THE TRUTH ABOUT HAJJ

                       

According to Islam, one of the five pillars of Islam is the Hajj.  Every year, millions of Muslims from around the world gather annually in Mecca to perform Hajj – the sacred Muslim pilgrimage.  Muslims who make the Hajj travel to the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. Hajj includes observing several religious practices such as circling around the Kaaba seven times, kissing the black stone, running back and forth from the hills of Safa and Marwa.

The Hajj is the most ritualistic obligation in Islam and one of the largest Muslim pilgrimages in the world. It takes place once a year across several sacred sites in and around the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia—the birthplace of Islam.  Hajj involves performing a series of rituals set out by the Prophet Muhammad that link the pilgrimage to Adam and Hawa (biblical Eve), the prophets Ibrahim (biblical Abraham) and Ishmael, and the Day of Judgement.

Why do Muslims do all of this? According to Surah Al-Hajj 22:27  “Call ˹all˺ people to the pilgrimage. They will come to you on foot and on every lean camel from every distant path”

Hence in order for Muslims to enter Jannah or “Paradise” it is required of them by Allah to take part in Hajj at least once in their lifetime but the real question we need to be asking is where.  Where do all of these practices come from?  A close examination to the idolatrous origins of Islam reveals to us everything we need to know about this ritual muslims call Hajj which occurs in Dhul-Hijjah, the 12th and final month of the Islamic lunar calendar, between the eighth and 13th days of the month.

 

Islam and Idolatory

The Kaaba was a sanctuary in pre-Islamic times. Muslims believe that Abraham (known as Ibrahim in the Islamic tradition), and his son, Ismail, constructed the Kaaba. Tradition holds that it was originally a simple unroofed rectangular structure. The Quraysh tribe, who ruled Mecca, rebuilt the pre-Islamic Kaaba in c. 608 C.E. with alternating courses of masonry and wood. A door was raised above ground level to protect the shrine from intruders and flood waters.

It is well documented that Moon Worship has been practiced in Arabia since 2000 BC. The crescent moon is the most common symbol of this pagan moon worship as far back as 2000 BC.  The pagan Arabs worshipped the Moon-god Allah by praying toward Mecca several times a day; making a pilgrimage to Mecca; running around the temple of the Moon-god called the Kaaba; kissing the black stone; killing an animal in sacrifice to the Moon-god; throwing stones at the devil; fasting for the month which begins and ends with the crescent moon; giving alms to the poor, etc.  Muhammad’s entire family were pagan Arabs who worshipped the 360 pagan deities and Muhammad grew up worshipping many pagan gods in the Kaaba including the moon, either called Hubal and Allah.

In 620 C.E. Muhammad was driven out of Mecca to the nearby town of Yathrib (later to be known as Medina), where the people there accepted his new religion called Islam. This marked the "hijrah" or "emigration," and the beginning of the Islamic calendar.

In the year 629 Muhammad entered Mecca and conquered it.  During that time the Kaaba had already existed (contrary to what muslims attempt to make us believe that Abraham and his son Ishmael built the Kaaba) and it was surrounded by 360 idols.  When you discuss the Kaaba with Muslims you get conflicting responses - Some say that it was built by the angels. Others say the father of humankind, Adam built the Kaaba but over many centuries it fell into disrepair and was lost in the mists of time, to be rebuilt by Prophet Abraham and his son Ishmael. All agree that the Kaaba was either built or rebuilt by Prophet Abraham. Upon his return to Mecca in 629/30 C.E., the shrine (Kaaba) became the focal point for Muslim worship and pilgrimage. This pre-Islamic shrine (Kaaba) housed the Black Stone and statues of pagan gods. Upon his victorious return to Mecca, Muhammad reportedly cleansed the Kaaba of idols by stabbing the idols with a stick he had in his hand and reciting “Truth Islam has come and falsehood disbelief has vanished”, returning the shrine to the monotheism of Ibrahim. Initially this seemed like the most noble and righteous thing for Muhammad to do by entering Mecca and cleansing it of it’s idols. But what was so special about Mecca to begin with? Did Muhammad want to make that place the center of Islamic worship? 

Muhammad and his early followers were surrounded by various tribes and caravan traders who all practiced different form religion for example there were the Jews who followed the Torah and there were others who believed in the Torah but also believed in other books along with it such as the Talmud likewise there were also Christians who believed in the inspired word of God but there were heretical Christians amongst them who believed in many fabricated stories about Jesus Christ and His mother Mary. Many of these stories did involve Biblical characters but were not all true for example one of these stories included Jesus being able to speak from the cradle.  Muhammad heard all of these stories believed in them and to NO SURPRISE many of them are now in the Quran. Now here’s an interesting fact about Islam, it was actually the pagans who prayed facing the Kaaba in Mecca.

Muhammad and his early followers prayed while facing Jerusalem just like the Jews.  Muhammad thought that he could convince the Jews in Jerusalem that he was a prophet and convert them to Islam. Unfortunately for him the Jews actually knew the Torah and they were able to distinguish between the inspired word of God and the fake stories that Muhammad believed in. As a result the Jews rejected Muhammad but suddenly a law came to Muhammad’s rescue in Surah Al-Baqarah 2:144 “now we are turning you to the direction that will satisfy you. Turn your face towards the Holy Mosque, and wherever you are, turn your faces towards it in prayer.” 

So let’s get this story straight, Muhammad heard all sorts of fabled stories about God’s word and believed in them. He then tried to convince the Jews in Jerusalem to believe in what he did and was rejected. Allah’s response is to tell Muhammad to just pray towards a place that makes him happy so he ended up choosing the Kaaba in Mecca. Sahih al-Bukhari 3366 -  “I said, ‘O Allah's Messenger! Which mosque was first built on the surface of the earth?’ He said, ‘Al- Masjid-ul-,Haram (in Mecca).’ I said, ‘Which was built next?’ He replied ‘The mosque of Al-Aqsa ( in Jerusalem)’. I said, ‘What was the period of construction between the two?’ He said, ‘Forty years’."    Muhammad said that Abraham and Ishmael built the first temple in Mecca and this happened 40 years before the temple in Jerusalem was built.   The temple in Jerusalem was built by King Solomon who lived more than 1000 years after Abraham did.  You can’t make this stuff up well, unless you’re Muhammad ofcourse.  So now that we know why the Kaaba was chosen by Muhammad.

Now let’s talk about some of these practices that Muslims take part in during Hajj.

One of the practices we mentioned is walking in circles around the Kaaba - 7 times in total to be exact.  Why do Muslims do this as I mentioned earlier that the Kaaba itself was originally a place for polytheistic pagan worship and as it turns out, not much has changed.  The highly respected Quran translator Abdullah Yusuf Ali wrote this about where the practice of circling the Kaaba came from -  “It will be noticed that the sun and the moon and the five planets got identified each with a living deity, god or goddess, with characteristics and qualities of its own.” According to these ancient pagans each of these seven cosmic objects in the sky were gods themselves who circled around the earth therefore, the pagan Arabs of Mecca circled around the Kaaba seven times in order to honour and worship these seven planetary gods.  This practice was adopted by Muhammad and it continues today as part of the Hajj ritual. 

Another practice the Muslims take part in during the Hajj is kissing the Black Stone.  As it turns out this was another ritual performed by the pagan Arabs of ancient Arabia.  Sahih al-Bukhari 4376 - “We used to worship stones, and when we found a better stone than the first one, we would throw the first one and take the latter, but if we could not get a stone then we would collect some earth (i.e. soil) and then bring a sheep and milk that sheep over it, and perform the Tawaf around it.”  These pagans would continually look for nicer and nicer stones to worship.  Eventually they came across the best stone that they could ever find, the Black Stone and they decided to keep it in the Kaaba.  What do Muslims do on the Hajj even to this day? They kiss the Black Stone.  Did Muhammad ever try to put a stop to this?  Let’s see Sahih al Bukhari 1597 answer that for us ‘Umar came near the Black Stone and kissed it and said "No doubt, I know that you are a stone and can neither benefit anyone nor harm anyone. Had I not seen Allah's Messenger  kissing you I would not have kissed you."’  Umar was Muhammad’s second in charge.  Even he knew what they were doing was wrong but Muhammad’s early followers did it anyways simply because they saw their prophet doing it too.  Centuries later millions of Muslims still follow in this pagan act because of that same man Muhammad and they believe the Black Stone was been given to Ibrahim by the angel Gabriel and is highly revered. Muhammad made a final pilgrimage in 632 C.E., the year of his death, and thereby established the rites of pilgrimage.

Running to and from the hills of Safa and Marwa another form of worship the early pagan Arabs of Mecca would do.  Unfortunately for Muhammad even his earliest followers knew this.  Sahih al Bukhari 4496 - Narrated `Asim bin Sulaiman: ‘I asked Anas bin Malik about Safa and Marwa. Anas replied, "We used to consider (i.e. going around) them a custom of the Pre-islamic period of Ignorance, so when Islam came, we gave up going around them. Then Allah revealed" "Verily, Safa and Marwa (i.e. two mountains at Mecca) are among the Symbols of Allah. So it is not harmful of those who perform the Hajj of the House (of Allah) or perform the Umra to ambulate (Tawaf) between them."’   The practice of running back and forth between Safa and Marwa was clearly understood to be an act of paganism even by Muhammad’s earliest followers but just like Muhammad adopted the Kaaba in Mecca he also adopted the paganistic practices that revolved around it.

In order for Muslims to enter Jannah they are required to take part in the Hajj.  They are required to travel to a place that was and still is an epicenter for idolatry.  They are required to circle a shrine that was purpose built for idolatry.  They are required to kiss a Black Stone that was specifically chosen for idolatry.  They are required to run back and forth between two hills that symbolize adolatry.  Muslims are required by their god “allah” and their prophet Muhammad to fully adopt and embrace adolatry because Islam and idolatry are a match made in Jannah.  And the final days of Hajj coincide with Eid al-Adha, or the festival of sacrifice

 

NOW THAT YOU KNOW THAT THE HAJJ IS A PAGAN RITUAL PRACTICE EVEN TODAY, HERE’S THE MOST DAMNING PART OF THE HAJJ RITUAL.

 

It is difficult for Muslim women to unearth all the skeletons in their closet while already being put under the microscope due to the rise of Islamophobia and anti-Muslim sentiment across the globe. 

Still, pointing out the predators and abusers in the community actually prove that Muslim women are intolerant when it comes to such acts and that they have agency and a leadership role to be fulfilled and set as an example. 

Pakistani Sabica Khan shared a heartfelt Facebook post in 2018 in which she detailed being harassed while performing tawaf, after which women began sharing their own encounters with sexual harassment in Mecca during Hajj.

Not everyone who goes on the Hajj is a good person. Most of them go on the pilgrimage to atone for their accumulated sins. If there indeed something called an afterlife, since Allah forgives all sins committed by those who have been on the Hajj, these people decided to make the pilgrimage. Those who go there belong to the same society where women are molested daily. Are those who go on the Hajj better than other men? Do they respect women more than other men do? There is no evidence of this. On the contrary, there is evidence that they are just like other men, they do not give up any opportunity to harass women sexually, even if it is right in front of the Kaaba.

It is true that most men go on the Hajj or observe the Umrah to absolve themselves of their sins. What if they were told today that no sins will be pardoned because of the Hajj or the Umrah, that people go on this pilgrimage only out of their love for Allah? I do not think too many men will still be interested in the Hajj or the Umrah.

An announcement that a particular task will wipe out all sins will obviously make people keen to have their sins absolved this way – but if it is so simple, they will also be ready to sin again. For they know the technique of absolving themselves.

They do not fear to sin anymore. Spend some money, travel to Mecca, make seven rounds around the House of of the Moon Deity Allah (Kaaba), throw stones at Shaitan which is basically a brick wall) from the hilltop, spend some more money on a sacrificial offering – et voila!  All the injustice, all the torment, all the corruption, all the sexual harassment inflicted on others are pardoned. Those who circle the Kaaba while pressing up against the women in front with their penises know that they will be cleansed even of this sin after the tawaaf.

If sexual harassment in society does not decrease, it will not decrease around the Kaaba either. Evil men live in society, evil men commit sins, and the same evil men go on the Hajj to absolve themselves. How can women save themselves from such men? The trouble is that women who have such horrible experiences when on the Hajj or Umrah no longer consider the precincts of the Kaaba either safe or sacred.

The only place on earth that is supposedly considered holy is where women do not have to be the victims of sexual harassment.

It's been a long time coming, but it's finally here. Doubt them all you want, throw stones at them all day, but Muslim women have finally realized it's their right and responsibility to make their voices - the same one that's been silenced for centuries - heard, and there's no stopping them.

When you read about perverted sexual crimes committed by muslim men wherever they are, all in the name of Islam, it gives the rest of the non-muslim world a sense of how evil and perverted this ideology is.  Islam is most definitely not a religion.

 

THE QURAN & HADITH PLAGIARIZED FROM THE TORAH AND BIBLE

 

I've read the Quran and the Bible numerous times and what  I discovered is that contents within the Quran and the Hadiths were plagiarized from not only the Torah and Bible but from other sources.  The contents plagiarized from the Torah and the Bible were altered to legitimize Muhammad's twisted ideology.  To illustrate my point, I will use one very simple example

Looking at the quote in 1 Corinthians Chap.2; Verse 9 is unique to the Apostle Paul, being his way of paraphrasing and/or combining texts in generalizing an Old Testament theme. The quote reflects Paul’s own wording and summary of God’s promise to believers. The most astonishing aspect about all this is that Muhammad cites 1 Corinthians Chap.2; Verse 9 and attributes it to God. Compare these statements as it is written:

Narrated Abu Huraira:

The Prophet said, "ALLAH SAID, ‘I have prepared for my righteous slaves (such excellent things) as no eye has ever seen, nor an ear has ever heard nor a human heart can ever think of.’"   (Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 9, Book 93, Number 589)

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(1 Corinthians Chap.2; Verse 9)  "No eye has seen, no ear has heard,  no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him."

 

According to this Hadith from al-Bukhari, Allah uttered the above words that are obviously taken and only slightly modified from what the beloved Apostle wrote in his first letter to the Corinthians. Muhammad evidently plagiarized Paul’s quote and passed it off as revelation from Allah. Do keep in mind that the wording is Paul’s own summation of the Old Testament and cannot be found in any source predating Paul’s writings.

The statement found in Paul’s "quote" is NOT of divine origin.  So Muhammad's attribution to Allah what was not from Allah (whatever the source of the quote, whether from some apocryphal text, or made up by Paul, or whatever), disqualifies him as a true prophet.

Let’s look at Our Lord’s Prayer

Our Father who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread; And forgive us our debts, As we also have forgiven our debtors; And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil.  (Matthew 6:9–13)

Narrated in Sunan Abu-Dawud 28:3883:

I heard the Apostle of Allah (Peace Be Upon Him) say: If any of you is suffering from anything or his brother is suffering, he should say: Our Lord is Allah Who is in the heaven, holy is Thy name, Thy command reigns supreme in the heaven and the earth, as Thy mercy in the heaven, make Thy mercy in the earth; forgive us our sins, and our errors; Thou art the Lord of good men; send down mercy from Thy mercy, and remedy, and remedy from Thy remedy on this pain so that it is healed up.

Here’s another.........

Narrated by Al-Tirmidhi 1688: Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) said, "Blessed is he who has seen me, but seven times blessed is he who has not seen me but has believed in me." 

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(John 20:29) Jesus said to him, “Have you believed because you have seen me? Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe.”

 

Quran Surah Al-Baqarah 2:117:  The Originator of the heavens and the earth! When He decreeth a thing, He saith unto it only: Be! and it is.

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(Psalm 33:6 & 9) The heavens were made by the word of the LORD and all the stars by the breath of his mouth. . .  He spoke, and it came into being. He gave the order, and there it stood. 

There are numerous plagiarized verses in the Quran... too many to quote here.  Muhammad also plagiarized a bunch of apocryphal books and the Talmud all over the Quran, and of course most of his stories are taken from the Bible.

It is clear that the stories in the Quran are not revelation but plagiarized stories from a number of other sources. Most of the people who bring this up are Christians or other Non-Muslim theists but they have a good point. If you look at the Quran in historic context and study the exegesis of its teachings, it becomes obvious that aside from its constant claims that "Allah is great", lawgiving and bigotry against the "Infidel", it is little more than a compilation of borrowed stories from Arabian myths, folk tales, Buddhist legends, the Jewish Talmud, Midrash, and apocryphal works as well as Gnostic gospels and other apocryphal Christian tales. There is more plagiarism in the Quran than in the Book of Mormon, and that's saying something!

Some of the stories in the Quran were borrowed third hand such as the tale of Mary and the Fig Tree which seems to have originated in a Buddhist legend and was later borrowed by the Gnostics. The same is true of the talking infant Jesus which was originally a story about Buddha that was again borrowed by the Gnostics. Given that Muhammad thought Jesus’s Mother Mary was Aaron's sister Miriam and therefore Moses' sister too, it seems Muhammad was a bit confused. That would make Mary something like 1200 years old when she gave birth to Jesus (assuming that any of this ever happened). Muslims claim that the Quran is perfect and if you can find one fault in it, the whole thing is disproved. Well, I think we have a winner. Many of the stories were well known to Muhammad and his contemporaries. One of his favorite concubines was a Christian. So, he didn't get any revelations. He was just a common thief, or rather an uncommon thief since he was so successful with his plagiarism.

Even some elements of Zoroastrianism are found in Islam. Zoroastrians were practicing the five daily prayers long before Islam hit the scene. The Sarat (or Serat) bridge is another name for the Chinvat Peretu ("bridge of separation") of the Gathas.

In a nutshell, the Quran is a rip-off of the Bible, Torah and other pre-Islamic text. The Quran is just hearsay spread down the line from others. Muhammad’s own early followers plagiarized large sections of the Bible and the Jewish Torah, even old Indian and Persian text to create the Quran.  Noted Atheist Christopher Hitchens explains how the Quranic text was basically stolen from the other religions and is really a mixed up and corrupted version of several. Before Islam, besides the pagan religion, which Muhammad worshiped early in his life, there was a large Christian and Jewish community in Saudi Arabia. Muhammad just took the Christian Bible and the Jewish Torah and plagiarized text from those books to create the Quran.

To those who have objections to my comments, I ask you to go and look way back in history and read it ...........  read the Torah and the Bible and the books of other religions.  Take notes and then read the Quran and the truth will reveal itself.