Question for Muslims

[Carpathian Wolf]

Why do you kiss the stone at Mecca?

[Katsumoto]

Google is your friend:

When pilgrims circle the Kaaba as part of the Tawaf ritual of the Hajj, many of them try, if possible, to stop and kiss the Black Stone, emulating the kiss that it received from the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Source: http://www.crystalinks.com/blackstone.html

[white-wolf]

It is just a stone. Has no heavenly importance.

[Central Asian Qaghan]

Why do you kiss the stone at Mecca?

I haven't kissed any stone. Its not required, hence its entirely voluntary.

[Каие]

Only a few Muslims I've talked to about Mecca actually knew of the existence of this stone.

[Phier]

Only a few Muslims I've talked to about Mecca actually knew of the existence of this stone.

You mean they don't know they supplicate to the magic meteor?

If someone told me I had to bow down 5 times a day in a particular direction, I'd have asked why.

I'm not sure you'd want to kiss it if a billion people had kissed it before you.

You know, swine flu and stuff

Thats why I never kissed the Blarney Stone in Ireland. Ewww.

[jankren]

You mean they don't know they supplicate to the magic meteor?

If someone told me I had to bow down 5 times a day in a particular direction, I'd have asked why.

Muslims pray toward the Kaaba, and the magical meteor is only attached to the Kaaba so they are not exactly praying to it.

[Каие]

You mean they don't know they supplicate to the magic meteor?

If someone told me I had to bow down 5 times a day in a particular direction, I'd have asked why.

Are you implying that Muslims pray to the black stone?

[Phier]

Are you implying that Muslims pray to the black stone?

Yes, good old fashioned Idolatry.

I still find it fascinating that young Muslims can be so ignorant of their own history to NOT ask 'whats in the box'.



I mean come on

Also is this true?

Main article: Black Stone
The Black Stone is a significant feature of the Kaaba, believed by Muslims to date back to the time of Adam and Eve.[7] Located on the eastern corner of the Kaaba, it is about 30 cm (12 in) in diameter and surrounded by a silver frame. All Hajj pilgrims must attempt to kiss the Stone as Muhammad once did. If they cannot then a flying kiss would be sufficient [8] Because of the large crowds, this is not always possible, and so as pilgrims walk around the Kaaba, they are to point to the Stone on each circuit.[9]

[bushbush]

Yes, good old fashioned Idolatry.

I still find it fascinating that young Muslims can be so ignorant of their own history to NOT ask 'whats in the box'.



I mean come on

Also is this true?

Main article: Black Stone
The Black Stone is a significant feature of the Kaaba, believed by Muslims to date back to the time of Adam and Eve.[7] Located on the eastern corner of the Kaaba, it is about 30 cm (12 in) in diameter and surrounded by a silver frame. All Hajj pilgrims must attempt to kiss the Stone as Muhammad once did. If they cannot then a flying kiss would be sufficient [8] Because of the large crowds, this is not always possible, and so as pilgrims walk around the Kaaba, they are to point to the Stone on each circuit.[9]

nooooo they are *wink wink* venerating the stone, not worshiping, come on...you know the difference lol. Venerating a stone, venerating some piece of crappy wood, doing all the bowing and kissing and praying in front of (somehow that's not worshiping) is TOTALLY not idolatry as long as it's from the REAL god, whoever that is.

[Carpathian Wolf]

Yes, good old fashioned Idolatry.

I still find it fascinating that young Muslims can be so ignorant of their own history to NOT ask 'whats in the box'.



I mean come on

Also is this true?

Main article: Black Stone
The Black Stone is a significant feature of the Kaaba, believed by Muslims to date back to the time of Adam and Eve.[7] Located on the eastern corner of the Kaaba, it is about 30 cm (12 in) in diameter and surrounded by a silver frame. All Hajj pilgrims must attempt to kiss the Stone as Muhammad once did. If they cannot then a flying kiss would be sufficient [8] Because of the large crowds, this is not always possible, and so as pilgrims walk around the Kaaba, they are to point to the Stone on each circuit.[9]

I don't know if that is actually my point. My point was that if Muslims can criticize me for having an icon and/or a cross and say it is idolatry than like wise can be said about them concerning the stone.

[Carpathian Wolf]

Why did Mohamed kiss the stone?

Why do SOME Muslims kiss the stone?

[garudamon11]

Why did Mohamed kiss the stone?

Why do SOME Muslims kiss the stone?

because they want to ...

its a stone from heaven so since you got the chance to see it , why not kiss it ?

[Playfishpaste]

Why did Mohamed kiss the stone?

Why do SOME Muslims kiss the stone?

If you read on further in the same link:

"Some Muslims are more willing to believe that the Stone itself has some supernatural powers. They believe that this stone fell from the sky during the time of Adam and Eve, and that it has the power to cleanse worshippers of their sins by absorbing them into itself. They say that the Black Stone was once a pure and dazzling white and it has turned black because of the sins it has absorbed over the years. "

"The single most important reason for kissing the stone is that Prophet Muhammad did so. No devotional significance whatsoever is attached to the stone. Kissing or touching the Black Stone is a reverential act of acknowledgment that God's hand directed its placement and construction. That Abraham and Muhammad, God's blessing upon them, had touched and kissed the stone and an acknowledgment that God had entrusted the 'corner stone' of His religious central focus for man upon that hollowed and sacred place."

[Каие]

Why did Mohamed kiss the stone?

He probably didn't.

Why do SOME Muslims kiss the stone?

They feel like it.


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[Pseudo-Intellectual]

Why did Mohamed kiss the stone?

Why do SOME Muslims kiss the stone?

According to Islam that stone came from heavens and if you kiss that is like kissing God's hand means obeying him but this is not idol worship as one of the companions of Prophet (pbuh) and his caliph Omer when kissed that stone said you are just a stone can't do something for me and can't cause a loss i am just kissing you because i saw prophet (pbuh) kissing you.

[Hiero of Syracuse]

Daw Rome why did you have to give out answers so early, and I was hoping I could answer these questions, but the reason probably is because they were in the mood and overly excited, if you got the chance to see your holy relic, you might get a bit jumpy. There really is no significance to kissing the stone it's just for the fun of it.

[Pseudo-Intellectual]

According to Islam that stone came from heavens and if you kiss that is like kissing God's hand means obeying him but this is not idol worship as one of the companions of Prophet (pbuh) and his caliph Omer when kissed that stone said you are just a stone can't do something for me and can't cause a loss i am just kissing you because i saw prophet (pbuh) kissing you.

[boofhead]

I'm not sure you'd want to kiss it if a billion people had kissed it before you.

You know, swine flu and stuff

[jankren]

I'm not sure you'd want to kiss it if a billion people had kissed it before you.

You know, swine flu and stuff

I kissed the stone when I went to Mecca with my family when I was like 10 years old.

Now thinking back about it, "WHY THE F DID I DO THAT?!?"