Inside The Ka'bah

[Arthra]

Thanks very much Oxy2Hydr0 for posting a photo of the inside of Kaaba...

I think it would be spiritually quite a place to be and one could feel the confluence of prayer and worship from all over the world. Like being in the center of a magnet.

- Art

 

[TheListener]

That's interesting Oxy, thank you for that.

Are those glass boxes containing artifacts of muhammed? It's hard to see without a proper lookaround. And it is obviously not empty as some had suggested earlier.

 

[Islam_mulia]

Are those glass boxes containing artifacts of muhammed? It's hard to see without a proper lookaround. And it is obviously not empty as some had suggested earlier.

Who is the 'some'? What and why did the 'some' thought and say it is not empty.

 

[TheListener]

ibn_leroy, if I remember correctly, said there is nothing inside the ka'bah. And all the muslims backed him up & agreed.

So, what are inside the glass housings?

 

[Oxy2Hydr0]

Quranic Verses on Gold material

Inside the Kaaba, there is a marble floor. The interior walls are clad with marble half-way to the roof; tablets with Quranic inscriptions are inset in the marble. The top part of the walls is covered with a green cloth decorated with gold embroidered Quranic verses. Lamps hang from a cross beam; there is also a small table for incense burners. The building is otherwise empty......

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaaba

 

[vajradhara]

thanks for the links, folks


metta,

~v

 

[BarbB]

Wow, I never realized that there was anything inside. What a beautiful photo! Thanks.

 

[TheListener]

What's in those glass cases?

 

[Kris_J]

The Following are Classical Arabic Scholars. One is a Christian and the other is Muslims whom comment on the name Allah quoting other supreme Arabic authority :

• " الله{alllaah}, [written with the disjunctive alif الله, meaning God, i.e. the only true god,] accord. to the most correct opinions respecting it, which are twenty in number, (K,) or more than thirty, (MF,) is a proper name, (Msb, K,) applied to the Being who exists necessarily, by Himself, comprising all the attributes of perfection; (TA )a proper name denoting the true god, comprising all the excellent divine names; a unity comprising all the essence of existing things; (Ibn-El’Arabee, TA ) the ال being inseparable from it: (Msb: ) not derived.....

• "Edward William Lane, Arabic Lexicon

• "Allah - It is the proper noun applied to the Supreme Being, who is the sole possesor of all perfect attributes, who is free from all defects and who exist necessarily by Himself. It is not a common noun. All Divine attributes mentioned in the Quran are qualities of the proper name Allah. No other language has a distinctive name for the Divine Being. The names found in other languages are either attributive or descriptive and can be used in the plural form, but the word Allah is never used for any other thing, being or deity. It is never used as a qualifying word. Sibwaih and Khalil say, Since "Al" in the begining of the word Allah is inseperable from it so it is a simple substantive, not derived from any word. The word Allah is not a contraction of al-ilah, as some people tend to believe, but quite a different word.

• "The Dictionary of the Holy Qur’an, 1st edition, Abdul Mannan Omar

Perhaps you need to stay away from English dictionaries to find out what the etymology of a non-English word is. The majority of Arabicist conclude that the name Allah is not derived from the word "El" or "al-ilah" whereas non-Arabicists resort to the ficticious assumption that it is based on linguistics which is ambigious.

What does the scholars say about the Kabah & Arabic understanding of Allah prior to the rise of Muhammed?

 

[urnotme]

I was going to post something by Dr. Morrey but since muslims don't agree with him found another site. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/a/al/allah.htm

"Allah" as a word

Although the name "Allah" is most commonly associated with (The monotheistic religion of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran) Islam, it was also used in pre-Islamic times. It was used by Arab Christians in the pre-Islamic (Click link for more info and facts about Umm al-Jimal inscription) Umm al-Jimal inscription (6th century). The father of (Leader of Black Muslims who campaigned for independence for Black Americans (1897-1975)) Muhammad, Islam's prophet, had the name "Abdullah", which translates "servant of Allah". The (The ancient Canaanitic language of the Hebrews that has been revived as the official language of Israel) Hebrew word for deity, (Angular distance above the horizon (especially of a celestial object)) El (א&#1500 or Eloh (אלו&#1492, was used as an (The collection of books comprising the sacred scripture of the Hebrews and recording their history as the chosen people; the first half of the Christian Bible) Old Testament synonym for (A name for the God of the Old Testament as transliterated from the Hebrew consonants YHVH) Yahweh (יהו&#1492. The (A Semitic language originally of the ancient Arameans but still spoken by other people in southwestern Asia) Aramaic word for God is alôh-ô