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Below
are some links to know more about Kaaba......
• History of Ka'aba
- Baytullah the House of Allah
• History
of the building of the Kaaba |
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| History of the building
of the Kaaba |
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| And when
We made the House a pilgrimage for men and a (place of)
security, and: Appoint for yourselves a place of prayer
on the standing-place of Abraham. And We enjoined Abraham
and Ishmael saying: Purify My House for those who visit
(it) and those who abide (in it) for devotion and those
who bow down (and) those who prostrate themselves. And
when Abraham said: My Lord, make it a secure town and
provide its people with fruits, such of them as believe
in Allah and the last day. He said: And whoever disbelieves,
I will grant him enjoyment for a short while, then I will
drive him to the chastisement of the fire; and it is an
evil destination. |
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| And when Abraham and Ishmael
raised the foundations of the House: Our Lord! Accept from
us; surely Thou art the Hearing, the Knowing: Our Lord! And
make us both submissive to Thee and (raise) from our offspring
a nation submitting to Thee, and show us our ways of devotion
and turn to us (mercifully), surely Thou art the Oft-returning
(to mercy), the Merciful. Our Lord! And raise up in them a
Messenger from among them who shall recite to them Thy communications
and teach them the Book and the wisdom, and purify them; surely
Thou art the Mighty, the Wise. (Holy Qur'an 2:125-129) |
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Holy Qur'an
in the above verses described it clearly that Allah had
ordained his servant Abraham (p.b.u.h.) to build the Shrine
there for worship of One God. During Khusayi's time it
was rebuilt and fortified. During the early years of Prophet
Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) before he announced his ministry,
floods damaged the Kaaba and it was rebuilt again. When
the Black stone was to be put in its place the Makkans
quarreled among themselves as to who should have the honor
to place it there. Abu Omayyah, Makkah's oldest man, proposed
that the first man to enter the gate of the mosque the
following morning would decide the matter. |
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| That man was the
Prophet (p.b.u.h.). The Makkans were ecstatic. "This is
the trustworthy one (Al-Ameen)," they shouted in a chorus.
"This is Muhammad". He came to them and they asked
him to decide on the matter. He (p.b.u.h.) agreed. Prophet Muhammad
(p.b.u.h.) proposed a solution that all agreed to putting the
Black Stone on a cloak, the elders of each of the clans held
on to one edge of the cloak and carried the stone to its place.
The Prophet (p.b.u.h.) himself then picked up the stone and
placed it on the wall of the Kaaba. It has been fixed there
ever since. |
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After the martyrdom
of the family of the Prophet at Karbala in 61 Hijri (681 AD),
the Omayyad Caliph Yazid Ibne Moawiya did not stop there in
the pursuit of his destruction. He sent a large contingent
under the command of Haseen Ibne Namir to Madina to destroy
the Mosque of the Prophet (p.b.u.h.). They did not stop there
but proceeded to Makka and demolished the four walls of the
Kaaba and killed thousands of Muslims who protested. Yazid
died and Ibne Namir returned to Damascus, Abdullah Ibne Zubayr
and his associates rebuilt the Kaaba. Umawi forces came back
to Makka and killed Abdullah Ibne Zubayr, hung his body on
the gates of the Kaaba for three months for all to see the
Umawi power. But eventually this arrogance of power brought
its own consequences and Mukhtar became the ruler in Iraq.
Under his guidance the Kaaba was refurbished and pilgrims
began to arrive in safety to perform Hajj.
The Kaaba successfully withstood the Cremation invasion of
317/929, only the Blackstone was carried away which was returned
some twenty years later. In the year 1981 the Wahabis brought
tanks inside the Kaaba to crush the kahtani revolution against
the Saudi regime and almost demolished the South Eastern Wall.
This was later restored with the help of the Makkan people. |
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| Every man
living in Makka in the 6th and 7th century must out of
necessity have had some relationship with the Kaaba. On
the Muhammad (p.b.u.h.), the Prophet of Islam, the Qur'an
is silent during the Makkans period in this respect. All
that is known is that the Muslim community of the period
turned towards Jerusalem in prayers. Subsequently about
a year and a half after the Hijra the Muslims were ordered
during prayers, which were lead, by the Prophet of Islam
himself to turn towards Makka. The particular mosque in
Madina where this happened is called Masjid-e-Qiblatain,
meaning the mosque with two Qiblas. |
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| The Qur'an tells
the Muslims, "Indeed We see the turning of your face to
heaven, so We shall surely turn you to a qiblah which you shall
like; turn then your face towards the Sacred Mosque, and wherever
you are, turn your face towards it." (Holy Qur'an 2:144) |
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At this same
period the Qur'an began to lay stress on the religion of Abraham
(p.b.u.h.), presenting Islam as a return to the purity of
the religion of Abraham (p.b.u.h.) Which, obscured by Judaism
and Christianity, shone forth in its original brightness in
the Holy Qur'an. The pilgrimage to the Kaaba and ritual progressions
around the building were continued, but were now for the glorification
of One God. The Abrahamic vision of the Kaaba created a means
of discerning an orthodox origin buried in the midst of pagan
malpractices to which the first Muslims pointed the way.
Every year after the Hajj ceremony the place is closed for
one month and on the day of Ashura the Kaaba is washed from
inside by the Water from the well of Zamzam and a new Kiswa
is brought to cover the Kaaba for the next year.
This is the story of the Kaaba and the persons who protected
it and remained its custodians and protectors from the satanic
and evil forces throughout history. Muhammad (p.b.u.h.) and
the people of his household (Ahlul Bayt) were the protectors
of the Kaaba, and currently the
12 th Imam Muhammad Al-Mahdi (p.b.u.h.) from the direct descent
of the Prophet of Islam is the real protector, its custodian
and guardian and shall remain as such while in concealment.
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