The five most famous ancient Arab priests

Before Islam, the Arabs, like most pagan tribes in the world, tended to believe in superstitions and speculations, and paid attention to the words of fortune tellers and priests, believing that there was a hidden knowledge that they had learned about alone, from ancient times until the present time. Some believe in their predictions and some listen to these predictions for reasons of humor. Despite this, the ancient pagan Arabs believed in the predictions of the priests, here are the five most famous priests in the history of the Arabs who left their mark on the minds of the masters and elders of the Arabs in their time.

Fortune teller dove

The fortune teller of Yamamah is a nickname for Riah bin Kahila, as he was called Riah bin Rashid and his nickname Abu Kahla Mawla Labani Yashkar. The rumors differed in the name of the fortune teller of the dove in the heritage books, is it Rabbah, Riah or Rabaj, and is it the son of Kahla or the son of Ajla? We find this difference because of the mistakes of copyists in the past, and printing errors later, and the right thing for me is that it is Rabbah or winds, so do not call the Arabs Rabbaja, and it is more correct that it is Ibn Kahla. He had a companion from the jinn who informed him of the news and the medicine for some diseases. As a priest, he dealt with the news of beings from the future, claiming to know the mysteries and the knowledge of the unseen. The fortune teller of the dove was mentioned in poetry, and he said:

So I said to the fortune teller of the dove Downey

If you treat me to a doctor

Halees Al-Asadi calligrapher

Halees relied on lines as a fortuneteller. He would draw lines, then notify them, to deduce something from them, and predict them to people, then the fortuneteller would look and say: Eyesons, hurry up the statement, and then tell what he sees. The fortuneteller in this method was based on intelligence and experiments. It was used by most people before Islam to find out what was missing. The fortune-teller, with his faculties and the gifts mentioned, judges and prophesies to people what he sees.

Crack and surface

They are heirs of a funny fortune teller, as when Tarifa felt her time was near, she ordered her maidservants to look for two babies on the day of her death. He had two deformed newborns, a half-complete "incision", as he had only one organ, of which the completed had two, and a "flat", which had no bones in his body except the skull, so it was said that he folded like a garment. The maidservants brought the newborns to the priestess, and she blew into their mouth, and told the maidservants not to breastfeed them, for this has been enough. Thus, the ceremonies of the transfer of fortune-telling from Tarifa to a cleft and a rooftop took place. Over time, they became the most famous priests of Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula until their fame reached Khosrau king of Persia.

Their fame is not out of thin air, one day the king dreamed that lava would emerge from black rocks and burn everything, and when he woke up he had forgotten the details of the dream. He summoned a slit and flattened each of them separately and asked them about the dream he had forgotten from his horror. They both prophesied the dream they had actually seen, and when the king asked for an explanation, their response was the same: "Abyssinia will invade Yemen."

It was a terrifying answer to the king, so he asked them for more details about this prophecy, so the prophecy was that the Al-Ahbash would invade Yemen during the reign of a king other than the owner of the dream, and that they would stay there for decades and then be expelled by one of the sons of a man named Dhi Yazan. Days pass, and the persecution of the Himyarite king Yusuf Dhu Nuwas to the Christians provokes the Kingdom of Abyssinia, so his country is invaded and his state falls, and then decades later Saif bin Dhi Yazan comes out in revolt and allies with the Persians to effectively expel them.

The priest who saved the prophet's father from slaughter

Abdul Muttalib wanted to re-dig the Zamzam well, as it had been backfilled. The Quraysh confronted him because digging the well would raise his status among the people. Abd al-Muttalib resented his weakness and vowed to sacrifice one of his sons as an offering to the gods if he had ten sons who would be his league. When his wish came true, he drew lots among them, and the name of Abdullah came, and he presented it to the god Hebel to kill him with him.

Abdullah's brothers revolted and his uncles became angry, and the masters of Quraish tried to dissuade Abd al-Muttalib from his decision, so they agreed to resort to a priest in Yathrib. The priest asked them, "How many of you are the ransom of the man?" and they said, "Ten camels," and the way out of the predicament came: "Go back to your country, and bring ten camels closer and beat them and your companion with the mug, and if the lot goes out on your friend, increase one-tenth, until your Lord is satisfied, and if you go out on the camels, then slaughter them, for your Lord is pleased and your friend is spared, and there is redemption for him." This was what saved Abdullah from sacrifice.