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God was said to have thwarted their wicked scheme, sending flocks of birds to rain down stones upon them, reducing them to "straw eaten up". Muslim scholars concur that the "People of the Elephant" were Abraha's troops who assaulted the Kaaba. Abraha had a troop of about 13 war elephants in the expeditionary forces. [19]
The Kaaba, [b] sometimes referred to as al-Ka'ba al-Musharrafa, [d] is a stone building at the center of Islam's most important mosque and holiest site, the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. [2] [3] [4] It is considered by Muslims to be the Baytullah (Arabic: بَيْت ٱللَّٰه, lit.
Dhul-Suwayqatayn (Arabic: ذو السويقتين, lit. 'the man with two thin legs', [1] Amharic: ዱል-ሱወይቃታይን) is a figure mentioned in the hadith of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, [1] according to which a group of Abyssinian men are destined to permanently destroy the Ka‘aba at the end of times and remove its treasure.
The Kaaba of Zoroaster, located in the Naqsh-e Rostam funeral complex. Kaaba of Zoroaster, a place of worship for Zoroastrians. It is unlikely to have been a temple; although it did reportedly contain statues of gods that were destroyed by Bardiya according to inscriptions and texts from the Achaemenid period. [9]
Many [neutrality is disputed] scholars interpret the book of Joshua as referring to what would now be considered genocide. [1] When the Israelites arrive in the Promised Land, they are commanded to annihilate "the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites" who already lived there, to avoid being tempted into idolatry. [2]
All idols of the pre-Islamic Arabian gods in and around the Kaaba were destroyed. [72] However, according to one Shia tradition, he ordered an iconography of the virgin Mary and baby Jesus which was in the Kaaba not to be destroyed. [73]
Muhammad did not rest for long and, accompanied by the Ansar and Muhajirun, made his way towards the Kaaba which is seen as a symbol of the Oneness of Allah. It was filled with idols, numbering 360. [6] [19] He proceeded to knock them down using his bow while reciting the verse from the Qur'an:
The new Kaaba was built entirely of stone—the old one was of alternating layers of stone and wood—and had two doors, an entrance in the east and an exit in the west. In addition, he included the semi-circular hatīm wall into the building proper. The three fragments of the Black Stone were bound in a silver frame, and placed by Ibn al ...