Abu Taymiyyah – Kissing & Seeking Barakah from The Maraam Ibraheem

As you guys can see behind me is

the Maqam al Ibrahim.

You find people, they come here, they kiss

it, you know, they try to rub their

hands on it, they even get a piece

of cloth, start wiping it, thinking that they're

getting blessings

onto this piece of cloth, and they take

you home, thinking that all of a sudden

now that this is going to protect them

or harm them. My brothers and sisters, a

principle that Umar ibn Khattab radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu

to us when he went to the black

stone, he said

Had I not seen the prophet sallallahu alaihi

wa sallam kissed you, I wouldn't have kissed

you. That's what the prophet said about the

Hajar and As

for this, my brothers and my sisters, this

is a very common mistake. You can see

people doing it right now. They're wiping themselves

on top of it. They're even like kissing

it. All of this, my brothers and my

sisters, has no basis whatsoever. So inshallah, my

brothers and sisters, be very wary of this.