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Kaaba-House of Allah !

Kaaba-House of Allah !

The small, cubed building known as the Kaaba may not rival skyscrapers in height or mansions in width, but its impact on history and human beings is unmatched.

The Kaaba is the building towards which Muslims face five times a day, everyday, in prayer. This has been the case since the time of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) over 1400 years ago.

The Size of the Kaaba:

The current height of the Kaaba is 39 feet, 6 inches and total size comes to 627 square feet.

The inside room of the Kaba is 13X9 meters. The Kaba's walls are one meter wide. The floor inside is 2.2 meters higher than the place where people perform Tawaf.

The ceiling and roof are two levels made out of wood. They were reconstructed with teak which is capped with stainless steel.

The walls are all made of stone. The stones inside are unpolished, while the ones outside are polished.

This small building has been constructed and reconstructed by Prophets Adam, Ibrahim, Ismail and Muhammad (peace be upon them all). No other building has had this honor.

Yet, not very much is known about the details of this small but significant building.

Did you know the Kaaba was reconstructed as recently as close to four years ago?

Did you know that the Kaaba has been subjected to danger by natural disasters like flooding, as well as human attacks?

If you didn't keep reading. You'll find some rarely heard of information discussed below and discover facts about the Kaaba many are unaware of.

The other names of the Kaba

Literally, Kaaba in Arabic means a high place with respect and prestige. The word Kaba may also be derivative of a word meaning a cube.

Some of these other names include:

(i) Bait ul Ateeq-which means, according to one meaning, the earliest and ancient. According to the second meaning, it means independent and liberating. Both meanings could be taken.

(ii) Bait ul Haram-the honorable house.

The Kaba has been reconstructed up to 12 times

Scholars and historians say that the Kaba has been reconstructed between five to 12 times.

The very first construction of the Kaba was done by Prophet Adam (peace be upon him). Allah says in the Quran that this was the first house that was built for humanity to worship Allah.

After this, Prophet Ibrahim and Ismail (peace be upon them) rebuilt the Kaba. The measurements of the Kaba's Ibrahimic foundation are as follows:

-the eastern wall was 48 feet and 6 inches
-the Hateem side wall was 33 feet
-the side between the black stone and the Yemeni corner was 30 feet
-the Western side was 46.5 feet

Following this, there were several constructions before the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be uponj him) 's time.

Reconstruction of Kaaba by Quraish

Prophet Muhammad participated in one of its reconstructions before he became a Prophet.

After a flash flood, the Kaba was damaged and its walls cracked. It needed rebuilding.

This responsibility was divided among the Quraish's four tribes. Prophet Muhammad helped with this reconstruction.

Once the walls were erected, it was time to place the Black Stone, (the Hajar ul Aswad) on the eastern wall of the Kaba.

Arguments erupted about who would have the honor of putting the Black Stone in its place. A fight was about to break out over the issue, when Abu Umayyah, Makkah's oldest man, proposed that the first man to enter the gate of the mosque the following morning would decide the matter. That man was the Prophet. 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 agreed.

Prophet Muhammad 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 then picked up the stone and placed it on the wall of the Kaaba.

Since the tribe of Quraish did not have sufficient funds, this reconstruction did not include the entire foundation of the Kaaba as built by Prophet Ibrahim. This is the first time the Kaba acquired the cubical shape it has now unlike the rectangle shape which it had earlier. The portion of the Kaba left out is called Hateem now.

Construction After the Prophet's Time-Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr

The Syrian army destroyed the Kaba in Muharram 64 (Hijri date) and before the next Hajj Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr, may Allah be pleased with him, reconstructed the Kaba from the ground up.

Ibn az-Zubayr wanted to make the Kaba how the Prophet Muhammad wanted it, on the foundation of the Prophet Ibrahim.

Ibn az-Zubayr said, "I heard Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) say, 'The Prophet said: "If your people had not quite recently abandoned the Ignorance (Unbelief), and if I had sufficient provisions to rebuild it [the Kaaba], I would have added five cubits to it from the Hijr. Also, I would make two doors; one for people to enter therein and the other to exit." (Bukhari). Ibn az-Zubayr said, "Today, I can afford to do it and I do not fear the people.

Ibn az-Zubayr built the Kaaba on Prophet Ibrahim's foundation. He put the roof on three pillars with the wood of Aoud (a perfumed wood with aroma which is traditionally burned to get a good smell out of it in Arabia).

In his construction he put two doors, one facing the east the other facing the west, as the Prophet wanted but did not do in his lifetime.

He rebuilt the Kaba on the Prophet Ibrahim's foundation, which meant that the Hateem area was included. The Hateem is the area adjacent to the Kaba enclosed by a low semi-circular wall.

Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr also made the following additions and modifications:
-put a small window close to the roof of the Kaba to allow for light.
-moved the door of the Kaba to ground level and added a second door to the Kaba.
-added nine cubits to the height of the Kaba, making it twenty cubits high.
-its walls were two cubits wide.
-reduced the pillars inside the House to three instead of six as were earlier built by Quraish.

For reconstruction, ibn az-Zubayr put up four pillars around Kaba and hung cloth over them until the building was completed. People began to do Tawaf around these pillars at all times, so Tawaf of the Kaba was never abandoned, even during reconstruction.

During Abdul Malik bin Marwan's time

In 74 Hijri (or 693 according to the Gregorian calendar), Al-Hajjaj bin Yusuf al-Thaqafi, the known tyrant of that time, with the approval of Umayyad Khalifa Abdul Malik bin Marwan, demolished what Ibn az-Zubayr had added to it from the older foundation of Prophet Ibrahim, restore its old structure as the Quraish had had it.

Some of the changes he made were the following:

• he rebuilt it in the smaller shape which is found today

• took out the Hateem

walled up the western door (whose signs are still visible today) and left the rest as it was

• pulled down the wall in the Hateem area.

• removed the wooden ladder Ibn az-Zubayr had put inside the Kaba.

• reduced the door's height by five cubits

When Abdul Malik bin Marwan came for Umra and heard the Hadith that it was wish of Prophet for the Kaba to be constructed the way Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr had built it, he regretted his actions.

Imam Malik's advice to the Khalifa Harun al Rasheed

Abbasi Khalifa Harun al Rasheed wanted to rebuild the Kaba the way the Prophet Muhammad wanted and the way Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr built it.

But when he consulted Imam Malik, the Imam asked the Khalifa to change his mind because constant demolition and rebuilding is not respectful and would become a toy in the hands of kings. Each one would want to demolish and rebuild the Kaba.

Based on this advice, Harun al Rasheed did not reconstruct the Kaba. The structure remained in the same construction for 966 years, with minor repairs here and there.

Reconstruction during Sultan Murad Khan's time

In the year 1039 Hijri, because of heavy rain, flood and hail, two of the Kaba's walls fell down.

The flood during which this occurred took place on the 19th of Shaban 1039 Hijri which continued constantly, so the water in the Kaba became almost close to half of its walls, about 10 feet from the ground level.

On Thursday the 20th of Shaban 1039 Hijri, the eastern and western walls fell down.

When flood receded on Friday the 21st of Shaban, the cleanup started.

Again, a curtain, the way Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr established on 4 pillars, was put up, and the reconstruction started on the 26th of Ramadan. The rest of the walls except for the one near the Black Stone, were demolished.

By the 2nd of Zul-Hijjah 1040 the construction was taking place under the guidance of Sultan Murad Khan, the Ottoman Khalifa. From the point of the Black stone and below, the current construction is the same as that done by Abdullah ibn az-Zubayr.

The construction which was done under the auspices of Murad Khan was exactly the one done at the time of Abdul Malik ibn Marwan which is the way the Quraysh had built it before Prophethood.

On Rajab 28 1377, One historian counted the total stones of the Kaba and they were 1,614. These stones are of different shapes. But the stones which are inside the outer wall which is visible are not counted in there.

Reconstruction of the Kaaba In 1996

A major reconstruction of the Kaba took place between May 1996 and October 1996.

This was after a period of about 400 years (since Sultan Murad Khan's time).

During this reconstruction the only original thing left from the Kaba are the stones. All other material has been replaced including the ceiling and the roof and its wood.

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The Prophet married Aisha for the benefit of Islam and Humanity

  The Prophet married Aisha for the benefit of Islam and Humanity Lets analyse... 1. The Prophet married Aisha primarily for three reasons: a. To reinforce the friendly relations already existing with Abu Bakr (his closest companion). b. To educate and train Aisha for the purposes of Islam. c. To utilise her capabilities for the sake of Islam. 2. Her Marriage with the prophet was a Wahy (Divine Revelation). She, herself relates from the Prophet. "He said, 'I saw you in dreams three times. The angel brought you to me and you were clad in white silk. He (the angel) said that it was your consort and he (angel) showed me by opening your face. You are just like that..." Sahih Muslim, Vol.2, p. 285. 3. Aisha (r.a.) was born after her parents had embraced Islam. Therefore, she was free from the defilement of polytheism right from her birth. 4. In her youth, already known for her striking beauty and her formidable memory, she came under the loving care and attention of the Prophet himself. As his wife and close companion she acquired from him knowledge and insight such as no woman has ever acquired. Aisha lived on almost fifty years after the passing away of the Prophet. She had been his wife for a decade. Much of this time was spent in learning and acquiring knowledge of the two most important sources of God's guidance, the Qur'an and the Sunnah of His Prophet. Aisha (r.a.) was one of the three wives (the other two being Hafsa (r.a.) and Umm Salama (r.a.) who memorised the Revelation. Like Hafsa (r.a.), she had her own script of the Qur'an written after the Prophet had died. So far as the Hadith or sayings of the Prophet is concerned, Aisha (r.a.) is one of four persons (the others being Abu Hurayra, Abdullah ibn Umar, and Anas ibn Malik) who transmitted more than two thousand sayings. From her, 2210 Hadith have come, out of which 174 Hadith are commonly agreed upon by both Bukhari and Muslim. Many of her transmissions pertain to some of the most intimate aspects of personal behaviour which only someone in Aisha's position could have learnt. What is most important is that her knowledge of Hadith was passed on in written form by at least three persons including her nephew Urwah who became one of the greatest scholars among the generation after the Companions. It is the claim of the Scholars of Islam that without her, half of the Ilm-I-Hadith [knowledge, understanding of the Hadith (and Islam)] would have perished. 5. Many of the learned companions of the Prophet and their followers benefited from Aishah's knowledge. Abu Musa al-Ash'ari once said: "If we companions of the Messenger of God had any difficulty on a matter, we asked Aisha about it." "Yahya related to me from Malik from Yahya ibn Said from Said ibn al-Musayyab that Abu Musa al-Ash'ari came to Aisha, the wife of the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, and said to her, "The disagreement of the companions in a matter which I hate to bring before you has distressed me." She said, "What is that? You did not ask your mother about it, so ask me." He said, "A man penetrates his wife, but becomes listless and does not ejaculate. "She said, "When the circumcised part passes the circumcised part ghusl is obligatory." Abu Musa added, "I shall never ask anyone about this after you." Al-Muwatta of Imam Malik, Hadith 2.75. Arwa Bin Zubair says, "I did not find anyone more proficient [than Aisha (r.a.)] in the knowledge of the Holy Qur'an, the Commandments of Halal (lawful) and Haram (prohibited), Ilmul-Ansab and Arabic poetry. That is why, even senior companions of the Prophet used to consult Aisha (r.a.) in resolving intricate issued". Ibn Qayyim and Ibn Sa'ad, Jala-ul-Afham, vol.2, p. 26 . Abu Musa al-Ash'ari says: "Never had we (the companions) had any difficulty for the solution of which we approached Aisha and did not get some useful information from her". Sirat-I-Aisha, on the authority of Trimidhi, p. 163. 6. As a teacher she had a clear and persuasive manner of speech and her power of oratory has been described in superlative terms by al-Ahnaf who said: "I have heard speeches of Abu Bakr and Umar, Uthman and Ali and the Khulafa up to this day, but I have not heard speech more persuasive and more beautiful from the mouth of any person than from the mouth of Aisha." The Prophet said, "The superiority of 'Aisha to other ladies is like the superiority of Tharid (i.e. meat and bread dish) to other meals. Many men reached the level of perfection, but no woman reached such a level except Mary, the daughter of Imran and Asia, the wife of Pharaoh." Sahih Al-Bukhari Hadith, Narrated by Abu Musa Al-Ash'ari Hadith 4.643. Musa Ibn Talha (r.a.) says, "I did not see anyone more eloquent than Aisha (r.a.)" Mustadrak of Hakim, vol.4, p.11. 7. Men and women came from far and wide to benefit
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GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OF HOLY QURAN

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OF HOLY QURAN.   No QUESTION ANSWER 1 How many Sura are in Holy Quran ? 114 2 How many Verses are in Holy Quran ? 6666 3 How many dots are in Holy Quran ? 1015030 4 How many over bar (zaber) are in Holy Quran ? 93243 5 How many under bar ( Zaer ) are in Holy Quran ? 39586 6 How many R u que are in Holy Quran ? 1000 7 How many stop ( Waqf ) are in Holy Quran ? 5098 8 How many Thashdeed are in Holy Quran ? 19253 9 How many letters are in Holy Quran ? 323671 10 How many p e sh are in Holy Quran ? 4808 11 How many Madd are in Holy Quran ? 1771 12 How many words are in Holy Quran ? 77701 13 How many parts of Holy Quran ? 30 14 How many time Besmillah Al-Rahmaan Al-Raheem is repeated ? 114 15 How many Sura start with Besmillah Al-Rahmaan Al-Raheem ? 113 16 How many time the word 'Quran' is repeated in Holy Quran ? 70 17 Which is the longest Sura of Holy Quran ? Al-Baqarah. 18 Which is the best drink mentioned in Holy Quran ? Milk. 19 The best eatable thing mentioned inHoly Quran is ? Honey. 20 Which is the shortest Sura of Holy Quran ? Qausar. 21 The longest verse of Holy Quran is in which Sura? Al-Baqarah No.282 22 The most disliked thing by the God though Halal is ? Divorce 23 Which letter is used for the most time in Holy Quran.? Alaph 24 Which letter is used for the lest time in Holy Quran ? Zaa. 25 Which is the best night mentioned in Holy Quran ? Night of Qadar. 26 Which is the best month mentioned in Holy Quran ? Ramzan. 27 Which is the biggest animal mentioned in Holy Quran ? Elephant. 28 Which is the smallest animal mentioned in Holy Quran ? Mosquito 29 How many words are in the longest Sura of Holy Quran ? 25500 30 How many words are in the smallest Sura of Holy Quran ? 42 31 Which Sura of Holy Quran is called the mother of Quran ? Sura Hamd 32 How many Sura start with Al-Hamdullelah ? Five: Hamd, Inaam, Kahf, Saba & Fatr. 33 Which Sura has the same number of verses as the number of Sura of Holy Quran ? Taqveer, 114 verses. 34 How many Sura's name is only one letter ? Three: Qaf, Sad & Noon. 35 How many Sura start with word " Inna " ? Four sura - Fatha, Nuh,Qadr, Qausar. 36 Which Sura has the number of its verses equal to the number of Masumeen ? Saf, 14 verses. 37 Which sura are called Musabbahat ? Esra, Hadeed, Hsar, Juma, Taghabun & Aala. 38 How many sura are Makkahi and how many are Madni ? Macci 86, Madni 28. 39 Which sura is on the name of tribe of Holy Prophet ? Quresh 40 Which sura is called the heart of Holy Quran ? Yaseen. 41 In which sura the name of Allah is repeated five time ? Sura al-Haj. 42 Which sura are named Azaiam ? Sajdah, Fusselat, Najum & Alaq. 43 Which sura is on the name of one Holy war ? Sura Ahzaab. 44 Which sura is on the name of one metal ? Sura Hadeed 45 Which sura does not starts with Bismellah ? Sura Tauba. 46 Which sura is called ' Aroos-ul-Quran ? Sura Rehman. 47 Which sura is considered as 1/3 of holy Quran ? Sura Tauheed. 48 The name of how many sura are with out dot ? Hamd, Raad, Toor, Room, Masad. 49 In which sura Besmillah came twice ? Sura Naml.. 50 How many sura start with the Initials ( Mukette'at )? 29 Sura. 51 Which Sura was revealed twice ? Sura Hamd.. 52 In which Sura the back biter are condemned ? Sura Humzah. 53 In which Sura the name of Allah is repeated in every verse ? Sura Mujadala. 54 In which Sura the letter 'Fa' did not come ? Hamd. 55 Which Sura are called Muzetain ? Falk & Nas. 56 Which are those Sura if their name are reversed remain the same ? Lael & Tabbat. 57 Which is that Sura if its first letter is remove becomes the name of one of the city of Saudi Arab ?   Sajdah 58 Which Sura start with word ' Tabara Kallazi' ? Mulk & Furkan 59 Macci Sura were revealed in how many years ? 13 years 60 Madani Sura were revealed in how many years ? 10 years. 61 Which sura start with word Kad ? Mujadala & Momenoon. 62 Which Sura is related to Hazrat Ali ? Sura Adiat. 63 How many Sura are in 30th. Chapter ? 37 64 Which sura every verse ends with letter 'Dal ' ? Tauheed. 65 Which Sura is revealed in respect of Ahllelbayet ? Sura Dahr.. 66 Which sura every verse ends with letter ' Ra '? Qauser. 67 In which sura the creation of human being is mentioned ? Sura Hijr V-26. 68 In which sura the regulations for prisoner of war is mentioned ? Sura Nesa 69 Which sura is having the laws about marriage ? Sura Nesa.. 70 Which sura if its name is reversed becomes the name of one bird ? Sura Room.. 71 In which sura the story of the worship of cow of Bani Esra'iel is mentioned ? Sura Taha.. 72 In which sura the law of inheritance is mentioned? Sura Nesa.. 73 In which sura the Hegira of Holy Prophet is mentioned ? Sura Infall. 74 In which Sura the 27 Attributes of God are mentioned ? Sura Hadeed      __._,_