Click here to read a Wikipedia entry about Jabal Noor. Jabal Thawr is a mountain in Mecca. It stands at 1,m or 4, ft high. This caused the Quraysh search [arty to assume that no one had entered the cave and that it did not need searching.
The cave itself is located at the top of the mountain. It commands a great view of Mecca and the surrounding area. There are two ways to access it. There is an Eastern entrance and another very narrow entrance from the Westside. It is difficult to climb Jabal Thawr. A road and car park have been built to accommodate visitors closer to the cave. The cave itself is small, about 4 meters deep and 2.
It is just over 2 meters in height. It is about 12km in the south of Mecca in the area of Misfalah and not well known nor visited very often by pilgrims due to its distance. Take a taxi.
Low season will cost SR one way. Anything more is too expensive. Click to read about sources and the story of the Cave of Thawr. Since , visitors admired the view of the beautiful Ajyad Fortress that perched up high on the top of the Bulbul mountain overlooking the Haram Mosque.
The Turkish styled citadel was built by the Ottoman authorities to protect the Kaaba and Masjid Al Haram from attackers and bandits. Unfortunately, in spite of the protests from Turkey the23,m fortress was leveled in January The Ottoman Turks ruled Saudi Hijaz for years from until The fort overlooked the Kabaa for hundreds of years. Today, it is no longer there! This seven skyscraper complex called Abraj Al Beit hosts the Mecca clock tower. It has two large prayer rooms men and women that hold 10, people.
It has a five-star hotel, a shopping Mall, and a car parking facility. The Mecca clock faces four directions and each face is 43m in diameter. They are illuminated by 2 million LED lights.
The four faces are covered with 98 million pieces of glass mosaics. The hour hand is 17m long and the minute hands are 23m long. At prayer times, the clock lights flash green and white to indicate the prayer time using an additional 21, green and white lights. The lights let deaf or hard of hearing people know the prayer times. For special occasions, 16 bands of vertical laser lights shoot up vertically into the sky for Eid and New Year.
The top four floors of the clock tower host the Mecca Clock Tower Museum. It is a huge and very professionally made, interactive exhibition explaining how the universe was created and all about time. The outdoor terrace at m or 1, ft high offers a magnificent view of Mecca and the Haram Mosque. Great sunset! The Mecca clock is the largest clock face in the world and can be seen from a distance of 30km away, and the call to prayer Adhan can be heard 7km away.
Each day, 1. Here, people bring and fill up their own large plastic containers out of fast-flowing taps and hoses before taking their Zam Zam water home. At the Kudai plant, filling the large 5 and liter plastic, sealed bottles are now automated in ultra-hygienic conditions and these bottles are stored in a central warehouse.
A massive 1. It is easy for the general public to buy the Zam Zam water at the Kudai plant. Barcode readers scan customer purchase vouchers and the bottles of Zam Zam water are dispensed automatically and made available to them at the collection points for transport.
Every day, 1. It measured The roof was made of palm tree leaves and clay and was supported by palm tree trunks. It is located at the center of Madina city surrounded by hotels, markets and Malls. Another grave is reserved for Isa , Jesus AS as it is believed that one day he will return to Madinah and be buried there.
Masjid Al Nabawi is rectangular in shape with a flat-topped roof. It has 27 domes that slide open to allow light into the mosque. The paved courtyard outside is used for prayers and is shaded using giant umbrellas that open on hot days and close in the cold weather. It is carpeted green to distinguish the area from the rest of the red-carpeted mosque. The present-day Minbar or platform used for delivering sermons Khutbah was built in the 15th century by Shaykh Al Mahmudi in Prophet Mohammed SAW delivered Khutbahs and spoke to the people on a wooden block made of a date tree and later one made out of tamarisk.
Originally, four minarets were built by the Caliph Umar RA. The Quba Mosque is located 6km away from Madinah city in the district of Quba. It was rebuilt from scratch in with 7 main entrances, 4 minarets, 56 domes, a marbled courtyard, and a white marbled Minbar and Mihrab. The prayer area centers around a central open courtyard. Three porticos bays border the courtyard.
The companions finished building it. So turn your face toward al-Masjid al-Haram. And wherever you [believers] are, turn your faces toward it [in prayer]. Indeed, those who have been given the Scripture well know that it is the truth from their Lord. And Allah is not unaware of what they do. Even until today, you can find two mihrabs there, a kind of semicircular niche in the interior mosque wall offering the direction of prayer and from which the Imam priest stands in front of the praying congregation.
It has two minarets and two domes. The praying area is raised above the ground floor. There is an underground washing area. Wudhu and steps to the courtyard leading to the prayer hall. Below the false dome in the interior, there is a Mihrab that is an exact copy of a Mihrab in the lower chamber of Masjid Al Aqsa. You can easily access it from the large outside courtyard covered with collapsible umbrellas.
It is also known as Baqi Al Gharqad after the name of the spiny shrub Boxthorn that covered the ground before the graveyard was established. He was the first to be buried there. The second was Ruqayah RA his daughter in His son was buried there too. Caliph Uthman Bin Affan had been buried in the Jewish cemetery. Not so fun, really!
Look ahead and you will see a raised boundary wall. This is the boundary to Jannat Al Baqi. Go up the steps that lead to the cemetery. Only men are allowed to approach the cemetery wall. Women make their salams to the interred outside the wall. The graveyard is very wide, open and well kept. The graves are unmarked and covered only with soil. There are no buildings or Mauseluems covering the graves. Burial areas have pathways and in ways.
An excursion to Madinah for Muslim pilgrims should also include trips out to see the graves of the early Muslims who fought in the battles of Badr CE and Uhud CE. Badr is between Mecca and Madinah. It is located km north of Mecca by road and km from Madinah city. Uhud is 5km due north on the outskirts of Madinah. Badr was the first, decisive battle fought between the Quarashi pagans Kuffar and the Muslims from Madinah Muhajirron and Ansar.
There had been previous encounters between the two armies in localized skirmishes early in the year. The background and details, plans and events of the battle are very interesting but too long to be dealt with here. To read in more detail about this amazing battle click to read the following Wikipedia article. They spent the last 9 years oppressing, torturing and persecuting Muslims in Mecca until the Muslims were forced to emigrate Hijrah to Madinah known then as Yathrib in CE.
The Qurahsi army brought 1, fighters to the battle from Mecca. However, disputes amongst the ranks later reduced them to Abu Jahal was their leader. He viewed the Muslims as marauders. In Mecca, they had seized the good and properties of the Muslim families.
Because of this Muslims began raiding Meccan trade caravans heading back from Damascus which were also carrying weapons used to fight Muslims. The ambushes were retribution for their horrific behaviour towards the new Muslims in Mecca between and CE. The Muslim army made camp at the Well of Badr and waited for the Quraishi army to arrive. The Qurayshi army made camp at the area of Jufah in the south of Badr.
Their motives for the battles were to kill the Muslims for attacking their caravans, stealing their wealth and launching ambushes against them.
The battle began on 13th March CE with the two armies facing off next to the hill of Aqanqal i n the Badr valley. The Quraysh leaders wanted three of their champion fighters to hand fight three Muslim fighters, but for politcal reasons refused to fight Ansar soldiers. Hamza, 2. Ubaydah Ibn Al Harith and 3.
Ali RA all came forward to fight for the Muhajiroun. A collection of the sayings of the Prophet Muhammed is called Hadtih. Thank you. Thanks you so much have really gained from this writeup and i pray it serves as benefits to me and anyone reading. One needs to read the Quran in its entirety to fully understand the huge differences between the Mecca and Medina portions of the Quran.
While in Mecca, Muhammad had wealth, a clan i. After he was exiled and relocated to Medina, his prophecy was not widely accepted. He had no clan or money either so it affected his moods and his writings became much more aggressive and violent.
There is a chronological order of the Surah which is so essential to understanding Islam. Understand I was raised a Christian and I am now atheist. I think all religions have one thing in common that makes me cringe.
It is the men who wrote these ridiculous books, started these ridiculous religions ALL OF THEM which is where slavery came from, why war is declared and why they have ruled over the world in government.
We still cannot get a true female into the white house. Hillary is a lesbian and she runs with the big boys. She is a crook, similar to how men operate, controlling. If there was any kind of God worth meeting he would not have asked us to sacrifice animals or beat women or kill other religions, Allah, God, jehovah whoever its all made up by MALES.
The prophet was happier in Medina than mecca. He got the best reception in medina. Whether the concept of God is true or false, it will be clear to u when you die. The grave is waiting for you. Thank you for your response. I am very sorry for the pain and anguish that you may have experienced in your own life from toxic individuals who happen to be males — whether personal or witnessed it from systemic issues from the likes of Trump and other disgusting males.
No one has the ability to be prejudiced against your opinions if you have experinced such trauma or difficulties. As a fellow human being, I strongly believe in understanding and mutual respect among human beings to empathise such feelings of difficulty and pain — in a world where the fragile temporal existence of something years witnesses on a daily basis difficulties and disparities among lines of race, gender, religion, class, wealth and other socioeconomic, cultural and political factors, giving rise to violence.
Such violence, whether through wars, discrimation or economic systems create vast disparities and difficulties for individuals and societies, leading to various crises: financial, environmental, ethical, mental health and others.
Secondly, when we are faced with any questions in life, any engagement should be based on knowledge, reason and intelligence, and tools of intellectual engagement, for example language, grammar, logic, rhetoric, mathematics etc. This is for any discussion on any discipline — philosophy, art, history, feminism, religion, quantum physics, atheism and so forth. Based on the above, I hope to strive to address both the article and your response without impartiality and unfairness.
Arabic is an ancient semitic language, older than ancient Egyptian, even though it was written later than other newer middle semitic languages like Hebrew. We know this through comparative linguistics. The Quran is in Arabic. Any translation of the Quran is not considered the Quran, but a mere translation of it with approximations of meaning according to the translator.
As a result one does NOT construct subjective interpretations and meanings to the written text, but rather, takes the knowledge with an unbroken chain of scholarship that goes back to the Prophet Muhammad s in order to ensure there is no hermeneutical errors of interpretation. Now obviously this chain of scholarhsip can be debated academically — but then so can everything including the methodology of academic critique without reasonable grounds. The Prophet Muhammad also had delivered and spoke with his own speech.
The companions and families of the Prophet s , particularly his wives and close companions memorised such words and later wrote them down. These collections of words of the Prophet were known as Hadith, the second source of Islamic knowledge after the Quran. He did not have, or leave any writings, as he was unlettered unable to read or write. According to historical facts: — The Prophet Muhammad s lived for 40 years in Makkah, meditating in mountains while raised as a humble orhpan in a society that needed families and tribes to have social and political strength as security — no police, written laws, banks, social security, ambulance, etc.
She was her manager and he worked for her business. He was 25, she was 40 according to most historical sources, in a society with a low life expectancy, and he deeply loved, cherished and respected her. Even today, this is not very common. He remains monogamous until her passing 25 years after marriage.
The later Mamluk Sultans r. Sultan Qaytbay rebuilt the east, west and qibla walls following a fire that destroyed part of the mosque in IIn the modern era following the foundation of the Saudi Kingdom in , the Mosque of the Prophet underwent several modifications.
By , the old mosque was surrounded by new prayer areas, enlarging the space by five times its size. For a harmonious relationship with the environment and its population, the development of sacred spaces in the future will need to consider these essential factors.
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