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The Prophet erected pillars to demarcate the boundaries of the
Sacred Mosque. Following this, a crier announced that whoever
believed in Allah and the Hereafter was
to destroy any idols that
remained in his house.
Uzza, Suwa and Manah are destroyed
On the 25
th
Ramadan, the Prophet dispatched Khalid bin
Waleed to Nakhlah at the head of thirty cavalrymen to demolish
the temple of Uzza. The idol of Uzza was the biggest,
and Khalid
smashed it to pieces. In the same month, Amr bin Aas was
sent to demolish the idol of Suwa, the chief deity of Banu
Hudhayl. Amr
arrived at the shrine in Rabat, 150 km north east of
Makkah, and razed it to the ground. Its priest saw the inanimate
object submit itself to destruction, and he was overcome with the
realisation that no creator could be destroyed thus.
Once
more false god remained, and the Prophet sent Sa’d
bin Zayd Ash’hali at the head of twenty cavaliers to destroy
Manah, the deity of the Kalb, Khuzaa, Ghassan, Aus and Khazraj
tribes. Sa’d broke the idol and demolished its temple,
removing
one more loathed rival of Allah, the One the Eternal, of whom no
likeness can ever be made.
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