You Will Know In This Article Why The City Of Makkah s Called Makkah, And Also How Many Other Names Makkah, Has And Which Name Was More Popular In Each Period, And What Is The History Of Makkah, And How Long Has This City Been Inhabited?
Mecca Is A Holy And Blessed Place That Is Revered By All. It Is Such A Blessed Place That People Have Been Benefiting From It For Thousands Of Years, And Its Greatness And Blessings Can Be Gauged From This. It Can Be Assumed That Many Verses Of The Qur'an And Many Hadiths Have Been Mentioned In Its Praise.
This Is The Reason Why There Has Never Been Any Decline In The
Veneration Of Mecca In Any Era, Be It Pre-Islamic Or Post-Islamic, And It Has
Been Respected In Every Era, Even By Its Opponents. Have Certainly Tried To
Trample The Honor Of Mecca, But Allah, The Exalted, Turned Their Tricks On Them
Because Allah Wanted To Make This City Better And Revealed The Manifestations
Of His Special Light Here. Through Which Millions Of Muslims Can Get The
Benefit That Allah Has Placed The Reward Of Those Who Worship Here More Than In
Other Places.
The Reason For Calling Mecca:
These Sayings Are More Famous About The Reason For Mecca.
1) According To Some Researchers, Mecca Is A Babylonian Or Chaldean
Language Word That Actually Means House.
2) The Literal Meaning Of Mecca Is To Eliminate. Since Mecca Removes
The Sins Of The People, That Is Why It Is Called Mecca.
3) It Literally Means To Absorb Because It Attracts People Living
Near It; Hence, It Is Called Mecca.
4) Mecca Is A Place Where There Is A Shortage Of Water, And Here
There Was A Shortage Of Water, Which Is Why It Is Called Mecca. (Tafseer Razi)
Other Name Of Mecca In Different Religions:
The City Was First Called Mecca By Ptolemy In The Second Century AD, But Some Western Historians Say That The City Was First Called Mecca By Al-Saqli In 100 BC.
Its Two Names Are Also Used In The Holy Qur'an: "Mecca"
And Bakah," And Scholars Of The Dictionary And Commentary Have Described
The Same Meaning Of These Two Words.
And It Should Also Be Known That Arab Hijaz, Mecca, Kaaba, And All
These Words Were Not Born Until The Time When This City Was Built, When The
First People Did Not Know These Names.
And In The Torah, The Name Of Mecca Is Used As "Mudabar," And
Then In The 10th Century BC, It Was Called Arab, And Then In The Second
Century, It Was Called Mecca, And Then It Was Called Hijaz, And Then In The Thirteenth
Century, It Was Called Hijaz. It Came To Be Called Saudi Arabia.
And More Or Less 50 Names Of Mecca Have Been Described In Kitab Al-Shifa
Al-Gharam, Of Which These Are The Most Famous.
1) Al-Bayt Al-Atiq
2) The Safe Country
3) Al-Mamun
4) Uterus
5) Umm Al-Qari
6) Righteousness
7) Shark
8) Barzon
9) The Galley Has Cooled.
10) Al-Nasa
11) Al-Basa
12) Resurrected
13) Al-Mathra
14) Al-Mutasha
15) Presentations
16) Al-Qariyyah
17) Al-Kawshi
18) The Village
19) Ants
20) Al-Hatima
21) Al-Barat Al-Taiba
22) Al-Ras, Etc.
Other Name Of Mecca In The Quran:
Several Names For This City Have Been Used In The Qur'an As Well.
1) It Is Called Mecca In Surah Al-Fath.
And It Is He (Allah) Who Prevented The Hands Of Them
(Disbelievers) From You And Your Hands From Them In The Valley Of Mecca. Verse:
24
2) And In Surah Al-Imran, It Is Called 'Bakkah'.
"Indeed, The First House (Of Allah) Appointed For People Is
That Which Is In Bakkah; It Is A Blessing And Guidance For All The Worlds. Verse
96
3) And In Surah Al-Balad, The City Of Mecca Is Called Balad.
Allah Swore By This City (Al-Balad) And Said, "I Swear By
This City! Verse 1
4) And In Surah 3, This City Is Called Al-Balad Al-Amin.
By The Figs And Olives, And By Sinai, And By This Peaceful City (Mecca)!"
(Verses: 3-1
5) And In Surah Al-Nahl, It Is Called Al-Quriya.
"And Allah Gave An Example Of A Settlement (Village) That Was
Peaceful." Verse 112
6) And In Surat Al-An'am, it Is Called Umm Al-Qura.
And So That You May Warn Umm Al-Qura (Mecca) And Those Around Her
(From Allah's Punishment). Verse 92
History Of Mecca Before Islam:
The History Of Mecca Is As Ancient As Human History; That Is, Mecca
Came Into Being On The Same Day When Hazrat Adam (Peace And Blessings Of Allah Be
Upon Him) Took His First Step On This Earth. The First Land That Peace Be Upon
Him Had Set Foot On Was Mecca, And It Was Adam (Peace Be Upon Him) Who Laid The
Foundation Of The Kaaba There By The Command Of God. (Tafseer Khazan 1/275).
And Then People Started Living In This City, And Then The
Generation Of Adam (Peace And Blessings Of Allah Be Upon Him) Went On, But When
The Flood Of Noah Took All The Things Under Water, Then This Great House Was
Also Covered In Water, But Later Shis (Peace Be Upon Him) Rebuilt It.
And Then, After A Long Time, People Started To Settle In mecca City, People Started To Prosper In This City, And Then The City Of Mecca Became
Known As A Famous Trading Place Because The City Of Mecca Was On The Route
Between Yemen And Syria. It Was Located Here, Which Is Why The Travelers Used
To Stop Here For The Purpose Of Rest, And Here A Place Was Provided For The
Rest Of The Travellers (Musawat Al-Itabayat).
Hazrat Ibrahim (Peace Be Upon Him) Went To Mecca's Land. With
Hazrat Hajra (Peace Be Upon Her) And Hazrat Ismail (Peace Be Upon Him). At That
Time, This Land Was Dry, And There Was No Food Or Drink Available For A Long
Distance Because Of This Land. It Was Surrounded By Mountains, So There Was No
Good Climate.
But It Was The Order Of Allah, Which Is Why Hazrat Ibrahim (Peace
Be Upon Him) Left His Son Hazrat Ismail (Peace Be Upon Him) And His Wife Hazrat
Hajra (Peace Be Upon Her) There And Gave Them Some Food And Some Drinks, But Hazrat
Ibrahim (Peace Be Upon Him) Did Not Know.
After Some Time, Those Things Ran Out, So Hazrat Hajra Went To The
Mountains In Search Of Water. Sometimes She Went To One Mountain; Sometimes She
Went To Another Mountain.
Allah Ta'ala Made The Method Obligatory On The Entire Ummah, Which
We All Know As The Sa'i (Run) Of Safa-Marwah. Therefore, Allah Ta'ala Blessed
The Existence Of Hazrat Ismail (Peace Be Upon Him), Because Of Which Hazrat
Ismail (Peace Be Upon Him) He Hit His Heel On The Ground, And A Spring Of Water
Was Released From The Rocky And Dry Land, Which Is Now Known As Zamzam. In History,
It Is Found That The Spring Of Zamzam Dates Back To About Two Thousand Years BC.
(News Of Mecca)
And A Tribe Called Jarham, Which Often Passed Through The Land Of Mecca
For Trading In Palestine, Once Noticed That As Soon As Some Members Of This
Tribe Passed Through Here, They Saw Many Birds Flying From The Sky To The
Earth. And Then They Go Up Again, Very Happy. So All Those People Were
Surprised To See This Scene Because They Knew That It Was A Dry And Barren
Land, And Out Of Curiosity, They Came Up.
He Sent Two People From His Tribe And Told Them To Go And See What
Was Going On. Those Two People Went, And When They Saw The Scene There, They
Found Water Springs Flowing There And Saw A Very Green Environment.
When He Happily Returned To His Tribe And Narrated This Story To
All Of Them, The Whole Tribe Jumped With Joy. Allah Gave Them Permission, And
Then The Whole Tribe Migrated From Yemen And Settled On The Land Of Mecca;
Thus, Social Life Started In The City Of Mecca For The First Time After The
Flood Of Noah.
And Then Hazrat Ismail (Peace Be Upon Him) Spent His Entire
Childhood In This City, And When He Was Young, He Married A Girl From The Same
Tribe, From Whom He Had 12 Children, And From There His Generation Grew Up.
Hazrat Ibrahim (Peace Be Upon Him) Also Used To Visit His Wife And
His Son, Hazrat Ismail (Peace Be Upon Him), In The City Of Mecca In The Same
Way. By The Order Of The Almighty, He Asked His Son Hazrat Ismail (Peace Be
Upon Him) To Build A House Of God On mecca,s Land. After The Construction Was
Completed, People From All Corners Of The World Began To Gather In The City Of Mecca
To Perform Hajj, And In The Same Way, The Prosperity Of The People In The City
Of Mecca Increased.
AUTHOR: MUHAMMAD RAZA QURESHI
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