Customs and beliefs are common and coincide with two major religions of the world is amazing,well how much truth in it is debatable,however,interesting details.
Information given by one name is Nadeem Khan,appears to be Islamic name.
An inscription and a Greek account fix Muhammad's birth in 552, not570. Muhammad's career took place not in Mecca but hundreds of
kilometers to the north. Yehuda Nevo. The classical Arabic language was developed not in today's Saudi Arabia but in the Levant .
Long before Islam came in to existence, Kaaba, in Mecca in Saudi Arabia was a pilgrimage site. The word Kaaba might have come from
the Tamil Language which originated around 1700BC. In Tamil Nadu Kabaalishwaran temple is Lord Shiva's temple and Kabaali refers to
Lord Shiva. The black stone at Kaaba is held sacred and holy in Islam and is called "Hajre Aswad" from the Sanskrit word Sanghey
Ashweta or Non-white stone. The Shiva Lingam is also called Sanghey Ashweta. So what is in Kaaba could be the same what Hindus worship.
The pedestal Maqam-E-Ibrahim at the centre of the Kaaba is octagonal in shape. In Hinduism, the pedestal of Brahma the creator is also
octagonal in shape. Muslim pilgrims visiting the Kaaba temple go around it seven times. In no other mosque does the circumambulation
prevail. Hindus invariably circumambulate or Pradakshina, around their deities. This is yet another proof that the Kaaba shrine is a
pre-Islamic. In Shiva temples Hindus always practice circumambulation or Pradakshina. Just as in Hinduism, the custom of
circumambulation by muslim pilgrims around the entire Kaaba building seven times shows that the claim that in Islam they don't worship
stones is not true.
Allah was one of the deities in Kaaba long before Islam was founded. It might come as a stunning revelation to many that the word `ALLAH'
itself is Sanskrit. In Sanskrit language Allah, Akka and Amba are synonyms. They signify a goddess or mother. The term `ALLAH' forms
part of Sanskrit chants invoking goddess Durga, also known as Bhavani, Chandi and Mahishasurmardini. The Islamic word for God is.,
therefore, not an innovation but the ancient Sanskrit appellation retained and continued by Islam. Allah means mother or goddess and
mother goddess.
The King Vikramaditya inscription was found on a gold dish hung inside the Kaaba shrine in Mecca , proving beyond doubt that the
Arabian Peninsula formed a part of his Indian Empire. (Ref: page 315of a volume known as `Sayar-ul-Okul' treasured in the Makhtab-e-
Sultania library in Istanbul , Turkey ). King Vikrama's preachers had succeeded in spreading the Vedic Hindu sacred scriptures in Arabia
and Arabs were once followers of the Indian Vedic way of life. The annual fair known as OKAJ which used to be held every year around
the Kaaba temple in Mecca and the present annual hajj of the Muslims to the Kaaba is of earlier pre-Islamic congregation. . Even to this
day ancient Siva emblems can be seen. It is the Shankara (Siva) stone that Muslim pilgrims reverently touch and kiss in the Kaaba.
Muslims shave their head and beard and don special sacred attire that consists of two seamless sheets of white cloth. One is to be
worn round the waist and the other over the shoulders. Both these rites are remnants of the old Vedic practice of entering Hindu
temples clean and with holy seamless white sheets. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Kaaba has 360 idols. Traditional
accounts mention that one of the deities among the 360 destroyed when the place was stormed was that of Saturn; another was of the
Moon and yet another was one called Allah. That shows that in the Kaaba the Arabs worshipped the nine planets in pre-Islamic days. In
India the practice of `Navagraha' puja, that is worship of the nine planets, is still in vogue. Two of these nine are Saturn and Moon.
In India the crescent moon is always painted across the forehead of the Siva symbol. Since that symbol was associated with the Siva
emblem in Kaaba it came to be grafted on the flag of Islam.
The Hindu Vedic letter in Sanskrit " OM " if seen in a mirror one can see the Arabic numbers 786 and this is the most sacred number for
Muslims and copies of the Arabic Koran have the mysterious figure 786 imprinted on them. In their ignorance simply they do not realize
that this special number is nothing more than the holiest of Vedic symbols misread and none of the Arabic scholar has been able to
determine how they chose 786 as the sacred for them. In short muslims are also going around Siva Lingam at Kaaba, seven times as
Hindus go around it seven times.
A few miles away from Mecca are a big signboard which bars the entry of any non-Muslim into the area. This is a reminder of the days when
the Kaaba was stormed and captured solely for the newly established faith of Islam. The object in barring entry of non-Muslims was
obviously to prevent its recapture. Kaaba is clothed in a black shroud. This custom also originated from the days when it was
thought necessary to discourage its recapture by camouflaging it.
Another Hindu tradition associated with the Kaaba is that of the sacred stream Ganga (sacred waters of the Ganges river). According
to the Hindu tradition Ganga is also inseparable from the Shiva emblem as the crescent moon. Wherever there is a Siva emblem, Ganga
must co-exist. True to that association a sacred fount exists near the Kaaba. Its water is held sacred because it has been
traditionally regarded as Ganga since pre-Islamic times (Zam-Zam water).
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Nadeem Khan(Mumbai)
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