Koran 3:96-97

3:96 Indeed, the first House [of worship] established for mankind was that at Makkah – blessed and a guidance for the worlds.

97 In it are clear signs [such as] the standing place of Abraham.

And whoever enters it shall be safe.

And [due] to Allah from the people is a pilgrimage to the House – for whoever is able to find thereto a way.

But whoever disbelieves – then indeed, Allah is free from need of the worlds.

Koran 3:96-97

Muhammad lied: “the first House [of worship] established for mankind was that at Makkah”. As we note from the established history of Abraham mentioned in Koran 3:65-68, we see that Abraham established a sanctuary in Bethel for YHWH. And of course, the Kaaba existed in various forms before Muhammad, devoted to pagan worship of idols.

Muhammad lied: “blessed”. Obviously not blessed as the Kaaba in Mecca was a temple devoted to many gods, Baal, Sin, Al Lah, Al Lat, Al Uzza, Manat and 360 idols, and was this way from long before the time of Muhammad’s birth, until destroyed by Muhammad’s Muslim bandits.

Muhammad is confused: “guidance for the worlds” and “need of the worlds”. Shouldn’t that be guidance for all people in Mecca? People who are further away, such as those people in Bethel, would obviously be guided by the sanctuary and altar built by Abraham devoted to YHWH. As for “worlds”, there’s only one world humans are on, that’s Earth. Muhammad is boasting, exaggerating to make himself seem bigger than others.

Muhammad deceives: “the standing place of Abraham”. This is a local legend of Mecca and is probably why Muhammad got confused. He’s incorporated a local legend into his mythology and from that, thinks Abraham came to Mecca when Abraham demonstrably didn’t as shown earlier. See this Islamic site for more about the standing place of “Abraham”. Note especially the veneration, a sin in Islam, and worse, the movement of these “footprints” over the years, which shows it’s a natural formation, afflicted and affected by natural disasters, deliberately moved by various Islamic rulers, thus contradicting the notion that it’s a “sign”.

Muhammad lied: “And whoever enters it shall be safe.” Note that Mecca was safe before Muhammad. Mecca was a peaceful place, religiously tolerant, allowing many faiths to be practised, even openly. It’s one of the reasons that Muhammad was cast out, for his Islamic intolerance. When Muhammad, with his Muslim bandits, conquered Mecca, killing the soldiers defending Mecca, and people related to him, he also then executed any people that disagreed with him and forced everyone to be Muslim. That’s very UNSAFE and very evil too. Even today, Saudi Arabia only permits Muslims to enter Mecca and the Kaaba, and non-Muslims are executed. Not all Muslims are safe, either. Throughout history, crowds of Muslims have stampeded and killed innocent Muslims. Throughout history, Mecca has been flooded with sewage and infested with insects, again, this is unsafe.

Note that Muhammad speaks about Allah in the third person, so you know immediately that these words are not the perfect words of the perfect Qur’an from perfect Allah and are not perfectly recited by Jibril.

Muhammad prescribes: “pilgrimage to the House”. The tradition to make a pilgrimage to Mecca and the Kaaba comes from pagan tradition. There’s no such pilgrimage requirement in Judaism or Christianity. None of the “prophets”, except the false prophet Muhammad, made such a pilgrimage, otherwise, Muhammad would have included their names in his Koran as support for his nonsense. The Islamic rituals around the Kaaba come from pagan rituals, which even Muhammad’s men knew were based on pagan rituals. Rituals such as perambulation, stoning the idol of the devil, kissing the black stone, touching the Yemeni corner, praying to the Kaaba, walking and running between stones, all come from pagan customs. Even the dress of the Muslim pilgrims in a white sheet comes from pagan customs, modified by Muhammad. Previously the rituals were done in the nude (skyclad). Note especially:

The term “skyclad” is derived from Indian religions, where the term Digambara literally means “sky-clad”.

Wikipedia, Skyclad

The picture above shows a very early Neolithic pagan temple, Stonehenge. Stonehenge is round – just right for perambulating around, skyclad (nude), as local pagans sometimes still do. Stonehenge was made by pagans thousands of years ago, long before Muhammad created Allah and Islam, and shows where round temples came from, from the veneration of the year, seasons, stars, Sun and Moon, all things common to settled humans around the world dependent upon agriculture. Thus you know, the best replacement for this passage is: “”, the empty sentence.