There are many misconceptions about Islam and the black stone but all it really take is a bit of reading and you’ll find it isn’t what you think it might be. According to Ibn Ishaq, an early biographer of Muhammad, the Ka’aba was itself addressed as a female deity, three generations before the advent of Islam. The Semitic cultures of the Middle East had a tradition of using unusual stones to mark places of worship, a phenomenon which is reflected in the Hebrew Bible as well as the Qur’an. Which mean this was just a traditional that the arabs before Islam use to do as a cultural tradition and not religious.

A hadith records that, when the second Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab (580-644) came to kiss the Stone, he said in front of all assembled: “No doubt, I know that you are a stone and can neither harm anyone nor…