Zakir Naik – Is Bowing to the Kaabah the Same as Idol Worship

Thank you. Do you have any other question?

You said you have 2 question. Yes. But

then if the organizer Okay. Has enough time?

No. Because we allowed the other, I would

give the same thing to you, brother. Bro.

Okay.

So this is just a short question. So

I'm so sorry. Earlier on you were talking

about,

Muslim,

should not pray towards an idol or object

or anything, because God is formless and He

is beyond our comprehension.

So, from my understanding, from just what I've

observed,

I probably believe it's wrong. But

when the Muslims performed their pilgrimage at Makkah,

the direction of prayers are facing towards a

stone pillar in the center.

So, what is,

isn't this contradicting to what Very good question.

Earlier? The brother asked a very good question

that if Islam is against idol worship, I

did not say God is formless. I said

God is imageless. The difference between formless and

imageless.

If you interpret your way, there'll be a

big

big blunder.

I said, God is images. I know that

God is formless. There's a difference between formless

and images.

Coming to your main question, that if Islam

is against idol worship and you go to

pilgrimage

and you bow on toward the Taaba, isn't

it same as idol worship? And this is

then my book, the most common question. It

is number 9.

The 9th most common question asked by non

Muslims about Islam is, if Islam is again

idol worship, why do you bow onto the

Kaaba when you pray?

And the answer is, no Muslim ever worship

the Kaaba. The Kaaba is our qibla at

the direction.

Because we Muslim believe in unity. For example,

today, all the Muslim want to offer salah

on the prayer. Some may say, let's face

north. Some may say south. Some may say

east. Some may say west. There'll be disunity.

So for unity, wherever you are, you face

towards the Kaaba. This is the verse of

the Quran of Surah Baqarah chapter number 2,

verse 1 44. We say

that when you pray, face towards the Kaaba.

So Kaaba is the qibla. It is not

we worship it. Furthermore, Muslim were the first

people who do the world map. And

in 11/54

was the first human being who drew the

world map. When the Muslim drew the world

map, South Pole was on top, North Pole

down, Kaaba was in the center.

The western cartographers came and they turned the

map upside down.

North pole top, south pole down, 8 Kaaba

is in the center.

So if you stay in the north, you

face towards the south. If you stay in

the south, you face towards the north. If

you stay in the west, you face towards

the east. If you stay in the east,

you face towards the west. Kaaba is the

center of the world.

When people go for umrah, when Muslims go

for umrah,

or we go for Hajj, we circle around

the Kaaba.

What is the reason we circle because it's

a commandment of almighty God. But logically, what

I can think that every circle has got

one center. When we circle on the Kaaba,

we are testifying that there's only one god.

And the statement of the second Khalifa of

Islam, Hazrat Umar. He said it's mentioned, Sahib

Bukhari, 1 number 2, in the book of

Hajj, chapter number 56. Hadith number 675.

Hadith,

be pleased with him. The second of Islam,

he said that this black stone

can neither benefit me, can neither harm me.

I'm kissing it only because I've seen the

prophet kiss it. This statement that the black

stone can neither benefit nor neither harm me

is sufficient to prove that Muslim don't worship

the Kaaba.

And lastly,

at the time of the prophet, there was

who stood on the Kaaba and gave the.

No idol worshiper will ever stand on the

idol he or she worships.

So this proves that no Muslim ever worship

the Kaaba. The Kaaba is the Qiblites only

a direction. Hope that answers the question.

Okay. Thank you very much for your time.

Thank you.