Kaaba

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Synonyms for Kaaba

(Islam) a black stone building in Mecca that is shaped like a cube and that is the most sacred Muslim pilgrim shrine

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and used them to counter PPP [Partai Persatuan Pembangunan, the Unity Development Party] (16) arguments that Muslims were obliged to choose the Ka'abah' [meaning voting for the PPP], (Liddle 1978, p.
The study of air temperature when the sun path direction to Ka'abah: with a case study of Al-Malik Khalid Mosque, Malaysia.
"Tawaf" (going around, or circumambulation of, the Ka'abah) seven times inside the Grand Mosque is performed on the Station of Abraham.
Eid Milad un Nabi is referred to by the famous eighth-century historian Ibn Battuta in his Rihla in the following lines: On every Jum'mah after the Salah and also on the birthday of the Beloved Prophet Alaihis Salat wa as-Salam, the door of the Holy Ka'abah is opened by the head of the Banu Shayba ,the doorkeepers of the Holy Ka'abah, while on the Mawlid Shareef, the Shafi'i head judge of Makkah al-Mukarrama, Najm al-Din Muhammad Ibn al-Imam Muhyi al-Din al-Tabari, distributed food to the descendants of the Beloved Prophet Alaihis Salat wa as-Salam and to the people of Makkah al-Mukarrama.
This year in response to the decision of the government of Saudi Arabia for bringing about a 20 percent reduction on worldwide pilgrim quota because of on-going expansion of Ka'abah in Mecca.