The Second Proof: The Holy Kaäba—The Ancient House (The Sacred Black Stone in Mecca)

The Second Proof:
The Holy Kaäba—The Ancient House (The Sacred Black Stone in Mecca)
The cleansing of the Kaäba—the first house (place of worship) appointed for mankind for the
worship of Allah Almighty—from the contamination of idol worship:
Allah says,

It means,

[Al-Imran 3-96]
He also says,

The Kaäba was the first house ever appointed for people to worship their God alone, truly and
purely. Once, the Arabs used to go on pilgrimage to this house yearly, but later on, the devil
tempted them to worship idols and stones beside Allah. To realize how great such a house is, we
have to know that it is the first one on the earth on which we live.
Let's read an excerpt of the story about the People of the Elephant (the army that came to
destroy the Kaäba)

Allah says in the Quran,

It means,

Abrahah al-Ashram set up a church in Sana'a (the capital of Yemen) to attract the Arabs to it.
He decorated it with marble, stone carved with gold and silver, with gold crosses, and then he
wrote to his master in Abyssinia saying, "For you, my king, I built a church the like of which has
not been built for anyone before, and my goal is to turn Arab eyes to it." However, he did not
achieve this goal, so he set his mind instead on demolishing the Kaäba. He prepared himself and
his elephant to journey to Mecca. He got his army ready, with the intent to demolish the Kaäba,
and then return to Yemen. People in Mecca did not have the ability to resist Abrahah and his
army. When the elephant was pointed in the direction of the Kaäba to go and destroy it, it
refused to move. They hit it with an iron tool on the head and jabbed a hook in its lower
abdomen. When they were tried to send it in the direction of Yemen, it moved gladly, in a trot. It
also did the same it did when they tried directing it to Syria or the East. But when they tried again
to direct it to the Kaäba, it kneeled down.
Then, Allah Almighty took revenge on the owners of the elephant. A deadly epidemic spread
amongst them when birds threw germ-infested pebbles down upon them, leaving them as an
empty field of wheat stalks. They went crazy from fear and terror and turned back in the
direction from which they had come. They searched and called for the guide they had arranged to
guide them back home out of the lands of the Arabs, but he did not hear them. They lost their

way, perishing along the road, one after the other. And Abrahah was with them, his body falling
apart and his fingernails falling out, one-by-one.

Muhammad's (sws) grandfather, Abdul-Muttalib, was at that time the most noble man of
Quraish, and when he heard of Abrahah's determination to attack, he took hold of the ring on
the door of the Kaäba and composed a few lines of verse, asking Allah to protect His Holy
House, their beloved Kaäba.
This incident took place in the same year that the Seal of the Prophets, Muhammad, son of
Abdullah, son of Abdul-Muttalib (sws) was born, in fact on the same day. As we have stated
before, over times and places, since the building of the Kaäba, the Devil has deceived the people,
enticing them to worship things other than Allah, such as idols and stones, claiming that this will
bring them closer to Allah.
And then came the Scriptures—Judaism, and then Christianity—but neither of them could
purify this sacred house or cleanse its people from the filth of idol worship or bring them to the
worship of Allah, the One, the Compeller.
Surely, the wisdom of Allah Almighty requires that the Ancient House be cleansed, for it is the
first house constructed for people to worship only their Lord Who created them and sustains
them, without any lowly partners or false gods ascribed to Him. Allah's wisdom requires that He
correct the waywardness of their belief in their God and Creator who brought them forth from
nothingness, by sending a final prophet to seal the heavenly message, to teach them the
instructions of their Lord, to cleanse them and purify them from idolatry and immorality, to
inform them of the teachings of their Lord, to enjoin them to do good and forbid them from
evil, and to make lawful that which is beneficial and prohibit that which is harmful.
Indeed, the wisdom of Allah Almighty required that a final prophet be sent to seal the message
with a sound and pure belief system which is impervious to defect or fault, with guiding rites of
worship, wise instructions for social interactions, high morals and straightforward legislation, to
bring people out of the darkness of disbelief and idolatry into the light of pure monotheism.
In the eighth year after the Migration (known as the Hijrah), Allah Almighty bestowed upon the
Prophet Muhammad (sws) the liberation of Mecca. He entered the sacred precinct, headed to the
Kaäba, greeted the Black Stone with a kiss and then circumambulated the Ancient House with a
bow in his hand. At that time, it was surrounded by 360 idols that were being worshipped beside
Allah, the Mighty and Majestic. So the Messenger of Allah (sws) began to stab at them with the

bow and recite the Words of Allah:

This means,

It mea

Among the honors Allah Almighty has bestowed on this pure and sacred place, the Holy City
of Mecca, in which He placed the Ancient House, establishing it as the first house constructed
for people to worship Him alone, may He be glorified and exalted, are:
A recent discovery
It has been determined that the Holy City of Mecca, "the mother of towns," as it is called, lies
precisely in the middle of all dry land, meaning that if we drew a circle with Mecca as its center,
that circle would encompass all dry lands. Not just that, but the longitude of the Holy City of

Mecca also lies precisely in the middle in terms of time. Thus we see that the whole world
surrounds Mecca; it is between all times and all places.1
Our Lord, Allah, the Blessed and Exalted, sent Muhammad (sws), as the Seal of the Prophets.

He sent him to the whole of mankind, in every time and place. In the Holy Koran, Allah says,

Mecca is the "mother of all towns," and "all those around it" is the whole world, in every

time and place, and the Prophet Muhammad (sws) is the final prophet who marks an end to the
era of prophecy.
As such, it becomes clear to us that it is as though the Holy City of Mecca is the capital of the
entire world. One can easily see why, as a product of His Ultimate Wisdom, Allah, the Mighty
and Majestic, made it the cradle of the world and the base for His Final Message

Among the topics related to the Holy City of Mecca and the Sacred Kaäba:
1 - Zamzam water: the well of Zamzam is one of the tangible, material miracles that show the
wonders of the Holy City of Mecca, as well as the excellence of the Prophet Abraham, his son,
the Prophet Ishmael, and Ishmael’s mother, Hagar, before the Lord of the Worlds, in that the
emergence of the well of Zamzam from crystallized volcanic rock that is solid, nonporous and
usually impervious is a particularly notable phenomenon.
Even more noteworthy than that is the fact that the well has flowed with cold water for over
3,000 years, though it has been covered up and dug again many times over the ages

Some characteristics of Zamzam water:
Modern scientific studies have proven that Zamzam water is distinguished in its natural chemical
composition. It is hard, gaseous water, rich in beneficial elements and chemical compounds
which are estimated to be about 2,000 mg per liter. The percent of salts in the wells of Mecca and
its neighboring valleys, on the other hand, contain no more than 260 mg per liter. This indicates
that the water which flows into the well of Zamzam comes from beyond other sources of water
in the Holy City of Mecca, for the well of Zamzam surpasses them in mineral content and natural
composition.
The water of Zamzam well is used to cure a lot of diseases. Glory be to Allah Who ordered this
well to spring forth, for it is blessed. Praise be to Allah Who ordered the water to flow towards it
from distant places through tiny capillary fissures.2
Maybe this phenomenon (the flow of water to Zamzam from distant places) is a support for
those who say that the Holy City of Mecca is the center of earth's gravity.

2 - The Black Stone:
Allah's Messenger (sws) said about this stone, "The Black Stone descended from Heaven."
[Related by al-Tirmidhi, who said: it is a good, sound hadith (hassan sahih)]

3 - Circumambulation of the Kaäba The worship of Muslims is represented in the circumambulation of the Ancient House—the Holy Kaäba—which was legislated for them by Allah, the Mighty and Majestic, and elected as the only act of worship to coincide and be in harmony with the laws of the universe as created and formed by Him. Allah, the Glorious and Exalted, legislated for us to perform seven circuits around the Kaäba in a counterclockwise direction, placing the Kaäba on our left. Let us contemplate and scrutinize this amazing coherence and harmony: 1- The nucleus of an atom that makes up an element is orbited by electrons which go around the nucleus in seven levels of varying energy. This is the same as the number of circumambulations around the Kaäba.4 Electrons move counterclockwise, as do Muslims around the Kaäba, glory be to Allah! 2 - The earth rotates around its axis counterclockwise, glory be to Allah!5 3 - The earth revolves around the sun in a counterclockwise direction—the same direction in which Muslims circumambulate the Kaäba, glory be to Allah!6 4 – A man's sperm swims around the ovum in a counterclockwise direction—the same direction as the circumambulation of the Kaäba, glory and praise be to Allah!7 As in the counterclockwise circumambulation around the Kaäba—which is one of the legal requirements of this act of worship—all celestial bodies: the sun, the moon, the stars, the planets, and even subatomic particles orbit in a counterclockwise direction in glorification of Allah Almighty.8 A man's sperm revolves around the ovum in a counterclockwise direction, and the ovum rotates on its axis counterclockwise. Likewise, during the rites of pilgrimage, Muslims circumambulate the Kaäba in a counterclockwise direction. That is like the counterclockwise revolution of electrons around the nucleus, the counterclockwise revolution of the earth around the sun and the counterclockwise revolution of the solar system around a black hole. This shows clearly that Islamic religious texts are in synch with the order of the universe. That indicates that the Creator of the universe is the same one who legislated the true religion, Islam. Oh! Praise be to Allah, the Glorious and Wise, Who sent Muhammad (sws), the final messenger, with these guiding acts of worship and a pure, solid law!9 The prostration in prayer: It has been discovered that prostration towards the Sacred House (the Kaäba) protects man from a host of physical and psychological diseases, such as headache and fatigue. That is because the human body is covered with positive electrical charges. These charges have a negative effect on the body if they collect, so he must get rid of them. When man prostrates in prayer, he releases the increased charges, passing them back into the ground. 3 Ibid. 4 Al-Agharr, Karim Naguib, Miracles of the Quran in the Secrets of the Womb. 5 Ibid. 6 Ibid. 7 Ibid. 8 Ibid. 9 Al-Agharr, Miracles of the Quran in the Secrets of the Womb. Al-Naggar has included in his book, Practical Miracles in the Sunnah, that the number of rotations of the ovum around itself and the number of revolutions of the sperm around the ovum are seven, in a counterclockwise direction

1.Al-Naggar, Zaghlul, "Scientific Miracles in the Holy Quran," The Encyclopedia of Islam and Modern
Science (audio version).
2. Al-Naggar, Zaghlul, "Scientific Miracles in the Sunnah," The Encyclopedia of Islam and Modern

3.It has been discovered that the Black Stone is not a terrestrial stone. Its internal composition is

not like that of terrestrial rocks. As Prophet Muhammad (sws) pointed out, it is not from the
stones of the earth.