Was Petra the Real Mecca? | Al Muqaddimah

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00:00 Intro
01:43 Dan Gibson's Hypothesis
03:12 Checking the Evidence
04:05 Where Do Muslims Face?
04:28 The Problem with the Qiblas
07:24 Descriptions of Mecca
09:23 The Story of the Qibla Change
10:48 The Cover-up
12:55 We Face Your Qibla
14:40 Conclusion

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[Canhistoryismylife]

What if the real Mecca was the friends we made along the way?

[ahzam]

Apart from that, the location of Petra shows that it has to be under Christian Byzantine rule and as far as I know, no other religion survived with a central locus under Byzantines except christianity, the Jews were kicked out of Jerusalem, all folks religion was destroyed so how come the pre-Islamic polytheism survived in the first place and the same goes for Islam, if Petra would have been the actual Makkah, the Byzantine would had nib it in the bud before it reached the Rashidun Era.

[smsjmgt]

As an irreligious person, I really, really admire your ability to speak of your own faith in such unbiased, fact-based manner. Really great respect to you, man.

[DrChant]

I'm always fascinated by all of Religions history. I am an Atheist and study all aspects of religion ever since time immemorial but I respect all religious views to the highest degree. Salam Alaikum dear muslim brothers

[princeamori]

“A revision of history, ON THIS SCALE, in that period is IMPOSSIBLE. I cannot stress this enough.” Mic drop. Thank you. If Petra were the Real Mecca, one would think the Byzantines would have mentioned that they were fighting the people and worshippers of the 'mythical holy shrine’ of Petra. There is this whole body of orientalists and now Evangelicals who keep coming up with really strange theories. They need to be called out publicly.

[adnaanu]

I live in the U.K. most of the mosques don't face towards Mecca. The reason for this is quite simply:most mosques are converted existing buildings like community centres, houses, warehouses and more recently in central London, a Sega Funland. This was probably the case earlier. Inside the mosque we always pray towards Mecca, regardless of the direction of the building.

[onisuryaman]

People still made mistakes in determining Qibla direction in modern era. The mosques in Indonesia (or Dutch-Indies as named in that era) faced a general West direction before early 20th century. The correct direction is North-West to a certain degree.

[Munchausenification]

When it comes to the way Muslims pray and you have to face in direction of Mecca, I thought as a young teen (Irreligious for as long as i can remember) it was pretty stupid and inconvenient. Later on in life it started making sense. On a personal level you feel connected to a wider Muslim world even when praying alone. On a religious level it makes sense to have something that centralize the faith (holy sites within lots of religions).
Also, very interesting video!

[laibanoor]

Even in my language ' Urdu" we have a idiom that goes like " Ap apna Qibla darust kijiye" which literally means " You should rectify your direction of Kabbah" and figuratively means " Leave the bad habits and do the right thing"

[dorderre]

I truly appreciate the improvements you made to your speech pattern. I was watching some of your earliest videos a while ago and you are a lot more understandable now =)
Greetings from Germany <3

[sobitasadullah]

Your capability of non-bias astounds me. I don't know how I could think clearly enough to actually look into this and see a thousand people disparage something I hold so dear.

[haidersultan]

I am from Pakistan and many of the mosques I have been to don't directly face Mecca. Because, it simply doesn't matter. The direction we pray towards is not in the direction the mosque is facing, it's Mecca (Rugs are not aligned with the walls of mosque). Direction of mosque is not even an argument in the first place. It's such a random thing to pick and make a propaganda. Not to mention all the historical facts that were presented in this video.

[micahistory]

this theory isn't even believable and the moment he said there was a massive cover up, i knew he had no real evidence

[wasihafiz]

When I travelled to the UK from south Asia, I prayed towards the west instinctively for about a month until I realised that mecca is actually in the south east of England. Many of the early Muslims didnt even see a proper world map in their lifetime. So they may have prayed towards the direction where their instincts directed.

[Arius]

The reason why some prepaid people want Petra not Makka to be the beginning of Islam is that they want simply to say that Muhammad learnt from the Romans, Christians and others all what he brought in Quran since Makka had nothing at all.
I would tell them Islam will triumph. Islam has been fought since day 1 and Islam always wins.

[aloka]

Actually from an Arab Egyptian Muslim perspective,
I feel like many people specially foreigners deal with Islam as an ancient lost civilization and ancient book that we are trying to understand,
As if we found stones and temples and hieroglyphs writings and then we knew that there were pharos and ancient Egyptians and we try to understand their history,
They deal with Islam as the same thing,
Man if you are raised in a house and then left your family and lived somewhere else and a foreigner came to you with a million evidence and papers and witnesses to proof that your old house is actually not here it is in the other street you will not believe him because it's not an ancient temple, you lived here you had a family here.

Guys, Mecca and the qibla and the prophet life and the Kaaba are holy for us,
we know each detail of the prophet life in Mecca and in Madina,
No one ever can change this things even after all this years, or even after only 10 years,

you can't even say that Rome was in Germany then it was shifted to Italy,
because it is strong history for you,
and mecca is not history for us,
it is history and still present we are still living and praying facing it in all the globe from the beginning of Islam,
we are not trying to discover a lost civilization here.

[maisa]

Thanks for doing an open-minded, as unbiased as possible analysis of Islamic history! You'd make the Muslim scholars of the Golden Age proud.

[Rdicalized]

I'm so glad I found this, bringing some much-needed objectivity on this subject. Your fairness and well-documented evidence is a good reminder: No matter what one's personal feelings are about a subject as sensitive as this, as a religion it must be respected.

[OmerE.C]

As well, other than muslims in these empires, there were muslims in abysinia or ethiopia or habesha, in turk areas were abbasid caliphate didn't reach, new muslims in Indonesia. Like, somebody would have noticed at least, this hypothesis is nonsense

[kahlilg]

Interesting hypothesis, I know the comments will be interesting as well.