ISLAM: MOHAMMAD, ALLAH & THE WORSHIP OF ROCKS

Muhammad & His Concept of Intercession with Allah
by Mohammad Asghar

Part One: Focuses on the pagan history of the Ka'aba, Mohammad, and the various rock idols contained within it that Mohammad later incorporated into Islam...
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Like all other Pagans of his time, Muhammad also prayed to the 360 idols that occupied the inside and the outside of the Ka’aba. Those idols did not look like the idols we see now in the temples of the people, we call Hindu.

I believe that all the Pagan idols were in the form of weird looking stones and rocks. Some of the good looking idols might have been brought from Syria and other places that the Pagans used to visit in connection with their trade.

The Pagans believed that those stones and rocks they collected from the rocky and mountainous regions of their land came from heaven, a belief that made them to install them inside and outside of the Ka’aba. This is the same belief that made them to affix a stone on its wall. This stone is known as 'san’g-e-as’vad'.

The word 'san’g' means stone. The word 'as’vad' means black. The stone affixed to the wall of the Ka’aba is black, hence the name 'san’g-e-as’vad' given to it.

Among the 360 idols, there was a stone or rock that the Meccan Quraish believed represented Allah. According to Phillip K. Hitti, "Allah was the principal, but not the only, deity of Makkah. The name 'Allah' is an ancient one. It occurs in two South Arabic inscriptions, one a Minaean found at al-‘Ula and the other a Sabaean, but abounds in the form of HLH in the Lihyanite inscriptions of the fifth century B.C. Lihyan, which evidently got the god from Syria, was first centre of the worship of this deity in Arabia. The name occurs as Hallah in the Safa inscriptions five century before Islam and also in a pre-Islamic%