massacres, tyranny, as well as other types of injustices. Qorayish monopolized the looted riches and treasures of the conquered lands; this caused yet another civil strife and ensuing wars; the caliph Othman Ibn Affan was assassinated and his successor, Ali, fought a long civil war against Mu'aweiya and was defeated and killed. The Umayyad caliphate an dynasty was established; it reflected the false, corrupt tawatur of Qorayish. Those who went on rebelling, who came to be known as Al-Khawarij, caused lots of trouble and damage to the Umayyads within incessant wars and rebellions. Those rebels raided pilgrimage caravans, and this made Arabs think and implement the idea to confine Hajj to a ten-day season instead of the whole four sacred months. This has been a flagrant violation of the Quran that goes on until the present day.           

4- Of course, Arab conquests hindered the implementation of the Quranic reform of the distortions that occurred to the religion of Abraham. The Umayyad Era witnessed the return of the false tawatur of Qorayish related to pilgrimage.

5- The marginalization of the Yathreb dwellers (a.k.a. the supporters, as they had supported Muhammad who immigrated to their city) after their city became no longer the capital of the Arab empire (capitals became, in order, Kufa, Damascus, and Baghdad), Yathreb sank into oblivion, though it witnessed an important part of the history of the early Muslims. This negatively influenced the Yathreb people; they felt so jealous and hurt that Malik, who lived there for a while and invented thousands of narratives/hadiths, reflect such resentment in his fabricated narratives and began to ascribe hadiths to Muhammad and his so-called companions who lived in Yathreb. Malik was the first scholar to urge people to sanctify Yathreb as a sanctuary akin to the Kaaba, God's House, and he urged people to perform pilgrimage to the Yathreb mosque, thus turning the alleged tomb of Muhammad into a sanctified mausoleum visited as part of pilgrimage rituals. More details about false devilish tawatur in the next CHAPTER of this book.     

 

 

 

CHAPTER VIII: Tawatur of Immorality In Mecca and Other Cities

 

 

Introduction:

  Immorality within the pre-Islamic era has been the cultural and social background on which the Qorayish false tawatur within pilgrimage rituals is based. Immoral promiscuous behavior went on after the advent of Islam, because the victorious conquests of Qorayish to form an Arab empire helped the Qorayish false tawatur to go on within pilgrimage. We give below a brief overview about the immoral behavior, promiscuity, and moral degeneration that paved the way to the return of the Qorayish false tawatur with a vengeance, once Muhammad died.     

 

Firstly: immorality and moral degeneration during the pre-Islamic era:

1- No society is devoid of sexual immorality, but such an ordinary phenomenon might turn into an epidemic when it turns into a social accepted habit or a creed. Sadly, this occurred in Mecca and became the core of the Qorayish false tawatur concerning pilgrimage, as we will show in a coming CHAPTER in this book.

2- Within the pre-Islamic era, the culture of promiscuity and immorality deemed women as commodity owned for pleasure. This is the basis of the Sunnite Wahabi sharia stance toward women, a stance that is derived from desert environment and the traditions of Arabs before the advent of Islam. Within desert Bedouin context, there is no stability and active women in households and fields typical of river-banks environment; rather, the tribe is a mobile State with male leaders dominating all aspects of life and the tribe moving in search for grazing areas and water, while fighting and raiding other tribes. Hence, Bedouin men used to protect, spend on, enjoy, enslave, rape, control, marry, and own women as sex objects for pleasure and as tools for begetting children. Within raids for loot, goods were stolen and robbed, while women were enslaved; it was OK that women surrender to their kidnappers/enslavers as long as their men could not protect them. Hence, women were owned as prized objects, and Arab poetry of the period is filled with stories of men owning tens of women enslaved within raids, with little sense of shame, as this was the norm at the time. Enslaved women were treated as if they were wives of the enslavers who fed and protected them. This was a type of marriage at the time; another type is that a man would send his wife to have sex with a strong and/or handsome man to get a child like him; this was a type of polyandry. Another corrupt type of marriage was a group of men having sex with one woman in one night, and once she would deliver a child, she would choose among these men a father to give the child his name and marry her legally. Apart from such promiscuity, Arabs before Islam had many women whose tents had red flags to indicate that they work as prostitutes, with no sense of shame or social stigma at the time among the customers and the female prostitutes; this was deemed a trade or a profession just like any other. This is understandable in desert environments with lax morals and little chance to survive and less opportunities for or means of entertainment. Fornication was a casual, common pastime, so to speak, within pre-Islamic era in Arabia.    

3- Thus, as fornication was common place at the time without feeling guilty or a sense of shame at all, fornication was referred to by another euphemistic Arabic word: "baghaa", which literally means ''desire''. Progeny of prostitutes never felt any sense of shame or social stigma at the time; for instance, the conqueror of Egypt, Amr Ibn Al-As, was the son of a woman called (Al-Nabigha), a known pretty and good-looking prostitute in Mecca whose fees were the lowest among the prostitutes there at the time in the pre-Islamic era; and when she decides to practice polyandry to get married, five men had sex with her in one night to impregnate her (those men included Abou Sufyan and Al-As Ibn Wael), and when she gave birth to Amr, each man desired to claim the child as his own to marry her, but she preferred Al-As Ibn Wael, because she liked him, and she insisted that she conceived her child, Amr, from him, and Al-As married her and acknowledged the child of be his own. Notably, Abou Sufyan insisted that the child took after him, and wanted to have her as a wife and her child as his own, but she insisted on Al-As (later on, Amr Ibn Al-As and Mu'aweiya Ibn Abou Sufyan became close friends and allies as if they were brothers). Another well-known story for Arabs was that Mu'aweiya Abou Sufyan had to acknowledge, for political reasons within critical situations in 42 A.H., a male young man, Ziyad, as his own late father's son, and consequently the half-brother of Mu'aweiya, as a prostitute named Soumayya gave birth to him years ago and called him Ziyad, and a man witnessed that it was Abou Sufyan who impregnated her and no one else, as he testified to Mu'aweiya that his father, Abou Sufyan, asked him to bring a prostitute for his pleasure, and that he spent nights with her alone, and in every single night, her orifices were filled with semen! More details of such stories are found in our book titled "Preaching to Sultans".     

4- Thus, such immorality, moral degeneration, and promiscuity were accepted as the norm during the pre-Islamic era, and there was a class of natural sons/daughters who were accepted within the Arabian society and whom carried the names of their mothers who used to work as prostitutes. One poet in Mecca who died during the caliphate of Omar never knew his biological father, as his mother, as a prostitute, used to have sex with many men from different tribes that she never knew who was the biological father of her only son, and she had to marry someone else away from her regular customers, and this husband of hers was also a natural son as well.

 

Secondly: Quranic stance regarding such immorality:

1- Yathreb was no exception to the common-place sexual immorality that dominated Arabia within the pre-Islamic era, and this is the reason Quranic sharia legislations have been revealed to reform both the religious practices level, religious faith notions levels, and the moralistic level as well, in order to combat such promiscuity and moral degeneration.  

2- Some Quranic sharia legislations comment on and prohibit sexual immorality in Yathreb and all Arabia; for instance, polyandry, prostitution, murdering born children, and fornication is prohibited in 60:12; a female slave is not to be used sexually by her owner, but he can marry her, and female slaves would deserve half the penalty if they committed adultery and cheated their husbands; see 4:24-25. God says to all believers in the next verses that He wants to redeem and purify them and that they should not follow their sexual desires by sinning; see 4:26-27. In these two verses, we discern that God here addresses those promiscuous people who did not approve to marry slaves despite God's commands in that respect in 24:32; besides, the immoral ones hated to free slaves and hated the Quranic prohibition of forcing female slaves into prostitution; see 24:33, and in the very next verse, 24:34, God tells believers to heed advice of the Quran to be among the pious and righteous. 

3- As the class of natural sons/daughters grew at the time before Islam, adoption was common and some men gave their names to adopted sons and gave such adopted sons the right to inherit just like biological sons; the Quran prohibits such habit, ordering that the adopted sons must carry the names of their biological fathers if the names are known, and if not, those adopted sons are brethren in faith anyway; see 33:4-5.

4- The male and female hypocrites in Yathreb played a negative, bad role in urging and encouraging vice and sexual immorality and preventing goodness at the same time; God has warned those persons in 9:67-68 and 24:19. When men desiring illicit sex used to harass women in Yathreb, Quranic legislations have commanded modesty in dress by not wearing revealing clothes as per 33:59. 

5- To prevent and combat the sin of fornication, precautionary measures and certain commands are mentioned in the Quran to nip it in the bud by controlling items leading to it; for example, the Quranic commands to ask permission to enter a place, a house, or a room; see 24:27-29 and 24:58-59, and ordering old women to dress modestly in 24:60. Among the precautionary measures addressed to both genders are 1) to prohibit leering and ogling, or looking desirously and sexually at someone, and 2) the many Quranic orders to retain chastity and urging others to repent; see 24:30-32. There are defined Quranic penalties for those who commit fornication (see 24:2), those who without proofs slander chaste women by accusing them of fornication (see 24:4), and those who were highwaymen that terrorize, enslave, rape, kill, and loot (see 5:33).   

 

Thirdly: Arab conquests re-introduced immorality within the era of pre-Umayyad caliphs because of ill-gotten wealth looted from conquered nations:

1- Application of Islam by Muhammad was for a short period of time that ended when he died, amidst the pre-Islamic tawatur of falsehoods and sexual immorality whose people rejected the Quran, as expected. Hence, the false tawatur went on within the eras of the four pre-Umayyad caliphs and the caliphs of the Umayyad dynasty, despite their temporal nearness to the era of Prophet Muhammad. Sadly, such moral degeneration was reinforced by the crime that came to be called Arab conquests, as looting and enslavement increased exponentially under the motto of 'Islamic jihad', whereas real Islam is innocent of such heinous crimes and violations. Of course, such crimes are still being perpetrated and perpetuated by Wahabi Sunnite sharia laws, ascribed forcibly to Islam!  

2- Within the historical accounts of Al-Tabari, hundreds of pages narrate stories of looting, massacres, murders, pillage, and enslavement that occurred within the conquests. Victorious soldiers would enslave as many beautiful women as possible for their enjoyment in bed, and tons of spoils accumulated of every imaginable sorts of treasures, precious possessions, and wealth, even fine expensive embroideries and clothes as well as perfumes; at one point, some Arabs thought that camphor, looted from the conquest of Persia, is a type of salt for food, and putting from it unsparingly, they made their lunch very bitter. (See: History of Al-Tabari: 4/26-27, 3/19-20, and History of Ibn Katheer: 7/66-67).

3- Because of Arab conquests, most of the so-called companions became billionaires with ill-gotten money (using measures of our modern times): rebels who killed the third caliph, Othman Ibn Affan, stole from his house all his ill-gotten money: between 35 to 40 billion of Dirhams and 100 thousands of Dinars, let alone the assets, fertile lands, huge amount of gold, precious stones, etc. Al-Zubayr Ibn Al-Awwam had between 36 or 50 billion Dirhams and 200 thousands Dinars, not to mention houses and lands in cities of Cairo, Alexandria, Basra, and Kufa; he had a vast garden that was sold for a million and 600 thousands Dinars, and huge chests of countless pieces of gold. Saab Ibn Abou Waqqas had 250 thousand Dirhams. Ibn Massood had 90 thousand Dirhams. Talha Ibn Obaydillah had left after his death 200 thousand Dinars and 200 thousand Dirhams and other assets and houses valued at 30 billion Dinars, and about 100 huge jars of golden pieces, and he grew richer than ever; as he wore a gold ring with a huge red ruby stone, and his lands in Iraq made him earn 500 thousand Dirhams annually. Yaali Ibn Umayya left after his death 500 thousand Dinars and assets that worth 300 thousand Dinars. Amr Ibn Al-As left after his death ill-gotten wealth that reached 210 huge jars filled with gold stolen from peaceful Egyptians when he conquered and ruled Egypt as its governor, and his children refused to be bequeathed such ill-gotten money, and Mu'aweiya the first Umayyad caliph confiscated such wealth, declaring to sons of Amr that he did not care if such wealth was ill-gotten or not! (See: ''Al-Tabakat Al-Kobra'' by Ibn Saad the historian: 3/53, 76, 77, and 157, ''Khetat'' by Al-Makrizi the historian: 1/140, 564, and ''Moroj Al-Dhahab'' by Al-Masoody the historian: 1/544, and 545).  

4- Ibn Saad the historian tells us in his book a lot about how Omar Ibn Al-Khattab, the second caliph, imposed many heavy taxes and tributes of many types that caused misery to the poor classes of conquered nations. Arabs in Yathreb, capital of caliphate in pre-Umayyad Era, grew filthily rich by such ill-gotten money confiscated from the poor classes of conquered nations, not to mentions treasures stolen as spoils from the Byzantines in the Levant, the Egyptians, and the Persians. Thus, those Arabs became the riches people on earth at the time. Abou Hurayrah used to bring spoils money to Omar who would distribute it randomly among soldiers and companions who shared with their money to finance troops, and this indicates huge amounts of countless treasures. Arabs forgot totally about zakat that should be given to the poor in conquered nations of Iraq, the Levant, Persia, and Egypt, instead of stealing the little they had had; Arabs forgot about the Quranic command about not to hoard gold and silver instead of spending it for charity and for God's sake; Arabs forgot that such treasures are ill-gotten money causing its stealers to reside in Hell; Arabs forgot altogether about the Hereafter and  committed massacres, rapes, mass-killings, murders, and aggressions of all sorts including enslavement of women, for the sake of looting. Such countless wealth and treasures helped the coming generations of Umayyads to live affluent, luxurious life of idleness, dissipation, and promiscuity, as we will mention below. (See: ''Al-Tabakat Al-Kobra'': 3/202, 3/207 and 215-218).

 

Fourthly: Arab conquests re-introduced immorality within the era of pre-Umayyad caliphs because of enslaving women from conquered nations:

1-  Arab conquests filled Arabia and Arab cities and capitals of caliphates within conquered nations (e.g., Fustat (in Egypt), Basra, Kufa, Damascus, etc.) with lots of female slaves and concubines who were very pretty and who became cheap commodity for fornication and carnal lusts. This led the so-called companions to forget all about Quranic sharia of God; their ancestral culture of raids, enslavement, looting, and promiscuity returned with a vengeance under banners and mottoes of 'Islamic jihad', raised before by caliphs/criminals Abou Bakr and Omar and later on Umayyad caliphs that inherited and went on with such aggressions until the end of the Umayyad caliphate.      

2- Within the pre-Islamic era, mutual intertribal raids and enslavement were commonplace, to the extent that it was ordinary to enslave (or seek to enslave) Arabian pretty women who moved from household of a warrior to another to be used sexually. The Quran put an end to such bad habits, but once Muhammad died, such dominant culture was retrieved by Arab conquerors that committed heinous acts of aggressions against nations that never harmed Arabs at all and that never entailed Arabs to engage in any sort of self-defense. Stories of enslaving women from all conquered nations and selling or distributing them among cities for men to buy and own and enjoy in bed was so many in historians' accounts of the period of the four pre-Umayyad caliphs and the era of the Umayyad caliphs as well. (See: Moroj Al-Dhahab: 1/538-541; ''Al-Isaba Fi Tamyyeez Al-Sahaba'' by Ibn Hajar Al-Askalany the historian: 3/18).

3- Promiscuous Arabs at the time enjoyed as many non-Arab women as possible; in contrast, their free legal wives were sex-starved and this led to many stories of adultery and promiscuity of such women, in Yathreb and elsewhere, whose husbands were absent in conquests. Even the caliph Omar Ibn Al-Khattab had to face this serious problem by searching and spying on houses to see if women have taken up lovers or not to punish them with his flog; when Omar once heard a lonely woman chanting this rhyme: (Within those lonely nights, I count the stars in tedium; when will I find a lover to kill this nightly boredom), he issued a decree that no soldier, warrior, or cavalier would be absent from his wife for more than 4 months at a time. At one time, when Omar heard a woman chanting verses of desire to court a handsome youth and call him to bed, he forced such handsome young man to leave Yathreb and go to Basra so that forlorn women would stop falling in love with him. we assert here that this was silly and absurd; this would not solve the problem, and what about forlorn women in Iraq?! Basra, in Iraq, was the exile of many handsome men whom Omar felt that women might go to be with during absence of their men at war. This indicates that most of the Yathreb society enjoyed sensuous and lustful pleasures as part of its dominant culture. While some men at war enjoyed female slaves, many of them wrote to Omar to complain that he heard news of their wives cheating on them; Omar had to spread his men to combat vice and drunkenness and flog fornicators of both genders, while exiling the remaining youths who stayed in Yathreb and did not participate in wars. Yet, promiscuity went on, and the number of natural sons and daughters whose biological fathers were unknown to the Yathreb dwellers increased more than ever before; Omar had to give monthly salaries from the State Treasury to those mothers to raise their natural sons and daughters. If this occurred in Yathreb the capital of Omar the caliph who was cruel and firm, one can imagine the conditions in other cities in Arabia filled with sex-starved forlorn women. Such phenomenon is no longer mentioned within historical accounts of the eras of caliphs Othman and Ali, because Arab civil wars drew the attention of all historian to record it, and because everybody decided to remain silent and ignore promiscuity that spread more than ever before. 

4- As promiscuity was commonplace during the caliphate of Omar, one womanizer named Al-Mughira got married (and divorced) more than 70 women, apart from his countless female slaves in his harem and his extramarital affairs and amorous conquests were anecdotes told by people. A funny story about him is that when he got injured in a battle in Iraq, a woman came to sew and dress his wound, and while he was in pain, he asked her if she was married or not, and the astounded women expressed her wonder at a man who was thinking of sex while being fatally wounded. Many historians narrate the story of Al-Mughira when he had an affair with a married woman in Basra, as he was the governor of Basra appointed by Omar. The male neighbor of this married woman suspected that the governor frequented the house in absence of its owner to have sex with the wife; he spied on them and saw them intertwined as her legs were above the shoulders of Al-Mughira!  When this neighbor complained to the caliph Omar, telling him what he saw and demanding that Omar would remove him from his post as a governor and punish him for adultery, Omar refused to acknowledge the veracity of such biased testimony of such witness!   

 

Fifthly: brief overview of immorality within the Umayyad Era:

    Apart from the reign of Omar, matters exacerbated during the Umayyad Era as promiscuity escalated as a widespread phenomenon more than ever before. The reason: after revolts, massacres and civil unrest and turmoil in Yathreb and Iraq, the Umayyads felt the vital need to make revolting people busy with sexual encounters, female slaves, and concubines, hoarding money and possessions, wine and drunkenness, as well as female singers and music in feasts and private carousal parties of lewd and bawdy people. This was done to make them keep away from political affairs and rule. Hence, with lots of concubines, female slaves, female and male singers and musicians, Mecca and Yathreb turned into big brothels and cities of sin. Male and female singers were in every rich house, as well as hairless young men who practiced prostitution with men who desired sodomy, apart from concubines and slave girls. Poets came to chant their verse for female singers to sing, and known stories of promiscuous men and women and their adventures filled sheets and sheets in history books. A very famous female slave singer was called Sallamah, and her story is still very well-known and made into an Egyptian movie in 1945 starring the legendary Egyptian diva Um Kulthum. She was loved and admired by wealthy men and a certain ascetic man, while Umayyad caliphs and princes admired her voice and talents in their sumptuous feasts in their palaces in Damascus. A natural son of a prostitute called Aisha was a famous singer at the time, called Muhammad Ibn Aisha, because no one knew his biological father, and his melodious voice used to make women (and men who desired sodomy) infatuated with him and desiring him sexually, but he was very proud and selfish. Thousands of natural sons and daughters are not mentioned by their names in history, except those who were known for their artistic talents, their military prowess, or their involvement in certain tales and intrigues and adventures. Some Umayyad caliphs were known of their promiscuity and heinous crimes; Yazeed Ibn Mu'aweiya was known to be a denier of the Quran who never performed prayers and a drunkard promiscuous man: he killed sons and progeny of Ali (the Shiite deity) in Karbala, Iraq, and he attacked Mecca and Yathreb with his military troops and massacred many of their dwellers, and raped virgin young women and married women, to quell revolting ones. His detractors insisted that Yazeed had sex with his sisters and his step-mothers! Thus, affluence, luxury, and filth riches enabled Yazeed to be such a character who drinks nightly in orgies, until he died young; his favorite female singer, Habbaba, died suddenly, and he stayed vigil for days beside her corpse, until people forced him to leave her be buried. He was so saddened that he died days later! His successor and son, Al-Waleed, was more profligate and promiscuous than his father; when he was advised to stop drinking wine daily so that he would lead people in congregational prayers as their imam, he felt so insulted that he brought many bottles of wine that he wanted to drink while sitting on top of the Kaaba! Yet, when he reached Mecca, he felt afraid lest people would kill him if he would do it, and he refrained from doing this. Many of his detractors asserted that Al-Waleed was a sodomizer who desired and raped many of his step-brothers. He used to declare his atheism and rejection of the Quran in public, while getting busy in gambling and excessive wine drinking, as well as getting as many women in bed as possible.  It was rumored that when he read the Quranic verse 14:15, he threw arrows at the Quran copy he read, and he yelled the following line of verse that he composed: (You are threatening me with warning about stubborn tyrants! I am Al-Waleed, a stubborn tyrant! Go to your God in the Day of Resurrection, if it comes, to complain that I pierced you with my arrows!) (See: ''Al-Tabakat Al-Kobra'': part 5/47 and 6/185, ''Al-Muntazim'' by Ibn Al-Jawzy: 6/19, 7/236-248, and History of Ibn Katheer: 10/3 and 4/486).

 

Lastly:

  Within such an era, would we expect any reform of pilgrimage rituals in Mecca? The Umayyads were immoral and degenerate pack of sinners who disobeyed God, before and after the advent of Islam and the emergence of Muhammad; how would we expect any reform within their caliphate?

 

 

 

CHAPTER IX: Qorayish Made Immorality A Religion

 

 

Firstly: earthly man-made religions are based on whims and desires:

1- It is a bad human habit that people misinterpret, manipulate, and distort God's religion to serve their purposes an interests, which include polytheism of deifying and sanctifying mortals and items/things and also gratification of sexual desires under any pretext at any cost.  This means that while not denying God, most people follow their whims, caprices, and desires by including them into their religious practices and notions, and later on as incorporated legislations within sharia laws tailored for their tastes to fit their lusts and greediness. Such false, devilish sharia or tawatur would be turned later on into an earthly, fabricated, man-made dominant religion enforced by ruling people and that will lead to their perdition. Ordinary, gullible people would adhere to this false religion and die as such, thinking all their lives that they are doing the right thing: "Do those who disbelieve think that they can take My servants for gods instead of Me? We have prepared Hell for the hospitality of the faithless. Say, "Shall We inform you of the greatest losers in their works?" "Those whose efforts in this world are misguided, while they assume that they are doing well."  It is they who rejected the verses of their Lord and the encounter with Him. So their works are in vain. And on the Day of Resurrection, We will consider them of no weight." (18:102-105) and their good deeds will be lost and not rewarded, and they will feel sorry for this as they dwell in Hell forever: " Those who followed will say, "If only we can have another chance, we will disown them, as they disowned us." Thus God will show them their deeds, as sources of regret to them, and they will not come out of the Hell-Fire." (2:167). 

2- Real believers should worship God as per His sharia in order to make sure that their acts of worship are accepted; to worship God in any other way apart from the Quran incurs God' wrath, while the gullible ones think that they gratify God by adopting ways never mentioned in the Quran. Hence, as far as pilgrimage to God's House is concerned, pilgrims are to make sure they perform rituals as per the Quranic guidance; otherwise, the pilgrimage is null and void. We are to remember that before insisting on rituals never mentioned in the Quran but mentioned in false Qorayish tawatur that distorted the religion of Abraham.  

3- The false Qorayish tawatur concerning pilgrimage rituals is centered on how Qorayish manipulated the Kaaba and pilgrims politically and financially, as promiscuity and moral degeneration filled Mecca as well as pagan idols of other tribes before Islam. This way, Qorayish got as much money as possible from pilgrims who sought both sexual gratification and 'purification' by pilgrimage simultaneously! 

4- Islam prohibits such distortions of Hajj, but once Muhammad died, Qorayish regained full control of pilgrimage and the Kaaba, and by Arab conquests masterminded by Qorayish Umayyad leaders, whose Arab empire reached between borders of china and that of France, many heinous crimes of massacring, looting, enslavement, sabotage, and so on were committed, and such conditions brought civil strife among Arabs over riches and political power and wars to quell rebels among conquered nations; hence, there was no time or need to reform pilgrimage rituals at the time. The only change occurred for the better in pilgrimage rituals amidst such unrest and turmoil was to abolish nude circumambulation and removal of all pagan idols from the Sacred Kaaba Mosque. Yet, promiscuity and moral degeneration thrives inside and outside the Sacred Kaaba Mosque in Mecca, because of the dominant culture. Within such circumstances, polytheistic rituals of pilgrimage has been added (and practiced until today!) by the false Qorayish tawatur of 1) throwing pebbles at a pillar representing Satan, 2) introducing the so-called Ihram-clothes that make men appear semi-nude, 3) sanctifying the so-called black-stone and considering walls of the Kaaba itself as holy or sanctified, and 4) considering Yathreb as a holy city and visiting its Yathreb mosque and mausoleum as part of rituals of pilgrimage as per fitting their pagan view of deifying Muhammad and deeming him as immortal. Such deification of Muhammad is a sign of hatred and insult to Muhammad, the Quran/Islam, and God; as we know quite well that Muhammad was commanded in the Quran to declare his being a mortal human being: "" (12:110); and thus, Muhammad could never had told anyone to worship him as a deity: "No person to whom God has given the Scripture, and wisdom, and prophethood would ever say to the people, "Be my worshipers rather than God's." Rather, "Be people of the Lord, according to the Scripture you teach, and the teachings you learn." Nor would he command you to take the angels and the prophets as lords. Would he command you to infidelity after you have submitted?" (3:79-80). Yet, enemies of Muhammad deified and worshipped disobeyed God by elevating Muhammad as a deity beside Him.    

5- Wealth of all types centered at the time in Mecca; it was the meeting point or location of international trade caravans of winter and summer journeys, and Qorayish had to fully control the Kaaba and pilgrimage to protect its trade. Hence, Qorayish had to trade in religion by distorting notions to justify its hegemony and its demeanor, within a culture dominated by earthly creeds that distorted the religion of Abraham ordained by God. Thus, after Muhammad died, military fighting and scramble for loot have been turned into jihad (the term in the Quran designates ONLY self-defense and to strive for God's Path by preaching the Quran), fornication has become religious Satanist rituals of orgies, rape, enslavement, revelry, etc., and committing grave injustices and oppressions have turned into fighting 'vice'. Yet, moral degeneration and promiscuity flourished in Mecca, as all nationalities among tradesmen met there and found facilitation offered to commit fornication, and as Qorayish made illicit sex not just permissible but also part of religious duties by imposing revealing Ihram-clothes after the advent of Islam! This means that people at the time forgot all about Ihram in the Quran that stipulates not to copulate with one's spouse (let alone fornicate!); see 2:197, and the strict prohibition of merely thinking of sacrilege during pilgrimage; see 22:25, as well as warnings against Hell for those who love to spread debauchery in a society; see 24:19; let alone those who love to spread debauchery in Mecca and inside the Sacred Kaaba Mosque!      

6- Within the above paragraphs, we have given a brief overview of moral degeneration and immorality spread before and after the death of Muhammad, as such dominant culture provided the background for the false Qorayish tawatur of devilish religious legislations concocted and made up to serve financial interests; this had to be done by distorting rituals of Hajj and by making debauchery as part of religious duties! This is the gravest sin of Qorayish!    

 

Secondly: religious roots of immorality of Qorayish: earthly, man-made religion of devilish narratives ascribed falsely to God:

1- The Quran tells us the Qorayish made sinning, debauchery, and immorality (as well as corrupt inherited traditions and habits) as part of religious duties and sharia laws, and God denounces such falsehoods and distortions that they had ascribed to Him: "And when they commit an indecency, they say, "We found our parents doing this, and God has commanded us to do it." Say, "God does not command indecencies. Are you attributing to God what you do not know?"" (7:28). 

2- It is noteworthy that in 7:28, we discern that the disbelievers attribute their narratives and false tawatur to God in order to honor ancestral traditions of immorality and indecency so that financial gains would never stop. God shows facts of Islam in the very next verse: "Say, "My Lord commands justice, and to stand devoted at every place of worship. So call upon Him, and dedicate your faith to Him alone. Just as He originated you, so you will return."" (7:29). Of course, there were some guided believers, whereas most of them were misguided and deceived by devilish narratives or tawatur while feeling as if they were guided: " Some He has guided, and some have deserved misguidance. They have adopted the devils for allies rather than God, and they assume that they are guided." (7:30). Devils always command and instigate sinning and debaucheries, and this is the reason of repeated Quranic warnings against devilish whispers, evil ways, and following footsteps of devils: see 24:21, 2:268, and 2:168-169.      

 

Role of the so-called saints in the assumed intercession:

1- It is noteworthy that the Quranic Chapter seven includes the refutation of the stance of Qorayish that made sinning part of religion, as God has told Muhammad (and real believers) not to feel worried or shy about warning others by preaching the Quran: "A Book was revealed to you, so let there be no anxiety in your heart because of it. You are to warn with it-and a reminder for the believers." (7:2). The very next verse tells us to adhere ONLY to the Quran and not to any other narratives fabricated by allies of devils who urge others to believe in their narratives as if they were divine revelation: "Follow what is revealed to you from your Lord, and do not follow other allies beside Him. Little you remember. " (7:3). Such corrupt fabricated narratives are the basis of earthly, man-made religions of the Muhammadans which are filled with countless hadiths. Soon enough, when Muhammad died, the so-called companions forgot all about the Quranic facts and returned to the polytheistic creed of Qorayish.  

2- The item that embodies and epitomizes the Qorayish evil ways of incorporating immorality into religious duties and legislations was the notion of believing in saints-worshipping and that those supposed saints or allies will intercede on their behalf to make God pardons them. This notion has encouraged sinning more and more; thus, Qorayish and Arabs at the time (and in later eras until now!) have been worshipping saints and their tombs/mausoleums, which contradicts the belief in One God and dedicating religion to Him  alone sincerely and devoutly, as per the Quran: "We sent down to you the Book with the truth, so serve God, devoting your religion to Him. Is not to God that sincere faith is due? As for those who take guardians besides Him, "We only worship them that they may bring us nearer to God." God will judge between them regarding their differences. God does not guide the lying blasphemer." (39:2-3). The false belief in saints ensures that sinners would go on sinning as long as there are intercessors on their behalf that will make God forgive them and admit them into Paradise; God refutes such lies: " Is not to God that sincere faith is due? As for those who take saints/allies besides Him, "We only worship them that they may bring us nearer to God." God will judge between them regarding their differences. God does not guide the lying blasphemer. If God wanted to have a son, He could have selected from His creation at will. Glory be to Him. He is God, the One, the Prevailing." (39:3-4)  

3- Thus, to spread falsehoods serving their financial interests in gaining money by prostitution, Qorayish invented and fabricated narratives of the so-called intercession and ascribed such falsehoods to God and also denied and rejected the Quran; even disbelievers demanded from Muhammad to change the Quran so that they incorporate and accommodate their narratives: "" (10:15-16). God describes their likes as unjust criminals, liars, and fabricators who will never prosper: "Who does greater injustice than someone who fabricates lies about God or denies His revelations? Those criminals will never prosper." (10:17). Hence, disbelievers had chosen certain dead people to make them as 'saints' or deified immortal beings who intercede on behalf of their worshippers, God has told Muhammad to denounce such falsehoods: " And they worship, besides God, what neither harms them nor benefits them. And they say, "These are our intercessors before God." Say, "Are you informing God about what He does not know in the heavens or on earth?" Glorified be He, High above the associations they make." (10:18). God refutes and denounces such fabrications elsewhere in the Quran: "Or have they chosen intercessors other than God? Say, "Even though they have no power over anything, and are devoid of reason?" Say, "All intercession is up to God. To Him belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. Then to Him you will be returned."" (39:43). Hence, God is the Only Ally deified and worshipped by real believers and their good deeds acceptable to God makes Him have all intercession as only pertaining to Him, for He is the Omnipotent Creator of everything: "God is He who created the heavens and the earth and everything between them in six days, and then established Himself on the Throne. Apart from Him, you have no master and no intercessor. Will you not reflect?" (32:4). This is repeated when God has told Muhammad to warn others using the Quran: "And warn with it those who fear to be gathered before their Lord-they have no protector or intercessor apart from him-perhaps they will grow in piety." (6:51). We would like all readers to ponder upon this verse that equates Muhammad and his companions in relation to being judged during the Last Day: "And do not drive away those who call upon their Lord, morning and evening, seeking His attention. You are not accountable for them in any way, nor are they accountable for you in any way. If you drive them away, you would be one of the unjust." (6:52). Thus, the only intercession if one's good deeds and deep, real faith and belief, carried by angels that had registered one's deeds, and such angels and such deeds intercede on behalf of a real believer only by God's permission and will: "" (20:108-110); "" (19:87); "" (21:27-28); "" (53:26); "" (43:86); "" (50:17-22); "" (10:3). Thus, Satanist devilish scheming has been the catalyst to make people create earthly, man-made religions that have maintained old fabrications of human 'immortal' intercessors/saints within lies and falsehoods that are part and parcel of narratives of Sunnites, Shiites, and Sufis who believe in the so-called intercession of Muhammad, imams, saints, etc. and for the same purpose that began with Qorayish; i.e., to commit sins without qualms while thinking of being forgiven regardless of enormity of sins, especially debaucheries.  

 

Using divine will as pretext:

1- Within the Umayyad caliphate (when Qorayish ruled actually with its man-made religion and pre-Islamic culture), the political philosophy propagated to support the Umayyad rule was determinism/fatalism (which is a philosophical doctrine stressing the subjugation of all events or actions to fate, as all factors and conditions cause or lead eventually to the action done). Hence, the Umayyad rulers along with their clergymen, governors, cronies, and retinue stressed the alleged theory that any evil things or injustices are part of God's will and predetermined fate, and no one would, or should, protest against it. This false un-Islamic notion was countered by another theory or philosophy adopted by free thinkers and rebels: ''man as author of his destiny''; i.e., injustices are not pre-determined as everyone makes one's destiny in the Hereafter based on choices and actions adopted, and thus, injustices and acts of oppression are not fate and can be redressed and opposed. Later on, a Sufi author, Al-Ghazaly, has theorized and added to the Qorayish/Umayyad false theory in his book titled "Ehiaa Olom Eddine" (i.e., literally, 'revival' of religious/theological 'sciences'), by claiming that human actions are based on his notion known as ''unity of doer'' as part of the notion ''unity of existence'', which means that Al-Ghazaly claims in his book that God is the actual doer of all actions of all human beings (obedience/disobedience, sinning, good deeds, justice/injustice, etc.). of course, such a notion contradicts the Quran that states clearly that human beings hold responsibility for all their choices and actions. We, Dr. A. S. Mansour, have asserted many times in our previous writings that based on the Quranic text, we have concluded that no one will be judged for the four pre-ordained fates during the Last Day; they are as follows: 1) one's location and timing of birth, 2) one's location and timing of death, 3) calamities that befall one during one's lifetime, and 4) sustenance ordained and given to one by God. Real believers accept these predetermined items from God as preordained fate. Apart from the four fates, human beings have absolute freedom to choose and act/do; they hate/love, obey/disobey, believe/disbelieve, choose/refrain, etc. and comes with such freedom the inevitable bearing of responsibility during the Last Day.        

2- Notably, the Qorayish tribe has falsely justified its polytheism and its distortion of the religion of Abraham (by falling into the trap of disobedience, sexual immorality, and moral degeneration) by claiming that this was God's predetermined will. God refutes such falsehood in the Quran: "The polytheists say, "Had God willed, we would not have worshiped anything besides Him, neither us, nor our ancestors, nor would we have prohibited anything besides His prohibitions." Those before them did likewise. Are the messengers responsible for anything but clear communication?" (16:35). This is a bad habit by all polytheists before and after the Quranic revelation.

3- Indeed, one of the miraculous Quranic predictions or foreshadowing is that God tells us beforehand that the likes of Al-Ghazaly will misuse the notion of God's will as a pretext to 'justify' their polytheism and disobedience, just the way their misguided forefathers did: "The polytheists say, "Had God willed, we would not have practiced polytheism, nor would have our forefathers, nor would we have prohibited anything." Likewise those before them lied, until they tasted Our might. Say, "Do you have any knowledge that you can produce for us? You follow nothing but conjecture, and you only guess."" (6:148). Notably, in this verse, we notice the use of the present tense, which indicates recurrence at preset and in the future, and God challenges such people beforehand: "Say, "To God belongs the conclusive argument. Had He willed, He would have guided you all." Say, "Produce your witnesses who would testify that God has prohibited this." If they testify, do not testify with them. And do not follow the whims of those who deny Our revelation, and those who do not believe in the Hereafter, and those who equate others with their Lord." (6:149-150). The conclusive argument of God is the following Quranic Ten Commandments: "Say, "Come, let me tell you what your Lord has forbidden you: that you associate nothing with Him; that you honor your parents; that you do not kill your children because of poverty-We provide for you and for them; that you do not come near indecencies, whether outward or inward; and that you do not kill the soul which God has sanctified-except in the course of justice. All this He has enjoined upon you, so that you may understand." And do not come near the property of the orphan, except with the best intentions, until he reaches maturity. And give full weight and full measure, equitably. We do not burden any soul beyond its capacity. And when you speak, be fair, even if it concerns a close relative. And fulfill your covenant with God. All this He has enjoined upon you, so that you may take heed. This is My path, straight, so follow it. And do not follow the other paths, lest they divert you from His path. All this He has enjoined upon you, that you may refrain from wrongdoing." (6:151-153). It is noteworthy that Muhammadans in their earthly, man-made, fabricated religions have disobeyed all these Quranic Ten Commandments as they have followed the Qorayish false tawatur by ascribing falsely all their corruption, promiscuity, and disobedience, inside and outside Mecca, to God's will; this is the reason why faulty, pre-Islamic rituals of pilgrimage returned with a vengeance once Muhammad died.    

 

 

 

CHAPTER X: The Return of False Tawatur within Pilgrimage Rituals after the Death of Muhammad

 

 

Firstly: manipulation of the Kaaba and pilgrimage to promote immoral behavior (circling in the nude) and Qorayish trade:

1- With all slyness and cunning of tradesmen who misuse and distort religions to make more money, Qorayish tribesmen manipulated the Kaaba and pilgrimage to promote sexual immorality and prostitution in order to increase money and revenues the Qorayish trade. Hence pilgrimage was manipulated by Qorayish to promote ''sex tourism'', as per our modern terminology now. Simultaneously, this went along with promoting goods sold in Qorayish markets. To top it all, the Qorayish recipe included combining pilgrimage rituals with supplication and worship at mausoleums of saints, honoring and worshipping pagan idols made of stone, and throwing pebbles at a pillar representing Satan (thus doing something in remembrance of Satan during Hajj!), thus seeking assumed cleansing of sins that include fornication. Such devilish acts promote sinning without qualms or pangs of conscience as sinners assume that they are purified through saints and idols that make them nearer to God! thus, circling the Kaaba in the nude was imposed by Qorayish for those who did not buy the so-called Ihram-clothes from markets of Mecca, and this nudity (along with semi-nudity while wearing the so-called Qorayish Ihram-clothes) of course encouraged promiscuity and prostitution; public nudity was a chance to show off naked bodies to inspect 'the goods' available at brothels (at the time: brothels were tents showing red flags), which were located outside the Sacred Kaaba Mosque, but near Meccan markets and inside taverns. As far as myths are concerned, fornication inside the Sacred Kaaba Mosque was avoided to avoid the punishment inflicted upon (Esaf and Naela), not out of fear of God! the mythical story of Esaf and Naela goes as follows: Esaf was a man infatuated with a woman called Naela, and both committed fornication inside the Sacred Kaaba Mosque, thus incurring the wrath of God, and were turned into a statue of stone while intertwined. Qorayish made it part of Hajj rituals to stone with pebbles such a statue, as if to show how both Esaf and Naela are cursed and pilgrims are to draw the lesson not to fornicate and commit sacrilege. As if fornication were allowed inside Mecca but outside the Sacred Kaaba Mosque! As if it were suffice to circle the Kaaba in the nude and to allow later on pilgrims/customers to fornicate in taverns and tents with red flags, while atoning for this sin by worshipping saints and idols in advance! Let us remember that Mecca had no agriculture or industry; it is located within a mountainous era, but all goods come to it, in the past by trade caravans and until now, and this is why the present tense is used in this Quranic verse: "… Did We not establish for them a Safe Sanctuary, to which are brought all kinds of fruits, as provision from Ourselves? …" (28:57). Before the advent of Islam, Qorayish used to impose on pilgrims to buy goods of Meccan markets, even food items and clothes, and never to bring with them any goods or food items from outside Mecca. Besides, the Meccans imposed on pilgrims to consume such food items inside Mecca and never to take leftovers outside it with them upon leaving, and likewise, they imposed on pilgrims to wear special clothes for Ihram, made and sold by fanatical bigots in Qorayish, a group that was called "Al-Hams", and those who refused to buy such expensive clothes or were too poor to buy them were forced to circle the Kaaba in the nude! Those who bought such clothes were forced to discard them before leaving Mecca, as no one is to re-use, sell, or grant them to anyone else. Hence, many male and female pilgrims used to circumambulate stark naked, and some women used to cover only their genitalia with a small piece of cloth! An Arab woman used to circle the Kaaba I the nude while covering her vagina that way, and chanting this poetic line of verse: (Part of it or all of it is covered/ But no one will come near me to enter it!).               

2- Before the advent of Islam, the fanatical bigots in Qorayish, a group that was called "Al-Hams", imposed their own large number of rulers upon pilgrims, as we read in the book of ''Sirah'' by Ibn Hisham 1/199, 202-203. Some of Al-Hams imposed on some pilgrims not to stand within Arafat mount and prohibited certain food items and allowed some others, while discarding the so-called Ihram clothes after finishing pilgrimage so that the poor ones would take it and no one was allow to sell, re-use, or grant it to anyone else, as they were to be used only once by a pilgrim. Ibn Hisham affirms in his book the story about an Arab woman used to circle the Kaaba I the nude while covering her vagina that way, and chanting this poetic line of verse: (Part of it or all of it is covered/ But no one will come near me to enter it!). Ibn Hisham asserts in his book that God has annulled rules of Al-Hams as all rituals of pilgrimage are confirmed in the Quran (see 2:199) revealed by God to Muhammad, especially that food items prohibitions in the Quran cannot be added to by anyone; see 7:31-32. These assertions by Ibn Hisham make us discern that the Qorayish tribe had imposed its distortions upon Arabs to seek more financial gains and they felt superior to others as if they were 'owners' of the Kaaba. This was why Qorayish tradesmen stood against the new burgeoning religion of Islam at the time; we discern from this verse that Qorayish made money by lying to God, as far as spreading religious falsehoods is concerned: "And you make your livelihood by telling lies?" (56:82). Hence, arrogance of Qorayish, linked to financial profits, led to false tawatur mentioned above about pilgrimage rituals distortions.                    

3- What is mentioned by Ibn Hisham (i.e., about circling the Kaaba in the nude, Ihram clothes, food items prohibitions, Al-Hams rules, etc.) is also mentioned by books of hadiths; see Moslem 4/43-44 and Al-Bokhary 2/188-200, and how God implied in 2:199 that people stand in Arafat and come from it and not from anywhere else imposed by Al-Hams group. Such history asserts Quranic verses about grave injustices and arrogance of Qorayish that had distorted rituals of pilgrimage.

4- Let us remember that God in the Quran addresses all people as far as the topic of Hajj is concerned: "O Children of Adam! Dress properly at every place of worship, and eat and drink, but do not be excessive. He does not love the excessive." (7:31). God refutes tawatur of Qorayish of prohibiting what is lawful and permissible: " Say, "Who forbade God's finery which He has produced for His servants, and the delights of livelihood?" Say, "They are for those who believe, in this present world, but exclusively theirs on the Day of Resurrection." We thus detail the revelations for people who know." (7:32). The very next verse assert prohibition of overt and covert immoral behavior in God's real sharia, as immorality was part of the distorted polytheistic religion of Qorayish that ascribe immorality and sins to God's religion: "Say, "My Lord has forbidden immoralities-both open and secret-and sin, and unjustified aggression, and that you associate with God anything for which He revealed no sanction, and that you say about God what you do not know."" (7:33). We notice that in 7:31, the word/command ''Say'' is not mentioned to command Muhammad to tell people about anything related to pilgrimage; God addresses people directly here to dress properly at every place of worship; this includes the Sacred Kaaba Mosque, and it is a disgrace that male pilgrims until now wear the laughter-inducing so-called Ihram two swathes of cloth to worship at the Kaaba semi-naked.

 

Secondly: circling in the nude returns in the Sunnite sharia:

1- This sacrilege returns partially by imposing on male pilgrims (until now!) to be swaddled only by two while swathes of cloth while not wearing anything underneath, not any shoes, and not any headwear, or else pay a heavy sum as a penalty. Such rules are un-Islamic and have nothing to do with pilgrimage rituals; it is a return to the Qorayish arrogance for financial reasons. Even the ascetic hermit named Taoos used to mock such invented Ihram clothes as never related to ancestral traditions; see Al-Tabakat: 5/395.

2- Of course, inventing such notion of Ihram clothes entailed the inventions of myriads of hadiths to confirm it, and such oral narratives called hadiths were written down within the Abbasid Era, as we will discuss them in a coming CHAPTER.  

 

Thirdly: throwing pebbles:

1- This invented item is never part of Islam or pilgrimage rituals; it is NEVER mentioned in the Quran. The only way to deal with devils as per the Quran is to seek refuge in God against devils or Satan/Iblis. Apparently, this invented devilish ritual of stoning or throwing pebbles at a pillar dedicated to Satan is an invention of Satan himself to make people do this in his remembrance during Hajj! Sunnites and Wahabis claim in their myths that each pebble thrown is received by Satan as a burning coal to hurt him! Is there anything sillier than such a notion?! This notion led Sunnites to create, centuries ago, this pillar dedicated to Satan as if Satan is to be remembered by a 'holy' monument alongside pilgrimage rituals dedicated to piety and God's remembrance. How absurd! Indeed, the Quran tells us that during pilgrimage, pilgrims are to remember God all the time, instead of or more than their parentage and lineage: "When you have completed your rituals, remember God as you remember your parents, or even more…" (2:100). How come they are to remember Satan as well by dedicating a ritual to him, after completion of all rituals dedicated to God Himself?! How absurd! In our opinion, it was Satan who urged people centuries ago, long after the death of Muhammad and the revelation of the Quran, to add such a ritual after ending all the previous rituals; indeed, stoning of throwing pebbles at a pillar dedicated to Satan is being done annually by pilgrims after standing at Arafat mount, the last of Hajj rituals!    

2- The mythical story of Esaf and Naela statues to encourage fornication (mentioned previously by us in this book) is mentioned by Ibn Hisham in his book ''Sirah'': 1/82-83, narrated and ascribed to Ibn Abbas, and it is also mentioned by a book by Ibn Al-Qayyim titled "Eghathat Al-Lahfan": 2/215. It is said by historians that Muhammad conquered Mecca peacefully without fighting as Qorayish surrendered, and that he smashed all pagan idols that once stood around the Kaaba. Strangely, the pillar dedicated to Satan is now standing (probably since the Umayyad Era) in the same place where once the statue of Esaf and Naela stood. This is understandable and believable because of one thing: during the Umayyad Era, sexually immoral behavior returned not only inside cities like Mecca and Yathreb, but also inside the Sacred Kaaba Mosque and during circumambulation itself! 

 

Fourthly: overview of immorality in Mecca and by the Kaaba within the Umayyad Era:

1- For the sake of brevity, we will confine our overview here to the biography of one poet of Qorayish who lived in Mecca: Omar Ibn Abou Rabeia, who died in 93 A.H., and more details about him, his poetry, and immoral behavior are mentioned in some of our YouTube episodes of the program of ours titled "Exposing Salafism", within the episodes dedicated to women dress codes and accessories in the first century A.H. 

2- Omar Ibn Abou Rabeia was the most well-known poet during the Umayyad Era; he specialized in poems of heterosexual physical love, courtship, and romantic love, and his poems are filled with explicit sexual words and many sexual innuendos as well that record his amorous adventures, especially adventures about meeting pretty (married and unmarried) women who came to perform pilgrimage. He lived in Mecca, and he had certain personal rituals to meet women who came there; he used to dress in special clothes and would meet women outside Mecca first to accompany them inside it. As a coureur de jupons par excellence, he composed many poems about chasing pretty (married and unmarried) women outside and inside the Sacred Kaaba Mosque; he used to strive to meet famous beauties among those of the fair sex among households of the Hashemites and the Umayyads. Significantly, many pretty women sought fame and being immortalized in his poems by seeking to meet him! let us bear in mind that at the time, poetry was like media today. Seeking such fame, this poet and these women obliterated from their minds the locational sanctuary of the Kaaba and pilgrimage. This was (and is) a sacrilege, of course, to seek sexual encounters or courtship inside the Sacred Kaaba Mosque and during pilgrimage. What encouraged Omar Ibn Abou Rabeia that he was sure of impunity by authorities; the reason: the Umayyad caliphs encouraged brothels and sexually immoral behavior of all sorts (especially in Mecca and Yathreb) to divert their subjects from rebellion or revolting against them and from any political ambitions. Within the Umayyad endeavors to do so, all poets were encouraged to compose verses of the type in which   Omar Ibn Abou Rabeia specialized. Most people at the time liked, admired,  and respected Omar Ibn Abou Rabeia and his poems, even the Umayyad dynasty whose members intentionally ignored his courtship poems dedicated to Umayyad princesses.

3- We quote here few lines composed by Omar Ibn Abou Rabeia who took pride in meeting his beloved during circumambulation around the Kaaba:

I saw her one night with her gentlewomen around the Kaaba

I thought that Fate makes us be joined at such fruitful hour

White as snow, all of them walk slowly like best sheep pedigree

More beautiful than full-moons, with shyness the drove me mad!

My heart was infatuated, as she winked at me!

Drawing nearer to the goddess, I heard her say to the rest

''Let us spoil our ritual, girls, by courting Omar!''

All of them winked at me, and I was about to swoon with lust!

But I played hard to get, and she ordered they follow me suit!

Her kisses were like elixir of life that set my soul on fire!  

4- Circumambulation around the Kaaba was a chance for Omar Ibn Abou Rabeia to touch and be touched by women, and this was known by all, to the extent that other poets and other men imitated him, until one governor of Mecca issued orders to separate women and men during circumambulation and other rituals of pilgrimage; see Moroj Al-Dhahab 2/136.

 

Fifthly: pilgrimage to Yathreb:

1- Another invention by Qorayish and others during the Abbasid Era unjustly added to pilgrimage rituals was (and it remains until now!) to visit Yathreb to worship at the mausoleum/tomb dedicated to Prophet Muhammad inside the Yathreb Mosque. This mosque is regarded by the Muhammadans as a parallel sanctuary equal to the Kaaba! It is impossible to believe that Muhammad performed this ritual of visiting his own tomb when he performed pilgrimage! Yet, ancient Sunnites had fabricated a narrative/hadith that Muhammad allegedly said that between his pulpit and his tomb (inside such a mosque) is to be regarded a garden of paradise! Did he say that before or after his death?! This is one of the silliest most absurd notions of the Muhammadans indeed! This proves that all the so-called hadiths narratives are fabricated and have nothing to do with Islam. In the Quran, we read that Muhammad never knew the future; consequently, he never knew where and when he would die and be buried: "…no soul knows in what land it will die …" (31:34).   

2- The so-called companions of Prophet Muhammad never knew any pilgrimage except to the Kaaba in Mecca, and no one ever visited the assumed tomb or mausoleum in Yathreb after Muhammad's death. Arabs never buried their dead at the time by writing epitaphs to mark the burial place of anyone; hence, history books tell us that when Muhammad died, he was buried inside the chamber where he died, which was the chamber of his wife Aisha, adjacent to the mosque in Yathreb. She went on living in the same chamber until her death during the caliphate of Mu'aweiya. No one ever wrote that Aisha lived near a tomb or a mausoleum, she lived in the same chamber and there was no stone or epitaph to locate the burial place. When she died, and other wives died before her, the Umayyad caliph Al-Waleed Ibn Abdul-Malik demolished all chambers of the wives of Muhammad to rebuilt the Yathreb mosque and widen it. Hence, no one could ever locate the chamber of Aisha by the time the devilish mausoleum had been built decades later, especially that other caliphs demolished and rebuilt the mosque several times later on. The myth of the mausoleum dedicated to Muhammad was invented by the dwellers of Yathreb in the 3^rd century A.H. during the Abbasid Era.         

3- To prove the above point, we refer readers to the oldest book ever written within the fiqh and hadiths/narratives of the Sunnite religion: titled (Al-Mowata') by Malik, the founder of one of the four main Sunnite doctrines: the Malik doctrine. This book contains not even a word about visiting Yathreb or any mausoleum in it as part of pilgrimage rituals. The same applies to another ancient book titled (Al-Um) authored by Al-Shafei, the founder of one of the four main Sunnite doctrines: the Al-Shafei doctrine. We personally believe that Al-Shafei is the real first theoretician to establish the Sunnite religion in his books, especially (Al-Um) and (Al-Risala), where he wrote an exegesis for (Al-Mowata') by Malik.      

4- Because the Sunnite religion is an earthly, man-made, fabricated religion that has nothing to do with Islam, the Sunnite religion is owned and changed as per whims of people, rulers, theologians, etc. as per what reflects the dominant culture at certain eras. This is why the hadiths-fabricating machines never stopped its production until now in the 21^st century. During each of the past 14 centuries, thousands of hadiths/narratives were being produced every century to add countless details to the Sunnite religion and its bottomless sharia laws to cater for every desire, taste, and whim in each era. Among such myths is the so-called mausoleum dedicated to worship Muhammad and his assumed tomb or grave. Dwellers of Yathreb haphazardly and randomly set a location inside the Yathreb mosque and spread the news that the tomb of Muhammad had been discovered in the third century A.H. The reason: to cater for desires of customers in the market! We mean to say that this crime had been committed to make Yathreb flourish economically; Yathreb dwellers at the time manipulated the popular desire of people to touch, hear, and see anything tangible and palpable related to Muhammad. By inventing such devilish pagan mausoleum inside the Yathreb mosque, offerings, money, and votive items etc. flowed to it for the economic benefits of the Yathreb dwellers. Hadiths were fabricated to avoid criticism of such devilish pagan mausoleum and to urge people to visit Yathreb; with the passage of time, pilgrimage to such pagan item has become part of pilgrimage rituals of the Muhammadans until today! Yathreb has become a 'holy' city that all people must strive to visit after they performed pilgrimage in Mecca at the Kaaba!          

5- This invented falsehood that contradicts the Quran spread more by the emergence and spread of another two earthly, man-made, fabricated religions of the Muhammadans: the Shiite and Sufi religions; both of them are mainly based on, and their clergymen thrive by, deification, worship, and sanctification of mortals (dead and living), tombs, relics, etc. Accordingly, books authored by Sunnites, Sufis, and Shiites mention exhaustive details about rituals of worshipping at the Yathreb mausoleums/tombs dedicated to Muhammad, his so-called companions, and his family members and progeny. Ironically, there is a hadith authored by unknown person ascribed to Muhammad that says that whoever would invent a ritual of an act of worship never found in the Quran will go to Hell in the Hereafter. This is not surprising at all to us, as books of fiqh of the Sunnites, Sufis, and Shiites are filled with contradictions. The Yathreb mausoleums (or those of any other cities) were NEVER visited by Muhammad during his lifetime; therefore, such devilish rituals are never part of Islam, and indeed, no one ever practiced them in the first and second centuries A.H.; even the second caliph, Omar Ibn Al-Khattab, is rumored to have said that no mosque is ever travelled to except the Kaaba, as per what we read in Al-Bokhary: 3/19-29, Moslem: 4/112-127, and Ibn Saad: 6/79. Yet, unknown persons had invented hadiths about urging people to travel to visit the Yathreb mosque and another one in Jerusalem built during the Umayyad Era and given the name of Al-Aqsa mosque.          

6-  Before the advent of Islam, Arabs worshipped at temples, monuments, and mausoleums dedicated to gods and deities and slaughtered sacrificial  animals at their locations, and eating such animals is prohibited in the Quran; see 5:3. Some of such monuments were called ''kaabas'', as they were cubes smaller than the Kaaba dedicated to several gods and goddesses (especially the three goddesses (included Isis of the Ancient Egyptians) whose worship is denounced in the Quran in 53:19-50) worshipped by Arabs before the advent of Islam. Thus, Arabs used to circle around such kaabas and offer oblation, sacrificed animals, and votive items, and such temples had their own clergymen, etc. as mentioned by Ibn Al-Qayyim and others and even the poet Al-Aasha who talked about Kaabas in Najran region; see Ibn Hisham ''Sirah'': 1/88 and "Eghathat Al-Lahfan": 2/219.   

7- Performing pilgrimage to patron saints and their mausoleums and monuments is a main feature in the Sufi and Shiite religions until today; even some of the so-called saints have more than one tomb/mausoleum in many cities in the Arab world; for instance, each of Shiite deities/saints called Zeinab (a female saint or goddess) and Al-Hussein (a male saint or god) had mausoleums in Egypt, Iraq, and the Levant. In contrast, the Shiites, Sufis, and Sunnites agree on one thing as far as such paganism and polytheism are concerned: to perform pilgrimage and worship at the Yathreb mosque mausoleum dedicated to Muhammad, the supreme deity of the Muhammadans who has nothing to do with the real, mortal, historical Muhammad mentioned in the Quran. This devilish mausoleum is the most holy site to the Muhammadans, and it is a Satanist polytheistic chef d'oeuvre or masterpiece, as we deduce from the Quran: O you who believe! wine, gambling, mausoleums, and idol-worship are abominations of Satan's doing. Avoid them, so that you may prosper (5:90). Such polytheistic notions of the three types of the Muhammadans (Shiites, Sufis, and Sunnites) show how they are flagrantly contradicting the Quran and how that the Muhammadans are the real enemies of both Muhammad and the Quran. Muhammad had but one clear message conveyed by God through him within the Quranic revelation: "Know that there is no God but Allah…" (47:19).  This is the message that Muhammad strove for spreading it and suffered persecution and harm inflicted on him by disbelievers and aggressors. Once he died, he was deified by the Muhammadans as deity beside God, with his name mentioned in prayers, call to prayers, pilgrimage, remembrance of God, invocations and supplications addressed to God, and finally as a second part of the testimony of Islam: (There is no God but Allah). Shame on the Muhammadans!         

 

 

 

CHAPTER XI: Overview of Differences within the Sunnite Religion in Pilgrimage Rituals

 

 

Firstly: differences within the Sunnite pilgrimage and the many failed attempts of reconciling discrepancies:

1- Discrepancies, contradictions, and differences (both minor small ones and huge, major ones) are the main features of Sunnite fiqh rules (i.e., jurisprudence) related to pilgrimage rituals and narratives related to it authored and accumulated with the passage of centuries, even within the Sunnite doctrines. The Abou Hanifa doctrine imams insisted that pilgrimage consists merely of circumambulation around the Kaaba and standing by Arafat mount, whereas the imams of the other Sunnite doctrines of Al-Shafei, Malik, and Ibn Hanbal insisted that pilgrimage consists of Ihram, circumambulation around the Kaaba, circling Safa and Marwa, and standing by Arafat mount. Author of the book titled ''Tafseer Al-Manar'' adds to the list removing one's head hair and to get dressed in the so-called Ihram clothes within certain locations before entering Mecca. See ''Tafseer Al-Manar'': 2/177.  

2- As all 'Muslims' perform Hajj together despite differences in doctrines within the earthly man-made religions, authors of 'modern' Sunnite books (i.e., authored in the late 19^th century and during the whole of the 20^th century) have attempted to reconcile and group all ancient diverse doctrinal and fiqh views that are contradictory, especially regarding confirmed pilgrimage rituals. The most prominent book of such genre is the Wahabi/Salafist one titled "Minhaj Al-Muslim" authored by Abou Bakr Al-Jazaeiry. Such attempt reflect the Saudi/Wahabi arduous and unsuccessful task to reconcile differences and offer a unified vision for pilgrimage to suit the tastes of the KSA royal family who are sponsors of Sunnite Wahabism.     

 

Secondly: general differences in Sunnite pilgrimage:  

1- As per narratives of the Abbasid Era authored by imams, theologians, and scholars of the Sunnite religion, the so-called companions of Prophet Muhammad began to differ regarding pilgrimage rituals; yet, we disagree with that view and deem it faulty. The reason: when those imams differed around issues related to pilgrimage rituals, each of them falsely ascribed his views to dead companions to lend sham credibility to his views; i.e., they lied to reinforce their views instead of doing the right thing: to resort to the Quran as the only criterion. Many of them ascribed their different, contradictory views by ascribing them to Muhammad himself after at least 250 years of his death! Such false and frequent ascribing views and situations to Muhammad and his contemporaries was the device that would sanctify views originally adopted by these Sunnite imams and prevent any possible criticism or discussion. Hence, all Sunnite imams and scholars were a bunch of inveterate liars who authored and produced so many contradictory hadiths and views; even a Sunnite scholar/imam would tend to express a certain view and its opposite view in the same book, thus contradicting themselves. Let us quote examples below, till the end of this current CHAPTER.      

2- In Moslem: 4/53 and ''Tafseer'' by Ibn Katheer: 1/237, we read about Malik ascribing rituals of Ihram and combining Hajj and Umrah to the son of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab, who was merely a child when Prophet Muhammad died! Malik in such narratives criticizes some unnamed ones who committed sacrilege during the state of Ihram, and we understand his views clearly when we read Ibn Katheer who ascribes his views to Ibn Abbas, who purportedly deplored sexual talking and innuendoes of people inside the Sacred Kaaba Mosque, as a poet was rebuked by Ibn Abbas for a line of verse uttered there loudly by him, but the poet was adamant that only having sex with one's spouse as forbidden during Hajj, and not any words referring to sex! This line of verse goes as follows:

Those camels walk slowly and we want to hurry to f*** Lamees!

The woman called Lamees was the slave-girl of the poet. Of course, he used the four-lettered f-word which is very vulgar to be uttered inside the Sacred Kaaba Mosque; this is against the state of Ihram, when one must focus on piety and remembrance of God, and nothing else.

3- In contrast to the above, we read in Moslem 4/53 that Abdullah Ibn Omar and Ibn Abbas debated with some other men inside the Sacred Kaaba Mosque about if one should plan to copulate with one's wife after finishing circumambulation around the Kaaba. Ibn Omar insisted that he saw Muhammad finishing circumambulation first before having sex with his wives while still in a state of Ihram! Of course, this is sheer and utter nonsense, Ibn Omar was merely a child when Muhammad died, and nobody should copulate with spouse during Hajj at all during Ihram. Hence, such nonsense has been authored by writers and ascribed to Ibn Omar decades after his death.

 

Thirdly: differences in locational points of Ihram fabricated by Sunnites:

1- The Sunnite imams have invented a silly notion called locational points of Ihram; it means that they claim that Muhammad had specified certain locations outside Mecca coving all angles from which pilgrims came, and such reaching such locations means to wear the so-called Ihram clothes before entering Mecca. If a pilgrim would pass by it without doing so, he/she are to return to it again to wear the so-called Ihram clothes! Of course, such silly notion has nothing to do with the Quran; it is a Sunnite fabrication around which sheets and sheets of Sunnite fiqh books revolve.    

2- Within a laughter-inducing hadith authored by anonymous and ascribed to Ibn Omar, we see that each group of pilgrims coming of certain region (Najd, the Levant, Yathreb, Yemen, Iraq, etc.) had their own location point of ihram outside Mecca singed by Muhammad himself. See Al-Mowata': 113, Al-Bokhary: 2/165, and Moslem 4/6-7. This is ridiculous because no pilgrims ever came from Iraq and the Levant during Muhammad's lifetime when he performed Hajj shortly before death. The Levant began to produce pilgrims long years after it was conquered by the caliph Omar Ibn Al-Khattab.      

3- Other hadiths makes the caliph Omar as the author of the notion of locational points of Ihram, while other hadiths makes Abdullah Ibn Omar, his son, as the fabricator of this myth; this indicates clearly that this notion is never a part of Islam, but a Sunnite notion that varied as per whims!

4- Our laughter at contradictions continues as Al-Shafei in his book titled (Al-Um) casts doubts on all narratives and hadiths ascribed to Muhammad about this weird notion of locational points of Ihram, and he asserts that no pilgrims came from certain regions during Muhammad's lifetime but after such regions were conquered by Arabs first. Hence, he deduced that people had invented such locational points of Ihram; yet, he contradicts himself as he mentions in his book, in a reserved manner, that those wishing to adhere to the notion, as they come by ships or caravans, then it is up to them and it is OK! See Al-Um: 2/118. 

5- Of course, Al-Shafei was influenced by views of his time about Ihram supposed locations points, even within pilgrims coming in ships within the Red Sea. The query is raised now by us: how come that there are the so-called locational points known by all pilgrims inside a ship at sea?! Of course using a compass, Google Maps, or GPS navigation, right?! Another question proving the absurdity of the so-called locational points notions is as follows: what about poor pilgrims in the 21^st century coming from Europe, the two Americas, and Australia? Why are those poor ones lack the so-called locational points of their own?! The inevitable and pivotal question comes here: why on earth debating such a notion never mentioned at all in the Quran?! Instead of writing sheets and sheets about nonsensical notion and creating much ado about nothing, why do not we return to the sole source of Islam: God's Word of the Quran. We personally discern from the Quran that a pilgrim begins the state of Ihram (without certain dress codes or uniform of any type, of course) once inside the Sacred Kaaba Mosque.   

 

Fourthly: differences in Sunnite prohibitions during Ihram:  

1- Sunnite authors had invented needless prohibitions during the state of Ihram, such as pilgrims should not use perfumes. Typically, Sunnite imams and scholars differed regarding that topic and refuted one another by fabricating hadiths regarding allowing or preventing wearing perfumes during the state of Ihram. Al-Shafei writes a hadith of his own imagination against it, about pilgrims keeping away from sex with spouses and from perfumes during pilgrimage; see Al-Um: 2/128-129, while others who stood for it fabricated a hadith about Aisha putting perfume to Muhammad before he performed Hajj!

2- Reading Moslem: 4/12-13, we see the author as prohibiting wearing perfumes during the state of Ihram as Ibn Omar mentioned that to smell of sweat and mud is better than to smell of perfume during Ihram, whereas the author a page later mentions the story about Aisha mentioned in the previous point above!

3- In our opinion, it is OK to wear perfumes while in the state o Ihram. The reason: God forbids us in the Quran to forbid and ban something legal, lawful, and permissible: "O Children of Adam! Dress properly at every place of worship, and eat and drink, but do not be excessive. He does not love the excessive. Say, "Who forbade God's finery which He has produced for His servants, and the delights of livelihood?" Say, "They are for those who believe, in this present world, but exclusively theirs on the Day of Resurrection." We thus detail the revelations for people who know." (7:31-32). Another reason: it is strictly prohibited in the Quran to ascribe lies and falsehoods to God and His religion: "Say, "My Lord has forbidden immoralities-both open and secret-and sin, and unjustified aggression, and that you associate with God anything for which He revealed no sanction, and that you say about God what you do not know."" (7:33).

4- Prohibitions during Ihram and pilgrimage are specified clearly in the Quran: sex with one's spouse, immorality and sinning, disobedience, debating and quarreling, hunting, and shaving one's head before finishing pilgrimage (Hajj or Umrah) so as not to kill any living organisms inside one's hair. God makes other rules of redemption about those who hunt or have to shave: "And carry out the Hajj and the Umrah for God. But if you are prevented, then whatever is feasible of offerings. And do not shave your heads until the offering has reached its destination. Whoever of you is sick, or has an injury of the head, then redemption of fasting, or charity, or worship. When you are secure: whoever continues the Umrah until the Hajj, then whatever is feasible of offering. But if he lacks the means, then fasting for three days during the Hajj and seven when you have returned, making ten in all. This is for he whose household is not present at the Sacred Mosque. And remain piously conscious of God, and know that God is stern in retribution. The Hajj is during specific months. Whoever decides to perform the Hajj-there shall be no sexual relations, nor misconduct, nor quarrelling during the Hajj…" (2:196-197). In their books, Sunnite imams require redemptions and atonement measures if a pilgrim infringes or violates their prohibitions that they have invented. Books of hadiths and narratives mention lots of details about this, and they invented the notion that certain creatures might be killed during Ihram: scorpions, mice, kites, vapid dogs, and crows. This is of course against the Quran. see Al-Mowata': 147 and Moslem: 4/18.    

 

Fifthly: Sunnite differences about circling the Kaaba and about the so-called black stone:   

1- Originally, during circling the Kaaba, no pilgrim is to touch its walls, bricks, or cloth so as not to turn the Kaaba inside their hearts into a pagan idol or polytheistic monument, and people used to prohibit those who do this; see Ibn Saad: 5/171. Hence, the first century A.H. contained little Sunnite myths, a fact that we have concluded from Ibn Saad in his book of history (Al-Tabakat Al-Kobra), whereas the Abbasid Era witnessed the fabrications of so many myths that had to be 'authenticated' by fabricators of hadiths authored to support so many contradictory views, while ascribing false narratives to Muhammad and his so-called companions more than two centuries after their death. Typically, each Sunnite inveterate liar would author myriads of hadiths to support his view while debating with other Sunnite liars who held different views.  

2- Sunnite narrators, or rather fabricators, have required from pilgrims to sanctify and worship as 'holy' the so-called black stone by touching and kissing it in its special position, as Ibn Omar allegedly did (see: Al-Bokhary: 2/185, Moslem: 4/65-66 and ''Bologh Al-Maram'' by Ibn Hajar: 72). Originally, this black stone is used to mark the beginning of the seven rounds of circumambulation around the Kaaba, so as not to get confused while counting them. It is sad that thousands of pilgrims today push one another to touch and kiss it, though sanctification of items (of stone or any other material) and of human beings is a notion against Quranic teachings. Notably, other hadiths were also invented to prevent touching this black stone, as it is a mere mark, not a holy item of any sorts.

3- Al-Shafei in his book mentioned the black stone as being hallowed and people touching and kissing it, but he rejected the notion, asserting that a descendant of one of the so-called companions performed pilgrimage with Taoos, the ascetic hermit known at the time, and he noticed that Taoos never touched or even tried to get near the black stone. It is funny that Al-Shafei would deem Taoos as the source of legislation in Islam instead of the Quran! Al-Shafei asserts in his book that as long as Taoos did not do this, then Muhammad did not do this as well. In fact, the first century A.D. never witnessed any sanctification of any items of any type, let alone to his black stone or any brick or corner of the Kaaba. This fact is asserted by Malik, who never in his book mentioned anything about kissing or touching the black stone or the walls or the cloth of the Kaaba.  

 

Sixthly: Sunnite differences about the so-called special Ihram clothes:

1- The bad habit of circling around the Kaaba in the nude, which dominated pre-Islamic era, has returned partially by the revealing so-called special Ihram clothes reserved only for male pilgrims; Qorayish invented such a notion: male pilgrims wear nothing at all but two swathes of white cloth wrapped around their naked bodies, while wearing nothing underneath them: no shoes, no headwear, no underwear, no shirts, etc. Such a silly notion has nothing to do with Islam: the Quran never speaks about special clothes for pilgrims or indeed for any other acts of worship. Qorayish imposed redemptions or atonements for those male pilgrims who violate the rules of this so-called special Ihram clothes. Indeed, Taoos, the ascetic hermit of the 1^st century A.H., purportedly denied such invention and rebuked the male youths who did wear such ridiculous swathes of cloth, and asserted that he never heard of such a thing in the ancestral traditions, while insisting on performing pilgrimage in his ordinary clean clothes; see Ibn Saad: 5/395. We conclude then that such ridiculous notion of the so-called special Ihram clothes that reveal partially the bodies of naked men is part of the Qorayish arrogance and devilish tawatur that went on until written down in Sunnite books of the Abbasid Era, along with hundreds of fabricated hadiths to support this notion.      

2- Because such a fabricated notion has nothing to do with Islam (the Quran alone), there are myriads of hadiths (ascribed to Muhammad) for and against it; see Al-Bokhary: 3/19, 2/169, Moslem: 4/2-3, Al-Um: 2/125, and Al-Mowata': 145.

3- There are other fabricated hadiths about the 'only right' way to wrap the two swathes of white cloth around the male body: to wear the first piece of cloth around the upper body in a way so that to reveal the right shoulder and part of the upper body and chest, while covering and wrapping tightly the lower body totally with the 2^nd piece of cloth. It is funny that Al-Shafei mentions this in his book based on one narrator named Joreij (the Arabic diminutive form of the name George), who claimed he heard from his father, a non-Arab convert to Islam, that Muhammad dressed in that way during Hajj! This is ridiculous; Al-Shafei has based his view on a non-Arab named little George who never saw Muhammad at all! See Al-Um: 2/148.   

4- In the same page, Al-Shafei claims that Omar Ibn Al-Khattab said that showing a naked shoulder along with part of chest and upper body was done to spite polytheists by showing physical strength during Muhammad's lifetime. Notably, Al-Shafei seems not to be convinced with such reason and such a notion, and he casts doubts on special Ihram clothes for male pilgrims, because female pilgrims were not required to wear special Ihram clothes, as per other contradictory hadiths asserting the fact that men wore their ordinary everyday clothes while performing pilgrims with Muhammad. See Al-Um: 2/148 and Al-Mowata' 146. Finally, Al-Shafei asserts his own view that it is OK for male pilgrims to perform rituals wearing anything they like which would cover their whole body, and if men would wear the swathes it was also OK by Al-Shafei! We personally assert here that it is disgraceful for female pilgrims to stare at semi-naked male bodies while circumambulating the Kaaba. God orders us to dress properly for every place of worship, and this includes the Sacred Kaaba Mosque: "O Children of Adam! Dress properly at every place of worship…" (7:31).    

 

Seventhly: Sunnite differences about how to circle the Kaaba:

1- The Sunnite authors invented yet another notion so silly and un-Islamic at all; they insist in their books that the seven rounds circling around the Kaaba must be performed by male pilgrims (not female ones) in  special manner; to hurry as if running with short steps in the first three rounds and to walk during the rest four rounds. Sunnite authors and fabricators claim that Muhammad did this to show polytheists (again!) the physical strength of himself and that of his so-called companions; see Al-Bokhary 2/185. Al-Bokhary in such a hadith claims that Omar Ibn Al-Khattab protested against such strange notion, but other companions explain to him the supposed reason and origin and insist on imitating Muhammad! How silly to ascribe such absurdity to Prophet Muhammad! Indeed, this Sunnite deity named Al-Bokhary was an inveterate liar who fabricated thousands of hadiths.    

2- This strange, weird notion is asserted elsewhere as an honored and revered ascertained traditions or the so-called Sunna ascribed to Muhammad; see Moslem 4/64-65. It is as if this notion would be applied just in case it might be right! Yet, so many authors rejected it; why on earth retain it since it is never mentioned by the Quran in the first place?! For instance, Al-Shafei rejected the whole thing altogether; yet, he fluctuates in his book between deeming the thing as quite harmless and seeing it as superfluous and useless; see Al-Um: 2/149. By the way, it is very funny the way Al-Shafei expresses himself while tackling such topics, as he adopts recurrent phrases such as: (''I like this'', ''I do not like that''); hence, Al-Shafei makes his viewpoints and preferences, his personal likes and dislikes, part of Islamic sharia! Later scholars imitated him in the way that there are hated things which are not prohibited but should be avoided! This is of course another silly notion that its fabricators had the presumption and audacity to add to the Quranic sharia of God, as if it were lacking!     

 

Eighthly: Sunnite differences concerning Safa and Marwa:

1- The Quran tells us that circling to and fro between mounts Safa and Marwa is not obligatory but those who voluntarily perform it will be rewarded, and this indicates that this ritual is NOT a duty or obligation among Hajj and Umrah pilgrimage: "Safa and Marwa are among the rites of God. Whoever makes the Pilgrimage to the House, or performs the Umrah, commits no error by circulating between them. Whoever volunteers good-God is Appreciative and Cognizant." (2:158). 

2- Though the Quranic verse 2:158 is clear concerning that subject, differences abound in books of Sunnites and their narratives (authored by Malik, Al-Shafei, Ahmad, Abou Hanifa, Anas, Ibn Omar, Ibn Abbas, etc. See ''Tafseer'' by Ibn Katheer: 1/199) that ascribe to Muhammad things contradicting this verse in particular. 

3- Sunnite scholars disagree yet again concerning the number of rounds going to and fro between Safa and Marwa mounts; Al-Shafei asserts that they are seven rounds; see Al-Um: 2/178; yet, some claim that Muhammad performed one round only; see Moslem 4/70.

4- We discern from the verb ''circulate'' (in the Quranic tongue) in the Quranic verse 2:158 that they are seven rounds, because it is the same verb used with the Kaaba in the Quranic verse 22:29, and this is voluntary act of worship and NOT an obligatory duty or ritual of pilgrimage that undermine pilgrimage if not performed. 

 

Ninthly: Sunnite differences in pilgrimage rituals for women:

1- The Quran contains no special pilgrimage rituals for women (i.e., female pilgrims) at all, and all Quranic verses regarding pilgrimage rituals address pilgrims and all people at large of both genders. Hence, women who have their periods during Ihram and pilgrimage should go on performing rituals as usual and they are not to be prevented from performing pilgrimage. Yet, Sunnite imams who fabricated the entirety of the Sunnite religion made the Sunnite sharia contradict the Quran, as Sunnites despite and hate women, making them lacking reasoning minds and faith! Typically, Sunnite scholars and theologians differed a great deal and each tried to consolidate his views by fabricating narratives and hadiths and attributing them falsely to Muhammad. Such contradictory hadiths were uttered by Muhammad and never heard by his so-called companions who were busy committing crimes of Arab conquests (rape, enslavement, looting, massacring, sabotage, etc.), and later on, they were busy within years of civil strife, settling in conquered countries and marrying women there, enslaving women and having sex with them, looting and hoarding money and assets, etc.     

2- Sunnite scholars and imams invented hadiths ascribed forcibly to Muhammad, in order to tell women not to circumambulate the Kaaba while having their periods, but to allow women to perform other rituals; see Moslem: 4/27,30, 35, and 36. Yet, Al-Shafei held the view that women having their periods are to be prevented from all rituals of pilgrimage and ascribed hadiths fabricated by him to Aisha and Ibn Omar; see Al-Um: 2/150. We read in hadiths inside the book of Al-Bokhary: 2/187 that the Umayyad caliph Hisham Ibn Abdul-Malik prevented women circumambulating the Kaaba beside men at the same time. Other hadiths imply the exact opposite; this shows that contradictory views imply many anonymous authors among the narrators of Sunnite sharia who quarreled and disputed over the same issue over and over and held different views. This man-made Sunnite sharia is not fabricated in a very good manner indeed because of countless discrepancies and opposing stances and opinions; hence, Sunnite sharia is backward, devilish, and silly. In our modern times, the hypocritical Wahabis (esp. the terrorist MB and the terrorist Salafist groups) claim that such myths and man-made views are God's sharia! Nothing could be further from the truth. Shame on all Wahabis!

3- One of the reasons is the spread of sexually immoral behavior during the Umayyad Era; women were touched, harassed, or molested during circumambulation as men mixed with women, and this entailed some Sunnite imams, like Al-Shafei, to call for gender separation in all rituals. See Al-Um: 150.  

4- We have mentioned that when Damascus became the capital and political center of the Umayyads, the Umayyad caliphs intentionally drowned Mecca and Yathreb with female slaves, female and male singers/slaves, brothels, prostitutes, poets who chant pomes of physical love and sex, luxurious items, etc. so that grandchildren of the so-called companions of Muhammad would remained diverted and never organize political movements or any revolts. Literature of the period (mainly poems) is filled with poems of describing pretty women, amorous conquests, wine-drinking, dancing, chasing women, etc. We have mentioned that the most prominent of the poets was Omar Ibn Abou Rabeia who chased and courted pretty women inside and outside Mecca and near the Kaaba, even during pilgrimage rituals, and poems about men dating women inside Mecca and near the Kaaba were so spread until a governor of Mecca ordered the segregation between both genders in all pilgrimage rituals. See ''Al-Aghany'' by Al-Asphahany 1/103, 118, 160:169, 172:199, 207, 221, and 247. See Moroj Al-Dhahab 2/136. In contrast, ascetic hermits in Mecca, Yathreb, and Iraqi cities issued many fatwas that reflect over-zealous attitude against women and restricting their freedom by countless prohibitions, even some religious scholars, like Al-Shafei, prohibited women from circling to and fro Safa and Marwa mounts to avoid sexual harassment by immoral, profligate men; Al-Shafei urged very pretty women who insist on performing all rituals to do them by night, or to do them by day while covering their faces, and preferably covered from tip to toe! See Al-Um: 178. We may wonder here about yard-stick or criteria used by Al-Shafei to measure beauty of women! Did he organized beauty pageants and contests to decide who would be too pretty to perform rituals at day and at night?! What sort of a religion is this to be based on what Al-Shafei liked or disliked?! This is the main feature dominating in man-made religions: to follow whims and personal preferences.   

5- In fact, women are victims within the Sunnite jurisprudence, and this goes on within Sunnite Wahabism; indeed, the Wahabis are also victims of women; they are obsessed with, tortured by, and maddened by women all day long, and we seriously fear that they might reach pure madness and issue a fatwa to cleanse the Arab world of women!