al-Lāt
اللات
al-Lāt — a pre-Islamic Arabian idol.
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Overview
Al-Lat: a carved white rock over which a building was raised with curtains, at Ta'if; Thaqif and its people venerated it and made tawaf around it as is done around the Ka'ba.
In the sira presentation
Al-Mubarakpuri mentions that idolatry entered the Arabs in the time of Amr ibn Luhayy, who saw the people of al-Balqa venerating idols and carried them to the Hijaz — until every clan had an idol and every house an idol 1.
For young visitors
Al-Lat is an idol some Arabs worshipped before Islam instead of God — until Islam demolished all the idols.
Connections
People and things also explored
The Battle of HunaynThe Prophet's journey to al-Ta'ifThe siege of Ta'ifAbd Yalil ibn Amral-Mughira ibn Shu'baUthman ibn Abi al-AsThaqifTa'if
Sources
- al-Raheeq al-Makhtum — Safi al-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
- Akhbar Makka — al-Azraqi
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “al-Lāt”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/object/al-lat/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-12.