Makkah not Mecca?

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According to an chain email (an email forwarded by many people) from a muslim brother, 'mecca' means prostitute centres so we should not use this word, we should use 'makkah' instead. Apparently, it is a plot by the west. Does this have any foundation or evidence, my fellow muslims?
 
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According to an chain email (an email forwarded by many people) from a muslim brother, 'mecca' means prostitute centres so we should not use this word, we should use 'makkah' instead. Apparently, it is a plot by the west. Does this have any foundation or evidence, my fellow muslims?
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Is there nothing so silly someone won't believe it?

You really think us kafirs have nothing better to do with our time - like cure cancer?
 
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yes we should use makkah not mecca....
 
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Is there nothing so silly someone won't believe it?

You really think us kafirs have nothing better to do with our time - like cure cancer?
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LOL

that was hilarious.

So much sarcasm in 2 sentences...LOL

But ok, Mecca is a bad word, but what's with the blaming game on the west?
 
Iqram said:
But ok, Mecca is a bad word, but what's with the blaming game on the west?
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Is there nothing so silly someone won't believe it?

You really think us kafirs have nothing better to do with our time - like cure cancer?
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I'm pretty disappointed by the replies as I clearly pointed out, this was a friends theory forwarded to me. I simply asked for evidence to help me come to a solution on what to believe. Obviously, if I can't ask for help without being bombarded with criticism then I shouldn't ask for any at all.
 
Awww bro I'm sure someone will help You :) I'll try to look something up inshallah...
 
al-basit said:
I'm pretty disappointed by the replies as I clearly pointed out, this was a friends theory forwarded to me. I simply asked for evidence to help me come to a solution on what to believe. Obviously, if I can't ask for help without being bombarded with criticism then I shouldn't ask for any at all.
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OK whoops...

But that's my suggestion to your freind.

Sorry, didn't mean to offend u or anything.....But I don't think eveidence is required, it is clear that ur freind is exaggerating a bit too much.

Tell him that it is not healthy to be paranoid.
 
form what I know, Mecca can not be written in arabic and hence is not the orignal version.
Makkah is the orignal one.
 
Muslim Soldier said:
form what I know, Mecca can not be written in arabic and hence is not the orignal version.
Makkah is the orignal one.
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Correct me if I am wrong, but Arabic is written without vowel sounds isn't it? So however you write it in Arabic, it is a "M" sound, followed by a hard "C" sound or two with a vowel indicator on the end?

How many different wasy can you write this in English?

Does it matter in the long run?

And people who insist on refering to Christians and Jews as kafirs or People of the Book instead of Christians and Jews are not really going to complain about one wrong vowel sound are they?
 
Mecca or Mekka, it does not matter - dont pay attention to "chained" emails...kids these days...'

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ok mecca- generally does not refer to makkatul muakaramah... um point A they are pronounced differently.
point B- type in mecca and makkah in umm google and im sure the results wont be the same

dictionary definition for mecca
-A place that is regarded as the center of an activity or interest.
-A goal to which adherents of a religious faith or practice fervently aspire.
-A place visited by many people: a mecca for tourists.


there clearly is a difference between Makkah, Arabia and mecca.

and feel free to disagree if you want :okay:
 
amani said:
ok mecca- generally does not refer to makkatul muakaramah... um point A they are pronounced differently.
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Arabic and many other languages spoken by Muslims are written without vowels (or so I remember) - are you sure they are pronounced differently?

point B- type in mecca and makkah in umm google and im sure the results wont be the same
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But google is so very literal.

dictionary definition for mecca
-A place that is regarded as the center of an activity or interest.
-A goal to which adherents of a religious faith or practice fervently aspire.
-A place visited by many people: a mecca for tourists.

there clearly is a difference between Makkah, Arabia and mecca.

and feel free to disagree if you want :okay:
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Except English does not remain static so that the original word "Mecca" for what you now call "Makkah" has come to mean those other things too - by extention.
 
The definitions for Mecca given by a brother above does not include anything related with prostitution.

This resembles the Turkey problem of some of the people here in Turkey. They advocate writing and saying "Turkiye" instead of "Turkey" just because they want to silence some stupid English-speaking people who are amused by turkey being a bird's name also.

If what they say on TV etc is historically true, some kind of a bird/chicken that resembles a "turkey" was sent to England by an Ottoman sultan. Later they came to call a bird that came from the New World "turkey".

I am not annoyed by this. I even joke saying that I live in Chicken.

[Likewise, we call the turkey bird "Hindi", which meant "Indian" in old use.]
 
Well, if their was any information of the word mecca being a word for prostitute or soemthing, than show it. Otherwise we are grasping at straws.

Now, their is no problem since we using the word Makkah! Unless my friend you thing that also mean's the above!
 
I don't see any problem saying Mecca, or Makkah, because people in Germany call their country Deutchland, so many countries/cities in the world, in foreign languages are a little bit different.

Peace.
 
dincugur, is Turkey considered as chicken?

iok burda :D
 
How about we just use the word 'Makkah' anyway. That way, if 'Mecca' means something else than we won't be using the wrong word.
 

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