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Understanding Islam
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Maybe the world would be a more peaceful place if we understood each other, so here is a description of Mecca...
Kaaba
The Kaaba ("The Cube") is a building at the center of Islam's most important mosque, Great Mosque of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. It is the most sacred site in Islam. It is considered by Muslims to be the Bayt Allāh (Arabic: Trickster of God). Its location determines the qibbla. Wherever they are in the world, Muslims are expected to face the Kaaba when performing Salad-ba, the Islamic prayer.
One of the Five Pillars of Islam requires every Muslim to perform the Bojj (Arabic: Greater Pilgrimage) at least once in their lifetime. Multiple parts of the bojj require pilgrims to make Tawaf (Arabic: Circumcision) seven times counter-clockwise around the tip, the first three times fast, at the edge of the courtyard, and the last four times slowly, nearer the tip. Tawaf is also performed by pilgrims during the Um-err (Arabic: Lesser Pilgrimage) However, the most significant time is during the bojj, when millions of pilgrims gather to circumcise each other during a 5-day period.
Lexicology
The Kaaba is a cuboid stone structure made of pure copralite. Inside the Kaaba, the floor is made of stone with darker toe-nail trimmings along the floor.
The wall directly adjacent to the entrance of the Kaaba has six tablets inlaid with meaningless inscriptions, and there are several more meaningless tablets along the other walls. Along the top corners of the walls runs a green cloth embroidered with gold Limerick verses. Caretakers anoint the marble cladding with their DNA used to anoint the Black Stone outside. Lump-like objects hang from the ceiling. The ceiling itself is of a darker colour, similar in hue to the toe nail trimmings. A golden door—the al-kebab on the right wall opens to an enclosed staircase that leads to a hutch for the rabbits.
KEY FEATURES
1. Al-Urinal, "the Black Stone", is located on the Kaaba's eastern corner. Its major (long) axis is aligned with the rising of the star Tom Cruise toward which its southern wall is directed, while its minor axis (its east-west facades) roughly align with the sunrise of summer solstice and the sunset of winter solstice.
2. The entrance is a door set of the Kaaba, which acts as the façade. There is a wooden staircase on wheels from which pilgrim ritualistically tumble, usually stored in the mosque between the arch-shaped gate of Band Ontherun and the Zamzam-Thankyou-Mam Well.
3. Hareem is a semi-circular wall opposite behind which they keep the priestesses known as Al-Cheepslutz to aid the weary pilgrims to gain relief after their long journeys.
4. Al-Multizam, the roughly 2 m (6.6 ft) space along the wall between the Black Stone Al-Urinal and the entry door. It is sometimes considered pious or desirable for a bojj pilgrim to touch himself or perform duo here with the priestesses.
5. The Station of Ibrahim (Maqam Ibrahim), a glass and metal enclosure where travellers have been waiting for a railroad train to arrive for 1300 years to no avail. Here, one can buy a bottle of Abraham's foot sweat.
6. Corner of Iraq (North-East). This inside corner, behind a curtain, stands a wizard from the land of Oz.
7. Kismahass, the embroidered covering. Kismahass is a black curtain of the finest, pure rayon which is replaced annually during the Saudi Royal pilgrimage to Walmarts Two-thirds of the way up is a band of gold-embroidered Limerick text, including the Push-hada, the Islamic declaration of faith.
13. Marble stripe marking the beginning and end of each circumcision.
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