Can Jews & Christians come to Makkah?
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Dear Burhan bhai,
At one point you
say mushriks are unclean and they should not approach the KA'ABA, and on the
other hand you can marry (jews & christian) People of the Book which Allah
has comanded as legal. To my knowledge even these two tribes are not
allowed in Ka'aba. Pls clarify.
Allah Hafiz.
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Answer:
Can Jews and Christians come to Makkah
In the name of Allah, We praise
Him, seek His help and ask for His forgiveness. Whoever Allah guides none
can misguide, and whoever He allows to fall astray, none can guide them aright.
We bear witness that there is no one (no idol,
no person, no grave, no
prophet, no imam, no dai,
nobody!) worthy of worship but Allah Alone, and we bear witness that
Muhammad(saws) is His slave-servant and the seal of His Messengers.
Your Statement: At one point you say mushriks
are unclean and they should not approach the KA'ABA, and on the other hand you
can marry (jews & christian) People of the Book which Allah has comanded as
legal.
Beloved
brother in Islam, it is not ‘us’ who
has said that the mushriks are unclean and they should not approach the
Kaabah, or that it is permissible for
the believers to marry a woman from the People of the Book! Allah Subhanah is the One Who has declared
the mushriks unclean; and He it is Who
has forbidden them to approach the Kaabah;
and He is it is Who has given permission to the believers to marry the
women of the People of the Book. We
only repeated, what the All Mighty Lord
has declared in His Glorious Quran.
Allah says in the Holy
Quran Chapter 9 Surah Taubah verse 28:
O ye who believe! Truly the mushriks are unclean; so let them not after this
year of theirs, approach the Sacred
Mosque. And if ye fear poverty
,soon will Allah enrich you if He wills out of his bounty, for Allah is All-Knowing All-Wise.
Allah says in the Holy Quran Chapter 5 Surah
Maidah verse 5:
This day are (all) things good and pure made
lawful unto you. The food of the People
of the Book is lawful unto you, and
yours is lawful unto them. (Lawful
unto you in marriage) are (not only) chaste women who are believers, but chaste women among the People of the
Book revealed before your time;
when ye give them their due dowers and desire chastity, not lewdness nor secret intrigues. If anyone rejects faith, fruitless is his work and in the Hereafter
he will be in the ranks of those who have lost (all spiritual good).
Thus brother,
it is Allah Subhanah who has declared the mushriks unclean and forbidden
them to approach the Sacred Mosque in Makkah;
and it is Allah Who has given the believers the permission to marry
chaste women from among the People of the Book, if they wish to do so.
Your Question: To my
knowledge even these two tribes are not allowed in Ka'aba. Pls clarify.
When the aayah of Surah Taubah
was revealed in 9th Hijri,
the Messenger of Allah (saws) implemented the command of Allah
Subhanah, and forbade the mushriks to
enter the Holy City of Makkah. The
People of the Book were still permitted to enter the Sacred Mosque. The mushriks and the People of the Book
were still permitted to visit the Prophet’s mosque in Medina, but after the murder of the second Khalifa, Hadrat Umar al Khattab (r.a.); the believers prohibited both, the mushriks
and the People of the Book, to enter
the precincts of the Holy Cities of Makkah and Medina; and that prohibition is carried on until
this very day.
Whatever written of
Truth and benefit is only due to Allah’s Assistance and Guidance, and whatever
of error is of me. Allah Alone Knows
Best and He is the Only Source of Strength.
Your Brother in Islam,
Burhan
