05-12-2004, 02:05 AM
Jazak Allah Khairn brother for posting this. Things such as this make me feel even more strongly in my faith. I remember sitting once with a group of sisters, one of whom was very new and she was asking about the black stone at the the Kaba.
Another sister began to tell her about how this stone was sent from Allah as a white stone, and the promise that any Muslim who kisses this stone and sincerely repents of his or her sins, the sins of that person will be transferred into that stone, and they will be forgiven. Over time the stone has become black from the sins that have been placed into it.
She went on to tell that a scientist from Brittian did not believe this and he really wished to prove with science that this was just an ordinary rock. So he disguised himself as a Muslim, even made some fake paper declaring his Muslim identity all with the intention of proving the Muslims to be wrong. He went to the Kaba and he somehow managed to take a small sampling of the stone.
Back at the lab, the scientist began to do testing on the stone. He could not identify any of the components it was made up out of! Neither on Earth or from the moon samplings could he find any material that matched the make-up of the black stone.
Asalaamu alikum,
~Jennifer