Koran – Mecca

What did Mecca, AKA Petra, look like to Muhammad, his Muslims and the Quraysh, AKA the Nabateans, their tribe?

Mecca AKA Petra

Petra was founded over 2000 years ago along the ancient trade routes between Arabia, Egypt, and the Mediterranean Sea. As a center for trade, the capital became very wealthy and powerful. The busy city was bustling with life, full of lush gardens, ornate houses, and markets loaded with exotic goods from India, Arabia, and Egypt.

The Ancient City of Petra, AMNH

We know that these nomadic merchants became very rich as desert traders, and slowly gave up their goatskin tents to build the grand houses and monuments that became Petra. But it is a mystery why these people gave up their nomadic life to settle down in one place.

The Ancient City of Petra, AMNH

In A.D. 363, Petra suffered another blow when a massive earthquake destroyed many of the city’s buildings and its water-supply system. This natural disaster marked a turning point for the Nabataeans.

The Ancient City of Petra, AMNH

Early A.D. 600s – Muslim Arabs arrive, and Petra comes under Islamic rule.

The Ancient City of Petra, AMNH

By A.D. 700, only a few people lived in and around Petra. Over time, the city was lost to the outside world.

The Ancient City of Petra, AMNH

Muhammad the Mad

Where is Mecca located, according to Muhammad in his Koran?

So We took retribution from them, and indeed, both [cities] are on a clear highway.

Koran 15:79

Mecca (Petra) is on the same road as the cities of Lot and Shuaib. This verse is Mo’s threat of disaster.

From Muhammad’s descriptions in the Koran, what does Mecca look like?

79:32 And the mountains He set firmly 33 As enjoyment [i.e., provision] for you and your grazing livestock.

Koran 79:32-33

Refer to 10:22 in the video and then read this verse:

And in the mountains are tracts, white and red of varying shades and [some] extremely black.

Excerpt, Koran 35:27

88:17 Then do they not look at the camels – how they are created?

18 And at the sky – how it is raised?

19 And at the mountains – how they are erected?

20 And at the earth – how it is spread out?

Koran 88:17-20

…spread the earth and placed therein firmly set mountains and rivers;…

Excerpt, Koran 13:3

…made the earth a stable ground and placed within it rivers and made for it firmly set mountains…

Excerpt, Koran 27:61

And remember when He made you successors after the ʿAad and settled you in the land, [and] you take for yourselves palaces from its plains and carve from the mountains, homes.

Excerpt, Koran 7:74

…cast into the earth firmly set mountains, lest it shift with you, and [made] rivers and roads,…

Excerpt, Koran 16:15

Wherever you may be, death will overtake you, even if you should be within towers of lofty construction.

Excerpt, Koran 4:78

And they used to carve from the mountains, houses, feeling secure.

Koran 15:82

And your Lord inspired to the bee, “Take for yourself among the mountains, houses [i.e., hives], and among the trees and [in] that which they construct.

Koran 16:68

The Quraysh kept bees, making constructs to house bees and they could have had bees in their homes as well.

And Allāh has made for you, from that which He has created, shadows [i.e., shade] and has made for you from the mountains, shelters…

Excerpt, Koran 16:81

Of course, this is Muhammad boasting and lying, as it’s evident that the Quraysh ancestors carved their homes.

And We sent [rain from] the sky upon them in showers and made rivers flow beneath them;

Koran 6:6

71:11 He will send [rain from] the sky upon you in [continuing] showers 12 And give you increase in wealth and children and provide for you gardens and provide for you rivers.

Koran 71:11-12

For indeed, there are stones from which rivers burst forth, and there are some of them that split open and water comes out,…

Exerpt, Koran 2:74

Muhammad didn’t know how the irrigation system of Petra worked and thought it was the work of Allah, his idol.

Would one of you like to have a garden of palm trees and grapevines underneath which rivers flow in which he has from every fruit?

Koran 2:266

…gardens in the presence of their Lord beneath which rivers flow,…

Exerpt, Koran 3:15

…gardens [in Paradise] under which rivers flow,…

Exerpt, Koran 4:13

…gardens beneath which rivers flow…

Exerpt, Koran 3:136, 3:195, 3:198, 4:57, 4:122, 5:12, 5:85, 5:119, 9:72, 9:89, 9:100, 14:23, 22:14, 22:23, 25:10, 47:12, 48:5, 48:17, 57:12, 58:22, 61:12, 64:9, 65:11, 66:8, 85:11

…flowing beneath them are rivers.

Exerpt, Koran 7:43

…gardens and springs…

Excerpt, Koran 15:45, 26:57, 26:134, 26:147, 44:25, 44:52, 51:15

…gardens and rivers,…

Exerpt, Koran 54:54

…provide for you gardens and provide for you rivers.

Exerpt, Koran 71:12

Beneath them rivers will flow in the Gardens of Pleasure

Exerpt, Koran 10:9

Gardens of perpetual residence, which they will enter, beneath which rivers flow.

Excerpt, Koran 16:31

Those will have gardens of perpetual residence; beneath them rivers will flow.

Exerpt, Koran 18:31

Gardens of perpetual residence beneath which rivers flow,…

Excerpt, Koran 20:76, 98:8

…[elevated] chambers beneath which rivers flow,…

Exerpt, Koran 29:58

…pleasant dwellings in gardens of perpetual residence.

Exerpt, Koran 61:12

…chambers, above them chambers built high, beneath which rivers flow.

Excerpt, Koran 39:20

And Pharaoh called out among his people; he said, “O my people, does not the kingdom of Egypt belong to me, and these rivers flowing beneath me; then do you not see?

Koran 43:51

Muhammad was telling his Muslims that the house of “Pharaoh” was going to be theirs, in Mecca AKA Petra.

So We lured the tyrants out of ‘their’ gardens, springs,…

So We removed them from gardens and springs

Koran 26:57

I wonder which translation is right?

…produce from it greenery from which We produce grains arranged in layers. And from the palm trees – of its emerging fruit are clusters hanging low. And [We produce] gardens of grapevines and olives and pomegranates, similar yet varied.

Look at [each of] its fruit when it yields and [at] its ripening.

Excerpt, Koran 6:99

…gardens to grow, [both] trellised and untrellised, and palm trees and crops of different [kinds of] food and olives and pomegranates, similar and dissimilar.

Excerpt, Koran 6:144

…gardens of entwined growth.

Excerpt, Koran 78:16

…gardens of palm trees and grapevines in which for you are abundant fruits and from which you eat.

Excerpt, Koran 23:19

Gardens and grapevines [vineyards].

Koran 78:32

Muhammad gives credit for creating vineyards to Allah.

And gardens of dense shrubbery

Koran 80:30

…rain from the sky, causing to grow thereby gardens of joyful beauty which you could not [otherwise] have grown the trees…

Excerpt, Koran 27:60

And within the land are neighboring plots and gardens of grapevines and crops and palm trees, [growing] several from a root or otherwise, watered with one water;

Excerpt, Koran 13:4

…rain from the sky and made grow thereby gardens and grain from the harvest…

Excerpt, Koran 50:9

18:32 And present to them an example of two men: We granted to one of them two gardens of grapevines, and We bordered them with palm trees and placed between them [fields of] crops.

33 Each of the two gardens produced its fruit and did not fall short thereof in anything. And We caused to gush forth within them a river.

Koran 18:32-33

Muhammad thought farms were gardens and irrigation was a creation of his idol Allah.

And give good tidings to those who believe and do righteous deeds that they will have gardens [in Paradise] beneath which rivers flow.

Whenever they are provided with a provision of fruit therefrom, they will say, “This is what we were provided with before.”

And it is given to them in likeness.

And they will have therein purified spouses, and they will abide therein eternally.

Koran 2:25

26:146 Will you be left in what is here, secure [from death], 147 Within gardens and springs 148 And fields of crops and palm trees with softened fruit?

149 And you carve out of the mountains, homes, with skill.

Koran 26:146-149

17:90 And they say, “We will not believe you until you break open for us from the ground a spring 91 Or [until] you have a garden of palm trees and grapes and make rivers gush forth within them in force [and abundance]

Koran 17:90-91

…gardens of palm trees and grapevines and caused to burst forth therefrom some springs –

Excerpt, Koran 36:44

78:6 Have We not made the earth a resting place?

7 And the mountains as stakes?

Koran 78:6-7

20:105 And they ask you about the mountains, so say, “My Lord will blow them away with a blast. 106 And He will leave it [i.e., the earth] a level plain; 107 You will not see therein a depression or an elevation.”

Koran 20:105-107

And [warn of] the Day when We will remove the mountains and you will see the earth exposed,…

Excerpt, Koran 18:47

The heavens almost rupture therefrom and the earth splits open and the mountains collapse in devastation

Koran 19:90

And you see the mountains, thinking them motionless,…

Excerpt, Koran 27:88

And the mountains will pass on, departing

Koran 52:10

56:4 When the earth is shaken with convulsion 5 And the mountains are broken down, crumbling 6 And become dust dispersing,

Koran 56:4-6

If We had sent down this Qur’ān upon a mountain, you would have seen it humbled and splitting from fear of Allāh.

Excerpt, Koran 59:21

And the earth and the mountains are lifted and leveled with one blow [i.e., stroke] –

Koran 69:14

And the mountains are removed and will be [but] a mirage.

Koran 78:20

And when the mountains are removed

Koran 81:3

70:8 …the sky will be like murky oil, 9 And the mountains will be like wool,…

Excerpt, Koran 70:8-9

And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.

Koran 101:5

…the earth and the mountains will convulse and the mountains will become a heap of sand pouring down.

Excerpt, Koran 73:14

And when the mountains are blown away

Koran 77:10

55:46 But for he who has feared the position of his Lord are two gardens – 48 Having [spreading] branches.

50 In both of them are two springs, flowing.

52 In both of them are of every fruit, two kinds.

54 and the fruit of the two gardens is hanging low.

62 And below them both [in excellence] are two [other] gardens – 64 Dark green [in color].

66 In both of them are two springs, spouting.

68 In both of them are fruit and palm trees and pomegranates.

Excerpts, Koran 55:46-68

How many is Allah? One, right? So why are there “two” and “both” here? Surely one garden is sufficient for Allah, right? You know, like the Garden of Eden is one, where Adam and Eve were:

55:46 But for he who has feared Allah is the garden – 48 Having [spreading] branches.

50 A spring, flowing.

52 Every fruit, not just grapes and dates.

54 and the fruit of the garden is hanging low.

62 The garden is – 64 Dark green [in color].

66 A spring, flowing, repeating like Muhammad’s words.

68 There are fruit (grapes) and palm trees (dates) and pomegranates, which I just remembered.

Excerpts, Koran 55:46-68

Conclusion

Where did Muhammad sing, dance and act, pretending to be a woman and various prophets?

Muhammad was a false prophet, for a false god, Allah, for a false religion, Islam, without even a false book, the Koran.