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Subject: YahyaM: Sufi Adam
Date: 23 Dec 1997 21:26:18 -0800
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[from tariqas@world.std.com: Yahya M <YahyaM@aol.com>]
[quoting haramullah]

<< Sufism first existed in the region of Mecca, a city in
 West Saudi Arabia if one identifies Muhammad as the
 first Sufi.  if one goes back to Judeochristian
 patriarchs then it depends on which one takes as the
 'first' and could be quite difficult to locate depending
 on where 'Adam' might be thought to have existed.   >>

When Sayyidna Adam, `alayhi al-salam, first came to this world, he alighted in
Sri Lanka.  After that, he went to Mecca.  He was the first to worship Allah
at the future site of the Ka`bah.  The Black Stone was there in the time of
Adam, but then it was fresh from Heaven, and it was still white and luminous.
That is what the old legends say.

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