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[edit] History of the Kaaba
[edit] The Kaaba before Islam
Little is known of the pre-Islamic history of the Kaaba.
Wensinck, writing in the Encyclopedia of Islam, identifies it with a place called Macoraba mentioned by the Roman geographer Ptolemy mention of Mecca. Ptolemy's text is believed to date from the second century CE., before the rise of Islam.[6] Patricia Crone, in Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam, believes that this identification is false, and that Macoraba was a town in southern Arabia, in what was then known as Arabia Felix [7]
According to The Encyclopaedia Britannica, "before the rise of Islam it was revered as a sacred sanctuary and was a site of pilgrimage."[8]
According to the German historian Eduard Glaser, the name "Kaaba" may have been related to the southern Arabian or Ethiopian word "mikrab", signifying a temple.[6] Again, Crone disputes this etymology.
Muslim accounts, and some accounts written by academic historians, stress the power and importance of the pre-Islamic Mecca. They depict it as a city grown rich on the proceeds of the spice trade. Crone believes that this is an exaggeration and that Mecca may only have been an outpost trading with nomads for leather, cloth, and camel butter.
Crone argues that if Mecca had been a well-known center of trade, it would have been mentioned by later authors such as Procopius, Nonnosus, and the Syrian church chroniclers writing in Syriac. However, the town is conspicuously absent from any geographies or histories written in the last three centuries before the rise of Islam. [9]
[edit] The Muslim view of the Kaaba's early history
Picture of the Kaaba taken in 1880According to the Qur'an, the Kaaba was built by Ibrahim (Abraham) and his son Ismail (Ishmael [1]). Later Muslim traditions assert that the Kaaba "reflects" a house in heaven called al-Baytu l-Maämur [10] (Arabic: 'D(J* 'DE9EH1) and that it was first built by the first man, Adam. Ibrahim and Ismail rebuilt the Kaaba on the old foundations. [11]
[edit] The Kaaba at the time of Muhammad
All Muslims, and many if not all historians, accept the following account:
At the time of Muhammad, his tribe, the Quraysh, was in charge of the Kaaba, which was at that time a shrine to numerous Arabian tribal gods. Muhammad earned the enmity of his tribe by claiming their shrine for the religion of Islam that he preached. He wanted the Kaaba to be dedicated to the worship of God (Allah) alone, and all the other statues evicted. The Quraysh persecuted and harassed him continuously, and he and his followers eventually migrated to Medina in 622 CE. After this pivotal migration, or Hijra, the Muslim community became a political and military force. In 630 CE, Muhammad and his followers returned to Mecca as conquerors and the Kaaba was re-dedicated as an Islamic house of worship. Henceforth, the annual pilgrimage was to be a Muslim rite, the Hajj.
Islamic histories also mention a reconstruction of the Kaaba in the late 500s, when Muhammad was a young man. A story found in Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah (as reconstructed and translated by Guillaume) shows the young Muhammad as settling a quarrel between Meccan clans as to which clan should set the cornerstone in place. Muhammad had all the clan elders raise the cornerstone on a cloak; he then nudged the stone into place. [12] Ibn Ishaq says that the timber for the reconstruction of the Kaaba came from a Greek ship that had been wrecked on the Red Sea coast at Shu'ayba.
It is also claimed by the Shi'a that the Kaaba is the birth place of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the fourth caliph and the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
[edit] The Kaaba from Muhammad's time to the present day
The Kaaba has been repaired and reconstructed many times since Muhammad's day.
Abd-Allah ibn al-Zubayr, an early Muslim who ruled Mecca for many years between the death of the fourth caliph (or first imam, by Shi'a reckoning) and the consolidation of Ummayad power, is said to have demolished the old Kaaba and rebuilt it to include the hat+m, a semi-circular wall now outside the Kaaba. He did so on the basis of a tradition (found in several hadith collections [13]) that the hat+m was a remnant of the foundations of the Abrahamic Kaaba, and that Muhammad himself had wished to rebuild so as to include it.
This structure was destroyed (or partially destroyed) in 683, during the war between al-Zubayr and Umayyad forces commanded by Al-Hajjaj bin Yousef. Al-Hajjaj used stone-throwing catapults against the Meccans. This episode has been depicted by many Muslim chroniclers as a black mark against the Ummayad caliph Yazid I, who ordered the campaign against Mecca. Yazid died in 683, the year his forces attacked the Hijaz.
The Ummayads under Abdul Malik bin Marwan finally reunited all the former Islamic possessions and ended the long civil war (see First Islamic civil war). In 693 he had the remnants of al-Zubayr's Kaaba razed, and rebuilt on the foundations set by the Quraysh.[14] The Kaaba returned to the cube shape it had taken during Muhammad's lifetime.
The basic shape and structure of the Kaaba have not changed since those long-ago events. [15] However, many repairs and partial reconstructions have been made, under many rulers.
[edit] The cleaning of the Kaaba
The building is opened twice a year for a ceremony known as "the cleaning of the Kaaba." This ceremony takes place roughly fifteen days before the start of the month of Ramadan and the same period of time before the start of the annual pilgrimage.
The keys to the Kaaba are held by the Ban+ Shaybat ((FJ 4J()) tribe. Members of the tribe greet visitors to the inside of the Kaaba on the occasion of the cleaning ceremony. A small number of dignitaries and foreign diplomats are invited to participate in the ceremony. The governor of Mecca leads the honored guests who ritually clean the structure, using simple brooms. Washing of the Kaaba is done with a mixture of Zamzam and rosewater.[16]
[edit] Qibla and prayer
Supplicating pilgrim at Masjid al HaramFor any reference point on the Earth, the Qibla is the direction to the Kaaba. Muslims are ordered to face this direction during prayer (Qur'an 2:143-144). While it may appear to some non-Muslims that Muslims worship the Kaaba, the Kaaba is simply a focal point for prayer, in a similar fashion to the cross for Christians or the Temple Mount for Jews.
Most of the earliest Muslims prayed towards Jerusalem. According to Islamic tradition, when Muhammad was praying in the Al-Qiblatain mosque (in Medina), he was ordered by God to change the qibla direction from Jerusalem to Mecca and the Kaaba. Various theories are advanced as to the reason for the change. [2]
Muslim groups in the United States differ as to how the qibla should be oriented - some believe that the direction should be calculated as a straight line drawn on a flat map, like the familiar Mercator projection of the globe; others say that the direction is determined by the shortest line on the globe of the earth, or a great circle. At times this controversy has lead to heated disputes. Flat-map Muslims in the United States pray east and slightly south; great-circle Muslims face in a north-easterly direction. In both cases, the exact orientation will vary from city to city. [3]
Some Muslims carry qibla compasses that tell them which direction to face no matter where they are. This method requires one to align the north arrow with a particular point on the compass corresponding to one's location. Once so aligned, one simply turns toward the direction indicated by the compass's Qibla pointer, which is often in the shape of a minaret. "Qibla numbers" for various locations are listed in an accompanying booklet and also indexed online.
the next link contains a video film about the kaaba
http://www.islamicvideos.net/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,219/Itemid,30/
copy from some sites
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Mohamad Alkady
[edit] The Kaaba before Islam
Little is known of the pre-Islamic history of the Kaaba.
Wensinck, writing in the Encyclopedia of Islam, identifies it with a place called Macoraba mentioned by the Roman geographer Ptolemy mention of Mecca. Ptolemy's text is believed to date from the second century CE., before the rise of Islam.[6] Patricia Crone, in Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam, believes that this identification is false, and that Macoraba was a town in southern Arabia, in what was then known as Arabia Felix [7]
According to The Encyclopaedia Britannica, "before the rise of Islam it was revered as a sacred sanctuary and was a site of pilgrimage."[8]
According to the German historian Eduard Glaser, the name "Kaaba" may have been related to the southern Arabian or Ethiopian word "mikrab", signifying a temple.[6] Again, Crone disputes this etymology.
Muslim accounts, and some accounts written by academic historians, stress the power and importance of the pre-Islamic Mecca. They depict it as a city grown rich on the proceeds of the spice trade. Crone believes that this is an exaggeration and that Mecca may only have been an outpost trading with nomads for leather, cloth, and camel butter.
Crone argues that if Mecca had been a well-known center of trade, it would have been mentioned by later authors such as Procopius, Nonnosus, and the Syrian church chroniclers writing in Syriac. However, the town is conspicuously absent from any geographies or histories written in the last three centuries before the rise of Islam. [9]
[edit] The Muslim view of the Kaaba's early history
Picture of the Kaaba taken in 1880According to the Qur'an, the Kaaba was built by Ibrahim (Abraham) and his son Ismail (Ishmael [1]). Later Muslim traditions assert that the Kaaba "reflects" a house in heaven called al-Baytu l-Maämur [10] (Arabic: 'D(J* 'DE9EH1) and that it was first built by the first man, Adam. Ibrahim and Ismail rebuilt the Kaaba on the old foundations. [11]
[edit] The Kaaba at the time of Muhammad
All Muslims, and many if not all historians, accept the following account:
At the time of Muhammad, his tribe, the Quraysh, was in charge of the Kaaba, which was at that time a shrine to numerous Arabian tribal gods. Muhammad earned the enmity of his tribe by claiming their shrine for the religion of Islam that he preached. He wanted the Kaaba to be dedicated to the worship of God (Allah) alone, and all the other statues evicted. The Quraysh persecuted and harassed him continuously, and he and his followers eventually migrated to Medina in 622 CE. After this pivotal migration, or Hijra, the Muslim community became a political and military force. In 630 CE, Muhammad and his followers returned to Mecca as conquerors and the Kaaba was re-dedicated as an Islamic house of worship. Henceforth, the annual pilgrimage was to be a Muslim rite, the Hajj.
Islamic histories also mention a reconstruction of the Kaaba in the late 500s, when Muhammad was a young man. A story found in Ibn Ishaq's Sirat Rasul Allah (as reconstructed and translated by Guillaume) shows the young Muhammad as settling a quarrel between Meccan clans as to which clan should set the cornerstone in place. Muhammad had all the clan elders raise the cornerstone on a cloak; he then nudged the stone into place. [12] Ibn Ishaq says that the timber for the reconstruction of the Kaaba came from a Greek ship that had been wrecked on the Red Sea coast at Shu'ayba.
It is also claimed by the Shi'a that the Kaaba is the birth place of Ali ibn Abi Talib, the fourth caliph and the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad.
[edit] The Kaaba from Muhammad's time to the present day
The Kaaba has been repaired and reconstructed many times since Muhammad's day.
Abd-Allah ibn al-Zubayr, an early Muslim who ruled Mecca for many years between the death of the fourth caliph (or first imam, by Shi'a reckoning) and the consolidation of Ummayad power, is said to have demolished the old Kaaba and rebuilt it to include the hat+m, a semi-circular wall now outside the Kaaba. He did so on the basis of a tradition (found in several hadith collections [13]) that the hat+m was a remnant of the foundations of the Abrahamic Kaaba, and that Muhammad himself had wished to rebuild so as to include it.
This structure was destroyed (or partially destroyed) in 683, during the war between al-Zubayr and Umayyad forces commanded by Al-Hajjaj bin Yousef. Al-Hajjaj used stone-throwing catapults against the Meccans. This episode has been depicted by many Muslim chroniclers as a black mark against the Ummayad caliph Yazid I, who ordered the campaign against Mecca. Yazid died in 683, the year his forces attacked the Hijaz.
The Ummayads under Abdul Malik bin Marwan finally reunited all the former Islamic possessions and ended the long civil war (see First Islamic civil war). In 693 he had the remnants of al-Zubayr's Kaaba razed, and rebuilt on the foundations set by the Quraysh.[14] The Kaaba returned to the cube shape it had taken during Muhammad's lifetime.
The basic shape and structure of the Kaaba have not changed since those long-ago events. [15] However, many repairs and partial reconstructions have been made, under many rulers.
[edit] The cleaning of the Kaaba
The building is opened twice a year for a ceremony known as "the cleaning of the Kaaba." This ceremony takes place roughly fifteen days before the start of the month of Ramadan and the same period of time before the start of the annual pilgrimage.
The keys to the Kaaba are held by the Ban+ Shaybat ((FJ 4J()) tribe. Members of the tribe greet visitors to the inside of the Kaaba on the occasion of the cleaning ceremony. A small number of dignitaries and foreign diplomats are invited to participate in the ceremony. The governor of Mecca leads the honored guests who ritually clean the structure, using simple brooms. Washing of the Kaaba is done with a mixture of Zamzam and rosewater.[16]
[edit] Qibla and prayer
Supplicating pilgrim at Masjid al HaramFor any reference point on the Earth, the Qibla is the direction to the Kaaba. Muslims are ordered to face this direction during prayer (Qur'an 2:143-144). While it may appear to some non-Muslims that Muslims worship the Kaaba, the Kaaba is simply a focal point for prayer, in a similar fashion to the cross for Christians or the Temple Mount for Jews.
Most of the earliest Muslims prayed towards Jerusalem. According to Islamic tradition, when Muhammad was praying in the Al-Qiblatain mosque (in Medina), he was ordered by God to change the qibla direction from Jerusalem to Mecca and the Kaaba. Various theories are advanced as to the reason for the change. [2]
Muslim groups in the United States differ as to how the qibla should be oriented - some believe that the direction should be calculated as a straight line drawn on a flat map, like the familiar Mercator projection of the globe; others say that the direction is determined by the shortest line on the globe of the earth, or a great circle. At times this controversy has lead to heated disputes. Flat-map Muslims in the United States pray east and slightly south; great-circle Muslims face in a north-easterly direction. In both cases, the exact orientation will vary from city to city. [3]
Some Muslims carry qibla compasses that tell them which direction to face no matter where they are. This method requires one to align the north arrow with a particular point on the compass corresponding to one's location. Once so aligned, one simply turns toward the direction indicated by the compass's Qibla pointer, which is often in the shape of a minaret. "Qibla numbers" for various locations are listed in an accompanying booklet and also indexed online.
the next link contains a video film about the kaaba
http://www.islamicvideos.net/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,219/Itemid,30/
copy from some sites
Mohamad Alkady
04 Jan 2007 18:50
Post 2 of 16
Replying to [mohamadalkady]:Mo. Many thanks my man! appreciated!
04 Jan 2007 19:02
Post 3 of 16
Replying to [Foow]:
Any time Foow
for more videos about the islamic places ..search at this site
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Mohamad Alkady
Any time Foow for more videos about the islamic places ..search at this site
http://www.islamicvideos.net/component/
Mohamad Alkady
04 Jan 2007 19:08
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Replying to [mohamadalkady]:Great Job done Mohammad.
05 Jan 2007 01:42
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Replying to [mohamadalkady]: From where you copied this?? ![[em10]](http://img.alibaba.com/images/eng/style/icon/emoticons_silly.gif)
05 Jan 2007 02:54
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Replying to [Ammeet]:
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Mohamad Alkady
read again I...I wrote the sitesMohamad Alkady
05 Jan 2007 03:20
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Replying to [mohamadalkady]: Mohamad, I really don't want to get into religion but I have always been curious about this question. If Islam believes in one god and this is the god of Abraham and the Jewish religion believes in one god and it is the god of Abraham where is the disparagy as it seems both believe in the same god? I read alot about many subjects but have never seen an answer for this.
Best regards,
Ranger
Best regards,
Ranger
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05 Jan 2007 23:49
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Replying to [Ranger]:Ranger......... I wasn't gonna go there but I second the question.
I would assume that the problems are similar to those in Christianity. There certainly are enough "versions" of that! Catholic/ Proddies/ and all the splinter groups tha come with them.. It's a mess!
I would assume that the problems are similar to those in Christianity. There certainly are enough "versions" of that! Catholic/ Proddies/ and all the splinter groups tha come with them.. It's a mess!
06 Jan 2007 09:45
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Replying to [Ranger]:
It's a smart question from you ..of course I have the answer
but I don't prefer ..in fact I can't open this door at the forums
may be later at trade manger
Mohamad Alkady
It's a smart question from you ..of course I have the answerbut I don't prefer ..in fact I can't open this door at the forums
may be later at trade manger
Mohamad Alkady
07 Jan 2007 16:55
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Replying to [mohamadalkady]:An extra brownie point for Mo... lol. now THAT was a politically correct answer!
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07 Jan 2007 18:22
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Replying to [mohamadalkady]: Mohamad, thanks I will look fo you on line so that I can ask you some questions and get your answers. By the way Congrats on the Christmas Story Win.
Respectfully
Ranger
Respectfully
Ranger
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09 Jan 2007 20:30