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The Kaaba is a cuboid-shaped structure made of stones. It is approximately 15 m (49 ft 3 in) high with sides measuring 12 m (39 ft 4 in) × 10.5 m (34 ft 5 in) wide [88] (Hawting states 10 m (32 ft 10 in). [89] Inside the Kaaba, the floor is made of marble and limestone. The interior walls are clad with tiled, white marble halfway to the roof ...
The Kaaba of Najran still survives today, although in ruins, and is part of an archaeological site. The traveller Yaqut al-Hamawi mentions that the Kaaba of Dhu al-Khalasa was converted into a mosque. [4] The site of the Kaaba of al-Lat is also now where the Abd Allah ibn al-Abbas Mosque stands. [10]
The Kaaba in Mecca or Makkah. Bakkah (Arabic: بَكَّةُ [ˈbɛk.kɛh]), is a place mentioned in surah 3 ('Āl 'Imrān), ayah 96 of the Qur'an, a verse sometimes translated as: "Indeed, the first House [of worship] established for mankind was that at Bakkah [i.e., Makkah] - blessed and a guidance for the worlds." (Quran 3:96)
According to the Book of Genesis, in the Hebrew Bible, Isaac rather than Ishmael was the true heir of the Abrahamic tradition and covenant, while at the same time being blessed by God with a great nation. [29] In some traditions Ishmael is said to have had two wives, one of them named Aisha. [30]
The period from 1 Adar (or Adar II, in leap years) to 29 Cheshvan contains all of the festivals specified in the Bible - Purim (14 Adar), Pesach (15 Nisan), Shavuot (6 Sivan), Rosh Hashanah (1 Tishrei), Yom Kippur (10 Tishrei), Sukkot (15 Tishrei), and Shemini Atzeret (22 Tishrei). This period is fixed, during which no adjustments are made.
The Black Stone was held in reverence well before Islam. It had long been associated with the Kaaba, which was built in the pre-Islamic period and was a site of pilgrimage of Nabataeans who visited the shrine once a year to perform their pilgrimage. The Kaaba held 360 idols of the Meccan gods.
[2] [3] Some argue that it will emerge from a crack in the Kaaba or the hills of Safa among others. [3] It is described as a combination of different beasts and animals. [3] In the early period of Islam, descriptions of the Beast of the Earth were sparse. Only later more interpretations of the Beast emerged. [3]
According to tradition, the Kaaba was a cube-like, originally roofless structure housing a black stone revered as a relic. [121] The sanctuary was dedicated to Hubal (Arabic: هبل), who, according to some sources, was worshiped as the greatest of the 360 idols the Kaaba contained, which probably represented the days of the year. [122]