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The Kaaba and its surroundings must be

the center of the Islamic conception of


quality and esthetics
October 9, 2014 in Culture, Home Slider, IN-DEPTH, Muslim World, Viewpoints | 13
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A view of Hilton Makkah adjacent to Kaaba.


By Harun Yahya, MM News,
The Islamic world has recently completed the obligation of the hajj in order to earn the
approval of Almighty Allah. Makkah and the surrounding area, where the hajj is performed,
is a holy land where our Prophet (saas) strove on Allahs path and where he told the local
peoples of the existence and Oneness of Allah, a home to numerous sacred sites. During the
hajj, Muslims from all over the world worship together and remember Allah as Muslims, no
matter how different their ethnic origins, languages and cultures.
This sacred land, that allows Muslims who perform the hajj to love and respect one another
by bringing them together, must also be somewhere that reflects the Islamic conception of
esthetics and quality in the finest manner. However, this region which is home to Muslims
and sacred sites, where the foundations of love and peace were laid, has recently begun being
mentioned in terms of lost historic architecture and lack of beauty. The Kaaba built by the
Prophet Abraham (pbuh) and the Prophet Ishmael (pbuh) and a witness to the lovely life of
our Prophet (saas), a role model for all mankind, is losing its historical fabric amongrapidly
rising skyscrapers.

Not only Muslims, but the entire world is watching in amazement as buildings that were
home to leading figures of the Islamic world are torn down. Example of this include the
flattening of Mount Umar, where the home of Hazrat Umar (pbuh) stands, and the
construction of skyscraper hotels, the demolition of the Mosque of Bilal from the time of our
Prophet (saas), the demolition of Ottoman houses with their elegant adornments and detailed
window decorations and stunning wooden doors and their replacement with houses of no
esthetic value at all, the construction of the Royal Makkah Clock Tower Hotel, completed in
2012, on the site of 400 graves of historical and cultural importance, a hotel being built on the
site of the home of Hazrat Abu Bakr (as) and the conversion of the area where the house in
which the Prophet Muhammed (saas) is thought to have been born, in Mawlid Street next to
the Kaaba, into a car park.
The same underlying causes are also behind the way the Kaaba, Muslims most sacred site,
today literally has the air of a tourist attraction and is surrounded by tall masses of concrete,
hotels and workplaces:a fanatical mindset that has nothing to do with the Islam of the Quran
and that is far removed from any conception of quality and esthetics being represented as the
true Islam. That mindset sees absolutely nothing wrong in the shameless desecration of the
Kaaba.Yet these sacred lands for which our Muslim brothers and forebears laid down their
lives in order to protect were entrusted by our Prophet (saas) to the entire Islamic world.

Paris Hilton with the co owner of Makkah Hilton .


Muslims must develop this area, bequeathed by our Prophet (saas), in the light of the esthetic
conception of the Quran, and must be responsible for turning it into a glorious city, like the
kingdom of Andalusia from the golden age of Islam in Europe. The skyscrapers that literally
hide the Kaaba must be torn down. The surrounding buildings must be moved to at least 1-2
kilometers away. The Kaaba itself must be restored to its original appearance, when it shone
like a star.
The existing picture of the Kaaba, under the current construction plans, actually emphasizes
the spiritual emptiness affecting the entire Islamic world. That emptiness clearly stems from
the Islamic worlds failure to be united, as Allah commands.
Let us not forget that the whole Islamic world has a responsibility to scrupulously protect
these lands bequeathed by our Prophet (saas). It is perfectly natural and right for Muslims to
restructure this area, sacred to Islam, and to be united on this subject in the interests of the
faith. The essence of the relationship between Muslim communities is for them to act in
union, as brothers, as revealed in the Quran. Muslims are one anothers helpers and
guardians. They must therefore act in solidarity and a spirit of mutual aid on all matters.
When the Kaaba is redesigned in its original form, Muslims will be able to perform their
religious obligations in peace and will show the whole world the Islamic worlds conception
of quality and beauty

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