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the people in all of the Haj stations, but thay would not shave
‘hit heal then when thay departed (on the third day of Es),
they would comet itand they would shave ther heads and they
would stay near it~ and they would not consider that thei
was compete without thin Mant belonged to Heat! an
‘huzafas and the Messenger of Allah sent Ali toi in the
year ofthe Conquest of Makkah and he destroyed it
“Then they tok AFL - which was les ancient than Manat =
as their god in AbTaié It wat an enormous stone and is
Custodians belonged to Thageeand they had built an edifice over
3 The Qurash and all ofthe Arabs used to veneateit ar they
‘would give ther children names lke Zaid AFLAt and Taita Al
LAL was located here the lft minaret of At-Ta‘if Moague les
today. remained thas ntl the Messenger of Allah i sent Al
“Mugherah Ibn Shu’bah and Abu Sufyan Ton Harb tit when
Tages! embraced loli and they demolished and set fire 10
a" end of quote.
{Jaret narrated with his Samad on the authority of Sufyan,
fon the authority of Mansoor, an the authority of Mujahid,
regarding the Words of Allah
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that he sid “(ALLA wie to grind the Sauer forthe Ha
pilgrims and then he id ater ht hey Dogan congregate by
igre" Abul Jaca’ sid thew, onthe authori of
“Abs 4: He wed to on the Seow forthe Haj pie.” A-
Bukhari narrated something si
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‘Shas Hay in wens nee he tonne wom,
‘pore cna be ace
‘was taken ab ago by Zalim Ibn Sdn Waal Naha, above Zat
“Ing and they but an edifice over it. They used to hear a voice
‘enarating omit regarding which Hisham sai" was told by my
father wh repotedon the suthorty of Abul from ‘ARBs
“b that he sad: AL-Uzes had a female dev which would come to
{hee acacia teen Ban Naksh and sehen the Messenger of Allah
4 conquered Maklah, he sent Khalid tn AL-Waled there
‘ying ‘Go fo Batn Naka and thee you wl find three acacia
frees=cut down the first one’ Sohecametoitand cutit dowry then
Ie went tothe Prophet and he asked him: Did yousee anything?”
He sai ’No! He said: Then cut down the second one” 50 he
went ackand ct down thesacend aca te, then he etre 0
the Prophet and heasked hin Did you seeanything? Hereplied
‘nce again No“ The Propet ene "Them cut down the thir So
he went and et down the thir! tre and he found him faced By
sn Abyssinian woman whose hair wasstandingonend, and she ad
her ands on her shoulders and she 98 gnasing er tet nd
thin her was its custodian but Khalid sad:
“(Oh ‘Azz!) We dsbtieve in you and we do not glorify you. 1
Jnave seen that All has humiliated you"
‘Then he struck her and spit er skal, and she died. Then he
dele the custodian then he went to the Prophet and told him
‘what had occurred, and he sid: “That was AF“Uzz there will be
fo "Uses afer it forthe Arabs.” ~ end of quote.
Some scholars have tid that the major Taga to which
people used to undertake a journey were three: AFLat, APUzzi
fd Manat as Allah has mentioned in His Book, when He sai:
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"ee ten tid i, AU ef te
‘pagan Arabs)st Bigrapy of he Prophet
‘And each of these thee belonged toa particular cy among the
‘tes of the Arabs and the cites which ay within the age ofthe
Sacred Precincts and the staring stations for Hajj were thre:
Malah, Al-Madinah and ALTs'f.Al-Lat belong! othe poopie
‘OF Av Tai Iwas said that originally, AL-LSt was a rghteogs an
‘wh used to grind the Saueey for the Hj pilgrim and e died,
8nd for some time after his death, the people would congregate
around his grave; then later, they erected his image, then they
fected a building over it As for AI-Lza, it belonged to the
people of Makkah and was located naa to ‘Arafat: there was a
freee tt where they would laughter their sacrificial animals
and suppliate, So the Prophets sent Khalid fom Al-Waleed
Shortly ater the Conquest of Makiah to destroy it and be
removed it and the Messenger of Allah i distbuted is wealth
When he destroyed it, a devi-woman emerged fom it and Al:
‘Uses despaired of being worshipped ever again. As for Mandl
belonged tothe people of AF Madinah and they use to recite the
Talia or associating thereby as a partner wilh Alla. 1
was neato Quaid, the Meuntain which lies between Makkah
ane AtMadinahy in the direction of the coast
anyone wishes to know about the customs ofthe polythees
in worshipping thee idols and to know the raity of Shik!
‘which Alls censures in allt forms ~n0 tht the meaning of the
(Qur'an becomes cnet him ~and to know what Allah and His
‘Messenger hate, he should examine the Seal ofthe Prophet
sd the creumstance ofthe Arab caring i ime and what AL
‘Aarag as sai inAUitwr Malla? and what other scholars ave
Sid abou them, He should read about how the polytheists had 2
Totus tree on which they used to hang tei weapons and which
they called Za! Anal and haw some of the people (ie. the
‘Musins) sald "Oh, Messenger of Allah! Make for usa te ike
Zat Amst which they have” Upon hearing this, he declared
“Allin Akt! You have spoken asthe people of Moses di (they
sal "Make for us a god as they have gods’ These are the
"Shi Amaciting prtes with AN
Genel nd Birth of Mad, s
practi of those people; you would adopt the practices of those
before you") So the Messenger of Allah as rected even
Imitating the disbelievers by adopting a tee around hich they
sed to congregate and on sshich they used to hang, thet
weapons, Therefore, what may. he said of something which 6
‘more rainos than Mat, and more seriou than inating the
‘stots ofthe polytheit ~ o that whichis Sik tel?
‘And it has been narrated on the authority of Umar Tin Al
hata e that he said “The frm handholds of slam wil be
destroyed one-by-one, so If a person grows up in Islam and he
doesnot know abost the [shiv - meaning hat he does not
know what they beieved = he wl all nt t without realizing”
‘Hisham bn Muhammad Ton As-Sa'db A Kall said: "Quaish
Jha idols which they kept inside the Kah and around tthe
greatest of which eas Hub, which Ihave boon tld was made of
fa carnchan, carved in the shape of 4 man. Whenever they