Himyar

Within this greater cultural bustle, the city of Mecca was one of the main junctions of Arabia.

On the back center of the Arabian boot, Meccans knew Himyarites from present-day Yemen, Axumites from just over the Red Sea in present-day Ethiopia, Byzantines from the Levant, Persians from Iran and Iraq, and a medley of others.

And thus, to return to a very synoptic sentence from earlier, quote, Mecca, in the year Muhammad was born there, was a late antique Eurasian city where there were polytheists and monotheists, close quote.

The youngest sister of Abrahamism came into a world that her older two sisters had helped create.

Neither Shaddad nor any of those who were with him arrived at the city or came in sight of it, and God obliterated the traces of the road that led to it, but the city remaineth as it was in its place until the hour of the judgment.

At this narrative related by Ka'b al-Ahbar, Mu'awiyah wondered, and he said to him, "Can any one of mankind arrive at that city?" "Yes," answered Ka'b al-Ahbar, "a man of the companions of Muhammad, upon whom be blessing and peace, in appearance like this man who is sitting here, without any doubt." Ash-Shabi also saith, "It is related on the authority of the learned men of Himyar in Al-Yemen that when Shaddad and those who were with him were destroyed by the loud cry, his son Shaddad the Less reigned after him.

For his father Shaddad the Greater had left him as, as successor to his kingdom in the land of Hadramaut and Saba on his departure with the troops who accompanied him to Aram Zatal Emad.

And as soon as the news reached him of the death of his father on the way before his arrival at the city of Arim, he gave orders to carry his father's body from those desert tracts to Hadramaut and to excavate a sepulcher for him in a cavern.

You have Israeli advisors in UAE.

There haven't been Jewish sort of soldiers in Arabia since the Prophet, and really since the Kingdom of Himyar in the sort of 4th century, which was a Jewish kingdom of Yemen, which we, we often forget, which is interesting.

But, you know, it's that long since there've been Jewish troops there.

And then, you know, you see you have the Ukrainians, you have the Pakistanis, you have the, um, you have Iranians in, in h- with the Houthis, and so, and of course you have Americans.

At this narrative related by Ka'b al-Ahbar, Mu'awiyah wondered, and he said to him, Can any one of mankind arrive at that city? Yes, answered Ka'b al-Ahbar, a man of the companions of Muhammad, upon whom be blessing and peace, in appearance like this man who is sitting here without any doubt.

Ash-Shabi also saith, It is related on the authority of the learned men of Himyar in Al-Yemen that when Shaddad and those who were with him were destroyed by the loud cry, his son Shaddad the less reigned after him.

For his father Shaddad the greater had left him as successor to his kingdom in the land of Handromat and Sabah on his departure with the troops who accompanied him to Aram Zatal Emad.

And as soon as the news reached him of the death of his father on the way before his arrival at the city of Arim, he gave orders to carry his father's body from those desert tracks to Handromat and to excavate a sepulcher for him in a cavern.

Dr. Patricia Crone, she reads and writes 15 languages, the only one to be able to do this.

She decided to do a, write a book on Mecca and wanted to go to all the surrounding nations, so she went to the Babylonians, she went to the Persians, she went to the Assyrians, she went to the Roman Empire, uh, she went to Saba, to the Himyarites, uh, she went to the Nubians, she went to the Nabataeans.

She went to every empire that surrounded what would be Mecca today, and she asked one simple question.

Looking at all their documentation, she couldn't find one reference to Mecca in any of their documentation.