nor from His Messenger. Rather, it and similar mountains are among those Allah created and made pegs for the earth and signs of His power. They contain benefits for His creation that are blessings from Allah upon His servants.
He will eventually do to them what He has declared in His words:
“They ask you about the mountains. Say, ‘My Lord will blast them into scattered dust,
leaving the earth a level plain,
in which you will see neither depression nor elevation.’”
As for accounts of people meeting devout worshippers on Mount Lebanon, Mount al-Lukkām, and similar places, and the various words and deeds reported from some of these worshippers, their origin is that these places were frontier regions where Muslims were stationed to wage jihad against the enemy. After the Muslims had conquered all of Greater Syria and lands beyond it, Gaza, Ashkelon, Acre, Beirut, Mount Lebanon, Tripoli, al-Massīsa, Sīs, Tarsus, Adana, Mount al-Lukkām, Malatya, Āmid, and Mount Laysūn, extending as far as Qazwīn and al-Shāsh, and other such places, were frontier regions, just as Alexandria and similar places were. The same was true of Abadan and similar places in Iraq.
The righteous would take turns serving on the frontiers, standing guard in Allah’s cause. Remaining on the frontiers for jihad in Allah’s cause is better than residing in Mecca or Medina. I know of no disagreement among the scholars concerning this.
It is authentically reported in Sahīh Muslim from Salmān al-Fārisī—may Allah be pleased with him—who related what was said by