13/07/2026
Like Bower's Tower and the Kaaba, one is a watchtower while the other is a shrine that housed an ilāh (ṣìgìdì/deity) called Hubal.
Please read the previous post for the beginning of this history.
So, after the de@th of Abu Talib, Muhammad's uncle, his other family members from the Quraysh tribe were with Muhammad. This was because of his earlier statement that out of the over 360 ilāhs (ṣìgìdì/deities) in Mecca, there should be no other ilāh (ṣìgìdì/deity) except one (al-Ilāh or Allah).
Muhammad's grandfather was the custodian of the Kaaba shr1ne and the ilāh (ṣìgìdì/deity) inside it. Before Muhammad's time, people would come from villages all over Mecca to worship Hubal (the ṣìgìdì/deity inside the Kaaba) once a year.
They would fast, s@crifice animals, and dress half-n@ked.
They would go around the Kaaba while worshipping the deity (ilāh/ṣìgìdì) called Hubal, which was placed inside the Kaaba before Muhammad was even born.
While circumambulating the Kaaba, they would chant:
Labbayka lā sharīka laka, illā sharīkan huwa laka, tamlikuhu wa mā malak.
Word-for-word translation:
Labbayka = Here I am / at your service
lā = no
sharīka = partner / associate
laka = for you / belonging to you
illā = except
sharīkan = a partner
huwa = he
laka = belongs to you
tamlikuhu = you possess/control him
wa = and
mā = what
malak = he possesses
Literal meaning:
"Here I am. You have no partner—except a partner who belongs to You. You possess him and what he possesses."
Please check my next post for the continuation.
Yoruba Muslims, please wise up. This is what you worship while thinking you are worshipping Ọlọrun Elédùmarè. Wake up before it is too late.