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Originally Posted by Bassam Zawadi
I went to the book in it's original Arabic text. This is what Hisham said:
وكان هبل أعظم أصنام العرب التي في جوف الكعبة وحولها، وكان من عقيق أحمر على صورة إنسان مكسور اليد اليمنى
Translation: And Hubal was the greatest idol of the Arabs that was inside the Ka'bah and surrounding it, and was made of red agate, and shaped like a human, but with the right hand broken off.........
So Hubal was the IDOL. This is not the same as saying greatest "GOD".
Soooooo....... in order for this argument to get pushed through one would have to prove that "Allah" was just another idol, but that is not the case.
As the Qur'an says, the mushrikeen would use their idols as intercessors to get closer to Allah.
So.......... there is no reason to believe that Hisham ibn Al Kalbi was wrong, since there is not yet any contradiction between what he said and what the Islamic sources have said.
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AND THE CHRISTIAN ARGUMENT HAS BEEN DESTROYED! Jazakallah Bassam, there is NO WAY of proving Allah was an idol coz if He was, Nabi(saw) would have(please excuse me for saying this) destroyed Allah on his return to Mecca. You might want to edit your rebuttal to sam shamoun on "did the pagans see Allah as the supreme God or 1 of many rival gods" and put Al Kalbi's quote in(you could even refer to my case and say that this was enough to solve the doubt of a brother who sets super-high standards of evidence regarding any religious truth, and that Shamoun's arguments had left me in doubt for a while). Let's see how the shaitan incarnate responds to that... Alhamdulilah may Allah reward you.