I never said you prayed to it. I said "Don't you pray towards the Kaaba?" - see? towards. Perhaps I'm not quite as ignorant as you think!
There is no idolatry in islam. Like I said islam is the only true absolute monotheistic religion on the earth. All others are tainted in some way or another.
But why pray in any particular direction at all? What's the reasoning behind that?
Unity. We muslims pray together in one direction.
Please provide substantive evidence for this unsupported assertion.
We have in the absolute the religion preserved. The same cannot be said about other religions.
The qur'an is as it was revealed.
The speech, actions of muhammad (pbuh) are recorded. His sayings, his teachings. Likewise of his companions.
They are verified via what is called hadith science. Muhammad's biography and details of his life are so numerous and intricate that there is no man on this planet that has as much written about him or witnessed about him by literally tens of thousands of people.
So when certain people deviate from islam, it is easy to go back to the qur'an and hadith to identify where they error.
I'm asking why a supposedly all-powerful being needed a scribe and didn't directly manifest himself so as to forever erase all doubt about his existence, his message and his demands.
He gave us free choice and this life as a test. If he wanted to he could have. Instead he gave us free choice. The angels absolutely obey GOd and do not question his authority. We on the other hand are free to roam, but warned, and thus tested to see how we respond.
We can chose to follow desires and be lower than the animals, or use our intellect and be above the angels. Chosing is far more worthy than if you are programmed to be a robot like the angels.
If you are interested I will show you the verses in response to this question of yours.
The problem isn't seeing. The problem is believing. See what I did there? With the seeing, and the believing and the wordplay?
Yet as in the qur'an God says, they are not blind by eyesight but blind by hearts.
You chose to believe what you want to believe. You are given that choice.
Of course I would. Unlike you I don't look around and see mysteries and unknowable supernatural powers at work. If a mountain rose above me, I would try to consider possible natural explanations, before I jumped to the conclusion that it's something supernatural at work.
Hence my answer to you, even if you were given miracles, you would still not believe, just as the people of the past had manifest miracles in front of them and they just called it magic or illusion and basically denied it and disbelieved even more.
But why send a messenger at all? Why did Allah need goat herders? Why not directly communicate the message in a completely objective and unambiguous way? Surely such a feat isn't beyond his powers!
To test people yet again. Again if you can't grasp the universe in front of you in your mind. Do you think you can grasp the creator of it all?
The jews asked to see Allah, as they disbelieved despite many signs given through Moses. They had a mountain shutter in front of them and they all died, then they were revived. Yet after being revived they still didnt' believe.
So it was "right" back them for a middle-aged man to marry a 10 year old, but, for some reason, it's not "right" anymore. Really? So you believe that what is "right" and "wrong" changes, and what was once right is now wrong? How does that jive with the teachings for the Qur'an?
Islam has set a standard. That anyone who reaches puberty should marry as soon as they can. As we all have sexual desire. It is western society that artificially sets high up numbers beyond puberty. Like that case of the football team and american teacher. She had orgies with football players while her husband was abroad as a soldier. She gets jail time because they were ALMOST 18 but not quite 18. While they get away with it and get a suspension. In either case she was a whore and they were losers... yet this artificial number sets it all.
Yes, 100 years ago in america people were marrying and having sex 10 on up on average. 7 being delaware.
People had goals and purpose before from birth. While today they are busy being trained from a young age to be of a mentality that 'we must have fun' and trained into being blind consumers, playing playstation, barbies and then glorifying themselves in teen years and then clubbing and whoring around as 'adolescents'/young adults. Then MAYBE settling when they are 30+ then maybe having children.
People in the past were trained for survival in life from the get go, male and female. People were leaders, scholars, soldiers, generals, kings, rulers, straight from while in their teens. Able to take care of themselves, their families and large groups of people. Today most teens can barely wipe their own ass without whining to their parents about something.