This clear tradition proves the misapprehension of the...

This clear tradition proves the misapprehension of the concept of people who consider having a piece of stone (turbat) as polytheism and innovation; and makes clear the fact that the pioneers of Islam had the same practice throughout the History of Islam.

Nafea said: "Whenever Omar wanted to prostrate, he would remove his turban so that he would keep his forehead on the ground." Rezin said: Ali bin Abdullah bin Abbas (p) wrote to me: "send me a chunk of stone from the mountain of Marwa so that I can prostrate on it." Yet on the other hand, the Islamic Narrators have mentioned narrations of the holy prophet preventing the ones who had the side of their turbans between the forehead and the…