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Peace be upon you.
Peace be on you..Muslims do prostrations [sajdah] during Prayer [Salaat]
Ref:https://www.alislam.org/salaat/07Sajdah.html
This prostrasion is not for earth!
Likewise, facing Ka'ba during Salaat is not worshipping of that building.
Another way to understand it that when Muslims are travelling, and direction to Ka'ba is unknown, they can face any direction. If one is sitting in train or aeroplane, one is tied to seat. Just make intention for Salaat, offer it there.
[if pre Salaat ablution is not possible make tayammum (If a clean dusty surface or a solid surface is available, one should pat the surface with the open palms of both hands, then make a motion with both hands, passing them over the back of each other successively, as if one is washing them, and then pass them over one's face. This is only a token ablution to remind one that whenever possible, proper ablution should be performed.)]
When they stand to start Salaat, they make intention:
""innï wajjahtu wajhiya lilladhï fatarassamäwäti wal-arda hanïfa(n)wwamä anä minal-mushrikïn.""
Translation: I have turned my full attention towards Him, Who has created the heavens and the earth, being ever inclined (towards Him), and I am not among those who associate partners with Allah.
No mention of Ka'ba + cutting any such faintest possiblities by saying about bold words!
According to Ahmadiyya Muslim Promised Messiah Mahdi a.s. (alislam.org), worships are of two types:
i-worship with humbleness
ii-worship with love and sacrifice.
Five daily Salaat / Prayers are worship of humbleness. This worship contains standing before Allah, bowing, prostrating etc. Parallel to each physical posture, soul does the same. Body and soul affects each other, bothways.
Hajj is worship of love and sacrifice. Believers' bodies make circuits of love around Ka'ba, the House of Allah. Similary, in love, their souls are making circuits around Ka'ba. In love, they also kiss blak-stone. Hajj-offerers shave their heads, wear the most simple dress, get consumed in the love of Allah, and move around the House of their beloved Allah....A friend kisses the letter of other friend, likewise is the Muslims' kiss of black-stone. No Muslim worship Ka'ba and seek wishes from black-stone. This arrangement is a physical sample and that is it. Prostration on earth is not FOR earth. Stones cannot give any benefit or cause harm....It is written in interpretations of dreams that if someone kisses black-stone in the dream, it would mean he or she would get spiritual knowledge.
There is the most imporatnt aspect related to this discussion, which is as follows:
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All the major religions of the world invariably began their journey with belief in Unity.......
By the time of Abrahamas, the lofty belief of Noahas in the Unity of God was already degenerated by his distant progeny into the earthly myths of many gods. Abrahamas once again launched a gigantic struggle for the restoration of Unity. It prevailed at last, and the torch of Unity was held aloft by his progeny and others who followed him for many a generation to come.
The old fateful trend of decadence set in eventually with the same disastrous consequences. Within a few hundred years from the time of Abrahamas, the House of Israel reverted to the evil practice of idol worship. This continued until the time of Mosesas. Although Mosesas was an outstanding champion of the cause of Unity among prophets, idolatry kept infiltrating and defiling the faith of his followers during the subsequent centuries. This again proves beyond a shadow of doubt that to move away from Unity is a downhill task. Left to himself, man would always slide down the ladder to the lowly ground of idolatry—a ground which breeds the vermin of superstition and polytheism.
Another example quoted by the Holy Quran is that of 'Baitul Haram' () in Mecca, the House of God built by Abraham as, dedicated only to the cause of His Unity. But alas, it did not take the idols very long to re-enter this illustrious House of God. Except for the name everything else was changed. It was ultimately occupied by no less than three hundred and sixty idols representing each day of the lunar year, filling its chambers from wall to wall. There was room for all of them, but no room for God.
Is this the evolutionary process the sociologists talk so much about? Is this the way they believe idolatry evolved into the idea of a single Supreme Being? Is this how the image of God is ultimately created by man as he advances from his primitive mental state to a more developed one? Nay, certainly not! The history of religions unanimously rejects this arbitrary sociologist conclusion. It clearly demonstrates that belief in the Unity of God always descends from Him. It never ascends to Him through a natural upward spiralling trend of progressive idol worship.
If a transition from many gods to one did ever occur, then the history of religion should have attested to it. But not a trace of it is found in the established history of world religions. Monotheistic societies do slowly degenerate into the polytheistic ones; the opposite never occurs.Quote Ends
Revelation, Rationality, Knowledge and Truth - Book of Vast Knowledge By Fourth Ahmadiyya Muslim Khalifah (a.r)
Good wishes.
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