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eported on the authority of #Abd Allah b. #Abbas that the Prophet said: The (Black) Stone will be resurrected on the Day of Judgment, with two eyes with which it will see, and a tongue with which it will speak and testify as to who touched it with sincerity. A person is symbolized by the Stone who was considered dead and, on the Day of Judgment, is resurrected. His resurrection is described as a new sight (he is no longer blind) and the ability to speak (he is no longer dumb). This is consistent with the Jesus of the Bible who is “the firstborn from the dead”. What else do we know of this person, symbolized by the stone, who will be ‘resurrected’ in the Last Days? Abu Manßur al-Qazzaz reported on the authority of Anas b. Malik (the same Companion who explicitly described the prophet as dark-skinned, asmar) that the Prophet said: “The Black Stone is YamÊn Allah, the Right Hand of God on earth.” This person from the Last Days symbolized by the Black Stone is God’s right-hand man, His Apostle. Thus Classical Arabic Tradition – the same tradition that confirms <strong>THEM</strong>’s dual position that Muhammad was a dark-skinned prophet and a ‘white-man’ – also confirms that the Black Stone symbolizes, not Prophet Muhammad, but the Apostle of God who will be resurrected from his ‘dead state/people’ in the Last Days, the Day of Judgment in which we now live. This Apostle is YamÊn Allah, God’s very right hand, the hand of power on earth. 18
Writing in the Pittsburgh Courier <strong>THEM</strong> said: Muhammad found the stone out of place and had it put back into its proper place. This act of Muhammad shows that he was not the fulfiller of the sign which the stone represents, but rather a prototype of that which the stone represents. 42 A prototype is “an original model on which something is patterned; archetype; an individual that exhibits the essential features of a later type.” 43 Though not impossible, it is difficult to imagine a Caucasian (“white man”), no matter how singularly righteous, being the prototype of the last black Messenger of the Black God, Allah. The Prophet of Arabia is also prototype of the Last Messenger in that both were sent to their own black communities (black Arabs and black Americans), in contrast to the prophets prior to Prophet Muhammd who were sent to the white race. If this is the case, why then did <strong>THEM</strong> emphasize the ‘whiteness’ of the Prophet as distinct from the ‘blackness’ of the unhewn ‘stone’ of the last Day? I don’t know. However, this too is perfectly consistent with Classical Arabic Tradition. Above we quoted the tradition according to which God gave the Arabs (and the Semites in general) a black complexion that was luminous and free of blemish, a complexion called in Arabic ‘white’ (al-udma wa l-bay§∙), but to Africans he gave only a black, we might say unhewn 42 “The History of Jesus,” A6. 43 Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary Tenth Edition (Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 2001) s.v. 19
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